The Singapore Free Press, 15 January 1948
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Title Section18 1948-01-15 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA k, SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1948 PRICE 10 CENTS18 words
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Article, Illustration399 1948-01-15 1 Soviet behind sabotage plan LONDON, Wednesday. POMMUNIST plans for wrecking Europe's recovery programme are detailed m a secret document unearthed by intelligence sources m the western zones of Germany, state agency reports from Berlin. While no official comment is available, authoritative sources said tonight that there399 words
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Article249 1948-01-15 1 NEW DELHI, Wednesday. PANDIT NEHRU, Indian Premier, angrily pounced upon a small group of Hindu and Sikh refugees who were demonstrating outside Birla House this evening and shouting, "Let Gandhi die." Mr. Nohru, who had just been meetinp Mr. Gandhi, m the second day of249 words
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Article201 1948-01-15 1 THE HAGUE, Wednesday. HTHE Netherlands Government maintained the view 1 that further discussions with the Indonesian Republic on the cease-fire agreement could not be prolonged indefinitely, said the Dutch Prime Minister. Dr. Louis Beel, m a statement on N.I. policy m the States-General heiv. NoA.P. - 201 words
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181 1948-01-15 1 Free Press Staff Reporter AN Indonesian-owned Dakota aircraft left Kalians airport for Sumatra this morning, carrying the corpse ol a Republican Army soldier named Achmad. Civil aviation authorities enforced a ban on ore-release of the take-off time, and isolated the aircraft by j placing181 words
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Article57 1948-01-15 1 THE six RAF Spitfires of No. 28 Squadron, which left Singapore on Tuesday on a lonu;-distance island-to-island training flight to Hong Kong, landed on Clark Field m Luzon Island, Philippines, yesterday afternoon from Labuan. The final stage of the flight is across 600 miles ot sea to57 words
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Article37 1948-01-15 1 LARGE numbers of the 70.000 British troops m Palestine will move to Cyprus soon to make that island a key point m Britain's eastern Mediterranean defence sysj tern. A P. loams m London.37 words
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Article25 1948-01-15 1 One person was killed and one injured when a fire broke out yesterday m a Washington hotel, four blocks from the White House.25 words
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Article62 1948-01-15 1 WASHINGTON, Wed fc'::?: Unite.: UnderV Mr. i la] said B reft ntUft md America .ft arding the fol ft that ft preX BerI D Clay. Comft the m Ekrj And no > W what m t«l Pri thai it la B that warn I AmerlI62 words
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Article140 1948-01-15 1 KINSTLER FOR TRIAL ON NEW CHARGE Free Press Correspondent MELBOURNE, Wednesday. ON a charge of conspiracy connected with gold run- nine: between Kalgoorlie and I Singapore, a former Sinqa- pore resident, Israel Hersz Kinstler, was committed for trial m the Perth police court yesterday. It was announced m court by140 words
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Article38 1948-01-15 1 ANTI-TANK mines exploded at an ammunition dump near Melton Mowbray m England yesterday, killing two soldiers of the Pioneer Corps and injuring 19 others. The blast occurred ir mm «»-«c.™n»_ tion. laboratory.- ReuterReuter - 38 words
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Article27 1948-01-15 1 The Catholic Church has decided to grant Catholics dispensation from fasting and abstinence during 1948 because of increased '^rHchinc all over the world.- U.P.U.P. - 27 words
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Article25 1948-01-15 1 The Shanghai city government -yesterday received instruct ions from the Executive Yuan to dismiss any employee who patronises dance ha lls.- U.P.U.P. - 25 words
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Article31 1948-01-15 1 Ceylon will observe a public holiday and a rational day o[ prayer on Feb. 4 wh n the „sland gains full;- responsible statua within the British Commonwealth.- Re uterReuter - 31 words
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Article38 1948-01-15 1 THE Italian Government yesterday protested to Britain over the riots at i Mogadishu m the former Italian Somaliland colony m which 42 Italians died last weekend, asking for steps to be taken to protect Italians. ReuterReuter - 38 words
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Article31 1948-01-15 1 Film star David Niven C'Hell' Angels" and "A Matter of Life and Death") was married m London yesterday to Mrs. Hjordis Tersmeden, widow of (a wealthy Swedish businessman.31 words
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Article147 1948-01-15 1 NANKING, Wednesday. ANTI-BRITISH student demonstrations flared up throughout Central China last night with the announcement that the Chinese Government has protested to the British Foreign Office against the imposition of prison terms by a Hong Kong court yesterday on two Chinese arrested m onm-clion with theReuter - 147 words
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Article204 1948-01-15 1 Free Press Staff Reporter IN response to Mr. Loke Wan Tho's appeal for th e derequisitioning of the Cathay building, to make available some 80 flats for the public, an Army spokesman said that the only Army unit m the building; Claims and llirinprs would be removed204 words
