The Singapore Free Press, 14 January 1948

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    20 1 LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA ci"^ \*o 1 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1948 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    PALESTINE INVASION SET FOR FEB 15
    296 1 Arab leaders' grim warning A RAB leaders have indicated that Feb. 15 has been set for the Arab invasion of the Holy Land "with a superior military force to sweep Zionism from Palestine.*' Statements to this effect were made m Damascus yesterday by the
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    Dutch leader flies to Jogjakarta
    51 1 Dutch leader flies to Jogjakarta I a beI the ins were incer Van ader In te talks, t ...int-Gov-Hubertui I mted R p iblican he U.N. w uld reD by ..nary Endoiiu- B [an Xc- n "i the IP. All >' IK KESCLE i ed the V Connolly, •y\ m
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    35 KILLED IN AIR CRASHES
    69 1 THIRTY-FIVE persons were killed m two air crashes yesterday. Thirty persons, including many Dominican Republic baseball stars, were killed when a Dominion Airlines passenger plane crashed betw( en Barahona and Santiago about 16 miles from Ciudad Trujillo. Five people were killed and four injured when
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    FRANCES MEAT
    26 1 AN Agricultural Ministry spokesman m Paris said meat rationing will be resumed m large French cities on Feb. 15. round story m Pago Three.
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    INDIANS TAKE OVEK CRUISER
    79 1 THE Admiralty announced last night that Indian naval officers and ratings, who are to take over the 7,030-ton cruiser Achilles for the Royal Indian Navy, will arrive m the United Kingdom this week. The company will undergo courses at Royal Naval establishments m the United Kingdom
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    ATOM DISCOVERY
    39 1 DX. FREDERIC JOLIOT CURIE, the French scientist, revealed to the French Academy of Sciences on Monday the French discovery of a new radio-active force m cosmic rays which permits a more complete disinteexation of the atom. A.P.
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    'Stop Kowloon evictions'
    199 1 'Stop Kowloon evictions CHINA DEMANDS NANKING, Tuesday THE Foreign Minister, Dr. Wang Shih-chieh, demanded today that the British Government order he Hong Kong authorities to cease immediately all further police action m evicting: Chinese residents from Kowloon and warned that fresh coercion would k»ad to 4 'grave consequences." A Foreign
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    INDOCHINA TALKS
    44 1 Ex -Emperor Bao Dai of Annam and the French High Commissioner for French Indo-China. M. Emile Bollaert, ended their secret discussions at Geneva, last night and agreed to meet again m Alang Bay. off the coast of Tone- King, m February.— A.P.
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    53 KILLED IN SOMALI RIOT
    176 1 CAIRO, Tuesday. PORTY-TWO Italians and 11 Somalis were killed m l severe rioting m Mogadishu, Italian Somaliland, on Sunday, British Army Headquarters announced here tonight. Thirty-nine Italians, 44 Somalis and two police wore wounded before order was restored. Tho riot began after the Somali Youth
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    ANGLO-IHAQI PACT
    24 1 ANGLO-IH AQI PACT The British foreign Office announces that a new Ar.gloIraqi treaty supplanting the alliance of 1930 will be signed at Portsmouth tomorrow
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    New Council CHINESE SEEK MORE MEMBERS
    166 1 New Council CHINESE SEEK MORE MEMBERS AN eleven-man deputation from the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce is to meet the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, this afternoon to discuss modifications m the Chamber's representation m the new Legislative Council. Under the new constitution, the Chir»ese, Indian and European Chambers of Commerce
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    MINERS MAKE GOOD START
    73 1 BRITISH miners made a promising start to the New Year by hewing a provisional total of 4.059 000 tons of coai last week the first week of the 1948 ooal year. This was 931.700 tons more than the previous week, and 889,000 tons above the output
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    15,000 HINDUS QUIT SIND
    52 1 MOHAMMED Ayub Khurro. Premier of Sind Province said yesterday 15.000 Hindus had been evacuated by sea and air from Karachi and the interior districts of Sind since the communal fighting started last week. He said 22,000 wf re awaiting evacuation and about 18,000 will remain m
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    35 1 Charges against Americanborn Jane Anderson, alleged Nazi broadcaster "Lady Ha Ha,' 1 have been dropped by the United States Grand Jury, and she has been freed from restrictions placed on her movements since last April.
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    SYNTHETIC BEEF
    40 1 Researches at the Univer- j sity of Arkansas have developed synthetic beef. The new food product is made of driod skim milk and yeast. Golden brown m colour, it has a texture and taste similar to beef. A.P.
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    MORE N.Z. MEAT
    23 1 MORE N. Z. MEAT Increased butter and meat nroduction was announced yesterday by the New Zealand Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Edward L. Cullen.
