The Singapore Free Press, 10 February 1948
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Title Section18 1948-02-10 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA li:.O83 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1948 PRICt 111 CFM>'18 words
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Article133 1948-02-10 1 CRIPPS TO GIVE NEW WARNING Stocks fall in London LONDON, Monday. lUHY the Government is more worried now over Britain's financial position than at any time since last year's convertibility crisis will be made clear in tomorrow's White Paper, drawn up by the Chancellor, Sir Stafford Cripps, which will show133 words
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Article, Illustration36 1948-02-10 1 Princess Elizabeth bought this 27 h.-p. limousine with the £4,000 balance of the wedding gift from the RAF and WAAF. She will u*e the HUH I number plate made available to her bv tne original holder.36 words
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Article442 1948-02-10 1 4,000 casualties in Kashmir NEW DELHI, Monday. |0l T 11.000 tribesmen took part in Friday's battle at NaosfuTii. Jainmu, described today as the fcest clash in the whole of the Kashmir war. The lers lost 4.000 men. half of them killed. Indian Army losses were given as 29 killed andReuter - 442 words
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Article77 1948-02-10 1 LONDON, Monday. rE Under Secretary for the Colonies. Mr. David Rees-Williams, speaking at West Wickham, in Kent, last night, said that he had received a report from Malaya yesterday on an experiment in mechanical rice production which was being carried out. "If our experiment comes offReuter - 77 words
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Article95 1948-02-10 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THOUSANDS of gaily dressed 1 Chinese men. women and children celebrated Chinese New Year today with visits to their friends. Women and girls wearing flowers in their hair, crowdud temples in various parts of the city. After hours of crackerflring95 words
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Article38 1948-02-10 1 President Truman will not "retreat" from any of the 10 rights proposals, aimed against racial discrimination which he made to Congress last week. The President's press secretary said this in Washington yesterday. ReuterReuter - 38 words
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Article36 1948-02-10 1 The Burmese Supreme Court yesterday began hearing the appeals of U Saw and eight others sentenced to death for the assassination of sevon members of the National Exeoutive Council on July 19. U.P.U.P. - 36 words
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Article19 1948-02-10 1 FIVE robberies, two with arms, were reported during preliminary Chinese New Year celebrations in Singapore last night.19 words
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51 1948-02-10 1 ANHUNT FOR OUR MISSING ALAY SEMEN SYDNEY M offi- Muiay for ship ison, mining men up in time they WYsI they rants nable federal ne hunt. ..^ration •'ays on the Wes- o f ordinary pasraint Govpenje Austran to kj so desire. scheduled to b. 23 and ritlsh P urn to51 words
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Article24 1948-02-10 1 Some arras in the North Island, including Wellington, experienced a fairly strong arthquake last night. The shock lasted about 45 seconds. A.P.A.P. - 24 words
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Article134 1948-02-10 1 FATAL PLANE CRASH IN LONDON ST. HENDON (London). Mon. WING-Commander Rolfe and Flight-Lieut. MacMeakin were killed when over-shoot-ing Hendon aerodrome in an R.A.F. Anson twin-engined plane, which struck a block of flats and plunged into a troLtey-bus at Burnt Oak Broadway. Four people in the bus. including the driver andReuter; U.P. - 134 words
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Article26 1948-02-10 1 Martial law Jras been declared in Tetuan. where Spanish troops opened fire on a Moorish nationalist procession on Sunday, killing at least six. ReuterReuter - 26 words
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Article26 1948-02-10 1 Eight miners died in an explosion at the Sunshine coal mine in Arkansas, U.S.A., on Sunday afternoon. All the bodies were recovered. A.P.A.P. - 26 words
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Article, Illustration262 1948-02-10 1 BE VAN SA YS BMA IS 'POISONED' LONDON, Monday. ]L|R. Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, whose bluntness had earlier antagonised opponents of his new national health scheme, today accused the British Medical Association of being a "body of politically poisoned people" Ten days ago, Mr. Beyan. in an attack onReuter - 262 words
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Article214 1948-02-10 1 BANGKOK, Monday. rriWO hundred armed horse- men from Yunnan, having delivered a quantity of opium to Maesai. a Siamese town near the Burma border, raided the warehouse In which the opium was stored today and recaptured the stock, which had not been paid for, on hearingA.P. - 214 words
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62 1948-02-10 1 NEW DELHI, Monday. A man with a dagger was arrested tonight outside *he residence of India's Deputy Prime Minister, Sardar Vallabhai Patel. He was said earlier to have tried unsuccessfully to enter the home of the Prime Minister. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Security guards roundA.P. - 62 words
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Article210 1948-02-10 1 COLOMBO, Monday. rKYLON has now put the finishing touches to its elaborate arrangements for the island's great day tomorrow when Ceylon joins the British Commonwealth as an equal partner with Britain and the Dominions. While the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, who arrived yesterday toReuter - 210 words
