The Singapore Free Press, 7 February 1948

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, "lois PRICE 10 CEN'I
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    INFLATION IS NEARATTLEE
    386 1 'Future hangs m balance LONDON, Friday. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, m a nationwide broadcast tonight, warned the ordinary people" of Britain against the approaching dangers of inflation. "If incomes go on rising," he said, there must come a point at which the Government cannot hold
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    SOVIET UNION WARNING TO SCANDINAVIA
    151 1 LONDON, Friday. RUSSIA tonight warned the Scandinavian countries that Moscow would regard any union m connection with the plan of the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, or a separate bloc as an "aggressive scheme" directed m the first place against the Soviet Union. The
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    U.S. GOVT TO KEEP CONTROL OF SYNTHETIC
    188 1 WASHINGTON, Friday. THE U.S. House of Representatives Armed Forces SubCommit toe. which has been investigating the synthetic rubber industry, today approved revised draft legislation to keep the industry undor Government control. The present temporary American law on synthetic rubber expires on March 31.
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    RUSSIA ALLEGES 'EXPLOITATION'
    59 1 IJUS6IA lias demanded that the United Nations Trusteeship Council should investigate British "exploitation and discrimination" m the territories of Uganda, Kenya and Tanganyika m East Africa. The Russians claim to be acting at the request of the natives. M. Gromyko. the Russian deleq-ate. forwarded the East African
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    FIVE INJURED IN BUS COLLISION
    61 1 FIVE INJURED IN BUS COLLISION Free Press Staff Reporter Four Chinese and an Indian were admitted to hospital at 6.15 am. today as a result of ii collision between two Tay Koh Vat Company buses near the fourth, milestone, Thorn>on Road. Singapore. The two buses were travelling m opposite directions.
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    ONE MILLION MUSLIMS WIPED OUT'
    34 1 LAKE SUCCESS. I India a re- Pi the m a ntinuthe y" be- he Sol. A.G.L. X ahim Free ird by t: the heikh r of nal Kashmir Reuter
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    RUSSIA SEEKS BELGIAN TIN
    13 1 RUSSIA SEEKS BELGIAN TIN m I E X d to X B A.P.
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    London stock prices slump
    191 1 LONDON, Friday. 4 FURTHER slump on Wall Street and Chicago commodity markets hit today's London stock markets, m which most sections, including tin shares, recorded shaip declines. Selling, however, was not heavy although losses are estimated at millions of pounds. Contributing causes were dealers' pessimism ovjr
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    MILLION BACK PAY CLAIM
    88 1 A Government request for dismissal of a back-pay claim suit brought by eight civilian workmen captured by Lhe Japanese on Pacific islands came before the Federal judge at Chicago yesterday. Asking more than $1,200,000 <m Malayan currency) m pay and damages, the workmen allege they spent
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    HUSH – HUSH
    49 1 HUSH HUSH Russia appealed strongly last night to Soviet soldiers to guard undisclosed military secrets now just as they would m a war. "One must not talk cither to the relatives or friends." about them, was the warning. The broadcast was distributed m London by the Soviet monitor.- A.P.
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    NO DEATH PENALTY
    12 1 Italy has abolished the death penalty for political crimes.
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    ARABS WARN UNO: VOW TO RESIST
    258 1 NEW YORK, Friday. down a United Nations Palestine Com- mission invitation to take part m its functions the Arab Higher Committee today declared "before God and history" that they "will never submit to any Power poing to Palestine to enforce oartition." In a letter
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    26 1 A study m expression is this picture of Zoltan Tildy, Hungarian President, as he icatches Yugoslav Premier, Marshal Tito, sign a mutual aid agreement with Hungary.
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    AID PLAN BEING REVISED
    42 1 Republican "revisionists" m the Senate are putting finishing touches to amendments by which they hope to limit the scope of the European recovery programme. The amendments will be submitted next week to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.- U.P.
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    BRITON SETS UP NEW AIR RECORD
    172 1 LONDON. Friday. f^ANADIAN-BORN SquadronYj leader W. A. (Bill) Waterton m two flights today at Moi ton Valence (Gloucester- i shire) twice broke the world i record for the 100- kilometre dOMd circuit flight. Squadron-Leader Waterton, who is chief test pilot of i the Gloster
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    U.S.-ITALY PACT
    28 1 Italy and the United States signed an air transport agreement yesterday the second important accord to be concluded between the two countries within the week.- A.P.
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    Purge coming in Congress party
    228 1 NEW DELHI, Friday. 4 PURGE of the Congress Party following Gandhi's assassination was demanded by the Party's own Working Committee, its policy-making executive body, m a resolution today. The Committee called on Congress to "become an effective instrument for carrying out the heavy and responsible
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    TINBL UNDER COSTS MINES $45,000,000
    361 1 TINBL UNDER COSTS MINES $45,000,000 Free Eress Staff Correspondent LONDON, Friday. THE Malayan tin industry will lose this year nearly $45,000,000 through the failure of the Ministry oV Supply to fix an equitable price for Straits tin, said Mr. G. W. Simms, chairman of the Suiifrei Besi Mines, m a
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    US WARNED ON OIL SITUATION
    128 1 WASHINGTON, Friday. QTATE DEPARTMENT surC 3 veys disclosed today that the United States has reversed its position as an exporter of oil, and warned that unless sufficient quantities are got out of the Middle East, the whole oil situation as it effects the European recovery
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    STOP PRESS
    37 1 Lunch score m the fifth Australia-India Test at Melbourne today, the second day, was: Australia: 457 for four (Loxton c Sen b Amarnath 80, Harvey 132 no., Linduall 35 no.). Full scores m Page Seven.