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    17,700 TONS TIN ALLOCATED
    237 1 rw\HE British Ministry of Supply announces that Interim allocations of tin metal, made by the Combined Tin Committee for the first half of 1948. totalled 17.703 tons, of which Canada will receive 1.090. Chile 32. Czechoslovakia 336. Denmark 160. Finland 60, France 2.720. combined zones of
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    Raiders getting more support
    291 1 KASHMIR FRONT NEW DELHI, Tuesday. XHE people of Kashmir m general are supporting the 1 raiders and Pakistan, an Indian Army spokesman admitted tonight. He said this was especially the case m the Poonch district, where serious fighting is now m progress. A few civilians, however,
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    VILLAGERS BEAT UP ARMED MEN
    186 1 VILLAGERS BEAT UP ARMED MEN Free Press Staff Reporter A MOB of infuriated villagers beat up a gunman and a man armed with a dagger, who were found prowling m Heap Guan San Kampong, m the Keppel district, last night. The two men, who were nearly beaten into insensibility by
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    MAN JUMPS OUT OF COURT WINDOW
    92 1 MAN JUMPS OUT OF COURT WINDOW A HANDCUFFED man facing J\ a charge of attempted suicide ran from the dock of the Second Police Court this morning and threw himself out of the window to the polico court yard 30 feet below. He landed on his feet. Police and ambulance
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    GOVERNOR TO GO TO H'KONG
    48 1 THE Governor. Sir Franklin Glmson. will leave Singapore on Friday for Hong Kon? on official business, it was announced thds morning. The Governor will travel m H.M.S. London, a County class cruiser, as the guest of ViceAdmiral Sir Dennis Boyd, C.-in-C. Pacific Fleet.
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    SPITFIRES ARE FORCED BACK
    54 1 THE six Spitfires of No. 38 Squadron, which left Singapore yesterday morning for Kuching. were forced back by bad weather after leaving Labuan for the Philippines this morning. The planes reached Labuan this morning from Kuching. It is intended to fly through to Manila later today
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    SEASONABLE SALES
    969 2 Around Singapore Shofs T DO not mind admitting that the wet weather we have been having was beginning to get me down a bit. I was even beginning to regard some of the shops with a slightly jaundiced eye. But how the sun has appeared again, the season
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    ONLY ONE WIFE NOW
    346 2 ONLY ONE WIFE NOW By Robert C. Wilson. A. P. Correspondent •THE high cost of liv--1 in*r m Morocco is slowly wiping out the hare m Consequently, more and more Arabs are restricting themselves to one wife at a time. The Koran entitles a man to four spouses, m addition
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      804 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people born today BORN today, >ou have high ambitions and the latest talents to achieve them. You n. i. 1 lioHever, make sure that your ideals an* always held high, otherwise your energies uill have been expended m vain. You are courageous against all
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      New crisis in French Morocco
      123 3 New crisis in French Morocco 1.. .1 rumbm\) ::iucd m the torate 01 Mo- :.i-(Ji neral. ruin, prepared s to report to I. t on the latent i ■nch-Moroc-I, mshlps. f straan reI letter irom the I- M ceo, Sidi My B n Yusof, to the I the French ReI;
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      P.I. Jews may be deported
      67 3 P.I. Jews may be deported IMW UV|IVI IVU \|ORE •Ivan 1.000 German a'l J< wa who went to the fore the war have violated I itioo ui>uci which d and now oossiblc d r>or:ation. p >rts lrom rtmflnl oi--1 v.s were adthe couaitry on that they settle t populated Eaged
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      HAVE NEVER KISSER
      32 3 BUT WILL MARRY Roy Rogers. Hollywood cowboy has never kissed Hollywood cowgirl Dale Evans m the 26 Westerns they have made together, but they are now to be married:
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      ELECTIONS CALLED IN EIRE
      155 3 i fin at -an v i\.eny i In Dublin that of Prime MinisL>c Valera, he has the Dail—Parlia- red a general i Ire on Feb. 4. will conclude an. 21 and the new on F» b. 18. :tro more than 400 1 the 141 seats, umber
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      CHINA PROTESTS ON H.K. EVICTIONS
      392 3 'No force was used 9 says Govt piE Chinese Government has formally protested to Britain against the action of the Hong Kong Government m evicting Chinese residents from the walled city of Kowloon. Ihe British Foreign office has the protest 4< under consideration". After conferences
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      RUSSIAN CEREALS
      40 3 Belgium would receive 300.--000 tons of cereals from Russia during the first three I months this year as a result of trie recent Belgium-Soviet trade talks m Moscow, La Drapeau Rouge. Belgian Communist Party official organ. I reDorted.
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      'Cheaper coal—or no fish'
      160 3 'Cheaper coal— or no fish' OWESTOFT'S fishing fleet 1^ of 100 trawlers will soon be at standstill if the National Coal_ Board does not rescind its 25 shilling per ton increase n ll 2 e P rice <?f bunker coal, Mr. A. E. Mallett, Secretary oi Lowestoft Trawler Owner's Association,
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      NEW RADIO LINK
      43 3 The first public radiotelephone service between Hong Kong and Canton. 90 mil.s to the north, was opened with a conversation between the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Alexander Grantham, and the Governor of Kwangtung Province. Dr. T. V. Soong Reuter.