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Article82 1948-02-10 1 npHE flag of the Dominion ol A Ceylon and Britain formed decorative festoons in Queen Street today when the Sf.ihales? community celebrated the independence of Ceylon at a public meeting. The meeting was presided over by Mr. P. E Perera, president of the Sinhalese Asso elation. Besides82 words
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266 1948-02-10 1 nm» f r o. WASHINGTON, Mondav. T»Hfc, United States has under consideration a pla. m to send 40,000 troops to keep order in Palestine, said a Republican Congressman, Mr. John Mason, in the House of Representatives today. After Mr. Mason had saidA.P.; U.P.; Reuter - 266 words
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Article54 1948-02-10 1 M. Henri Verdoux, Paris stockbroker, yesterday in a Paris Court asked 5.000,000 francs' damages from the United Artists and Gaumont film companies on the grounds that the Chaplin film Monsieur Verdoux parallelled his own name and social background. The court set Feb. 26 as dateU.P. - 54 words
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Article42 1948-02-10 1 A Belgian coal strike scheduled for 5 a.m. today was averted last night. Government negotiators granted miners a five-per cent attendance premium as from Feb. 1 and a five per cent bonus on their November January pay. U.P.U.P. - 42 words
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Article27 1948-02-10 1 The Indian delegation has asked the Security Council of the United Nations to postpone "indefinitely** consideration of the dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir, states ReuterReuter - 27 words
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Article, Illustration778 1948-02-10 2 CECIL Y SMITH - Ask the doctor about it CECIL Y SMITH by THERE are many of us who are, quite simply, afraid to ask a doctor's advice. This fear usually arises because the person in question has some symptom which —to him indicates the beginnng of an incurable disease. So. rather than know778 words
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Article, Illustration267 1948-02-10 2 SOMETIMES, when a trapper knows that his trap has bwa "spotted." he ran get result* by settinc a second one nearby. The WriM f< x. laughing at the clumsy trapper's attempt to fool him with the trap he knows, carele ily stumbles into the second trap and is267 words
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Article180 1948-02-10 2 Home-made shoe beat blackmarket "I I ETA L-soled shoes, made It I from scrap aluminium and steel and self-heating in winter, have been devised by industrial designers Konrad Modraik, 43, and Kurt Passer, 46, after two years experiment. Three parts making up the aluminium sole are holloiv constructed with an180 words
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Article, Illustration342 1948-02-10 2 COITRTEXEY EDWARDS - UK 's LATEST CRAZE COITRTEXEY EDWARDS By IX>P men in Brita n's newest, liveliest and noisiest national jspori midget car-racing are busy making plans what they believe will Lie a bumper year. And while officials talk, grease-smud^cd enthusiasts in scores of private workshops are busy in their ap momenta building342 words
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Article158 1948-02-10 2 Alton L. Blakeslee - Alton L. Blakeslee By A. P. Correspondent A RARE sugar that shows some Indication of beinp: able to stop tooth decay is to be tested in the next few month! in rat experiments at the Harvard School ol Dental Medicine, Cambridge, Massachusetts, By Dr. James H. Shaw. TheA.P. - 158 words
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Advertisement18 1948-02-10 2 MAISON VALLY (ladies' Hair Stylist) O PEN I NG TO-MORROW 11th February at GOODWOOD PARK HOTEL TELEPHONE 786918 words
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Advertisement121 1948-02-10 2 SORE ACHING mr-T^i BLISTERED FEET M/M Quickly hea le d and W\ Comforted Zam-Buk bring comiort to Wt,^^o millions in all parts of the world. .^F^ /r* The refined herbal oils in this v f 7 /<s errand ointment soothe tiredness A*V and pain, reduce inflamma ion W* Ji and121 words
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Miscellaneous1082 1948-02-10 2 SINGAPORE \1 9 nMUcs ld a n.,,^>v., IU|S duu jtn mT,. i° 00 P» H-55 p.m. VLC9 ixti. o Band' —Jim Oav.dson's Blue Network .16.8* metres 17. M megacycle*; I On h. 10. 00 p.m. to 11.30 p.m. VLB4 From 12.00 noon to 206 p.m. 25. 4f metres 11.81 mrracycle*.1,082 words
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Miscellaneous240 1948-02-10 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people born today BORN today, there is a strange timidity in your nature which will be a continual handicap to your success unless you learn to conquer it at an early age. You have exceptional executive ability and are the type to fall, naturally,240 words
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Article453 1948-02-10 3 Lack of finance, halts power t>lan fHINA has suspended work on the mammoth Yangtse Valley Authority plan because of financial difficulties. The plan would have assured centres along the Yangtse River, from Nanking to the wartime capital of Chungking, an ample supply of cheap electricityReuter - 453 words
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Article, Illustration49 1948-02-10 3 A Greek refugee family father, mother, 9-year-old daughter and three-year-old son leave the town of Filiates with all the belongings they managed to save from their home, which teas burned by guerillas. They had to walk for five days to reach safety, each carrying a heaiy load. International picture.49 words
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Article86 1948-02-10 3 HE Philippine xnau has approved by 14 votes to two a rex.lu' «n concurring with President Roxas' oclamation <f amnesty to wartime collaborators The House of Representatives is peoted to vote 0« the issue today. Y natori all firm opponents of were absent on foreign aswhen the Senate voted.A.P. - 86 words
