The Singapore Free Press, 22 January 1948

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 17.061 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1948 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    41 1 I, -of the Union, Sir Edward rrepares to sign the on of Malaya I ient on behalf of His the King at yestercerewuMt at King's me. Kuala Lumpur. A on of the c r mony ki other pictu are in Pa?c
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    LAST ACT FOR MALAY DEPORTEES
    101 1 f htm Correspoadent I MELBOURNE, Wed. M'~ Qul net m the 'repatri--1 ation of six of the 14 B seamen under orders I Australia will take mrr. back to Singapore via X Jhe six Malaya, whoae Bs so far have not indi■ed their intentton of
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    POLICE CHIEF KILLED
    39 1 POLICE CHIEF KILLED trh UOl l n Police Special »nch. Mr Scan Gantly, was W:i\ n an exchange of shots X S?. 3 dur:ng a running g which suspect- .UHit.ves lrom justice wprp W ur g^ and captured. A.P.
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    NAZI-SOVIET PLAN TO SPLIT EMPIRE
    554 1 NAZI-SOVIET PLAN TO SPLIT EMPIRE US publishes secret papers WASHINGTON, Wednesday. AN official Nazi memorandum on a secret agreement between Hitler and Molotov, m which the Soviet Foreign Minister stated m 1940 Russian territorial claims to regions south of the Soviet Union m the direction of the Indian Ocean was
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    FOOD STRIKES SPREAD IN GERMANY
    84 1 FOOD STRIKES SPREAD IN GERMANY COLOGNE, Wednesday. EIGHTY thousand workers la Cologne stayed at hor 3 today paralysing the life of the city lor 24 hours, alter yesterday's decision to staere a protest strike against low food rations. Ttae workers are expected back at work tomorrow, to-eet>-«r with the tramway
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    BURMA'S BIG RICE HARVEST
    99 1 RANGOON, Wednesday. BURMA will have about 1,600,000 tons of rice available for export this year. it was officially announced toe-re. The boom rice harvest, with its big fkiaciciai return to fanners, is said by high financial sources here to be one of the reasons for the
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    3 AIRMEN KILLED
    26 1 Three Royal Air Force fliers were killed when a Wellington bomber crashed at high speed near Lincoln on a night training flight yesterday.
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    US wants Japs on their feet
    182 1 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. THt United States is planning to introduce J measures to make Japan self-supporting m the earliest possible time," the American Government notified the Far Eastern Commission today. The *tatement said the Army wiU soon ask Congress funds for t#ie 12 months beginning
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    WOMAN MINISTER
    35 1 THE Japanese Government yesterday announced the appointment of Mrs. Chiyo Sakaklbara. Social Democratic member of the Lower House, as Vice-Minister of Justice the first woman m Japan's history to hold such a position.
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    PILGRIMS DROWN
    39 1 Seventy-nine persons have thus far been listed drowned m the swift waters of the Chilian Imperial River, where a small ferry steamer foundered with over 300 religions pilgrims. The final death toll is expected to reach 150.
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    EARTH TREMOR
    24 1 Telephone and telepgrapihic cuminuinicatioinfl were toterriiDted yesterday by an earth tremor of •■unusual intensity" felt over a wide area 9l eastern Argentina.
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    MALAYS WILL CONTEST THE S-WEST WARD
    131 1 T*"ree Staff Reporter WO Singapore Malays, one of whom is likely to be Inche Sa'adon bin Jubir. president of the Singapore Malay Union, are expected to contest th^ Municipal Southwest ward m the Legislative Council elections m March. There are already two candidates m
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    WORKERS DRIVE OFF GUNMEN
    76 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THREE Chinese gunmen. 1 who were repulsed by workors of a rubber factory In Thomaon Road yesterday evening, A*ed pistol shots at th^ir pursuers. No one was hit. The gunmen held up clerks at the factory office and were searching drawers when
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    SHOT DEFYING GUNMAN
    67 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A 20- year-old Chinese was hit m the chest by a glancing bullet fired by a gunman, whom he resisted during an attempted robbery m a house m Tampenls Road last night. The injured man is now m the General Hospital, but his
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  • Article
    BERLIN BOMBING
    36 1 A home-made grenade bomb exploded last night just outside the main dining room of the Grand Hotel while hundreds of war crimes prosecutors, judges and their assistants were having dinner. No one was injured.-
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    3 ARAB ARMIES MASS FOR ACTION
    193 1 JERUSALEM, Wednesday. AS Arab raiders today continued to take the initiative m Holy Land fighting, reports from Cairo said that the Arab League had three annies each of 32,000 men ready to go into action m Palestine when the British withdraw. There were three
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    25 1 picture. Mr. P. P. Pillai one of the delegates presenting India's case m the dispute over Kashmir at the United Nation* Security Council A. P.