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Article49 1948-01-15 1 A landslide killed 21 Africans, seriously injured 15 others, and destroyed the homes of 21 more on the main Kilosa-Ifakara road m Tanganyika yesterday. A mile of the road was deluged m rocks, earth and torrents of water. Huts were buried m the debris. Reuter.49 words
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Article320 1948-01-15 1 JERUSALEM, Wednesday. A SAVAGE battle is raging m the Hebron area, 20 miles south of Jerusalem, where defenders of four besieged Jewish settlements claim that 100 Arabs were blown up m the minefields around the settlements while another 100 Arabs have so far beenU.P. - 320 words
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113 1948-01-15 1 LONDON, Wednesday. PUBLICATION of Gen Per- rival's dispatches, expected m February, is likely to provoke the liveliest controversy concerning the alleged diversion of reinforcements between the Middle East and Far East during the grim days m early 1942 Gen. Percival's dispatches are expected to apportionU.P. - 113 words
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Article67 1948-01-15 1 FLOODS m Wales and the West Midlands are now subsiding, state agency reports from London this morning, but some roads m Nor h Wales are still impassable, and much ot the Severn Valley is under wat?r. The Wye is running 17 feet above its normal level.67 words
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Article, Illustration721 1948-01-15 2 BEST SELLER TECHNIQUE A Malayan Bookshelf IBy A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT QNE of |the |most things of recent years has been the development of "background music": music, that is to say, that has no independent existence, but exibtl purely as a background for something else for a film episode for example,721 words
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Article, Illustration207 1948-01-15 2 FATHERS' RACE FOR BEER TWO dozen fathers of families lined up m a Bognor, Sussex, street on Boxing Day, each one grasping the handle of an empty pram. For Boxing Day is the one day of the year uhen Bopnor fathers can down three pints of free beer just for207 words
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Article606 1948-01-15 2 I3y THOMAS R, HENRY A GROUP of scientri ists will land by heliocoptcr this winter on Bunger's Oasis —the 300-square-mile ice-free area on the antarctic continent. The expedition will travel aboard a navy icebreaker to within flight distance of the "oasis" which has 10 or606 words
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Article302 1948-01-15 2 Y\TEST opened the spade kin*. Dummy's ace was taken and declarer properly seized the opportunity to take the diamond flDgy, West won and led a second spade which declarer ruffed T3io heart king was ciyjhed. and. when Ea.*t showed out, South cashed th<» diamond ace, then led the302 words
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Article264 1948-01-15 2 A GUinea Pig Mystery Man By CECIL WILSON ■THE mystery British 1 millionaire behind Filippo del Giudice who has gone to New York with a barter plan for restoring the flow of Hollywood films to Britain told me why he was backing Mr. Rank's former top producer. But he remains264 words
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Miscellaneous653 1948-01-15 2 MM> MM M MM^____.. dinvj/irunL u im nrwnti "The Vonm Blue Network Requests;" 6 p.m. "Radio ause CHtrK trail's Variety Band Box,' 6.30 From 12.00 noon to 2.00 p.m. Australian N- ws Bulletin; G.45 52o metres in the medium wave "Th<» Composer Pqfmuj WI1band and 7.20 megacycles in Ham Walton;653 words
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Miscellaneous83 1948-01-15 2 Fortune foi people t> BORN today, jroa ..ivc t v .f ialrnls I top ezecatlvc m any field v, Ji .:> wish t<* enUr You have I nv*xid and 1 lio take an em m woriv it out v practical rf:. should fn t financial re\\;\ Because you analytical, you83 words
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351 1948-01-15 3 Nehru on Kashmir dispute STATE MUSLIMS 'ON OUR SIDE' ~nir f JAIPUR, Wednesday. THE Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, I explained India's reference of the Kashmir issue to the United Nations Security Council by savin? it was actuated by "our intention that, whatever we do we should do itA.P. - 351 words
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Article144 1948-01-15 3 BUS TOP WILL BE THERE HOME )>\l I) SPINK. a Duj the top h if of a double-decker taM g was about to be >■ B I Mr W irregular. xpluincd W .t home I K. his four chil|V him the W inibefwi X r |ii»me m a tiny Hut144 words
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157 1948-01-15 3 •pit nrst instalment of the 1 gold bars and foreign currencies seized from Shani black marketeers since inauguration of the finance Control Bureau has been handed to the Central Bank of China. This included (US $15,000 worth of foreign currencies 1.200 ounces of gold mReuter - 157 words
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Article14 1948-01-15 3 Maj.-ueneral H. Canthe becomes Director-General. Army Medical Services on i %Drtl 1.14 words
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Article318 1948-01-15 3 Indian was a Gestapo victim IK. B. L. Shah, an Indian businessman who was kfl detained m Berlin by the Gastapo all through the war because he numbered Jews among his customers, is today known to the occupation authorities as "the man who escaped death a thousand times/ reports Reuter.Reuter - 318 words