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      Roxas 'won't deal with bandits'
      233 3 Roxas 'won 't deal with bandits SURRENDER OF P.I. REBELS NtESIDENI Roxas has flatly rejected negotiations m JS& fu S ilive Luis Taruc leader of the armed Hukbalahap peasant movement. In a news conference at his Ba«ui o residence, where he is preparing a -state of the nation WlWgl, the
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      Marshall aid nations may reassemble
      170 3 BRITAIN and France will decide tomorrow whether to ask tne 14 other Western European States participating m the Marshall recovery programme to reassemble, a British Foreign Office spokesman said today. With Paris selected tentatively again as the venue, high officials from both countries' Foreign Offices
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      ADMITS BUYING U.S. EXPLOSIVES
      93 3 MR. Samuel Nattis, a repre--111 tentative of a New York import -export firm, olalmed m a statement m New York yesterday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Army and the War Assets Administration "knew all about" the purchase from the Administration of 199
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      ARMY DROPS MACHINE-GUN
      63 3 BECAUSE of the withdrawal from service of the 1 medium machine-gun the Bri- tish Army's medium machineI gun School at Netheravon Salisbury Plain, has closed Duties of the staff, which has joined the School of In--1 fantry. Warminsttr, to form a support weapons division of the tactical
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      PRIZE AND TOUR FOR BEST BOY
      44 3 A £250 prise, plus a 12--month British and foreign industrial tour, will be given every year to the best craftapprentice m the Royal Ordnance factories and th<? Supply Ministry's research centres, it was announced m London. A .P.
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      One woman in 5 wore his furs
      228 3 A COCKNEY tur cutter, who built up the worlds bluest furrier's and put one American woman out of live m a fur coat, has died m his mi I lion -dollar Park-avenue apartment m New York. Irving Joseph Fox, bom up the Mile
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      GAMBLING— FOR WIVES
      52 3 EVEN wives are being staked on a card game called "Lucky." which has become a craze among: the natives of New Britain Island, reports a Methodist missionary, the Rev. R. S Brown. Mr. Brown blames "a sudden access to goods, money, and privileges without a corresponding sense
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      Two died in this crash
      53 3 Two died in this crash pictures. Two people, including the pilot, were killed and six injured when a British European Airways aircraft (above) hit a tree and crashed into a field at Ruislip, Middlesex. Among the wreckage of the plane investigators found an eaa and a cabinet of nine glasses
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      'Attlee is a slave to
      407 3 PRAVDA DRAVDA, the Soviet Communist Party paper, m ir* firs Sov 4 let m nt on the s P eech <* th e Brit** Pnme Minister Mr. Clement Attlee, broadcast a week ago, declared that it was "hard to say whether poKi--ISnlKOr lhco r etical
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      TO BUY 21 SHIPS
      27 3 The American President Lines is buying four of the 21 victory ships it now is charterIng from the United States Maritime Commission.- A.P.
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      Rewards for uranium discoveries
      118 3 Rewards for uranium discoveries THE Australian Prime Minis- ter, Mr. J. B. Chifley, has announced that the Cabinet has authorised rewards for the discovery of uranium ore deposits. One thousand pounds will be paid for the discovery of any new deposits of uranium ore of economic significance, and a further
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      Dream didn't come true, he killed himself
      104 3 A twenty-four-year-old Japanese youth of WaKiyami n n a n rt bou^ht a ticket for a 1,000,000 yen government lottery and dreamed of becoming a millionaire. By winning the lottery he also hoped to become a "good and filial son" and atone to
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      Electric light for every village' plan
      205 3 E lec tric light for every village' plan 'J7VERY village electric light and every home a Riii S l he < mot i° of the Electricity Supply Bill 1948, to be introduced m the next session of the Indian Dominion Legislature The total installed capacity m India at present is
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      OFFICERS ARRIVE
      29 3 Twenty UJS. Army officers have arrived by plane m Athens. They will be attached as observers to the Greek Army fighting units down to division level.- A.P.