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    FOOD TALKS IN RANGOON
    66 1 OBSERVERS, from Egypt, Australia. New Zealand and Tasmania have been invited to the four-day session of the all-Asia peasants conference, beginning m Rangoon on April 6. The All-Burma Peasants' Organisation said 34 countries would be invited to attend* the conference, which will discuss unity among Asian
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    GANDHI ASKS MERCY FOR BOMBER
    142 1 NEW DELHI. Wednesday. MAHATMA GANDHI said tonight that he would ask the police to be merciful to a youthful Hindu accused of exploding a home-made bomb at his prayer meeting last night. The suspect faces a possible maximum sentence of life imprisonment. "We should not
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    U.S. studying war aid pact
    275 1 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. r pilE U.S. State Department is studying proposals for an American guarantee to Europe against aggression and the possibility of buying raw materials surpluses, said Mr. George Marshall, Secretary of State, m a press conference today. Mr. Marshall refused any other comment on
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    IRAQ NOT TO RATIFY HER NEW TREATY
    347 1 BAGHDAD, Wednesday. T*HE Iraq Regent and Crown Prince and political x leaders decided at a five-hour meeting here today that the new Anglo-Iraq treaty "does not realise the national aims of Iraq," a Royal Palace statement announced tonight. "The Regent has promised that
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    TROOPER DELAYED
    39 1 Bad weather has delayed the 22 293-ton P. and O. liner Stratbnaver. taking 3,500 Services personnel and their families to U.K. from the East She is now expected to dock at Southampton today— a day late.- Reuter
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    WARRIORWIFE DIVORCED
    64 1 LONDON. Wednesday. MR. HAROLD ROBERT JOHN TOWNSEND, formerly m the Criminal Investigation Department of the Palestine Police, toas granted a divorce m London today on the ground of desertion by his wife. He said she was a member of the Palestine Jewish illegal defence force Haganah and, he
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    EXPLOSION KILLS 2
    30 1 An accidental explosion of ammunition at the Royal Ordnance factory at Swynnerton, yesterday killed two workmen and injured a third, the British Ministry of SuDDly announced.- A.P.
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    SWEDES BUY VAMPIRES
    39 1 THE Swedish Air Force has placed a "second large ord^r" for aw unspecified number of Vampire jet fighters with Vhe De Havilland Aircraft Company. A De Havilland spokesman said the contract "involved millions of pounds."- A.P.
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      16 1 m f*om chuhch. sryp/tm 1 33, STAMFORD RP^^obTa More people than I ever are saying I
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  • FEATURES
    • Article, Illustration
      Books For Children
      768 2 A MALAYAN BOOKSHELF BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT TT is a long cry from the days when children were supposed to confine their reading to instructive or improving reading, all carefully selected for them by their elders. Indeed the pendulum has swung so far m the opposite direction
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      NO CATS: RATS APLENTY
      257 2  -  Richard Kasischke By A.P. Correspondent A CRYING need m the cities oi postwar Germany today is a pied piper of Hamelin even m the cities of the legendary Piper's home province of Hannover. Some Mayors would give their city halls If they could get rid of
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      Where Sinclair Lewis Fails As A Novelist
      629 2  -  PETER QUENNELL reviews new books m U.K. A GOOD novelist "needs three things a style, a subject, and a point of view. The last, I believe, is the most important. He may succeed with an indifferent style even admirers wince at Balzac's handling
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      Bridge Problem
      268 2 JN considering the bidding of today's deal, it is well to remember the kind of hand on which a preemptive four-herirt bid might be justified. As illustrntod here yesterday, North might have as little as six hearts and a singleton. It is not strange, therefore, that South should
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    • Article
      Born From Cosmic Gas And Dust
      248 2 Born From Cosmic Gas And Dust SOME new evidence to support the theory that the sun and planets like the earth were born out of huge clouds of cosmic dust and gas was described by Dr. Fred L. Whipple of the Harvard college observatory. New stars, and possibly planetary systems,
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      16 2 Blue-toned white with copper embroidery, Grecianinspired, designed for Googie Withers m the new Gainsborough Production "Miranda."