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140 1948-02-10 3 T!~^ British Overseas Air--1 ways Corporation has decided 10 convert 17 Tudor I aircraft now at assembly &i\i^ into Tudor IVs. This was aainounced after a conference of British Overseas Airways Corporation cxpprts at Messrs. A. V. Roej Manchester works The altered machines will accommodateReuter - 140 words
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Article64 1948-02-10 3 rpHE United States Army L transport, Walter Schwenk, bearing home the caskets of about 2.000 Americans who were killed in battle in the Mariana-Bonin group, will leave from Saipan for San Francisco on Feb. 26. This is the first return of second World WarReuter - 64 words
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Article78 1948-02-10 3 A CHELTENHAM (Gloucester) heiress. Miss Evelyn Maud Bubb, who persuaded her father to build h^r a church in the town, has left it and most of her fortune to Spiritualist organisations. Under her £278.000 will, of which death duties took 133.000. she left the church and a78 words
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Article78 1948-02-10 3 fHE British Ministry of Food announced tha: the United Kingdom Food Mission at presrnt in Australia has concluded its discussions with the Commonwealth authorlon e?gs. Agreements have been signed covering a period of five years beginning July 1, 1948. The agreement provides for increased production in AustraliaReuter - 78 words
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Article19 1948-02-10 3 Firemen used breathing ap-par-t.us to revive a cat found in a burrm? flat at Colchester. i Essex >19 words
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Article69 1948-02-10 3 A PROPOSAL for the mass -oduction or table poultr to meet all Britain's needs will be submitted to the Empire Food conference at Gacibcrra. The proposal has been made by Mr. W. J. Allen, founder of the Australian L^gion of Ex-Servicemen and women, whose idea is both toReuter - 69 words
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Article34 1948-02-10 3 Clad only In a handkerchief, a Cologne (Germany) man asked for clothing coupons, as his only suit had been stolen He was arrested for false pretences when his suit was found hidden.34 words
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25 1948-02-10 3 ELECTORS SAY 'NO MUNICIPAL HOTELS' Electors decided by moro than 30,000 voles that! Birmingham City Corporation shf>uld Hot *rade in furniture or run municipal hotels.25 words
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Article124 1948-02-10 3 has decided to participate in the British Industries Pair to be h*ld in London fron. May 3 to May 14 r Kt Mr. W. J. A. Leiißenborf?. Director of industries, said that Ccvion had obtained a space of 256 square feet. where between three hundredReuter - 124 words
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Article202 1948-02-10 3 JOHN AUSTIN and Albert Drury, both aged 14, ran away to London from a children's home at Homcastle, (Lincolnshire) to ask the King t o stop their superintendent, Mr. Norman Vardy, from leaving. At King's Cress Station they asked a policeman to show them202 words
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Article92 1948-02-10 3 MRS. Rebecca Havers, believed to be the oldest woman in England, who has died in Leytonstone, would have been 108 in March. She retained most of her faculties almost to the end. Last year, on her 107th birthday, she was filmed eating a slice of her92 words
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Article64 1948-02-10 3 AUSTRALIA is "delighted" i\ with the first group of former displaced persons to reach Australia as immigrants, according to a cable to the International Refugee Organisation from the Commonwealth Minister of Information and Immigration, Mr. Ar-tr-ui- J. Calwell. The first group of 843 displaced persons to beA.P. - 64 words
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150 1948-02-10 3 MARGOT GRAHAME, redheaded British screen m star just back from filming with Orson Welles in Home, has learned from the United States that the censors have cut her out of "Forever Amber" on religious grounds. i When she returns to Hollywood i.. the150 words
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Article59 1948-02-10 3 ONE newspaper photographer received a black eye and another had his camera smashed when Manila police at the International Airport attempted to prevent photos being taken of a Philippines Airlines plane. Later, the airport manager. Colonel Jesus Villamor. apologised and said the police misunderstood his orders. HeA.P. - 59 words
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Article67 1948-02-10 3 AN initial step towards the /•.enforcement of a modern system of pre-nuptial medical examination has been taken by the Public Health Bureau of the Shanghai Municipal Government with the issue of orders to the Municipal hos- pitals and health offices to offer free examinations to prospective brides andReuter - 67 words
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Article32 1948-02-10 3 A British Health Ministry r Qlcial said that tihe Ministry has written to the Wtmblev Corporation suggesting that the requi.siUon notic? for Tommy Lawton's former i house be withdrawn. ReuterReuter - 32 words
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210 1948-02-10 3 CUPERINTENDENT Arthur Thorp, head of Scotland •J Yard's newly formed Fraud Squad, has flown lo Switzerland to complete investigations into £1,000,001 black market deals. For nearly 12 months secret investigations have been going on, and among the articles involved are large quantities of210 words
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Article164 1948-02-10 3 The vicar is fed up with ghost 'THE vicar of Ham, a 1 Thames-side village near Richmond, Rev. Ernest Beard, 8.A., is fed up with poltergeist??. He is uncertain which was worse to be saddled with, a gho3t or the publicity which goes with a ghost story. Thanks to a164 words