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      HE LISTENED BY NIGHT
      101 3 JOHN FOLEY, 39. of Pretoriaroad. Romford, Essex, was to have appeared at Romford Magistrate's Court to answer a summons alleging conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace The summons accused him •it— Loitering for the unlawful purpose of endeavouring to listen by night under
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      MORE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITIONS
      206 3 HTO obtuin the full benefit of the "history-makinff* 1 expedition of the 135-ft. 100-ton wooden sMd Wyatt Earp, the Government of Australia has decided further Antarctic expeditions will be necessary the Minister for the Navy, Mr. Riordan, said when addressing the crew of the expedition ship at
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      UK-PORTUGAL TRADE PACT
      64 3 DRITAIN and Portugal nave v signed an agreement to encourage mutual trade and maintain an approximate balance m payments without handing over gold During 1947 Portugal sold considerably more to Britain than she bought from Britain, and as the limit of a £15.000 000 credit had been
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      IRAQ BOY KING INJURED
      44 3 TWELVE- YEAR-OLD Kin? 1 Feisal of Iraq broke his left leg while skiing alon at Villars. Switzerland, on Monday. He is under treatment at his hotel, where he arrived three weeks ago with his mother and a suite of ten
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      82 3 ARZAN The SagOths By Edgar Rice Burroughs *>t**^^V^ POR MANY SlEEPS THEY HuRRlED ON, THEIR "Tfc£ SaGOThS CO>*£ OAViD I Wil 1 ik. 5\ "*^y /^j TMOU6MT TD PUT AS MyCH DISTANCE '^Z^-^' >1» Gha< EXCLAIMED ruey /v£v£/? W'VI^R/^.V^^ BETWEEN TMEMStLVES ANO PHUTRA AS ._^^T~ 6^£ UP UNLESS Tt/flN£D fiACK
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    The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, JAN. 14. 1948. The Case for the Volunteers
    596 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, JAN. 14. 1948. The Case for the Volunteers rriHE Singapore Government A is still silent on its 1943 interim plans for the Colony's Volunteer forces and t.ne can only hope that this indicates that it is seeking a more just and satisfactory arrangement than that
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    Tall Houses For Moscow
    597 4 Tall Houses For Moscow By DON DALLAS, Reuter's Correspondent rE building foundations of eight skyscrapers, one of 32 storeys and two of 26 storeys, have been laid m Moscow as the city enters the 801 st year of its existence. It is planned to complete them by 1952. The Soviet
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    MARSHALL & TRU
    6 4 MARSHALL TRU ONCE PAST THE COMMISSIONAIRE
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    THE STRUGGLE FOR BERLIN
    851 4 THE STRUGGLE FOR BERLIN By Paul Bretherton THE Battle for Berlin has entered its fourth and most fateful year. The bets are being placed, and if the British Dagl are not exactly being packed, there has been a certain amount of glancing over the b xes m the requisitioned attics.
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    AUSTRALIA'S EXPERIMENT South Africa
    731 4 AUSTRALIA'S EXPERIMENT South Africa by Noel Monks THE greatest experiment m the histoi-y of Australian Labour is now two weeks old. It is the general 40-hour week introduced by the Federal Government, and from an industrial viewpoint it makes the Oid Country's nationalisation of the Bank of England. and of
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    PREFAB TOWN CLOCK
    84 4 A TOWER clock that can be installed anywhere in the world without the need for specialised technical ability is the latest achievement of a well-known English firm of clock makers. The clock Is constructed so that it can be packed and transported in a single small packing
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    Getting Into Step.
    625 4 REVIEW OF BRITAIN'S FOREIGN poiirv By Arthur L. Cftvshon, A.P. Diplomatic Correspondent. PREAT Britain's foreign policy, caught between EastWest conflict and tormented by left-wing opposition at home, was getting into fctep with the United States at the start of 1948. The object of Britain's Labour party leaders
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    FAITH
    22 4 I waited patiently for the I Lord: and He inclined unto 1 me. and heard my cry. i Psalm 40 l.
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    BIG CUT IN FORCES TAX CONCESSION
    253 5 BIG CUT IN FORCES TAX CONCESSION liec Press Staff Reporter of duty-free beer and cigarettes Services m Singapore is to be cut r^c percentage on Feb. 1. luthoritiefl have been asked by the rid Excise Department to render ie present ration of cigarettes and •vide the basis for the concession
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    1947 RUDBER IMPORTS
    75 5 313,549 ions ,s ill Reporter I*-, .f bber j p and the ■> v Last year tons, nearly during I j n figure was ■In 1941 f° r M\ ths the total ■j A i ms. \::'o Sin■f ailed 20,260 tons, awak X Indo-China I 640 H.
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    M.D.U. interference 'mischief-making'
    240 5 FORTHCOMING ELECTIONS Free Press Staff Reporter PILLOWING closely on an attack by the Malayan Democratic Union on the election manifesto of Mr. John Laycock, Progressive Party candidate for the elections to the new Singapore Legislative Council, the Party yesterday issued a statement saying the MDU "has forfeited
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    EXCHANGE OF TEACHERS IS PLANNED
    104 5 THE Minister of Educatiop m London has the setting the setting up of a bureau to supervise and encourage visits to Britain by teachers and students from abroad. It will also arrange to exchange trips to other countries from Brilain. I will be known as
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    Post-War Feature
    142 5 Post- War Feature It wili not iiiteriere with the work of the existing a«TirK nor start operations l U survey has bean undertaken and position discussed th* various educational oodi^- concerned. This new bureau 15 one of the first ta.sk.s being undertaken by the educational co-operating body for UNESCO m
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    RUBBER CROPS
    81 5 RUBBER crop figures for tho month of December are reported by the following com- panics: Alor Gajah Rubber Estate Ltd. 30,000 lb.. Aycr Panas Rubber Estate Ltd.. 95,000 lb.. Glenealy Plantations Ltd., 70.000 lb., Kluang Rubber Company Ltd 63,000 lb.. Pajam Ltd.. 186.500 lb.. Tambalak Rubber Estates Ltd..