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    NAZI GENERAL FOUND HANGED
    59 1 /GENERAL Otto Von StulpVf nagel, military governor of Greater Paris during the Nazi occupation, was foun.l hanged m his prison cell at the military prison In Paris yesterday. Warders found him hanging by a length of knotted shreds torn from his mattress and bedding. He was
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  • FEATURES
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      Lucky 'extras' in red packets
      895 2  - Lucky 'extras' in red packets M.T. LEONG AT CHINESE NEW YEAR WELL— WISHERS PRESENT By TLOSE to the heels of one New Year, comes another, and the Chinese, no different from others, are ready to celebrate their New Year m a most fitting manner. A 1 r e a dy
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      THE CRITIC IN THE THEATRE
      770 2 THE CRITIC IN THE THEATRE nON'T be too hard on him because he is a dramatic critic, somebody has to do the job." So says one of the characters m Arsenic and Old Lace," and truly the lot of the playreviewer is often a thankless one. If 1h? criticises he
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      YOUR LUCKY STAR
      82 2 Fortune forecast for people born today DORN today, there is i-on- siderable mooriincss m your make-up whirh you, yourself, may not always understand fully. 1 his may be due to a highly sensitive emotional nature, which has, m addition, a keen analytical mind. You are able to
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      Bridge Problem
      145 2 SPADES arc trumps South leads. North and South are to win iill six tricks against any clef en i i .u.i is th s famous Whitfleld six -carder the father of all bridge problems.) S< uth leads heart jack. North playing the eight. South leads a club. North
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      'Prisoners of darkness'
      384 2 HELEN KELLER is READY T THE EAST XO HELP >r By CYNTHIA LOWHY A.P. Correspondent |)EAF and blind v Helen Keller is ready to start out on a familiar trial to the East, picking up her war-interrupted work of helping her fellow v prisoners of darkness." The
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      176 2 YOUR WEEK-END LISTeIhN^ SINGAPORE Blue Network From 12.00 noon to 2.00 p.m. 526 metres m the medium *vave band and 7.20 megacycles In the 41 metre band. from 6.00 p.m. to 7.15 p.m: from 9.30 p.m. to 11.00 p.m.: 626 metres m the medium wave band, and 4.525 megacycles m
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      416 2 Orchestra; 7 pm. Tim- S 7.01 Radio Thriller; 730 News m Malay; 7.45 Personal Choice. SINDAY Programmes m English: 1 pm. Julien Foorman His Orch. Soaview Hotel; 1.30 New.*;; 140 Light Music; 2 Concert Dar.ce Orchestra; 2.45 At The Piano; 3 Afternoon ClasMra: Concert; 4 Listeners' Post. 5 Programme Summary;
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      388 2 han News Bulletin; 10.40 Records by lUquest; 11 Great Music" Philadelphia, Oivh. 4 pm. 'Dinner Mu.sic" OrdL of II M. Royal ncs with Alfredo Campoli; 430 Australian News; 4.43 "Fine Ifusic*' A programme for the inus i- low arranged and pres. nted by Leon Williams; 5 30.' 'Australia*! Amateur Hour"
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      163 2 9 p.m. Sinfoniitta; 9.30 Starlit Hour; 10.15 Folk Song; 10.30 Juke Box Saturday Night; 11 p.m. For Dancers Only; 11.30 tfewi from London. SUNDAY 8 am. Music On the Air; 8.30 World and Home News; 8.45 Morning Star; 9 a.m. These Bands Make Musio; 9.30 Pru- gramme Sumninry; 9.40 Interlude;
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  • CHINA NEWS
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      SUSPICION FALLS ON U.S., RUSSIA
      499 3 SUSPICION FALLS ON U.S., RUSSIA SHANGHAI, Friday. MANY Chinese are beginning to link the American activities m Formosa m about the same way as they refer to Soviet Russia's role m Manchuria. Some persons are saying that the trend of the exhausting civil war is causing Soviet and American interests
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      U.S. POLICY DEFENDED BY CONSUL
      144 3 U.S. POLICY DEFENDED BY CONSUL SHANGHAI, Friday. MR. John Cabot, United j States Consul-General, m a speech to the Rotary Club yesterday, said the United States had done much to help and nothing to hurt China. "Surely the Chinese people have not forgotten wp havo contributed over $1,000,000,000 m money
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      FARMERS TOLD: 'CRUSH REDS'
      77 3 \N appeal to farmers to help crush the Communist rob* llion was made by Mr. Ku Ciung-Hang, the Nanking Minister of Social Affairs, m a broadcast address on the occasion of Farmers' Day. He described Communists as puppets of the new "Imperialism," and reminded the nations
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      Growing North-South unrest
      290 3 Growing NorthSouth unrest IX)NDON, Friday. A PREDICTION that "the present growing unrest" m China might lead to political changes and riots, was made m a message from Peking published m The Times. The Times correspondent also declared that there was "growing a ntajronism'* between south and north China. Two recent
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      POST-UNRRA AID ARRIVES
      40 3 TI Z first post-UNRRA shipof 7,225 to«is of flour has arriv#M m Shanfthai. The flour was shipped by the Production and Marketing Administration of the United States Department of Agriculture and is consigned o the Chkiese Government.