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Article, Illustration77 1948-01-15 3 A model of a terrace of new houses, shown at the Olympia Building Exhibition, which continues the urban traditivn m housing design m closely built up areas and town centres by building 3-storey houses. All principal rooms are the ground a7id first floors and only additional rooms, and bedrooms needed77 words
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Article46 1948-01-15 3 Two person* wore killed and 50 injured by falling debris caused by a high wind which swept through Vienna on Tuesday. The wind ripped tiles from roofs of buildings and the walls of several shattered houses were hurled to the ground.— A.P.A.P. - 46 words
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Article211 1948-01-15 3 NEW EUROPE LINE-UP CAN STOP REDS ]%|R. Robert Boothby. ConlTl servative member of Parliament, today warned that the only answer to the present supreme Communist bid for world power was the formation of a United States of Western Europe. Mr. Boothby, who is a member of the United Europe CommitteeReuter - 211 words
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Article83 1948-01-15 3 REPORTS from Nanking quoted Mr. Chen Chlng Yun, Minister of Overseas Affairs, who has returned from an extensive tour of the Americans, as expressing concern over the marriage problems of overseas Chinese m foreign countries where the entrance of dependants are barred. The reports said heU.P. - 83 words
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Article82 1948-01-15 3 A PILOT plant for the manufacture of one ton of phosphorus per day from rock phosphate has been designed at the Indian Institute of Science Ln Bangalore. The capital expenditure nf the plant would bo aoout 300.000 rupees while the building and working capital will costA.P. - 82 words
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Article18 1948-01-15 3 Dame Anne Loughlin is first woman secretary of the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers.18 words
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Article34 1948-01-15 3 An 8 pound 14 ounces baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. James Roosevelt. The baby grand-daughter of the late president wilj be named Anna Eleanor, after her naternfil grandmother.— U.P.U.P. - 34 words
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140 1948-01-15 3 A USTRALIAN iron and steel industries have begun j production of many semifabricated steel products and I special lines previously imported and not now a ya liable from abroad, but it will be a long time before the present shortages are overcome, says a statement issuedReuter - 140 words
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Article304 1948-01-15 3 JHE War Office is at loggerheads with *****260 Thf Snmf I?* G rrett General Service Corps, of The Home Farm, Olney, Buckinghamshire, who was due to report for training at Talavera Camp, Northampton, last week. eceived his call-up papers late. They came, he cornting things304 words
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183 1948-01-15 3 3,596 Chinese killed or missing in N.I. A CHINESE daily newspaper m Batavia. Thien Sung Yit Po, reports that 926 Chinese have been killed and 2,670 are missing m Java and Sumatra since the start of the Dutch "police action" against the Indonesian Republican. The newspaper reported that a totalA.P.; Reuter - 183 words
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Article321 1948-01-15 3 Big increase in young offenders U.K. PRISONS RSPw.;: TTOE rate at which youths under twenty-one h%r J A been sentenced m Britain to imprisonment their first proved offences is criticised m tha repai t of the Prison Commissioners and Directors oi Convict Prisons, just published. In 1945, 3,390 youths between321 words
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134 1948-01-15 3 A U.S. Navy physician da he has discovered a tre merit that "produces max lous results" m relieving b colds if taken within a hours of the onset ol "Within a half hour a. treatment, all symptoms d appear," Captain John M. Brewst^r.134 words
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Article28 1948-01-15 3 Comment of Jose Imroi. world famous pianist i LaGuardia Airfield. New Y<>r. after a European tour. "Th«= English don't ea\ but »h to concerts28 words
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Article73 1948-01-15 3 A CORRESPONDENT siffninff himself "Harmed Cit<x?n« k w rote *<> th f Bombay press araeaHng for pome to be dono about a "bucket factory" that womYrl^ had started next-door to his residence 'From morning to ni^ht they ban- away at bi t nReuter - 73 words
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Advertisement39 1948-01-15 3 WHAT DID RIGHARy SAY WHEN HE OPENED THE DOORP Vi y> shopping FOR ft. EVERY DAY WE ARE OFFERING fit MARVELLOUS BARGAINS IN ALL L DEPARTMENTS OF THE STORE! f/ E s UIHITERUIHVS h K (WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW CO.. LTD.)39 words
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Miscellaneous7 1948-01-15 3 TARZAN Still ahead By Edgar Rice Burroughs7 words
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644 1948-01-15 4 The Singaproe Free Press THURSDAY, JAN. 15, 1948 Malaya's Rice IT is curious that the Malayan Union Oovernment should be so obstinate m Its refusal to frc€ the movement of rice within the Union. Singapore freed rice weeks ap'i. with no worse result than an immediate fall m "black market"644 words