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Article107 1948-02-10 3 DAMAGED in a clash with a whale in the Antarctic, the Norwegian whale-chaser Thorbrarjn has reached Fremantle for rexwiirs. The skipper. Captain H. Larsen. said a sperm whale in its death throes charged tho 4:o-U>n ship and smashed ;cne of t*\2 oropellor wings with its head.Reuter - 107 words
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Article24 1948-02-10 3 Mr. John Corina. a director of the Royal Arsenal Cooperative Society, has been appointed to Stevenage New Town Development Corporation despite objections.24 words
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Article33 1948-02-10 3 The Norfolk branch of the N .cial Farmers Uruon i.s DTO testing to the Food Ministry against the imDortation of 10,000 tons of Danish carrots whietn a home-grown crop is available.33 words
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Article61 1948-02-10 3 THE Transjordan delegation headed by the Prime Minister, Tewfik Pasha Abdul Mula, which has been in London for discussions with the British Foreign Office, left London yesterday for Amman, capital of Transjordan. Negotiations for revision of the 1946 Anglo-Transjordan treaty were postponed on Friday until after theReuter - 61 words
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Article25 1948-02-10 3 The King and Queen will attend the unveiling of the memorial to President Roosevelt by Mrs. Roosevelt in Grosvenor-square, Westminster on April 12.25 words
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Article26 1948-02-10 3 Hundreds of tons of Chinese cabbages, oranges and other seasonal vegetables and fruit arrived in Singapore from Kong Kong in the Hai Chiao.26 words
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Advertisement10 1948-02-10 3 kit E NNIES SJ*t WARNING s I ••< om. 'at' Ki'«JTlf10 words
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Advertisement51 1948-02-10 3 i \>nr ?n#n of your ryuUatum Wr ~*^^Bi V Ln 10RDCALVERT J. CANADIAN WHISKY Sole Imoorters for Slneapore fs Malayan Union MACLAINE WATSON CO., (MALAYA) LTD. UNION BUILDING. CHARTEKFD BANK CHAMBERS. SINGAPORfe. PENANtt SAT. MIDNIGHT CAPhOL 1 tpeW* ICOtoR 0 5h oo1 ol lhls orHI i^s^ fc* uu ß!A PICTURES51 words
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Miscellaneous60 1948-02-10 3 TARZAN IlltO battle By Edgar Rice Burroughs AM TAffrAN'-T>iE APE -MAN SAID. 'THQAR DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE I I tt>b I I H SOCW THE WATERS W/Ll_ CAi i tANVAMGC OP THE SASOTHS?' "A UTTLE REPLIED THE WARROR. *ThEN, THOAR SAID, INDICATING TMF ASH; TARZAN SAID, "WF CM€ £AO* OT^£/?60 words
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665 1948-02-10 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. Feb. 10. 1948. The Indian Scene rpHE Indian Government's X suppression of two Muslim organisations. announced on Sunday, would have had a nasty ring were it not for the previous outlawing of the R.S.S.. the militant youth movement sponsored by the Hindu Mahasabha. As it665 words
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Article329 1948-02-10 4 to Jerusalem VOUR green bus ticket is good for one knees-under-the-chin ride from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, to hospital, or to death. It also entitles you to protection behind steel plates. gives you a golden haired gun-girl as a guard, and places you in an excellent position329 words
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Article, Illustration31 1948-02-10 4 mistress was helped hS the ßoard of t™ ars Wis po«<.r« when it was lound thSth¥r?,?? e t0 J lart a sma America ana Cana^Z^r^ZZt X^e? *acrea bee^e* and charms. *»iuietes.31 words
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Article20 1948-02-10 4 Ho that hath My comI niandments, and keepeth them, he it i s that loveth Me, John 14, H20 words
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Article1140 1948-02-10 4 Allington Kennard - CEYLON: EMPIRE'S NEW PARTNER Allington Kennard by TODAY the first, Parliament of independent Ceylon will be opened in Colombo by the Duke of Glcucester. The ceremony is the climax of a week of festivities and celebrations which becran last Wednesday when 145 years of British colonial rule came to an1,140 words
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Article578 1948-02-10 4 Leslie Randal - Leslie Randal liy QNE of the Empire'a greatest dollar-earning assets smashed expoit records in 1947. This big money-maker wa s rubber. In a world plagued by shortages, rubber is almost the only essential commodity of which there is an abundant supply. Nearly all of it comes from578 words
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Article, Illustration40 1948-02-10 4 British education authorities and county architects visited r n tmi n WCt a system oj aluminium unit construction foj -per) ricn n\ tol Aeroplane company mousing) Ltd., experienced in pla\ turn of building units for the aluminium house, is r40 words
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Article494 1948-02-10 4 End Of Rulers of The Waves QLD sailoi-s say that the most terrible sight for them is a ship lying in dry dock waiting to be broken up. Now four of Britain's battleships Queen Elizabeth, Valiant, Nelson, and Rodney and thy battlocruiser Renown have received death sentence. They were ships494 words
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Advertisement33 1948-02-10 4 (uticura uricura has an almost medical rftic.ii in arrr^tinp itc hing irrita to [i .u .1 smarting in drawing oul infiamrrM tmn and vorenrss aruj tItMMNf «ip skin trouhles COMFORT FOR ,ACIUNG FEET,.33 words
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Advertisement47 1948-02-10 4 SPECIAL for CHINESE NEW YEA* I A Combination of Magnolia and Luscious Chinese oranges. Try it for your New Year's parties. $5.20 per gallon. (suH $1.50 per brick. (suffi I Obtainable at the Cream, at various dealers and at our 186 Orchard Road, Singapore. %S££l.-« I*.-"-- rzl47 words