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      UNKNOWN
      183 2 N lxet knl Eißht coqu] 1 excitinTJ latu^ even S year m entertaS Competent iS expect that th. 3 on American y last for several j| yet. *1 I do not beUen J cinemas will h**!B for want or 43 men whoruntKlJ < i(J P some $21 ideas to
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      749 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast lor people born today BORN today, you are the complete romanticist and you see everything m terms of human relations. You are gay, witty and charming m your criticisms, but those who take the trouble to look beneath the sugar-coating will find considerable truth m
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  • NEWS
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      GREEK REBELS WITHDRAW TO MOUNTAINS
      471 3 GREEK REBELS WITHDRAW TO MOUNTAINS Re-organising for next major: attack UEAVILY defeated before Konitza, the moun- tain stronghold they tried to seize as temporary capital of their regime, the guerrilla forces of General Markos have now withHrawn into the fastness of their mountain hideouts, reports Reuter. A few small groups,
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      62 3 fJ'IUU) Villagers of Naharia, just north of Haifa, haul on a rone linked with the tiny illegal immigrant ship "United Nations" to get the vessel ashore "after it had evaded the British naval interception patrols which were on the look-out for two larger vessels. Two hundred immigrants who got ashore
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      GIRL GAGGED WITH HER POWDER-PUFF
      164 3 I IIRSIINC. into a fourth-floor office m Adelaide I U fkmmt, LoadMl Bridge, two well-dressed men tied lu< iMear-old typist, gagged her with a powder H p>. IT. ransacked the room, and started a fire. I I king the door as they left they walked
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      Girl'kidnapped' and robbed
      117 3 Girl 'kidnapped' and robbed WHILE walking along a street at lunch-time, Mrs. Evelyn Calton, an assistant cashier at a ChLswick firm of Chemists, was "kidnapped" by two men and a woman m a car, and robbed of £40 m cash. As she was walking along the street, a -car, with
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      30 3 For ss. Orrrub-kirk, (Lanes.) farmers cam get a ticket to so with the Lumesdale Hunt and shoot foxes. Guns arc allowed because there are too many foxes for the hounds.
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      13 DROWNED IN FERRY
      31 3 13 DROWNED IN FERRY fE r> Der yester- ns. includral women, were c ferry, m crossing ■X n Elbe River, capKic newspaper .said the ycc distrtr <X m jru ixony. A.P.
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      ON WAY TO SAIGON
      19 3 I J, with Bao Dai. f.tf nnam. who I hf Fre^ch Riviera family, the i
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      Australia probes disease by air
      108 3 [jcai section of f-vA-v.iMlian Civil AviaJ^rtment has b .'?n i arch iwyslct] standards. f-r Civil Aviat Dn«k,furd, has I the will be the investigation of the transmission of diseases by air, the maintenance of departmental medical records and the administration of standards prescribed by the
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      59 3 Diet ure. Mr. Ernest Bevin and Mr. Saleh Jabr, Premier of Irak (right) after the signing of the Anglo-Iraq treaty at Portsmouth. Here the two statesmen have a joke over a Naval Drum Major's mace after a ceremony at the Naval Base. "See if you can swina it." said Mr
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      GERMAN POWs HOME THIS YEAR
      78 3 THE War Minister, Mr. Emmanuel Shinwell m answer to a Parliamentary question by Mr. R. R. Stokes. (Labour*, said that during the first quarter of 1948 it was proposed to repatriate 74.000 German prisoners of war from Great Britain. It was hoped to complete repatriation
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      Self-styled Jap 'saviou' dies
      231 3 Self-styled Jap 'saviou dies rE death on Wednesday of cerebral haemorrhage ended the tumultuous career of 78-year-old WanLsaburo Deffuchi, former head of the mysterious Shintoist cult of Omoto, the self-claimed "saviour of Japan," and the alleged seducer of thousands of his women followers. In 1921, Deffuchi went to prison when
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      AGNOSTIC MAJORITY
      79 3 MR. THOMAS F. GREEN, headmaster of Bootnam School, York, told an audience at Friends' House, London, that the majority or his boys between 17 and 18 were agnostics. "It is an Agnosticism which goes far deeper than the doubts and misgivings of our own late adolescence", he added.