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      JAPS ROAMING IN KOREA
      123 3 ri'HERE are about 1,500 JapJL anese soldiers operating m the mountains between Kirin and the mouth of .Tumenn River, north of the Korean border, now m Chinese Communist hands, according to a North China news agency dispatch from Changchun, quoting a Chinese refugee. These Japanese soldiers,
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      CHINA NOT SEIZING FUNDS OVERSEAS
      363 3 CHINA NOT SEIZING FUNDS OVERSEAS Plan rejected byU.K&U.S NANKING, Friday. THE Chinese Finance Minister, Mr. O. K. Yui, who appeared at a session of the Legislative Yuan, which is studying China's budget for the first half of 1948, disclosed that the United States and Britain had rejected China's request for
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      82 3 Vice-Admiral Oscar C. Badger, icho will replace Admiral Charles M. Cooke, Jr., as coniT7ia7idcr of U.S. Naval forces m the Western Pacific. He irill arrive m China late m February. Vice Admiral Badger has been commander of the 11th naval distri** San Digco, California.- picture. A. P. Soldiers and townspeople
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      U.K. PAPER ATTACKS CENSORS
      315 3 LONDON. Friday. IN an editorial, the influential London Times denied an assertion by Dr. Hollins-t-^n Tong, Director of the Chinese Government Informal ion Bureau, that there was no censorship of the Press m China. Dr. Tong sent by cable .ast week a disclaimer of a recent
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      SOMETHING NEW
      39 3 Chinese musicians m Canton have produced a new dance number. Patrons of a leading cabaret are now dancing; the Lambeth Walk to the tune of Lohengrin's "Weiding M&rch." The words, of course. are sung m Chinese- Reuter
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      Big health drive gets under way
      314 3 SHANGHAI, Friday. THE National Institute of Health, an organ of the Ministry of Health, has launched an all-out drive designed to cut down drastically the toll m human lives taken annually by preventable diseases throughout the country. It is estimated by one of the
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      SETTLEMENT ON KOWLOON IS EXPECTED
      88 3 SETTLEMENT ON KOWLOON IS EXPECTED CANTON. Friday. MR. Wu Te-Chen. Secretary General of the Kuominlang, told a news conference here today he expected an amicable settlement with the British over the Kowloon issue. Answering many questions by Chinese reporters, he sa'.d China's National Assembly would meet as scheduled on March
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      45 3 Bsr. Miitun Reynolds (right) millionaire, American pen inanufacturcr and explorer, is shown on fits arrival m Shanghai to begin the exploration of western China. He is talking to Mr. S. M. Chu, a member of the China dele(jdtiun to the United Nations- picture. A. P.
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      RATES SHOOT UP IN S'HAI
      235 3 SHANGHAI. Friday. A GENERAL all-round increase m utility rates and prices of commodities greeted Shanghailanders when they woke up yesterday morning, with charges for lighting, water, telephone and gas services stopped up by between 20 and 30 percent. The price of rice, meanwhile, stands at
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      27 3 MONDAY 9th FEB. (Chinese New Year's Eve!) EXCITING MIDNIGHT PREMIERE Romantic Adventure m the Land of A A Thousand Holidays Thrills! v "LADY FROM m LOUISIANA" J
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      36 3 TARZAN Flying arrOW By Edgar Rice Burroughs T&VMLE BIRD' TAR-<S*SK <&GO*L£D If AS THE CREATURE RUSHED I V~Z. J| 3fl W BUT ITS «£AT 13 GOOD. AND IAM HU*6*y UPOH £h<!> IS^AH IrIoX J |1^ JSI&N
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  • LEADER
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      The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, FEB. 7, 1948. Parliament & the Colonies
      574 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, FEB. 7, 1948. Parliament the Colonies 1 J*W and very timely efforts are being made by three i i this country and by 'i<in of British Malaya m London to keep M I t>< n I Parliament better Informed on the affairs < Mala] .i
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      The passing of S'hai's ricksha-man
      873 4  - The passing of S'hai's ricksha-man ROY ESSO YAN By A.P. Correspondent THE ricksha puller the "man-horse" of China who once provided the country with its main means of transportation is a member of a vanishing race. Estimates of guild and labour officials show that it will still take several years
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      159 4 A aph taken m South Wales, one of the four main Development Areas mainly dependent pre-war upon basic Industrie* such an coal, iron and steel, and which suffered $cV( re depressions as a result of world conditions. The plan nowadays is to provide alternative light industries to stimulate diversity of
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      LYNCH LAW
      580 4 By JAMES MARLOW A. P. Correspondent THERE has been a lynching- m the United States every year since 1882. There have been 44 lynchings since 1936. There was one last year. Almost all those lynched have been Negroes. Most lynchinga were m the South. From time to time
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      CAREFUL SAMOANS
      125 4 CAREFUL SAMOANS Samoans drcned m whlto medical gowns and masks greeted the New Zealand steamer "Matua" when it arrived at Apia recently. Members of the Matua's crew said when the vesse returned to Auckland that tbo k^on Samoan observance of infantile paralysis precautions brminht boitip comic results. An outbreak ot
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      FAITH
      20 4 Her«in is My Father Rlorified, that >«• bvar much fruit; 9o shall fa bo My disciples. St. John 15, 8.