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Article332 1948-02-10 5 'improvement frust Budget Free PWM Staff Reporter f an estimated budget expenditure for 01,853, the Improvement Trust to ipend $2,378,000 on housing and vement schemes in Singapore. The rest j^et pr<^ i*i<>n will be used for general •vi'mont plans, paying cost of living al- nurting the332 words
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Article, Illustration174 1948-02-10 5 Labour's right to living wage stressed UH. S. D. PILLAY, who re--111 tired Horn the teaching staff ot St. Josephs Institu- yesterday and is the first lii<-" ->« Catholic In Singapore to stand for election u> the Legislative Council, advocate Government should re- ;se labour's right to a living wage.174 words
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Article, Illustration75 1948-02-10 5 Jl^p^^/' Xi. Chen aHer their redding in Singapore on Feb. 7. Mrs. Chen was formerly Miss Betty Vivienne Wong. ilr P s iCt rhnJ a^ €n a ter the on Feb. 7of fir and Mrs. Chan Sieio Leonq. Mrs. Chan was formerly Mil's Tan Lan. h^\l SH ttin75 words
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Article312 1948-02-10 5 I -'ree Press Staff Reporter CCHOOL Cadet Corps in Singapore are being revived. Raffles Institution Cadet Corps is already at pre-war strength, and other schools are planning to re-start their corps later this year. ♦v. £e f ore the war, the cadets were affiliated with the312 words
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Article97 1948-02-10 5 AT a recent meeting of the management committee of the Old Rafrlesians' Association, a welfare sub-com-mittee, with Dr. S. K. Yeo, as chairman and Mr. Ang 800 Soke as a secretary, has been formed with purpose of advising members of the Association on their legal, medical and97 words
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379 1948-02-10 5 Free Press Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Monday. THE trial of two of ttie three ganffsten, who held up a taxi on ihe Kota Tinggi Road last April, opened at the Assizes I his mornkig. The other man, Lee Ah Fod, pleaded guilty to the charge379 words
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1488 1948-02-10 5 'Occupation' Debts bill for Council Creditor Relations A BILL to provide a solution of the problem of the relationship between debtors and creditors in respect of debts incurrred before and during the period of enemy occupation in Malaya, has been gazetted, and will be introduced in the Singapore Advisory Council1,488 words
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228 1948-02-10 5 Malayan in terms of Jap currency DOR purposes of regulating 1 debtor-creditor relationship i n resipect of debts incurred prior to or during the Japanese occ^Datian. a sliding scale has been drawn up showing the vaiue of the Malayan dollar again:*t the Japanese occupation currency during the period 1942 to228 words
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Article161 1948-02-10 5 THE aninual dinner and social of the Anglo-Chin cse Cutitiuiuation School Old Boys' Association was held on Sunday at Cecil Restaurant. It was attended by about 100 members and guests among whom were the patrons, Mr. Ya,p Phong Geek and Re- S. Lau. Mrs. Yap Phong161 words
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Advertisement36 1948-02-10 5 Jockey j The Famous Brand j|| of Support Underwear I BRIEFS SHORTS Sizes 28" 42" waist j|| PRICES $1.95, Lj $2.25, $2.75 $3.25 VESTS I Sizes Small, Medium, Large and X Large I RAFFLES PLACE SINGAPORE.36 words
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Article, Illustration375 1948-02-10 6 State Department urges review A HIGH U.S. State Department official has sug- gested serious reconsideration of United States policy on encouraging oil production in Saudi Arabia, reports Associated Press. Mr. Willard Thorp, Assistant-Secretary of State, told a House of Representatives Armed Services sub-committee that, itA.P.; Planet - 375 words
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225 1948-02-10 6 CHINESE trade circles in \j Bat a via are greatly perturbed ut an amendment to the Netherlands Indies foreign exchange ordinance designed to reduce illegal imports and those obtained with black market foreign exchange. The amendment dates from Jan. 1. 1948. but does notA.P. - 225 words
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Article, Illustration49 1948-02-10 6 Lord Trefsarne. head of Britain's £100,000.000 Colonial Development Corporation, is in Jamaica for preliminary talks on setting up a local corporation which will administer funds for development of the colony's resources A.P. DFGDF picture. Tico potential customers are attracted by the huge posters advertising Birminytiarn's "ttcao shop." MirrorA.P.; Mirror - 49 words
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Article151 1948-02-10 6 A BIRMINGHAM firm is attracting hundreds of rationed, queue-weary clothes-hungry British women. The firm li running a new-style clothes exchange, where women can get a new 'outfit without coupons or cash. A woman who has a coat or a dress which is still good151 words
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Article79 1948-02-10 6 THE Red Star, newspaper of the Soviet Army, contended that Arabs in Palestine are arming wuh British help. It said all the deaths in Palestine since the United Nations decision to partition the country can be en dited to what it drscribed as Britain*A.P. - 79 words
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Article38 1948-02-10 6 Musical instruments were used as weapons in a clash between two rival groups celebrating a local festival In a viliage about 25 miles from Svlhet (Assam). One man was killed and about 12 others injuied. ReuterReuter - 38 words
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Article57 1948-02-10 6 EXPEDITION FINDS A 'SHANGRI-LA U.S. expedition has found a "Shanffri-la" in the Antarctic. It is one of the most remarkable regions on earth an unexplored, comparatively icefree area with abundant bird life— said the N aV y Department in Washington The area, which may extend for hundreds of square miles,57 words