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    S'PORE COMMITTEE WANTS 'CONTACTS'
    175 5 FORMER Malayan racing motorist and Police mai?isF trate, Mr. Conrad Oldham, is anxious, m his capacity as chairman off the Union Committee of Singapore, to get m touch with as many Malayans as possible. He writes: "This committee operates omy m England, and is registered with
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    BARGE TOWED FROM SYDNEY
    74 5 AFTER a tour lasting for 41 days, a 100-ton Australian barge has arrived from Sydney. She was towed by the Lighter Rom. The ships struck a bad patch ol monsoon weather lrom Thursday Island onwards. Heavy seas ar<L sprays decreased the speed of tho Rom and
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    FLOUR MAY BE BOUGHT NOW IN BULK
    110 5 FROM today, industrial users 1 1 flour, who are prepared to take more than 30 tons at a time, can get their supplies direct from the Government agents, Messrs. Sime Darby Co. Ltd. Condition of payment will be cash or. delivery at $23.76
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    GURKHA UNITS IN MALAYA
    185 5 THE 1, io Gurkha Rifles and the 1/7 Gurkha Rifles, the first of five battalions of Gurkha regiments posted for garrison duty m the Malayan Union, arrived m Kuala Lum- pur yesterday. The 1/10 Gurkha Rifles are I being accommodated m 64 Re- ception Camp until
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    GOVT MEN BARRED FROM POLITICS
    431 5 GOVT MEN BARRED FROM POLITICS Progressives to contest ruling Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Government has ruled that a Government servant may not hold office m a political association but is free to become an ordinary member, and may vote m elections. The Colonial Secretary has informed the Progressive
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    McCULLOUGH TO BROADCAST
    144 5 UR. Donald McCullough, the famous question -master of the 8.8.C.'s "Brains Trust' 1 who is now m Singapore, will appear m a programme to De broadcast from all stations of Radio Malaya's Blue Network tomorrow at 9.45 v.m. Th«e programme is entitled "Forum of the Air" and
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    Trade union law revision urged
    228 5 A suggestion that the Singapore Government adopts the Indian Trade Union Ordfnance which provides for the constitution of a separate fund for political purposes is made by th c Malayan Democratic Union. The M.D.U. recalls that the Colonial Secretary promised an amendment m the local
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    Stop wilful damage
    76 5 TIIK to -operation of the public is invited to stop wanton damage done to public conveniences m Singapore, says an official statement. In one week, three Hushing: tanks and bracket* were removed from Maxwell Road, and from Temple Street and one from Kaub Street. From another, white
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    Letter writing Competition results
    182 5 Letter writing Competition results DESULTS of the Letter Com- petition held among •schoolchildrcci m Singapore m conjunction with Princess Elizabeths Wedding have been announced. They are: English Schools: Ist Chin King Huat (Anglo-Chinese Secondary School), 2nd Kagle j Yap (Anglo-Chinoso School), 3rd Anne Braga (Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus).
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    SOLDIER FINED
    34 5 The Fourth Police Magistrate, Mr. R. J. C. Wait, yesterday fined a British soldier W. G. Walker $25. Walker was convicted on the charge of assaulting a police constable, at Nee Soon.
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    'Rotten eggs-not votes'
    89 5 YESTERDAY at Kuala Lumpur, Town Board members approved an official recommendation that Kuala Lumpur's first Municipal Commissioners should be appointed on a basis of race and special interests, pending elections by popular ballot. This recommendation, which was made by the Ward Committee, was, however, strongly attacked by
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    Evacuation flying-boat 'retires'
    199 5 Evacuation flying-boat 'retires' ONE of the aircraft which helped m the 1942 evacuations from Singapore and the East Indies, carried urgent personnel and equipment into the New Guinea war zene and evacuated sick a.nd wounded, and at the cmd of hostilities, was one of th= first Australian planes to reach
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    SCHOLARSHIP FOR MALAYAN
    55 5 The Australian Prime Minister. Mr. J. B. Chifley. Mas announced that students of eight Asiatic countries will be eligible for new Australian scholarships to be awarded annually. amounting to £5.000 at local currency. Those included m the Australian Government Education Plan are India. Pakis Burma. Malaya. Ceylon.