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      43-GROUP WILL FIGHT FASCISM
      647 4 By Alvin J. Steinkopf A. P. Correspondent LONDON: COME thousands of Britons, mostly youths, have made a firm resolution that the pre-war brand of Fascism will have to fiffht every inch of the way if it attempts to arise again as a serious political force m
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      CONTROVERT IN JUNAGADH
      241 4 CONTROVERT IN JUNAGADH THE days of cock ar.d quail fights, Oreen Forest shooting expedi tions for the last lions m India, and £1,000 dog "marriages" are ended m Junagradh, small state m the Kathiawar peninsula that jut^ out into the Arabian Sea. Junagadh is important now. more important than ever
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      BIG EYE
      47 4 Sen I I thr- i I I B >-v. I P;il I n obstrva:or» m m D' I I f -1m mon I ft I will not :Jfl cept for I T: I 11? I polk I of >■ <m Will lights I I I Reuter-A.A.P.
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      Radiophone to UK next year?
      53 5 >() \po!M v may bt al nt V year, if plan- of partment arc .«Pl»n.ved D( one lin] re and subsso for thr ■he i bout i Ice. at rce. h\e to telephone to England the Telecommunications [8, $351,000 is allocated to partment for opening
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      YEARS' JAIL
      21 5 jkinlse Kee :i to i r;pri- pore -orday when he -ed of unfc t by nam on .'.i K&ng
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      SINHALESE TO CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE
      161 5 SINHALESE TO CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE THE Sinhalese Association of 1 :uapore has mapped out a big programme to celebrate Ceylon Independence Day on Feb. 10 at the Association's premises m Queen Street. The programme is as follows 8.30 a.m. Assemble m front of th« Association's premises; 8.45 i am. chanting of
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      DIVORCE IS GRANTED
      73 5 A DECREE nisi, to be made absolute ir. three months. waj granted to Mr. R. H. Barth by Mr. Justice Jobling at the Singapore High Court yesterday when he petitioned for a divorce from his wife, Mrs. Winnifred Antoinette Barth <nee de Cruz>. Mr. Bar.h said his
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      ALLIES HAVE JAPS UNDER CONTROL
      381 5 ALLIES HAVE JAPS UNDER CONTROL Armed revival is unlikely Free Press Staff Reporter THE Allied occupation of Japan is working "incomparably better" than the occupatioi of Germany, said Lt. Gen. C. H. Gairdner, per sonal representative m Japan of the Prime Mi nister, m an interview with Press correspondent} m
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      54 5 The District Commissioner Mrs. H. E. Mackenzie is seen presenting a badge to Tungku Ampuan of Pahang at Council Chamber. Johore Bahru, yesterday. Tungku Ampuan. sister of the Sultan of Johore. was given the award as a token of appreciation for her valuable services to the Guide movement m Johore
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      GUIDES ARE ACTIVE AGAIN IN JOHORE
      167 5 GUIDES ARE ACTIVE AGAIN IN JOHORE Free Press Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Friday. fUIDING m Johore Bahru has been revived, largely through the enthusiasm of Mrs. H. E. MacKenzie who has been appointed acting District Commissioner. Tungku Ampuan of Pa- hang, sister of the Sultan of Johore, who was the pre-war
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      WELFARE FUND
      39 5 The Miuayan Welfare Fund now stands at $622,880.49. The latest donations include $10,000 from the Se- langor Chinese Athletic Association and $5,000 from the President of the Selangor Turf Club (for prevention and cure of T. 8.).