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Article, Illustration1103 1948-01-15 4 Politico - THE war crimes trials which began m South East Asia shortly after the Japanese surrendered are presently coming to an end. We are probably still much too near the events themselves to be able to pass impartial judgment on these trials, but not, I think, quite1,103 words
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Article559 1948-01-15 4 By Lyford Moore, Router's Correspondent COME of the most serious results of the war for Germany are only now beginning to weigh upon the country, according to a comprehensive statistical study of the German census made by the Population and Survey Branch of U.S. Military Government.559 words
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Article247 1948-01-15 4 PLANS for the formation of an "International Council" to advice the American and international Boy Scout movements on their role m furthering understanding between nations have been revealed by Benjamin Cohen, of Chile, Assistant Secretary General m charge of Pubic Relations for the United Nations. Mr. Cohen,247 words
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Article1060 1948-01-15 4 The King 's Reporter By Francis Musgrave QNE of the busiest yj men m Britain's House of Commons is Mr. Ernest Popplewell, Member for Newcastle West, who has just been appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Royal Household, Contrary to genera! belief, this office is anything but a sinecure, for the Vice1,060 words
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142 1948-01-15 4 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Laycock Replies I fer »J I common M on my elec it would i if an eltct some such candidu ea £< candidate.- i nis oppor.. i the morp niy com?] There i s intherui. sue Party gssJ d for the Sdivl That seem o courage142 words
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Advertisement83 1948-01-15 4 'i T i i f T < *i'm Junior Model 102 It is easy to put a Short Wave on a Radio set and a list of Short Wave Stations on the dial. But is it easy to get those stations and to hear them satisfactory? Yes. definitely —if your83 words
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Article, Illustration177 1948-01-15 5 shops band together to fight crime I sufl Importer i several ■j rye on In various >ne IS tin check- 'S j- imtariwithln I .\cillent tnmittee T sday rs of m San m >• up a man r whc« their i 1 by <. cojness of cunitaed by the I177 words
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Article189 1948-01-15 5 Ch in ese official touring Malaya rys a special mission for the Chinese Foreign y Ministry, Mr. Li Chin is now m Singapore. His mission— to study local conditions and gather Chinese opinion on cureent affairs—will tafce Mr Li on a three-week tour of Malaya Much importance is a&uched to189 words
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Article217 1948-01-15 5 The foll w ta& new books have >* n adde<i to Raflles Library: JliTnes Thw Be J vlslt P. Brittain Arthur Quiilor-Cou^h: Gerald BoDett, Silver Poets of the 16th Century; J^mes P. Byrnes Speakin* Pr^nkly o.D.H. Cole. Money, its Present and Future; John Comtrford. H^lth the217 words
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Article50 1948-01-15 5 AT the Selangor Assizrs In £»> Kuala Lumpur yesterday, six Malays, who chased a motorist In a truck along the Kuala Lumpur-Klang road on the night of Sept. 7 last year, m an attempt to stop his car weVe each sentenced to flogging as well as50 words
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Article114 1948-01-15 5 THE newly-appointed Chinese Consul General at Kuching, Sarawak, Mr. Chan Ying Wing, arrived m Singapore yesterday by the Presi- i dent Monroe. Mr. Chan is accompanied by his wife and fifth daughter, Theresa, and they will proceed to Kuching by the first available ship. Mr. Chan's114 words
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Article66 1948-01-15 5 A young Indian, P. Ramadas, was yesterday acquitted at the Singapore Assizes on a harge of theft of a motor lorry. It was alleged by the pro- secution that Ramadas stole the lorry at the Naval Dockyard on June 26 last year. Ramadas admitted taking66 words
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Article129 1948-01-15 5 DOCTOR TO STUDY IN BRITAIN Free Press Staff Reporter [JK. Yeoh Bok Choon, senior v surgical tutor at the Singapore College of Medicine, and \h<: first holder of the Licw Wen X Chee scholarship, will fly to the United Kingdom on Saturday to take up studies under the scholarship scheme.129 words
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Article123 1948-01-15 5 A BIG shipment of Austra- lian fruit and vegetables win iinivr hi o.i:>;<t|iui uv iiir Charon tomorrow from western Australia. Civilian cargo includes 621 crates of vegetables, 1,059 cases of plums, 412 cases of peaches, 71 cases of melons, 35 tons of onions and 355 tons of123 words
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Article152 1948-01-15 5 KOTA TINGGI TOWN, j which was Inundated i during the recent Johore i floods. is now open to visitors, j All those evacuated were permitted to return on Tues- day and by midday, the town > had almost a normal aD- pearance. There Is still a152 words
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Article, Illustration394 1948-01-15 5 Priority for new houses Free Press Staff Reporter MEW housing projects m Singapore will be 1 given priority m the Municipality's $400,000 programme for the installation of new sewers m 1948, Mr. C. C. Collom, deputy Municipal Engineer, told the Free Press yesterday. He said394 words