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      74 5 ACCLAIMED FOR ITS ROMANCE! SENTIMENT! MA GNIFICENCE Xf**4± <J^;^ HERBERT jFZfT THAT PERFECT '^m- y^y^d/ TEAM OF "+J^' ft Incident" ANNA if MICHAEL NEAGLE m WILDING "The GOURTNEYS O F CURZON STREET" "Cinemagocrs will, I >Ti > VAi X*K C~^~ am certain, come away &Ij^ i 5^ v J|H^ y
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      HOLT ON GLAMOUR
      839 6 HOLT ON GLAMOUR Rona got the part RONA ANDERSON, 22-year-old Edinburgh blonde, was signed up for a star role m her first film last week m the part Ann Crawford decided not to play m "Sleeping-Car to Venice." She begins work at Denham on Monday on this new version of
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      ROONEY IN UK
      140 6 UICKEY ROONEY strode on to the London Palladium stage last week with all the assurance of an office boy who had just bought the theatre a sft. 2in. dynamo with a snub nose, a sudden grin, and a strange new haircrop. This odd mixture of cheeky child
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      HOLLYWOOD NEWS
      422 6 MARLENE DIETRICH has returned from France to resume her Hollywood career with one of three starring roles m the picture "A Foreign Affair," which producer Charles Brackett and Director Billy Wilder will film at Paramount gtud Miss Dietrich will portray an American congresswoman investigating tne morale of American
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      Bridge Problem
      350 6 HKWT K\ST v n c 7 OKQ7S O 4 3 I AQI2 J 19 7 4 worm AA X Th» Mddlnff Knrtb Cam Soyth Wast I A I'M 3\T I'im 4? 4 NT. Pam SA fj»»«« f.N T. Pun 60 »'as« "A All >-«M THERE is really nothing
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      FAMILY HISTORY
      460 6 Films m Singapore PEPUTEDLY the best film made m Britain, 'The Courtney! of Curzon Street", a story of three generations of the Courtney family, commencing at a minute to midnight oh New Year's Eve, 1899 and ending m 1945 opens at the Capitol today from 6., 'J0 p.m.
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      DAYLIGH FILM
      68 6 A DAYLIGHT ft;--. an.: perfected fa A3: newsix m Pnavda said the hi Museurr. a succ:- fc working 1 l Jf the pror/. m oi jH filin^ duri the anr< nine ent I .solution oj foun'.ci o) Tlio da; m come a The 1 ,i| N'ovitsky The I
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      125 6 \&S» CATHAY S NOW SHOWING ABOUT A GOOD GIRL WHO KFPT 'vpnJ PEGGY RYAN -JON HALL- LOUISE ALLBRiTII r TM£ V£/?^/ VIRGINIA GW» ALAN MOWBRAT Cr In j» flic gLOtf WILLIAM W TEUr NFXT CHANGE A UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL RELEASE J SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ?jj Harry llackmayer with his Full Band xv
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      67 6 Mandrake Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya A sTlelVMdu're a touch /To HAVE work And not how You talk s one thimc kiita C^ ANC£ To USE R meeting? S\ don't po to let tre Z^Jm Vf y JITrV
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    ROBERTSON JUST MISSES CENTURY
    257 7 M.C.C. 260-6 In 2nd Innings THE M.C.C. tourists drew their first threeday match at Bridgetown against Barbados yesterday when, m their second innings, they scored 260 for the loss of six wickets. Barbados had declared their first innings closed at their overnight score of 514 for
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    COACHING NEEDED FOR YOUNGSTERS
    364 7 BADMINTON NOTES II <;i RTCRAFT ra came to the forefront of Singam last year. Some of them have to the top by sheer merit and r h;;nd> to the back seats, while lave shown that, with proper coaching and <» a long way. come now for
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    NSW Fail In Race Against Time
    85 7 TN a race ■fmlBM timo New South Wales failed to pain -\n outr.ght win over South Australia m their Sheffield Shield match m Pydn< and had to be content with points far a first innincs leifd South Australia w. re all out for 263.
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    S.C.R.C. HOCKEY XI
    67 7 fHE following will represent the 8.0.m.0. at hockey against the S.C.C. on the S.C.C. Padang at 5.15 p.m. on Friday: Patrick Yev, Chan Chim Bock. Cheong Thiam S:cw, Au Tat Chu, Cheah Kirn Sweo Goh Chin Chy«\ S*t'o Lim Swan.'. Harry Fanpr, Dr. Ons; Swvc Law. Chong
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    S.H.B. BOYS BEAT ALL-NEGRO XI
    181 7 THE Singapore Harbour Board B >ys XI scored m the lest minute to beat an all-Negro XI m.m the SS. Recorder by one goal to nil m a game of soccer played at the Singapore Harb ur Board Ground last evening. S' me good football
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    LUCKY GOAL GIVES C.S.C. TWO POINTS
    392 7 Uie field right into the Chinese Circle, Just as he was about to take a shot. Patrick Yce immobilised him by kirkins away his stick. Kulasincam then cau«ht the eve with another run. but his shot was Inches off th© mark. Messrs Raymond Minjoot
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    WORLD TABLE TENNIS DRAW
    178 7 pEPRESENTATIVES of many IV countries attended the draw today for the world table tennis championships which take place at Wembley Empire Pool from Feb. 4 to 11. The first draw was for the team championships. the Sway tilling Cup (men) held by Czechoslovakia and the Corbillon
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    Turk Says He Will Beat King Kong
    413 7 wi*v ltrci iwu ami an urawii n*M ivi^a oey, wrestling champion of Turkey, arrived m Singapore on Monday to catch the man he has been travelling half way round the globe to fight King Kong. "My one ambition now is to add King
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    Paterson's Suit Against Boxing Board Ends
    91 7 Paterson's Suit Against Boxing Board Ends JACKIE Paterson's law suit BffAinst the British Boxing Board of Control over his world and British Empire flyweight boxing titles ended yesterday by the consent of boti* parties. IVitcrson brought the action against the Board last October to restrain them from recognising anyone but
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    TURF MEN SUSPENDED FOR LIFE
    106 7 BECAUSE cf an alleged attempt to drug the gelding. Lyraid. on the occasion of the Post' Adelaide Cup race last mi nth. the .stipendary stewards of the Australian Jockey Club have disqualified for life the lessees of Lvraid. Mr. O. Benz and 1-Ir. W. Big"iiis.