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      SHIP AGROUND OFF HAINAN
      78 3 THE 5,000-ton Philippines motor-ship Turkshead is aground off Hainan Island with 206 passengers and a general cargo aboard. The ship is m no immediate danger and full precautions are being taken against pirates. The Turkshead ran aground the night of Jan. 18, and the captain reported
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      N. AFRICA FLOODS
      49 3 After heavy storms, North Africa Is having its worst floods for 15 years. The rains are continuing. Hi*ts have been swept away, cattle drowned, orange and aipricot Kantatdoins damaged, and thousands of acres of cereal cro- destroyed. Thp floods have cut nail and road communications.- Reuter
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      Ceylon Reds seek 'Peoples Government'
      124 3 Ceylon Reds seek 'Peoples Government' THE Communist Party of Ceylon has held its annual conference, at which Dr. S. A. Wickramasinghe, President of the Party, presided. Mr. Pieter Keuneman, M.P., General Secretary of the Party, who moved the principal political resolution calling for a united front of the leftist groups
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      THE DINNER GOES ROUND AND AROUND
      220 3 A CONVEYOR-BELT cafeteria which moves dfreH from soup to sweet m 20 minutes has been designed and patented by a British engineer, and group of multiple stores are planning to install some of them. Diners sitting on wide air-cushioned seats are* moved at five
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      George III gave them his word
      155 3 George III gave them his word BIG Chief Leonard Staats and a band of Indians of the Six Nations tribes came from the backwoods of Ontario to the Court of Canada to settle a 60-year-old grievance and claim £322.000. Big Chief Staats wore a smart imported suit and smoked a
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      BURMA TO RUIN RIVER TRAFFIC
      74 3 BURMA TO RUIN RIVER TRAFFIC fFVHE Burmese Government is J. planning to nationalise the river transport system at present operated by the Bri-tish-owned Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, It was announced dn Rangoon. Negotiations are continuing. a Government communique said, but gave no transfer date or other details. The Irrawaddy Flotilla Company
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      'TO CATCH A THIEF'
      46 3 John LamLn, aged 49, of Burgess- noad, Ha^ Ham, empliyed In West India. Dock as a watcher uo prevent thefts from cargo s. was sentenced at Thames Magistrates' Oourt to one month's imprisonment for stealing two bottles of whisky from a ship.
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      U.K. MAY GET LIBYAN BASES
      91 3 A DAILY Express .dispatch from Benghazi said yesterday that the Senussi chieftain. Emir Mohamed Idris el Sunissi, had said m an interview that he would grant Britain military bases m Libya if and when the former Italian colony became an independent Arab state. The Express
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      AUSTRALIA SEEKS DEFENCE TALKS WITH US.
      356 6 AUSTRALIA SEEKS DEFENCE TALKS WITH US. O/jfer to exchange V-weapon details THE Australian Minister of Defence and Reconstruction, Mr. J. J. Dedman, said m Washington that he hoped for a meeting with the U.S. Defence Secretary, Mr. James V. Forrestal, for further discussions on the defence of Australia and the
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      U.K. yards build ships in 'parcels'
      146 6 rR the past year British shipyards have been building a fleet In mimdature uihich has not been lautidhed and c building programme ts still continuing. Already more thatn, lour thousand torus of dhips have been constructed a<nd they are being dismantled and shipped ki
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      'We will always need aircraft'
      138 6 THE Air Ministry m London states that Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas, Under-Secretary of State for Air. speaking to members of the Royal Air Force at Gibraltar during his tour of the Gibraltar and Malta command, said: "You saw dn the papers a few days ago
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      GURKHAS TO JOIN UK ARMY
      86 6 THE latest results m a referendum held by the British, Indian and Nepalese Armies among 10.000 Gurkhas showed, contrary to earlier indications, that 3,500 Gurkhas had opted to serve m the British Army, 4,900 for the Indian Army and 1,600 had not yet indicated their
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      NEW DESTROYER
      33 6 A soda fountain, to provide ice cream for the crew, is among new features m the 1927-ton tribal class destroyer Athabaskan, which was commissioned at Halifax, Nova Scotia, yesterday, says Reuter.
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      Jogjakarta Cabinet split: New talks
      150 6 Jogjakarta Cabinet split: New talks riTHREE members of the exe--1 cutlve of the Maswiml Masjuml, largest Indonesian party, which withdrew Irom the Republican Cabinet on the eve of the truce agreement, arrived m Batavia on Tuesday for talks with Dr. Frank P. Graham. American member of the United Nations "Good
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      U.S. AID TALKS
      33 6 Preliminary talks on U.S. aid were held m Washington yesterday between the special Chinese mission and Mr. W4l--lard Thorp, assistant U.S. Secretary of State, m charge of economic affairs.- A.P.
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      U.K. builds greatest flying boats ever
      243 6 SIDE by side m a vast hangar at Cowes (Isle of Wight) three of (he greatest flying boats ever to be built m Britain are slowly taking shape. When they are finished and ready to take off fully loaded they Hill weigh 130 ton
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      Control over British zone spending urged
      195 6 THE immediate establishment of an organisation to exercise control over the expenditure of the British Control Commission m Germany is recommended m the report of the sub-committee on estimates which visited Germany last September. The report called for an Immediate move to initiate an
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      Roxas chain smokes again
      97 6 A FTER a brief "intermissdon" by order of his physicians. President Roxas of the Philippines h.as again resumed his chain-smoking habit. He stopped smoking ciga- rettes for several weeks when he started suffering from headache and high blood pressure. Now that he is fully recovered, he's
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      SHORTAGE Bombay Govt invokes war powers
      314 6 SHORTAGE Bombay Govt invokes war powers HOUSING A WAR-TIME ordinance—which vested c,» v with unfettered 'powers of requisition n nt house or land for essential purposes" ha h by the Government of Bombay to -relieve ing acute housing shortage m Bombay cUy* "Persons m need of residential accomnmii-i —their number
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      90 German children to live in U.K.