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      ACCOUNTANTS' EXAM
      60 5 THE Aiisociation of Certified and Corporate Accountants will hold examinations a: all overseas centfrea once yearly, m December. The next examination to be held at local centra will b: m December this year. The closing date lor applications to sit for an examination at an overseas cecitre £hculd
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      CHARITY SALE
      61 5 Mrs. Wu Paak-shing. wife of the Chinese Consul-Gencr-al. will open a sale of work organised by the Salvation Army at 2o Oxley Road at 4 p.m. today. O,uno 1 Oi mJ of Johorc who gathered In ir b Is at tto jonore Bahru. end 01 Llic Luutcuay to
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      STABBED MAN ELUDES POLICE
      152 5 ii rmm ssii^rsssssrwi^. THE Police have not been able to trace a man, pre sumed to be a Malay, who, a few days ago, wa^ found m the kitchen of another Malay at midnight m Kampong Poh fishing village, near the entrance t< the Strait of
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      Relief Fund aids war victims
      309 5 Free Press Staff Reporter 'THE Chinese representative on the Fa"r Eastern Relief 1 Fund Committee, Dr. C. J. Poh, gave an assurance, m an interview with the Free Press yesterday, that genuine and deserving cases among Chinese, whose relatives were massacred by the Japanese m
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      FOUR YEARS FOR THEFT
      62 5 rouiND j,uiit> o. the tiu;ii r of a motor cyclo, a young M.;lay. Masyadi bin Ma'on, was sentenced to four years' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice Browin at the Singapore Assizes yesterday. The accused stole the motor-cycle fiom Hooper Road o n Aug. 20 last year.
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      Youth Council formed: 10 groups enrol
      361 5 Youth Council formed: 10 groups enrol Free Press Staff Reporter THE formation of a Youth Council, open to all movemo nts -which seek to promote the moral and spiritual wellb 'of the youth of Singapore, was announced yesterday by the Rev. Canon R. K. S. Adams at a Press conference.
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      BURMA TO SHIP MORE RICE
      68 5 MARCH and April rice shipping programmes agreed upon at yesterday morning's I.E.F.C. Sub-Committee M mo m Cathay Building, contained the highest monthly figures since the liberation. This was largely due to Burma's etlort m making available 250,000 kKig tons ol rice for each of these
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      $15,000 FINE
      29 5 MALACCA, Friday.— The District Judge. <Mr. E. A. Burton), today imposed fines totalling $15,000 on a taikong and chinchew who wer» j chaxicd with evading Cusioma duty
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      GOVERNOR SAYS Youth welfare has top priority
      446 5 GOVERNOR SAYS Youth welfare has top priority Free Press Staff Reporter SPEAKING at the official opening of the Chinese YMCA, the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, said the government was particularly concerned with the welfare of youth, not only through the agency of schools, but also among other forms of activity.
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      PERAK COUNCIL
      28 5 IPOII. Friday. Tue newly constituted Executive Council of Perak will hold its first meeting at 10.30 a.m. tomorrow at the council chamber of the Perak Secretariat.
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      £139,468 TIN COMPENSATION FROM SIAM
      161 5 £139,468 TIN COMPENSATION FROM SIAM THE chairman of the Austral Malay group of tinmining companies, Mr. W. A. Freeman, m a report to be presented to shareholders at a meeting m Taiping on Feb. 17, says that, m October last, the Siamese Government agreed to pay £1,250,000 m full settlement
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      6 DOGS FROM AUSTRALIA
      90 5 6 DOGS FROM AUSTRAL IA SIX dog£, uhich will bo bold lor yearly £400, have left Sydney -jci the Hrit sia^c of a jour 11. y to Singapore. They include two Great Danes a< d cne ALsatian. which will ba used as guard deqs. Mr. H. Campbell Cowie, Secretary of
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      ARMY'S FOOD CUT TO SAVE $
      392 6 ARMY'S FOOD CUT TO SAVE Rations brought nearer civilian scale COMMENTING on the Government's decision to cut the rations of British troops stationed m England, The Times says since further economy m dollar expenditure on food has become necessajry, it was inevitable that the Government, m deciding whose diet to
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      RESIGNATIONS DEMANDED
      31 6 RESIGNATIONS DEMANDED The resignation! O f Mr. John McGovern M P. (Lab., Shettlestun > and Mr. Jamti Oartnlchael, M.P.«Lab.. Bridgton), were demanded oy the North-East Divisional Council of the I. L. P.
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      JOINT REJECTION OF BRITISH NOTE
      32 6 Tile Chilean Government newspaper La Nacian reiports that Argentina and Chile will jointly reject the British proWst over the establishment or military bases im the AnteLrrtic— A.P.
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      U.S. probe into tyre discounts
      141 6 T VHE U.S. Federal Trade ComX mission has ordered the "Big Four" American tyre companies to disclose the name> of their biggest customers and the prices charged them. This move is a preliminary step to enable the Commission to determine whether it should take action
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      AUSTRIAN PEACE
      31 6 A British Foreign Office spokesman said yesterday that the Bis Four Foreign Ministers' Deputies on an Austrian p ace settlement would probably meet m Lon•n on Feb. 20.- A.P.
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      40 judges seek jobs: U.K. Govt. doesn't know
      169 6 TL- British Government "have no rea^cn o sup\m that the Governments of India and Pakistan are expensing with the service* of European judges of th^ high courts." Mr. Artavr Hcndersjti, Air Minister and former Undersecretary fo/ India. (gave tnia repfy iji the
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      BANNED LEAGUE OFFICIAL HELD?