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Article42 1948-01-15 5 The dredge Takuapa No 1 started operations on i Jan. 2, widening and later deepening the paddock. I These operation* will take three werfcs before payable i tin lard is entered,* reports i the mine manager of Takuapa Vnlley Tin.42 words
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Article, Illustration305 1948-01-15 5 Future for youth 'looks bright' Free Tress Staff Reporter T<IIE headmaster of St. Andrew's School, the Rev. A R. K. S. Adams, told Singapore Rotarians yesterday: "Many have claimed that the Asian youth lack initiative and responsibility. If it were so, it was the joint fault of the home and305 words
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Article, Illustration249 1948-01-15 5 To study jail conditions here Free Press Waterfront Reporter f\R. Rudolph Coffee, chaplain of two well-known American prisons San Quentin and Folsom m California has arrived m Singapore to study prison conditions m this part of the world. He hopes to visit Changi and Out ram Road jails during hisFree Press - 249 words
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Article26 1948-01-15 5 IPOH, Wednesday. The smallpox situation In Perak has improved. Only 20 cases were reported for last week, as apainst 42 m the previous week.26 words
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Article209 1948-01-15 5 Millionaires visit Singapore Free Press Waterfront Reporter "THIRTY round-the-world 1 tourists some of them millionaires were *mong the 77 passengers on the President Monroe, which arrived m Singapore yesterday. The majority of passengers were met by guides soon after disembarkation, hustled into taxis and taken onj sight-seeing tours of Singapore209 words
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Article60 1948-01-15 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. Invitations, it is understood, have been issued to the Malay Rulers to attend a plenary conference at King's House next Tuesday. The working committee en the new constitution is assembling m Kuala Lumpur at the end of this week for what are expected to60 words
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Advertisement73 1948-01-15 5 "SPORTS WEAR" Terky Towelling Shirts Colours: Maroon, Navy, Grey, Saxe, Fawn k White HOGM FROM $7*°° EA CH t ROBINSON CO., LTD. RAFFLES PLACE SINGAPORE Attention Travellers WHEN VISITING SINGAPORE STAY AT THE TAVERN European Residential Hotel The first hotel operating immediately after the liberation. Spacious rooms, luxuriously furnished. Every73 words
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Article, Illustration469 1948-01-15 6 Problems of expanding Asian economy AN expanding economy backed by American dollars is essential to the restoration of Japan as the "workshop of Asia," according to Sir George Sansom, Professor of Japanese Studies at Columbia University, and former Counsellor at the British Embassy m Tokio. Most469 words
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Article, Illustration91 1948-01-15 6 "Course I'm a spiv. An' I don't care 7iho knows it," declar- d twenty-six-year-old George Elms, (above) of Bosworth Road, North Kensington, London, after he had appeared as a ivitness m a Margate court and given an exposition of how a spiv lives. "I'm a cabinet maker by trade, but91 words
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103 1948-01-15 6 J^ SO-CALLED -holy man" with a long beard was seized by the police m Madras after they had received several complaints of people having been drugged and robbed by him. The "holy man's" method of operation was stated to be to offer sugar-coated103 words
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291 1948-01-15 6 4 CHINESE Foreign OlTice release said Britain and China had reached an anti-smuggling agreement after ;\n exchange of notes between Foreign Minister Wang Shih-Chieh and Sir Ralph Stevenson, British Ambassador to China. The agreement, which will become eflective not lator than Jan. 20, contained291 words
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Article130 1948-01-15 6 Uranium discovered in Burma THORIUM and uranium, 1 used m the manufacture of atom bombs, have been found m Central and Eastern Burma. According to Dr. Go Hla, secretary of the Governmentsponsored Council of Burma Industries, these radio-active minenui exist m large quantities m the Ylngyan district, adjacent to the130 words
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Article106 1948-01-15 6 WHEN the second battalion of the Highland Light Infantry, which had 26 years overseas service, receives the Freedom of Glasgow on Mar. 16 the honour will be accepted ceremonially at an open air parade by Princess Margaret, who was appointed Colonel-in-Chief of the regiment last106 words
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Article49 1948-01-15 6 ARMED police and radioequipped police vans stood by yesterday at Rangoon central jail when 1.300 prisoners, who protested against the inadequacy" of the Burmese Independence Day amnesty, started a sit-down strike during the week-end and have refused food for the last 72 hours.49 words
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Article138 1948-01-15 6 OPECIAL Branch Oilicers in- >^ vestlgating the plot to smuggle aliens from Germany to Canada through Britain on -iked British passports bol'eve thej uncovered the scheme Boon after it was put into operation and were able to :un P out the traffic before it reached138 words