      83 6 90 German children to live in U.K. THIRTY -FIVE Q A children from the Britff zone, most )rph^ are to be;? in :> in^r tain. Their tgea rani to 14. Betw* n -;Tomoii will follow. They will bo mxrr the National Children's Hoom and Orphanu:-. until they ar» ready to
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      FANATICS AT DEATH INQUIRY
      77 6 rriWENTY-FOUR numbers i JL a fanatical sect known a "Watu Wa Jeso Chri; of Christ) appeared at a pre« liminary enquiry before the Resident magisr rate's coun a Nairobi yesterday, and a t* ther 30 members were expected to appear before ti same court tomorrow. The
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      MORE FOOD FOR U.K
      40 6 Tomato sauce fruit caki 1 doughnir lemon. arjpl*\ and p- ters. custard powd cornflour are am ns ~::i more than 30 foodstuffs^: may now be m mited Quantities m MM from Australia under indit> daul licence.
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      149 3 w^^ Tm r,, mmm *"flf MI%U mi I I CHILDREN'S FROCKS 1 r\ llTinilin A I a.<, KnicWer Set, m Sliced WIVI I I W^S GoW, White, Saw, Turquoise. I OVl'l Ll' l jL \J 'U NOW CIA An I ir' iI.LrULJ H "ssspsp" cincham dmjs and rAnllt )tl), Trimmed
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  • LEADER
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      The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. JAN. 22, 1948. Rural Singapore
      570 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. JAN. 22, 1948. Rural Singapore SINCE the liberation, Singapore has witnessed the first signs of the development of a lively civic spirit m the rural areas of the island, m which it has been estimated that some 25 per cent of the Colony's population dwells
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      Full Details Of America's Lease-of- Life Aid
      1490 4  - Full Details Of America's Lease-of Lif e Aid WALTER FARR WHAT UK WILL GET IF CONGRESS PASSES THE MARSHALL PLAN By FtflS is what the iVlctrshi'U Plan will me an to people m Britain if it's approved by the united States Ccngreos. It will mean that, providing they work, they
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      SOME SLIDE ISSUES
      722 4  -  IAN COSTER WHEN I was flying across the 1,300--mile stretch of the Tasman Sea last summer a fellow passenger was a little man m glasses who kept popping a hand out of the astro hatch and exposing slides to the air. The slides, covered with glycerine jelly,
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      48 4 One a minute is the rate at uh < h Wn i n babies' pram bodies on her 60-ton ifl J l^ rey, factory, stamping them out of mp>ni her foot. The finished prams go all llfr a^J then-well, the rest is up to s Z e o £**1
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      IT SEEMS TO ME
      1007 4  -  Politico by TTHE first official des- patch on the Malayan campaign will be published tomorrow. Sir Robert Brooke Popham's account o£ the outbreak of war with Japan does not have the interest that attaches to Lt.-General Percival's full story of the fighting (to be published on
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      His Lovely Lee
      92 4 A POWERFUL iia; chntud^ has beeafc b> Mr X crick Hal New Sout^ wvei. i» sisied oc. hr.ing up< girls i.\ .ovely icetest. Mr. Newlm I out thai tbe :en»< can ten Mid tv/Jbmi th_ sex of the legs. So Mr. Newlivij careful., shaved, ok and lot;
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      MEDICAL RECRUITING POLICY CLARIFIED
      439 5 MEDICAL RECRUITING POLICY CLARIFIED i\ew doctors for upcountry NFree Press Staff Reporter EW Singapore entrants to the Government medical service most now join the Malayan J! ervice and available for duties either m Singapore or any part of the Malayan Union, Dr W J Vickers, Director of Medical services, told
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      OIL OUTPUT IN BORNEO RISING
      263 5 PROYiDHD increased food supplies and housing available, oil production m British B«>rne<.. which h;us already risen to three times the maximum pre-war output, will rise yet further this official of Shell Petroleum said m London terday. 11l rehabilitation and expansion of the since the end
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      INDIES KEEN ON TRADE WITH S'PORE
      183 5 INDIES KEEN ON TRADE WITH S'PORE ALTHOUGH it was originally ded to terminate the system of granting foreign escbai i a sliding scale to rubber exporters m Palembang at the end of this h, th»* Dutch have decided to continue giving 25 per cent, exchange to these nporten, without naming
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      101 5 *f r \R' 0 Watson, assistant Military Foreman of Works attached to 235 Works Section, Supply Reserve Depot area, Pasir Panjang. was entertained to dinner by his staff at the Happy World on Tuesday night. After three years with the Army. Mr. Watson is leaving for England on demob on
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      VICKERS ANSWERS CRITICS
      348 5 VICKERS ANSWERS CRITICS Free Press Staff Reporter •THE Director of Medical i Services, Dr W. J. Vickers, yesterday described as untrue and a "deliberate falsification of the position/ a statement made by the Malayan Democratic Union on the shortage o f doctors m Singapore. The MJ).U, m ite latest bulletin,
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      HAD SAMSU, FINED
      29 5 A 30-year-old woman, Lim Ph€ng Sai, was fined $100, or m default three months' imprisonment, m the Singapore Eighth Police Court yesterday for possession of samsu.