      85 6 THE Hong Kong newspaper. 1 Sing Tao Jih Po, reportod that a Chinese general, described as a high official m the outlawed China Democratic League, has been arrest rd on a secret military mission m South China. He is HiKing Chim;-yi a riuht-hand man of the
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      COW BEATS RECORD
      29 6 In 329 day* a British FrioA ian r^ w to Mr R '"^Pshire) yielded 41 9521JX of milk, beating the world's record for a full yc-\r
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      BUDDHISTS PROTEST AT DUKE'S SAFARI
      118 6 BUDDHISTS PROTEST AT DUKE'S SAFARI V SAFARI arranged at Kandy for the Duke of Gloucester during the Ceylon Independence celebrations has evoked protests from Buddhists of the island who are now campaigning for a total abstention of killing of animals on Feb. 4 and 10, two important dates m the
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      Starving Tamils fled to Ceylon
      117 6 CEVENTEEN Tamils, include v m« two boys from Ramnad District, who were produced before the Anuradhapura (North Ceylon* Magistrate cci the charge of having iliesaUy landed m Ceylon sated that they were forced to migrate due to tho wiri* d T f^ mine P^vailng m
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      Strato jet tests
      72 6 Strato jet tests It's six motors' screaming and trailing smoke. the Boeing XB-47 Strato-iet bomber takes off for the first time at Seattle, on a fliQht to the Moses Lake, Washington, army airfield. The bomber made the 145-mile flight m 50 minutes.- picture. A. P. The Duke of Kent with
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      He found 'needle in a haystack'
      241 6 He found 'needle in a haystack' lyiTH but one flimsy clue, a Sydney solicitor has "f succeeded m locating one man among Chinas teeming millions after a 5,000-mile trip for that specific purpose. In November 1947, Mr. H, H. McHugh, the solicitor, left Brisbane aboard a tug for Hong Kong
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      TO REPRESENT U.S.
      42 6 President Truman has designated the U.S. Ambassador to India. Mr. Henry f Orady. to be his personal representative with the rank of Special Ambassador at the Ceylon Independence ceremonies to be held from Pph 10 to Feb. 14.- Reuter
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      FORM HORSES IN DEMAND AT IPOH
      451 7 The first race should go to The Magic Lamp. Tuconee will be the only danger. 1 <*h Clyde should take the second while Hobbs holds a tronf band m the third race with six runners, of whom Skittals looks best. Haydee is likely to
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      Two Wrestling Cards Tonight
      157 7 I^ING KONG, giant Hungan.t-wrr.-tlpr u!n has b^rn unDeaten m all his local fight?, meets Banta Singh at the Great World arena tonight. At thr Happy World Stadium, the 200 lb Bangkok champion, Lambong, will meet Son of Kong of Kuala Lumpur m an all-Mala-yan Chinese championship
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      Elections by "Call Boy"
      20 7 Elections by "Call Boy" 1 l. -Call I^^'Vu lamp km m [Trim I I I ,OHNBILL W I m m
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      NEW SWIM RECORD
      12 7 the om- by Reuter Br iimi M I A.P.
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      Australian Youngsters Come Off
      276 7 Australian Youngsters Come Off From K. S. Duleepsiniphi JN spite of the fact that Deri Bradman strained a mascle m his back soon after he had reached his 50 and had to retire, Australia scored 336 for three agrair.st India m the final Test which started at Melbourne yes- terday.
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      HAIKOWYU XI
      81 7 THE following will npNMDt Haikowyu XI against V.M.M.A. r»t !-oceer to-day at 5 p.m. on the Printing Office ground: Eksan (capt.), Chyc Hec. Wai Mun, Chandra, Thian Chye. 'Ihian Wah. Dorai, Hassan. Pch Soon, Tat rick Yoc, Ronnie Lam. Alfred I-<-e. Tontf Chiat. Leman. Frank. Pans Eng. Ens
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      Van Breukelen's horses exercised
      226 7 Van Breukelen's horses exercised By Call Boy* ♦TiRAINER van Breukelen's X string, which arrived last i night for the Singapore meeting which starts next Saturday, had cantering exercises <>n the third track at Bukit Timah today. The going was yielding. Suivi. with Spencer up, Liberty Man 'E. Donnelly) I and
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      Shackleton fee is new record
      69 7 Shackleton fee is new record NEWCASTLE United reii ceived the record transfer fee of £20.050 for Lett SKackleton. it iras revealed :n Sunderland last night. Sunderland?* hid topped that of Bolton Wanderers bf £50 the odd sum was added by Sunderland who thought it just possible a rival might bid
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      NEW BRITISH BOXING HOPE
      108 7 The recent search m Bri- tain for heavyweight boxers has turned up a man who is generally rated us the best prospect Britain has had for a long time. He is George Daicson, Whose real name is George G d He comes from Bulith Wells m
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      MCC IN LINE FOR VICTORY