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    Third Test Incident
    80 7 i Committee. Mr. K.O.E. JohtUOH, OJ ID South Wales, who was appointed manager of the Australian Test team to tour England this year at a meeting of the Australian Board of Control recently. A former Fliqli* -Lieutenant m the RAAF, he mana-ai t)ie Australian Services team m
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    INDIANS WIN BY INNINGS
    301 7 T*IE Indian cricket team scored the third victory of their (our yesterday, when they overwhelmed l Tasmania by an innings and 139 runs at Hobart. Tasmania were all out m their second innings for 125 compiled just under three hours. Set to get 253 to avoid
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    Strong South XV Picked
    442 7 Free Press Rugby Reporter 17IGHT Singapore Civilians, six Combined Services players and one Johore representative compose the team to represent the South m their annual rugger match against North at Jalan Besar Stadium on Saturday, Jan. 24. The constitution of the team is probably the strongest
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    Two Gups For Singapore Spring Races
    236 7 Two Gups For Singapore Spring Races THE Singapore Turf Club's Spring Meeting on Feb. 14, Feb. 18 ana Feb. 21 will provide two runs for each division of horses m classes one and two, according to the official programme issued yesterday. Main events will be the Valentine Cup. a six-furlong
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      91 7 F.P. Crossword No. 256 CLUES ACROSS <v 4> n Me T^ rime^ 8 Vivid (7). 10 VchicU Look on fa? 60 P 3 i 2' J^ ci P rocal (6). 15, Chccta (8) 17 CLUES DOWN 4 Mkst^SrU^f 8151 1 (4> 3 Arch^tural column (5). 33, Engrave (4). 34. Judgment
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      800 REDS HELD
      24 8 More than 800 poisons have tK?en arrested m the past 24 days m th- Greek Governments drive on Communists. A.P. I
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      Steel cut for ships causes dismay
      127 8 Steel cut for ships causes dismay LONDON. Tuesday EMPLOYERS and workers alike In th? British st*pbuildlng industry were tonight cons dciing what steps they could mak m protest, against the gov.rnment's 20 percent cut m s'e^l allocations to tfnoyards lor 1948. Faring widespread uni iloymeni In the yards j s<
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      PHILIPPINES RICE STOCK
      46 8 PHILIPPINES RICE STOCK Tppines has suffi.it rice m stock to feed pie for the Oral ight oi this year By June, when allocations made, th> Philippines may purchase rice from Siam ii nd 'he Uni'ed States: to carry on tor the rest of the year. Reuter
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      HOME....
      29 8 The setting sun splashing the Thames and the clouds with a mystic sheen, silhouet- tnc yiant outline of Battersea Bridge against the powerful lines of Battersea Power Station.
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      Reds tell Allies to 'liquidate'
      295 8 TENSION IN GERMANY BkKLIN, Monday. THE official Russian newspaper m Berlin, the TaegltcUe Rundschau, urged today thai the Americans and British liquidate their occupation zones m Germany to preserve harmony of the fourpower government. The newspaper said that a united Germany would thu* still be
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      JET SLEDS GO AT 1,000 mph
      61 8 MUROC (Calif.), Monday. THE U.S. Air Force disclosed, today that rocketpowered ground vehicles, travelling on a railroad track, cracked the speed of the sound barrier, with speeds m excess of 1,000 miles an hour. Modified jet bomblaunching sleds, about 15 feet long, were used
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      TROOPS MOVE OUT OF BURMA
      76 8 THE withdrawal of British 1 troops from Burma will be completed by the end of January According: to a hi«h Army source, one contingent of the Gurkha Rifles is at present on its way to Sinnapore from Rangoon, and the bulk of the military personnel
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      UK PACT WITH DENMARK SOON
      49 8 THE final plenary meeting of the Danish and British trade delegations will t/ike place soon, and is expected to result m a three-year trade agreement between Denmark and Britain. Agreement on the price of Danish butter is "heading towards a satisfactory settle- mont." Reuter
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      TRADE BOOM IN PHILIPPINES
      84 8 MANILA, Tuesday. THE foreign trade of the 1 Philippines hit an all-time record high of u.s $700,000 000 m 1947. nearly 100 per cent above the previous year. Th average annual pre-war rat. 1 was around U.S. $300.--000,000. Tho significantly disproportionate export-import ratio, which stood last
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      ATOM WAR IN FIVE YEARS, U.S. TOLD
      189 8 A TOM WAR IN FIVE YEARS, U.S. TOLD a mddtpa WASHINGTON, Tuesday. A MhKICA has five years m which to prepare ior an o atomic war, the Air Policy Commission set up by President Truman today warned the nation Picturing the mass destruction likely to lullow an onslaught by trans-polar
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      FOOD CUT DENIED
      45 8 Maj. Gen. Gcorue P. Hays the United States DeputyCommander m Germany, speaking m Stuttgart yesterday at a meeting of the German Southern Council of States, denied rumours of a cut m the German food ration from 1,550 calories daily to 1,200. Reuter.