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      SARAWAK STATEMENT DISCLAIMED
      448 5 FIFTEEN Sarawak antices&ion associations have sent a cable to Mr. Anthony Brooke expressing surprise at the statement Issued to the Press m Singapore by Inche Mohamed Kipli bin Haji Osman, General Organ- i ising Secretary of the United j Sarawak National Association, and expressing confl- 1 dence
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      14 'SOCIETY' MEN FINED
      76 5 TWENTY THREE Chinese their ages ranging from 18 to 61 were produced before the Second Police Court Magistrate, Mr. E S. de Banzie, yesterday, and charged with being members of an unlawful society. Fourteen of the Chinese, who pleaded guilty, were fined $25 each, default 10
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      PARCELS MAY GO BY AIR
      88 5 OAIvCELS addresjsed to places within Malaya will now be accepted for transmission by the Malayan internal air services. ahe a mail fee will be 15 cents for each pound or part of a pound, m addition to the ordinary internal parcel postare rates. The maximum
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      MALAY CHIEF GETS M.B.E.
      93 5 ztclures zirtaward Gent is seen pinning the insiania of trio mrf mmmmmt^ m^ m Om Bfl fra of Malacca. During a recent visit to Malacca, the Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Edward Gent, visited the Malacca Boys Jubilee Club Picture on the left shows Str
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      Tenant sub-let even bath room
      207 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A SUB-TENANT, wrth a wife and three children, who ft appeared before the Rent Board yesterday to have his rent fixed, was allowed a reduction of 50 cents. He was Goh Jee Kow of New Market Road who told the President,
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      Jail & rotan for extortion
      133 5 Jail rotan for extortion Pw attempted extortion of $150 and assaulting Neelakandan, tihe Second District Judge, Mr. A. M. Webb, sentenced a young Chinese, T>hua Wong Yang, to four months' rigorous imprisonment and six strokes of the rotan. Neelak&ndan said Uiat the accuse*! asked him for $150 amd, because he
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      FINED $25 FOR GAMBLING
      56 5 IN unemployed Chinese, X Chew Tuck, yesterday In the Singapore Eighth Police Court, was found guilty of gambling, and fined $25. Chew was arrested during a police raid on the house m Sago Street on Jan. 15. He told the court that he had gone to
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      'LET US WIN OVER THE DISTRUSTFUL'
      389 5 'LET US WIN OVER THE DISTRUSTFUL Gent asks co-opc?axion Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. A FTER signing the Federation Treaty iftifa afternoon, Sir Edward Gent, Governor of the Malayan Union and High Comnifesinncrdesignate of the Federation of Malaya, appealed tor tolerance, understanding and co-operation. 'We cannot slacken our
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      SOLD PENICILLIN
      50 5 PHONG Seng Fan, the proprietor of a druggist shop m South Bridge Road, was yesterday fined $450, or four months' rigorous imprisonment, for selling penicillin without a liceno\ Chong sold 290 phials of pencillin. valued at $380, to a dispensary m Orchard Road on Oct. 31, last year.
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      101 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Ma lava n^ii^iTfiu^? Tk E r L Ao?^ T^^3^ V^ Xs FEIHG THINGS YOU AKE>| X.THEY'RE LITERALLY MOVIHg\ SkwAS^JM»MG L J-> f V. /n'ANE!— THERE'S NO MOUNTAINS HERE!- TEARING oSiillri ft i\l?2uAi c iVJ A Zi-< C I ONE AROUND EXCEPT UP
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      WEST INDIES SCORE 244 FOR 3
      545 7 WEST INDIES SCORE 244 FOR 3 Good Recovery After Bad Start A P artliersl **P of 104 for the third, wicket, between the Trinidad pair, Jeffrey Stollmeyer (78 out) and Gerry Gomez, (85 not out) retrieved the position for the West Indies m the first Test match against England which
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      Scoreboard At Bridgetown
      40 7 -BSI INDIES- IST INNS ETam b JJSSS Kohertson k Ikiri ir Totil (for I *kts.) 244 Kail of wickets 1-18.2/81. O. M. R. W. »*L. 'A 64? 0 "^Jt-. I wiL i nok.oi I. K^uter. 0 BOWMNfI.