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Article131 1948-02-10 6 FRIENDLY warning" to i the Burm<?33 Government not to withdraw European forestry experts too rabidly jaj- not to look on valuable Burmese forests as imexhausUble was given by Mr. Ben J. Atkinson, former Chief Conservator of Burma Forests, in. London. Mr. AUcmson told India, Pakistan andReuter - 131 words
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268 1948-02-10 6 Two 'captive Soviet wives seek divorce HTWO marriages between British subjects and Russian 1 wives have been broken through the Soviet refusal to allow the wives to join their husbands in Britain. Mr. Alfred Hall, of Albion avenue, Clapham (London) who has been trying for nearly two years to bring268 words
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Article72 1948-02-10 6 OFFICIAL protests against XJ broadcasts in the "Voice 01 America* programmes to Poland have been made by the Polish Government to the American embassy in Warsaw. It was stated that the Polish Government is complaining against broadcast articles attacking the Warsaw Government, which are saidA.P. - 72 words
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Article20 1948-02-10 6 Seventy seven children evacuated during tho war are still away from London beeuase their parents canciot be traced.20 words
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Article161 1948-02-10 6 THE latest attempt, as bold as the previous ones, to smuggle valuables into the Philippines from Si am has just been foiled by Manila secret service agents. Forty pieces of assorted jewellery, comprising diamond rings, earrings and a bracelet, were wrapped In unpretentious containers, brought aboardReuter - 161 words
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Article92 1948-02-10 6 A SUBSTANTIAL reduction in the U.S. freighter fleet is forecast by the Association of American Shipowners. A decline in exports, combined with a steady increase in competing foreign flag tonnage, is the basis of their estimate." The shipping group says the freighter fleet, "will probably approximateA.P. - 92 words
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Article37 1948-02-10 6 GEM SHOWA AT YARD' Scotland Yard has opened. a jewellery display shop in one of its old conierence rooms. The display included a: 3.000 worth of rings, cigar-ette-cases, and gold watches for which owners cannot oe traced.37 words
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Article34 1948-02-10 6 A high official of I.G Farben Industries testified before the War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg that he and his colleagues helped to rearm Germany but never knew it was intended for use34 words
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Advertisement161 1948-02-10 6 Here's Wishing Our Chh£>M Happy &Very Prosperous now! CAPITOIM O/CK HAYMBS 5 ;.M£j 0 I PLUS! LATEST BRITISH M Ist PICTURE-GANDHIS ASSaSISM M'NITE TONIGkI JOHN WAYNE 6T I ALBERT OEKKE* (jJ IfIpHBBPOWERFUL!...OVERWHEUM!NGi 4 09b^ GOLD RUSH rJjt^i INOLD CALIFORNIA^ "A Happy New Year To Our Cliinese hirf PAVIUQM I phone161 words
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Miscellaneous9 1948-02-10 6 JAIMt Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya9 words
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112 1948-02-10 7 Frrni K. S. Dl LEEPSINHJI i ME cricket first by Mankad and Adhikari and aftef Amarnath had failed, by Hazare and vl India to advance their first innings '"'•SI for four in reply to Australia's 575 for ,'imd a< Melbourne yesterday, th e third112 words
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Article91 1948-02-10 7 INDIA IST. I?*NS. Munkad c Tallon b Loxton 111 S.invat* b Lindwall 0 Xdikhari c TaJlon b Loxton 38 Ilazare not out 72 laamfll c Barnes b Ring 12 Phadkar not out 8 Fxtras 10 Total (for 4 wkts.) 251 Reuter A. A. P. BOWLING O M R WReuter; A.A.P. - 91 words
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Article161 1948-02-10 7 ciod 124 runs to improve India's position and at the same time make the position easier to face for the remainbatsmen. Adhikart did his job with it determination. Mankad gets all the more credit for his century as he was not at his best. Huzare played soundly and. like theReuter - 161 words
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Article83 1948-02-10 7 A GALA sports and novelty programme has been drawn up by the Singapore Chinese Swimming Club for the Chinese New Year season The Club will hold its first Children's Party since the liberation on Sunday at 2 p.m while members will have their New Year83 words
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Article, Illustration36 1948-02-10 7 Luiaman, Australia s captain, retires hurt after having •cored 5, runs in the first innings of the final Test now in progress at Melbourne. Sen, Amarnath and Brown are Hatching him leave the field.36 words
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92 1948-02-10 7 S'pore among new I.T.T.F. affiliates THE number of countries affiliated to the International Table Tennis Federation has been increased from 30 to 40. the newcomers being Greece. Italy, Argentine. Brazil, rrusuay. Mexico. Singapore, Malta. Ceylon and (iuernsey. The table tennis section of the Soviet Physical Cultural Committee is considering anReuter - 92 words
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Article64 1948-02-10 7 LONDON, Tuesday. THE draw for the third round of the Scottish Cup made yesterrtay resulted as follows: Rangers v. Partick Thistle; Celtic v. Motherwell; Muntrose v. Queen of the South; Morton v. Queen's Park. Dumberton v. East Fife; Hibernian v. Aberdeen: Saint Mirren v. Clyde; AirdrieoniansReuter - 64 words
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434 1948-02-10 7 A LARGE crowd of spectators witnessed a high standard of play in the seven-a-side rugby tournament games on (he Padang yesterday. What was lacking in skill was made up for by enthusiasm, and the throe matches produced a thrill a minute. In the first game,434 words