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236 1948-01-15 6 Huge foreign demand tor American cars DROBABLY nothing m the Americans automobile industry's 1948 outlook is as uncertain as the iS? of lfcs ex p ort business, writes an Associated Press correspondent from Detroit. There- continues to be a huge umiillcci demand for American -made cars and irucks m most236 words
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Article28 1948-01-15 6 Four Jewish displaced arsons were killed while five others wore injured by the boiler explosion m a camp at Wasseralfmgen, near Stuttgart yesterday A.P.28 words
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Article, Illustration316 1948-01-15 6 INDIA'S TEA CROP HITS NEW HIGH JN North India's tea gardens, where mm- British capital are invested, the t estate managers have completed they have ever had. Calcutta estimates of the 1 total tea cro D for the year place it a new all-tir- "high" of around 500,000,000 pounds. That316 words
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Advertisement110 1948-01-15 6 CATHAY BENEATH THESE EYES, A DEATHLESS SKKLT OF THE PAST OPENING TODAY WALTER WANGER presents ROBERT CUMMINGS P^^fTl MOMENT AGNES MOOREHEAD joan iorring A UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL RELEASE JOHN ARCHER FRANK PUGUA SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Harry Harkmayer with his Full Band will phi> UfM music daily during the intervals of the 6.45110 words
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Miscellaneous9 1948-01-15 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malava9 words
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Article, Illustration322 1948-01-15 7 M.C.F.A. REVIVAL MEETING DELAYED Three Replies Awaited THE reconstitution meeting of the Malayan Chinese Football Association, which was originally to have been held either m Singapore or Kuala Lumpur this Saturday, has been postponed to Jan. 31. The postponement is necessary as ho reply has been received from Penang, Kedah322 words
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Article30 1948-01-15 7 IKE WILLIAMS, world lightweight boxing champion, easily outpointed Doug. Carter, of Newark (New Jersey), m a 10-round non-title fight m Camdcn, New Jersey, on Tuesday night.30 words
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Article89 1948-01-15 7 THE French line-up ver>u Scotland m the Rugby Union inter.iaoi >nal at Murrayfield, Edinburgh, on Jan. 24 was aimn uneod by tiu> French Federr.tlon In Pa v. erday as follows Andro Alvarez: JSoger Lacaussade, Louis Junquas (or Maurio Trrrcau). Hcnv Di7abo and Michrl Pcmathios; Loon89 words
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Article74 1948-01-15 7 THE third annual general meeting cf ilie Wines B.P. was i held on Sunday, at 144-J. Surin I Avt Oflice- bearers elx > t?d for Lh^ year are as follows: nt Mr. Nk lions Sena: •m. Mr. Lim Chcrjr Gck: hon. secretary. Mr. Lim Buk hon. troa-jurrr. Mr.74 words
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Article264 1948-01-15 7 pIE Singapore Chinese Football Association will send 1 a team to Medan on Jan. 20 m spite of a previous decision to cancel the tour owing to the inability to raise a sufficiently representative team. At a meeting of the S.C.F.A. yesterday it was announced264 words
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147 1948-01-15 7 PREDDIE MILLS British and Eu:t^oean Itehfc-heaw weight ChAffiDiVi. Is willing to art v snaniru? Dart nor to Joe louis when he comes to London for traininc and soarrinc "xhibUlons. ICOes' mana«fr Ted Broadribb said yes f crday. Mills will never meit the147 words
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Article84 1948-01-15 7 *P ILE Indian team for their return match with Tasmania beginning m Launcheston to-day, will be: Amarnath. Hazare. Sarwato, Irani, Amir El.ihi. Raniuchari. Phadkar, Kishenchand, Adikhari, Oul Mohamad ;md Sohoni, with Rai Singh 12th man. Tasmania's team will be chosen from the same 12 ar,Reuter; AAP. - 84 words
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Article65 1948-01-15 7 THE world's champdon, Barbara Ann Scott of Canada, held a safe lead m the Europoin figure-skating championships m Prague yesterday ufter the first three compulsory figures. with British champion, Jeanette Altwegg second and Jirina Nefcobova of Czechoslovakia a closr third. Thp men's figure-skating championship was won byU.P.; A.P. - 65 words
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Article253 1948-01-15 7 A LTHOUGH the Selangor x\ Hockey Assn. have not yet replied to two telegrams sent by Mr. Raymond Minjoot, hon. secretary of the Singapore Hockey Association requesting confirmation of their game against Singapore this Saturday, the selection committee of the S.H.A. will hold a meeting253 words
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Article83 1948-01-15 7 RUGBY Li'AGUE ofLcials of England. France and New Zealand, aru to meet at Bordeaux on Jan. 25 to discuss the laws Ofl the came. W. L. Fallowfield. SecTt'ary of the English Ruabv LeMtM announced m. London last night. It, ta llkelv that certain new laws83 words
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Article298 1948-01-15 7 RAF. Base Seletar beat No. 223 BOD. m a game of rugger, played at Seletar yesterday by 16 points (two goals, two tries) to six points tone penalty, one try). Owing to a late start, only 20 minutes was allowed for the first half. Soon298 words