      150 7 A CHANCELESS century by Winston Place, his first of the tour, followed by some shock bowling by Harold Butler, had practically assured the M.C.C. tourists of their first win m the West Indies when the third day of their match against Trinidad at Port of
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      M.C.C. call on Hutton again
      76 7 THE Marylt'bono Cricket Club, after a phone call on Thursday night from Cx.O. Allen captain of the English cricket team touring the West Indies again asked Len Hutton, the Yorkshire and England batsman, to reinforce the England side stricken by injuries. Hutton turned down an
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      SAFA entries close Monday EXTENSION DESIRED
      588 7 SAFA entries close Monday EXTENSION DESIRED Free Press Staff Reporter /^LOSING date for entries for the Singapore Amateur V' Football Association league this season is Monday, Feb. 9, according to a notice just issued by the Association to the 32 clubs and teams which have obtained direct affiliation under the
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      Ann Scott wins Gold Medal
      192 7 pRETTY Barbara Ann Scott scored Canada's first success m the Winter Olympiad at St. Moritz yesterday by taking the women figure skating event. While she skated beautifully m the free skating and did en to get the gold medal, she did not execute a very
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      S'HAI SOCCER "WAR" ENDS
      57 7 rriHE soccer civil war m A Shanghai ended yestrrrt-iy as the Football Committee of the Shanghai Atbietic Federation reinstated N. Z. L^e and S. S. Nyi on the inu-rport lineup thus averting th<> threatI ened boycott by five other Tsing Peh players. Thp team is leaving
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      210 7 DOTTING WINNERS MADE EASY TRATED RACE GUIDE 100 PACES-PHOTO FINISHES- $1.50 n all B *stalls—BUY SOW! GREAT WORLD ARENA TONIGHT at 9 P.M. FIGHTS WRESTLING 5 FIGHTS .11! FIGHT OF THE YEAR KiNG KONG ANTA SINGH I 1 HIM ,1 Hi vywri^htA L' fi;htv. v, th C<»n I', i! ,ms.
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      517 7 SCOREBOARD ..l.c.i i i.l. Inn*. J. D. Robertson c Trrstrail b Pierre 3 W. Place not out 120 K. Cranston c Atkinson b Pierre 1 G. Smithson Ibw Contantine 20 T. G. Fvans c Contantine b JarkMr 48 J. H. Wardle c Tang Choon b Skeelc 12 G. O. Allen
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      244 7 F. P. Crossword No. ITS o>« Fop- T v -i ISSoZ^ h^H tßpSfi fiS^H Sj 8L53 CLUES ACROSS 2, Generous (9). 7. Fruit (4). 9. Remission 11, Fine (S). 13, Curve (3). 14, Slope (4). 16, Perquisite (3). 17, Projection (3>. 19. Measure (3). 21, Receptacle (3). 22, Told tales
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      'No one wsnts a war now' says 'Ike'
      240 8 'No one wsnts a war now' says 'Ike' WASHINGTON. Friday. f^EN. Dwight ("Ike") Eisenhower today declared that no great nation. Including Soviet Russia, would deliberately provoke a war at this time. At the same time, be described the U.S. Army as woefully weak 100,000 below the minimum requirements. He gave
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      DISARMAMENT OF JAPAN Russians cause new hold-up
      310 8 DISARMAMENT OF JAPAN Russians cause new hold-up WASHINGTON, Friday. "THE Far Eastern Commission has failed to break x the Soviet-American deadlock over a long-term policy for disarming Japan. The Soviet-American differences involve, members said today, Russia's delay m freeing some 750,000 Japanese war prisoners, and a dispute over what weapons
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      HOME...
      46 8 HOME At the entrance to the main street of Sydling St. Nicholas. Dorset, there is a ti.f </i .->«.- r- jufmed hv a cross-road where an ancient Roman Cross stands. The shady Chestnut tree, knoirn as 'Cross Tree," spreads over the centre, inhere children play and rendezvous.
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      EXERCISES IN ANTARCTIC
      85 8 N ARGENTINE naval force two cruisers and several destroyers will k-ave shortly for "operational manoeuvres and general studies" m the Antarctic. The ships will carry senior officers and officials of the Navy Ministry. Recently notes have been exchane d between Britain and Argentina over the setting up
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      WORLD BANK CHIEF
      47 8 Mr. Stuart Gordon McFarlane of Australia will be the fourteenth director for the World Bank and World Monetary Fund —A.P A Bucharest war crimes court yesterday sentenced 18 former Government Ministers and Under-Secrctarics to terms varying from five to 20 years solitary confinement A.P.
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      B.I.S.N. orders 4 more ships
      104 8 Ij^OUR more cargo ships and one small passenger ship have b«-»'n ordered by the British India Steam Navigation Company. This brings the Company's total now building or on order to 21. Two ,i l i 0 cargo ships will be 7.000-ton motor vessels with 24.000
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      STALIN BUSY
      23 8 Gmeralissimo Stalin continued his brisk pace of public appearances yesterday with a dinner at the Kremlin to the visiting Rumanian delegation.
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      SINGAPORE HUES
      10 8 Today Sunday III 11 10 44 p.m. a.m.