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      SRC 1948 SPORTS OFFICIALS NAMED
      69 7 The sporti mm Hill of the Singapore Recreation Club *rrday to elect for the various sport. s f or 1948 resulted as follows: Cn ..tin V. C. Westerhout: V: Captain R. G. -y Convener F A Milne. FtK)tbal! Captain: J. Lawn A. C. nd Secretary
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      CEYLONESE SCORE 4 GOALS VERSUS SCO
      366 7 4 S.C.C 0 a fast game under ideal ground condithe Ceylon Sports Club defeated the ipore Cricket Club at hockey by four goals to nil on the padang yesterday. loneae dominated play m the first session i they scored three jroals, but the Club
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      Scoreboard At Mt. Cambier
      237 7 India— lst Inns. 421 for 7 wkts declared. COUNTRY Xl— lst Inns. Harlot st. Irani b Nmynda S3 SkJpworth b Amir EUhi 33 Promnili b Sohoni 47 ScHuHi b Mankad 22 Zanker lbw b Sohoni 17 Bcarlcv b Mankad S Kevin b Sohoni 1 Boase b
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      CHANGI RAF REPEAT EARLIER VICTORY
      330 7 T^HE Singapore Police sustained their second rugger defeat at the hands of the R.A.F. Changi m. a rousing game played at the Thomson Road Police Training School yesterday, the Airmen winning by 9 points (three tries) to nil. In their first encounter, R.A.F. Changi trounced
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      BROMWICH, QUIST WIN EASILY
      46 7 JOHN BROMWICH and AdJ rian Quist won easy straight sets m the singles of the Australian National Tennis Singles Championship at Kooyong courts m Melbourne yesterday. Bromwlch beat the young Davis cup star Frank Sedgman, 6-2, C-4, 6-4, Quist defeated Bob McCarthy.
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      CLOSE FIGHTS EXPECTED IN TONIGHT'S FINALS
      284 7 THE finals of the RAJ. Malaya team amd individual boxing championships, which will be held at R.A.F. Base, Seletar. m West Cam© nanpar at 8.30 p.m. today, promise some very close contests and a good standard of boxTremendous interest has been aroused by these
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      SOSC Stadium Decision
      151 7 CLUBS and associations affliated to the Singapore Olympics and Sports Council are to be asked for monetary contributions to meet the expenditure of any athlete who might represent Singapore at the World Games m July. This was decided at a meeting of the S.OJS.. (Committee of Management)
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      Two Babes On Ice
      73 7 Jli the abidance and instruction of Miss Muriel Kooerts, professional dancing champion 1939-46. and now an instructress for ice-skating at th$ Empire Pool. Wembley London^ Susan Harvey, aged Si of Wembley, and 25* r atri cta Edwards, aged 4_ of Ealing. Middlesex, a e na coached
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      Indians Win By Innings
      223 7 rVHE Indian Cricket tourists beat the South Australia Country XI by 106 runs m their twoday match which concluded at Mount Gambier, South Australia yesterday. The South Australia batsmen made a good start m their long chase to avoid defeat after India's big score, and by
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      WHITMORE WINS IN 3 SETS
      210 7 rpHE closing stages of the A Army tennis championship preliminaries were reached at the Happy World Stadium yesterday. All matches played were m the men's singles, the semifinals of which are being held this evening. The most closely-contested match yesterday was that between Lt. Whitmore
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      'Snowy 'Marland Has Another Champion
      501 7 'Snowy 'Marland Has Another Champion Ivan $6; Vanguard $5. Race 4: TRETES $16 and $8; White Socks $40; Hunter's Call $3 and Windsor Laddie $7 (dead-heat). Race 5: SILVER JUPITER $16 and $6; Golden Oak $7; Prattle On $6. Race 6: GOLD MEDALLIST $16 and $6; Some Class $6; Fair
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      GOOD POLICE RALLY EARNS 3-3 DRAW
      296 7 GOOD POLICE RALLY EARNS 3-3 DRAW S.R.C 3; Police THOUGH the S.R.C. maintained 1 a slight superiority, the Police hockey XI played well enough m the second hall to force the Recs to a three-all goal draw on the Padang yesterday. Except for J. de Souza. no player was really
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      INDIAN ASSN. BEAT C.A. XI
      121 7 FINE opportunism of their forwards and a strong defence enabled the Singapore Indian Assn. "A" team to beat the Chinese Athletic Youngsters by the solitary goal scored m a game of soccer played at Jalan Besar St adium last evening. The Chinese had less of