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Article, Illustration61 1948-01-15 7 Tti£ camera caiches India's skipper Lala Amarnath m two moods during the third Test at Melbourne which Australia icon by 233 rii7ts. The top picture shows Amarnath jubilant as Barnes is caught off his' boicling by wicket-keeper Sen for 12 runs. Below Amarnath dejectedly looks at his61 words
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272 1948-01-15 7 Derby Winner 's Son Impresses On KL Track Free Press Racing Reporter ECLIPTIC, a beautifully-actioned son of a former I-* Derby winner, Felstead, attracted most attention at today's track work at Kuala Lumpur m preparation for the Selangor Turf Club's January meeting which starts on Saturday. Ecliptic was given half272 words
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Article356 1948-01-15 7 HOMER SCORES 9 OUT OF 1 2 POINTS Free Press Rugby Reporter RACING a strong: side which included Homer, South Malaya representative, the Singapore Police XV played very well though beaten by the S.C.C. 4 A' XV by 12 points (two tries and two penalty goals) to 5 (one goal)356 words
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Article82 1948-01-15 7 'pHE West Indies have chosen what one selector calls "a team siftyng m all departments" to play England m the first cricket Test beginning m Barbados on Jan. 21. The team i&: George Hoadley, Jamaica, (captain). Robert Christiani, British Guiana, Wilfred Ferguson, Trinidad, BerkeleyReuter - 82 words
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54 1948-01-15 7 fHE Russians, who took over the Kurilc Islands after V-J Day, have now built the Kurile's first football stadium, Moscow radio reports The stadium, seating 3,000, la m the one-ye&r-oid town of Seve. rokurilsk where, according to the Moscow radio, "sports have al- 1A.P. - 54 words
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Article102 1948-01-15 7 rpHE M.C.C. team to meet Barbados colony m a match starting- today is: J. D. Robertson, W. Place, Brookes, IlardstafT, J. T lKin. K. Cranston, T. G Evans, R. Howorth, M. i' Tremlett, Wardle and Laker', with Griffiths as l?th man. Except for Wardle and102 words
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Article195 1948-01-15 7 A SELETAR R.A.P. women's XI beat the A.T.S.. Tanglin. m a closely-fought game of hcclvey played at Seletar yesterday by six goels to two. The match was thoroughly enJoyed by a large crowd includii^r the Base Commander, Air Commodore Carter and Mrs. Carter. This is195 words
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Article97 1948-01-15 7 CORTY thousand spectators saw Scotland beat Ireland by three goals to nil m an International inter league match at Celtic Park last afternoon. Scotland led m the 28th minute whe n Houliston headed home from a corner kick and Scotland led by this goal at halftime.97 words
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Advertisement178 1948-01-15 7 -lIS fiAB 2—l the i: I ba4--p li l»eL n |nd Malaya < atla E i »\oii b itches. g I V\iS I I 1 ."> .itid i cler kan 15— niu i doubles [a G. r and B. UUal lia) I iel and li. 15I i in two dou•ii178 words
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Miscellaneous226 1948-01-15 7 F.P. Crossword No. 287 CLUES ACROSS ,o Vr Che rful (8 >- 7 Fur < 6 >- Chide (6). 11, Enclosure (3) 12, Nourishment (4). 14, Massage (5). 16, Organ (3). 17 Wheel track (3) 19 Gang (4). 21, Clear up (5). 24, Submit '(5> 25 Egress (4). 28, Much226 words
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269 1948-01-15 8 US taking over big Libyan airfield WASHINGTON, Wed. A MERICAN military I\ authorities said today that British permission for United States transport planes to use Mellaha airfield m Libya will strengthen communications with Greece over What are regarded m Washington as the crucial coming months. American aircraft would thus beReuter - 269 words
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Article67 1948-01-15 8 BURMA will be able to ex- i port more than her estimated quota of 1.500.000 tons of rice this year, as a result of a record crop, the harvesting of which is n:arin f completion An official statement said more than 1.000.000 tons would be exportedA.P. - 67 words
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Article, Illustration16 1948-01-15 8 The "Angel" public house on the banks of the slow flowing Thames at Henley, Oxfordshire.16 words
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Article308 1948-01-15 8 'We'll pay our own way soon' UK's RISING OUTPUT LONDON, Wednesday. BRITAIN has good reason to believe that she will be able to produce m 1948 very nearly enough goods to pay for the food and raw materials she must import from the rest of the world, said tf\e FoodReuter; A.P. - 308 words
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Article124 1948-01-15 8 K.L newsman to get U.K. training Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON. Wednesday. A KUALA LUMPUR journalist. Mr. George Alexander Rasiah. who has been awarded a scholarship m journalism by the British Council m conJunction with the Colonial Oilice. will begin training with the Birmingham News and continue on the Birmingham124 words
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Article61 1948-01-15 8 Chan a sudden ociceful leith of Chan X ago. fl occurred at his home No. 12 jorov-* U G vlanc at 8 55 p.m. on Wednesday, .Tan 14 1948 He leave* behind his beloved i tw.. bn then Koon Rr"* md Knon Kirn. C'vo,, Yfam Chleil Hwa and Chieu61 words