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      M. VERDOUX WILL SUE CHAPLIN
      214 8 PARIS, Tuesday. THE plea of M. Henri Ver--1 doux. Paris bank dork, against the M. Henri Verdoux m Charlie Chaplin 'i la*-?si film "Monsieur Verdoux" also a bank clerk was referred to a higher court In P^ris today when the caso came before the preliminary
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      CHIANGS LAST STANDS AT MUKDEN
      572 8 Withdrawal to Peiping? SHANGHAI, Monday. REPORTED decisions of the Mukden conference Iv under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek suggest that the Government has decided virtually to abandon Manchuria m order better to be able to meet the impending massive onslaught of the Chinese Red Armies m North
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      CONFESSED TO 44 MURDERS
      191 8 CONFESSED TO 44 MURDERS TACOMA Tues. A 46-year-old Negro known as Jake Bird, who is due to be hanged on Friday for the murder of a woman last June was said by Peirne County authorities to have claimed that he had committed or could "clear up" a total of 44
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      PRICES DRIF DOWNWARD
      511 8 London Stock Exchanj LONDON, li; WITH today the last day of the present aa on the London Stock Exchange, openUQ inclined to hold off and markets COMeqtmthl lower, says Reuter's financial corrcsiwndent shares were irregular. Firmness, however, was displayed by motor shares with Standards 2s. 6d. higher.
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      NEW THREATS TO SLASH AID PLANS
      235 8 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. OUTSIDE of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings, threats to the Marshall Plan grew today m the wake of President Truman's budget message. Mr. John Taber. Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said he intended to cut Mr. Truman's estimates of expenditure
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      Women to die for Africa 'lion men' killings
      102 8 Women to die for Africa 'lion men' killings DAR-es-SALAM, Tanganyika, Tuesday. COUR women have been aen- tenced to death for hiring "lion men" to assassinate victims for a few shillings. One woman was proved to have been paid 15 shillings to a "lion man' to kill a native aged about
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      MILK FOR GREECE
      27 8 Thp TT S AerriiMilt.urp Dp- partment has announced that it will buy 100,000 cases of evaporated milk for export to Greece for relief feeding.
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      ISO MORE CUOLERA
      32 8 Health authorities yesterday reopened the frontiers of Iraq, Syria. Turkey and Transjor- j dan because the cholera epi- demic had now ended. Sea and land communications wore resumed. Reuter
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      FRENCH MPs QUIT AFTER UPROAR
      209 8 PARIS, Tuesday. AFTER an uproar which followed a fighting proCommunist speech on Indo-China by M. Marcel Cachin, 86-year-old French Communist leader, the first Communist ever to sit m the Senate, 50 Right Wing deputies walked out of the French National Assembly today. M. Cachin, contrary
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      Rubber price
      88 8 ABPKCIAJ Mirk pondrnt ;ves of rubber at 1 1 1 m I follows: pft it No. 1 R.S.S. Siv-t loose >' No. I R.S.S. fob m Oales Jan. > No. R.S.^. fol' m bales Jan No. :i R.S.S f*.r> m l)ale> J.m Tone of m^rkei rrai" SINCAPORI <
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      ITALIAN BAY STRIKE END
      36 8 ITALIAN BAY STRIKE END COXA I v b<? D iii dispuJ Italian ban) has last hoped tl toda The many II had to go ly W black m prosp r chequ< s banks I I Reuter
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      PAULEY RESIGN
      18 8 Mr Edu I commodity born und< last night resign as retarv of Royall. nrint' 1 A.P.
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      39 8 SINGAPORE TIDES HIGH: 11 33 am. LOW: 6.27 p.m. WEATHER Fair WEATHER rtport for the next 24 hours compiled by the RAF: Fair: Risk of showers this afternoon. Fair to fine overnight. Temperatures: Max. 89 deg., mm. 71 deft.
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