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      239 7 F.P. Crossword No. ?93 IBH^h CLUES ACROSS 1, Lively (9). 7, Pudding Ingredient (4). 9, Shellfish (6). 11, Subdued (5). 13, Cloth measure (3). 14, Kiln (4). 16, Add up (o). 17, Statute (3). 19, Mountain (3). 21, Tooth (3). 22, Perspire 7>. 24. Sleeps (7). 26, Attention (3). 27,
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    Kowloon: Nanking demands payment
    289 8 NANKING, Wednesday. THI Chinese Foreign Office late tonight presented a note of protest to the British Embassy here, claiming full compensation for the Kowloon squatters. This was the first mention of compensation the Chinese Government has made m the exchange of notes on the Kowloon Issue,
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    NEW THEORY IN SMUGGLING PLANES CASE
    102 8 SYDNEY, Wednesday. THE mystery of the "smuggling" aircraft reported to have been using the Batchelor airstrip, 50 miles south of Darwin, may have been solved. An Air Force spokesman said m Darwin today that R.A.A.F. aircraft had made several landings on the Batchelor runway
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    A woman who became a man
    107 8 PARIS. Wednesday. A 28- YEAR-OLD night. club entertainer has filed with the President of the French Republic, M. Vincent Auriol, an application to be regarded m future as a man. A Paris lawyer dealing with the application said that hi* client first sought the
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    GETS HER 15th DIVORCE
    71 8 A COMELY 40-year-old bru- nette placed m Brookings. Oregon, papers for a fifteenth divorce into a dresser drawer yesterday and announced that she is through with romance. She is Betty Lamar. restaurant owner m this town of less than 500 people, who had her maiden name
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    U.K. MAY REVISE U.S. FILM TAX
    209 8 LONDON, Wednesday. ¥N the House of Commons today, the President of 1 the Board of Trade, Mr. Harold Wilson, declared Britain was willing to modify the 75 per cent tax on imported films, provided the earnings of British films could be increased m foreign
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    TB FUND DONATION
    28 8 IT was announced at yesterday's meeting of the Singapore Rotary Club that the GiKwirth Trading Company had raised $7,000 for the Rotary Club's TB Fund.
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    PAKISTAN MAY RAISE NEW ISSUE
    194 8 NEW YORK. Wednesday. IT was officially announced i tonight that the Security Council will meet tomorrow to continue consideration of the Kashmir case. The Council's agenda will Include a i new letter from th^ Pakistan delegation. It is understood that the Pakistan letter draws atten-
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    Million troops died in 1947
    424 8 CHINA CIVIL WAR LOSSES NANKING, Wednesday. POWERFUL Nationalist air units ar« active over 1 the Mukden area, blasting Communist supply lines and demolishing railway bridges at Chaotnan and Liaoyang, south of Mukden, m an attempt to stem the wave of Communist advance. Some 10,000 Reds
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    SULTANS & GENT SIGN TREATIES
    1061 8 SULTANS GENT SIGN TREATIES Federation of Malaya Feb. 1 Free Press Special Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. THE Federation of Malaya was born at King's House, Kuala Lumpur, and will function as from Feb. 1, m consequence of agreements signed by the Malay Rulers and the Governor, Sir Edward Gent, representing
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    U.S. 'NO' ON TRIESTE
    39 8 The United States, like the British Government, has rejected the Yugoslav suggestion that a joint Anglo-Ame-rican-Yugoslav headquarters be established m Trieste, the United States yesterday notified the President of the United Nations Security Council.- Reuter
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    MARTS QUIET AND DULL
    379 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Wednesday QROWING optimism regarding the Anglo-Arm. tine talks, together with a report that a British financial economic mission is to leave for Ri* encouraged buying of a wide range of Sonti American issues on the London Stock Exchann today, says Reuter's financial
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    Rubber prices
    169 8 A SPECIAL Market correspondent Rives the prices of rubber at 11 a.m. today ai follows: Buyers Sellers Cts. Cts. per Ik. per lb No. 1 SLSjS. Spot loose Al% 41% Sm, 1 B.S-S. fob fat bale* Feb. 41% 41% No. Z B.S-S. fob tai bole* Feb. 41 41
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      47 8 WEATHER Bright I WEATHER report for the aexl 24 hoars compiled by the RAF: Long bright periods, fine u>nfcht and bright at first tomorrow. Wind: North -northeast, 8 to 12 knots. Temperatures y«a»t erd a y: maximum 87 deg. F: minimum 72 dec. F. Rainfall a trace.
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