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Article850 1948-02-10 7 CRISPIAN IMPRESSES IN FAST WORK F.A. CUP DRAW Several good gallops noted SWT«PTAitf By <CALL BOY C i tu iSe carry the top wei S ht of nine stone m the class two, div. one race over seven furlongs on Saturday, did one of the most impressive gallops at uukit850 words
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Article, Illustration30 1948-02-10 7 Syd Barnes snicks Ranqactiari just out of the reach of Sen in Australia's first innincjs in the Test now in progress at Melbourne between Australia and India. Barnes scored 33.30 words
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244 1948-02-10 7 Manchester United draw Preston N.E. IANCHESTER United, favifl ourites for the Lngi.sn Football Association challenge cup tournament, yesterday jot a lucky draw for the sixth round. They are aue .o play Preston N.E., fellow members of rhe first division of the Zn< lish football League on their own ground. SecondA.P. - 244 words
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Article21 1948-02-10 7 Th^ featherweight match between Tirse Til Rosario Hawaii-born David Kui Kong Youvg in Manila has I postponed to Feb. 28.— A.P.A.P. - 21 words
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Article508 1948-02-10 7 SOME SUGGESTIONS By COl RTCRAFT ARRANGEMENTS are now complete to hold the 1948 Malayan badminton championships at Kuala Lumpur during the Easter holidays. Entries from Singapore and other states, except Selangor, will close on March 10. For Selnnpor only, entries will close on February 29.508 words
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152 1948-02-10 7 WESTERN Australia, competing In the Sheffield Shield cricket competition for the first time, are headed for an outripht victory over Queensland which will enable thorn to win the trophy at their first attempt. Scoring 446 in their first innings, Western Australia pained a leadReuter - 152 words
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Article132 1948-02-10 7 COMEBODY telephoned George U Bernard Shaw's home yesterday and told him that Joe Louis would like to have a word with him. Shaw was delighted. He had heard months a?o that the American prizefighter wanted to vi it him. A little lati-r a gray-hairedU.P. - 132 words
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167 1948-02-10 7 SINGAPORE Turf Club's first lot of griffins since the liberation will arrive from Australia on the Chanda at the end of this month. There will be 20 horses in all. Complete list and breeding Is as follows: Sad Sack. b.a.R.. Lord SpearExciting; Eastern167 words
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Article43 1948-02-10 7 THE Singapore Chin se Amateur Sports Fed tion Council meeting called for yesterday at the Goh Loo Club was postponed to Monday at 4 p.m. Included in the agenda was the China National Games to be held on May 5,43 words
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Advertisement97 1948-02-10 7 h rat Musi .il Demi v I, /7 X i °0» REX Wondrous Era Of Bold Love And adventure! Ljj MONTU CAMERON sV ■-j > ■in i ii i M A 1 p ni Iking kong" (7\ PHONE 6909 (7\ I i J 'i",'<" nl/i n< 1-5 SHOWS TODAY am-97 words
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Miscellaneous220 1948-02-10 7 F.P. Crossword No. 3C7 I ■■c |O I i 4 B^ .i I >^ iMin^B|^H v^^ M^maßßgMaMr i i■ CLUES ACROSS 2, Happy (6). 6, Measure of land (4). 8, Impetuosity (4) 10. Saw (7). 11, And not (3). 12, Be obliged for (3). 13, Cut (6) 14 Admitted (5).220 words
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Article159 1948-02-10 8 Japanese Cabinet quits office TCKIO, Monday. JAPAN'S first Cabinet c? undi r Mr. Tetsu Katayama decided to resg i tonight, leaving the fi id open for the return < Conservative led < I tii-M. a two -hour conference v Mr Kitayama. Gen. i'ir. Supreme Allied inlander in Japan, anr .needA.P.; Reuter - 159 words
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Article147 1948-02-10 8 LONDON, Monday. A British Foregn Office spok unan today denied that any proposal t.o resume I )-Iraqi negotiations, to the existing 1930 treaty, been rec ived from Iraq 01 .nade by Britain. Britain was unlikely to reto the Iraqi Governments statins that the rReuter - 147 words
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Article41 1948-02-10 8 A Spairsh electric train rrade a aj run yesterday i'cm Henciaye in preparation 'he normal opening of Fran -o-Spanish border rail 'ic this morning. Spanish <ni and police statls have I been a- rnen t(^d for the I A.P.A.P. - 41 words
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Article, Illustration52 1948-02-10 8 The village of Sydling St. Nicholas. Dorset, nestles in a valley of chalk r w,! V hll Js- The surrounding fields are picturesquely named Stag's Folly. Peak End. Mill Ground. Huish Knapp, City Mead and Clover Ground. Here 350 villagers live Qftrf work, each dependent on the other's skill52 words
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102 1948-02-10 8 Why Australia keeps her 'white' policy MELBOURNE. Monday. A USTRALIA did not want i\ coloured people brought to Australia to be hewers of wood and drawers of water, said Mr. P. J. Clarey. president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, today. He thought they should, not live under conditionsAAP; Reuter - 102 words
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Article56 1948-02-10 8 LEFT AND RIGHT SHOOT IT OUT The Foggia Prefecture slg- nailed to Rome last night that a gun battle between Italian Leftists and extreme Rightists, at San Ferdinando di Puglia. resulted in three or four dead and about 10 wcunded. The prefecture said fighting was still in progress. The Italian56 words
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Article24 1948-02-10 8 A Polish delegation which arrived in London on Satur- j day bosan trade talks with the Board of Trade yesterday. A.P.A.P. - 24 words