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Article220 1948-01-15 8 CHIANG 'S TROOPS ARE OPTIMISTIC INAiNIS.i.NU, WLU rHE spokesman of the Ministry of National Defence^ Lt,Gen. Tcng Wen-yi, today said that Governmerit successes on the civil war fronts "tend to prove that the initiative is now m the hands of the Nation- alist troops." He painted an optimistic picture ofA.P.; U.P. - 220 words
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Article41 1948-01-15 8 A press officer of the Holland American Line said King Leopold of Belgium will sail from Lisbon to America "shortly." A few days ago the same source categorically denied rumoure m Belgium on U.P. the same subject. ReuterU.P.; Reuter - 41 words
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Article152 1948-01-15 8 LONDON, Wednesday. THIRTY Royal Air Force A bombers crossed the North Sea m darkness tonight on the lirst night-time practice bombing on the Continent the war Lincolns and Lancasters, carrying 2,500-lb bombs, dropped their load on Heligoland and then proceeded to Han over for aU.P. - 152 words
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531 1948-01-15 8 U.S. IS HEADING TOWARD SLUMP TRUMAN A n ti-infla tion warning WASHINGTON, Wednesday. A MERICAN prosperity is riding on a wave of inflation ■f* towards the peril of a serious business slump, President Truman warned m his second annual economic report to the Congress today when he renewed his pleaA.P.; U.P. - 531 words
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Article102 1948-01-15 8 BRISBANE, Wednesday. CAPT. Robert Kerr McLaren, a 50-year-old Scottish-born veterinary surgeon from Bundaberg (Queensland) ivho took his own appendix out ivith the aid of a mirror and an ordinary knife, received the Military Cross and Bar at an investiture here today. Capt. McLaren, said: "I knewReuter - 102 words
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98 1948-01-15 8 LONDON. Wednesday. BRITAIN'S Deputy Prime Minister. Mr. Herbert Morrison, said tonight that Britain intends to play her "full part" m developing atomic energy. 'The Government is taking steps to bring science to the forefront of British industry," he said m a speech prepared forA.P. - 98 words
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Article134 1948-01-15 8 A SPECIAL Market correspondent gives the prices of rubber at 11 a.m. today as follows: Buyers Sellers Cts. Cts. per Ib. per 1b Na 1 R.S.S. Spot fcoose 42-.. 43 No. 1 R.S.S. fob m bale* Jan. 43 43 't No. 2 R.S.S. fob m bales Jan. 12134 words
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Article461 1948-01-15 8 BUYING WAVE ON RUMOURS London Stock Exchange LONDON, Wediifcidav RUMOURS of a possible devaluation of sterling! the last few minutes of trading on the Low Stock Exchange today, caused heavy buying m cularly of home industrial issues and ol South Aft gold mine shares, says Reuter's financi;tl niJ dent. There461 words
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Article50 1948-01-15 8 PRINCESS Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh returned to London yesterday from Sandringham, the Royal family's country residence, where they had been staying since before Christmas with the King and Queen. The Duke is resuming: his duties as a naval officer at the Admiralty today. Renter.50 words
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Article, Illustration221 1948-01-15 8 'DON'T TAKE ASSETS' WASHINGTON, Wed. THE United States Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. John Snyder tonight vigorously opposed requiring the 16 Marshall Plan countries to use their dollar holdings m the United States to help to cover the costs of the US$6,--800.000,000 European relief programme. It would be folly toA.P. - 221 words
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Article65 1948-01-15 8 DEPORTS from Baguio said that the Philippines. Department of Foreign Affairs is ascertaining the rights of Philippines national* whose ancestors at one time owned North Borneo and the Puerto Rican island of Culebra. The Philippines Foreign Secretary said negotiations with the British Government may soon be startedUP - 65 words
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Article26 1948-01-15 8 The Greek General Confederation of Labour demanded yesterday a 30 per cent increase m all salaries and wases to meet price increases ReuterReuter - 26 words
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Article224 1948-01-15 8 yiETNAMESE resistance sources who have just arrived m Singapore from Indo-China say thousands of political prisoners, including many Annamite women and children, are being held m French jails m Indo-China, writes Stan Swinton, A.P. correspondent These sources, one of them recently escaped from a French prison,224 words
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Article108 1948-01-15 8 Free Press Corres P««dent LONDON, Wednesday n °t disclosed m th e preliminary statement, they have cvicn«y shown a substantial increase, for H.K.52.000 000 nas bee written off the bink Premises and H.K.51.500 000 added to carry forward L An inlPrlm divklind or £2 result of108 words
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Miscellaneous53 1948-01-15 8 SLNOAPORK TIDES Iligh: 12 .41 p.m. Low 7.21 p.m. —WEATHER Showers WEATHER report for th« next 21. hours compilrd by the KAF: Rrirht periods wit a scattered thundery shower* this afternoon. Fine to night with bright periods to-morrow. Wind: I i *»t. northerly Temperature* yesterday Maximum 90 de*. F; minimum53 words
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