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      U.K. TAKES OVER POWER ON APR. 1
      203 8 LONDON, Friday. ryUE British iMinister of Fuel and Power, Mr. Hugh x Gaitskell, announced m the House of Commons today that the Government will take over the ownership of Britain's electric utiDties on April 1. Legislation nationalising the nations entire generating and distribution
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      STALIN'S 'NO'TO U.S. TRIP
      48 8 STALIN'S 'NO' TO U.S. TRIP THE White House disclosed 1 yesterday that, m 1946 President Truman offered Marshal Joseph Stalin transportation aboard the United States battleship Missouri if the Russian premier would gc to America. Stalin sent back what White House called a "nolitp H <iin- P(ation."- U.P.
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      ALLIES GIVE GERMAN MORE POWERS
      388 8 ALLIES GIVE GERMAN MORE POWERS Soviet protest is ignored frvftDlvr FRANKFURT, Friday. ibAUKING Russian demands for the dissolution of Bizonia (merged British and U.S. Zones m Germany), the United States and Britain today proclaimed western Germany's new economic charter, giving Germans m Bizonia broad new powers to decide their economic
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      MEMORIAL TO GANDHI PLAN
      51 8 liHE All -India Congress Party is considering a proposal to call an international conference to design and raise funds for a memorial to Gandhi. The memorial would bo In the form of translations of his writings into all the world's languages to propagate the non-violence mission.-
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      U.K. PROTEST TO BULGARIA ON JEW SHIPS
      202 8 LONDON, Friday. THE British Foreign Offlee announced tonight that it had sent a stiffly worded note to Bulgaria charging thai either that country had deliberately connived, or that some of its officials made a "serious error," m letting the ships Pan York and
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      JOIN WORLD GOVT PLEA
      92 8 SEVEN members of Parliament have asked the British Government to offer to join other nations m the world government. A motion filed by them m the House of Commons, says; "That m order to raise the standard of Jiving of the peoples of the world and
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      MacARTHUR IS WELCOME
      53 8 THE Prime Minister, Mr. 1 Clement Attlee, told the House of Commons yesterday that Britain would welcome a visit from Gen. Douglas MacArthur. His remark was prompted by a members question, as to whether the Government planned to invite Mac Arthur for ceremonies previously extended Gen. Dwight
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      FOOD FOR U.K.
      37 8 More than 700 tons of Danish butter, bacon and eggs, the first shipment to Britain since last Autumn when trade negotiations with Denmark broke down, arrived at Leith yesterday m *>»« Danish vessel Rota.— A.P.
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      SHARP FAL IN PRICES
      209 8 I*s*!.» Stock E schi JODAY'S slump on the LondoS Stoik 1 attributed to investors letting o issues into fixed interest sccuritiw S^S were recorded m tin share. losses of 2s. 6d. were fairly u -id, M J after remaining quietly firm all day <\Z« burst of
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      Soviet blocks UNO's Korean investigation
      217 8 SEOUL (Korea), Friday. HPHE United Nations ComX mission for Korea voted today to refer the question of Korean independence back to the Little Assembly "because of the negative attitude of 1 the Soviet authorities. The action, which was generally expected, followed three days of discussion
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      DE VALERA TO RESIGN?
      59 8 I^HE overthrow of Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail Government by the Eire general elections appeared certain as the vote count neared the end yesterday. With well over 100 seats m Parliament decided the Government Party had fewer than the combined opposition. Political quarters expect
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      UK-BELGIAN PACT
      21 8 The Belgian Minister of Economic Affairs confirms that a new trade agreement has been conciiiriPH mh*u Great Britain.- A.P.
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      RADIO TO GUARD DESERT PIPELINE
      178 8 COVENTRY, Friday. THE most elaborate and advanced radio-telephone system ever provided will! safeguard a n?w 800-mile pipeline which will brine i 15.000.000 tons of oil from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean yearly. In the face of fierce competition from American Si 1 Brltis General
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      REDS REPULSED NEAR MUKDEN
      204 8 rpHp Mf v NANKING, Friday. IHE Nationalists officially claimed today that the main forces of Communist Gen. Liv were dislodged from Taipa mountains on the Hupeh-Anhwei border, but semi-official reports from Mukden admitted the Reds broke into Liaoyang near Mukden and later were repulsed "with heavy
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      UNKNOWN
      19 8 This giant ice-statue i as part of the celebration progress there. The st to brush snow from ttn
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      U.S. grains fall
      23 8 I tit <)* 3 1 v?^B i I which has b«*. n t SS«* V two I 1 bun I t
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      N.Y. stocks
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      55 8 WEATHER Fair tonight WEATIIEK report for the ne*i 24 hours compiled by Ib* RAF: Dull with occxsioiuU rain or showers. Some fair pehods tonight. Wind: Northerly, 5 to 10 knoU. Moonrise 5.28 a.m.. moonset 5 02 p.m. Relative humidity percentages: Yesterday 7.30 a.m. 96; 1.30 p.m. 62: 7.30 p.m. 84.
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      133 8 Rubber prices A SPECIAL Market corres pondent gives the price of rubber at 11 a.m. today a follows: Buyer* Sellers Cts. Cts. per lb. per It \a 1 K.S.S Spot loose 44 40" No. 1 R.S.S. fob m bales Feb. 10 40 '< No. 2 R.S.S. fot> m bales Feb.
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