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Article199 1948-02-10 8 1 BAT AVI A, Monday. rjUTCH and Indonesian delegations met for the last time today on board the United States naval transport Renville, in which the truce was negotiated and signed last month. The meeting coincided with well-informed Dutch reports that a marked improvement hadReuter - 199 words
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161 1948-02-10 8 Natal Indians arrested on border charge CAPETOWN, Monday. A NNOUNCING the arrest of rV 25 Natal Indian passive roisters who on January 25 illegally crossed the Transvaal border, the South African Minister of Justice, Mr. h O Lawrence, said in the House of Assembly today that these 1 men wereReuter - 161 words
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Article48 1948-02-10 8 Judgment was reserved by the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Murray-Aynsley, in the Singapore High Court yesterday in a divorce suit brought by Mr. Harry Miller, a journalist, against his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Rose Marion Miller, on the ground of her desertion. The petition was uncontested.48 words
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Article27 1948-02-10 8 Australia's dollar deficit for 1947-48 is expected to be much higher than last year's figure of $100,000,000, an official Government statement said yesterday. Reuter AAPReuter; AAP - 27 words
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Article69 1948-02-10 8 (Continued from Page D Plan Britain would receive only $120 million a month—! leaving a gap of at least $20 i million to be closed. Sir. StarfTord Cripps was hopine to close it in part by i increased exports to the United States and other dollar countries BritishReuter; U.P. - 69 words
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Article189 1948-02-10 8 UNO VOTES COST $40,000, HE SAYS I TP to $40,000 was paid to United Nations delegations to vote for the partition of Palestine, said a Democratic Congressman, Mr. John Rankin (Mississippi) during the proceedings today of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Congressman Rankin said he had a letter whichReuter - 189 words
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Article109 1948-02-10 8 'KEEP CONTROLS PLEA BY TRUMAN asked Congress for provision to continue his special controls over tin. rice, fertilisers and a few other products They are scheduled to end on Feb. 29 unless CongreJe renews them. These controls vary with the different products. These products were left under controls when CongressA.P. - 109 words
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Article382 1948-02-10 8 Bombers may be too late SHANGHAI, Monday. rpHE railway town of Suchiatun is tonight the last A remaining obstacle the Communists face in their new drive on Mukden. Suchiatun is only twelve miles from Mukden, and while field fortifications have been built and a naturally382 words
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Article, Illustration27 1948-02-10 8 Mr Trygve Lie, Secretarv-Generai n tu* R visited Mr Hector M^Nal.: Foreign Office in London, aft M tals in connection with the ve) t J^_^ncral Assembly 027 words
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153 1948-02-10 8 Korea issue goes back to Assembly LAKE SUCCESS, Monday. IUIE Interim Committee of the United Nations the "Little Assembly" will meet ht-ie on Feb. 24 to consider a report from the United Nations Korean Commission about Soviet "lack of co-oper-ation." The Commission's chairman, Mr. K. S. Menon of India, andReuter; A.P. - 153 words
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Article58 1948-02-10 8 The Australian AttorneyGeneral. Dr. Herbert Evatt. went before the Australian High Court yesterday to head the Labour Government defence of its bank nationalisation law. The court is hearing five suits challenging the constitutionality of the law. which empowers the Federal Government to take over all private tradingA.P. - 58 words
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Article426 1948-02-10 8 iT HE uneasy feeling, rthfcW,**, tuated by the comment of the Chancellor* Exchequer regarding the seriousness of the con* economic situation. Consequently most sectio* the stock markets today suffered sharp 1 Reuter's financial corresnondent Oils were perhaps the chief sufferers with Anglo-Iranian 3/16th lower at 8-13 I6ths426 words
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Article43 1948-02-10 8 Barnhard Oehme, 65-year-old German from Chemnitz, In the Soviet zone of Germany, has admitted to killing and eating his 26-year-old sister. Maria Oehme. The report is made by the Chemnitz police, according to the German News Service, Dena. ReuterReuter - 43 words
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Article28 1948-02-10 8 riESPrn uik tenden day Stc»L\ motors, n h«n and vulnerable to pnce dfm..r.v.'i-u a 30 per Brok. rs say Con«rf s »*3 tion fldenci ReuterReuter - 28 words
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Advertisement184 1948-02-10 8 EX SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF MALAYA I SINGAPORE BRANCH) Nitire is herebv Riven that the Annual Gene~al Meeting of Ex- I n < Singapore Branch) nill be held on 24th I ;arv lf>4B at 530 pm at the Sinßapore Crirktt Club. Af;E\D 1 Confirm the minutes of the previous General Meeting184 words
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Advertisement57 1948-02-10 8 HAPPY NEW YiA* I to all our Chinese Friend 1 PINK \M) DANCE IN <'" f |(fl CARLTON NIGHT OJI The one and only Quiet and MV »itb Special Kronchong by the (huupuka Bo> Anizar ♦'MILL" BEER— Special IT. r BAR Extension: H»t M i€h X «i o^9M FOR DINNER57 words
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Miscellaneous56 1948-02-10 8 WEATHER Cloudy n/EATIIER report for th e next 24 hour* compiled by tbt B At? i Cloudy, with some showers foUowed by Nigi* periods. Wind: Li«ht northerly, becoming calm to-nig-ht Sunset 650 p.m. Sunrb« 8-47 a.m. Moonrise 7.06 a m Moonsrt 7.23 p.m. Temperatures yesterday Maximum 79 dr C F;56 words
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