The Singapore Free Press, 12 February 1948
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Title Section17 1948-02-12 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA r i7^s SINGAPORE, THURSDAY^ FJBRuIJFI^TIoir PRKt 10 CENTS17 words
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Article, Illustration9 1948-02-12 1 Gordon found himself an ■ijld's Iristenh and r on9 words
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Article409 1948-02-12 1 'Necessary to keep order' Tin, u u i LONDON, Wednesday. |llh banishment laws of Singapore and Malaya are not going to be withdrawn or amended, said the Under-Secret ary of State for the Colonies, Mr. David Rees Williams, replying to a question in the House ofReuter - 409 words
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Article, Illustration49 1948-02-12 1 A supersonic ram jet engine, described as the largest ever flown, leaves the launching rack at a Naval Ordnance Test Station in California, on its first test flight. The American Ordnance Bureau chief. Rear Admiral A. G. Noble, said the engine "attained a speed far into the supersonic range."49 words
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Article122 1948-02-12 1 LONDON, Wednesday, iovernment was lighting today to rain trade union support for its voluntary wage amme, £1 Labour MPs defied the lifning a motion in the Commons u the vafC polity "contained fallacious ideas.'* IPs joined with 37 trade unions :tiree million workers— which today theA.P.; Reuter - 122 words
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Article84 1948-02-12 1 A 17- YEAR-OLD Chinese girl cyclist was killed yesterday afternoon in a collision with a motor lorry in Keppel Road. The Kirl, whose name Is Kiven as Cecilia Ow, was cycling with three friends when the accident occurred. She died shortly after her admittance to84 words
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Article27 1948-02-12 1 Singapore police detained a man yesterday shortly alter three Chinese took $530 from a family in Henderson Road at the point of a knife.27 words
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Article20 1948-02-12 1 Three Chinese, two brandishing pistols took $10 from a Chinese taxi driver at Jalan Ampas. last night.20 words
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Article14 1948-02-12 1 hr. raise! •those nuns on g Of ment manlthe v_ ReuterReuter - 14 words
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Article241 1948-02-12 1 OEVFNTTV v, N P NEW DELHI, Wednesday. Snf tHiL' J N 4 E gUnS e for ever y year of the life iM C Ma atma > will fire a salute at two-minute n Ia T?H tt G .andhi's ashes are borne in state frSni AllahabadReuter; A.P. - 241 words
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57 1948-02-12 1 U.K. CABINET TO STUDY LOTTERY PLAN THE British Cabinet Is to consider a proposal for a 1 2,000,000.000 Britishspon sored international lottery. The sponsors claim that the Treasury would make a clear profit of €950,000,--000 every year. The lottery scheme has been condemned by a churches committee on gambling asReuter - 57 words
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Article83 1948-02-12 1 POLICE reinforcements had to be summoned to the House of Commons last night to turn out about 50 spinsters from the central lobby. They haa been angrily demanding pensions at 55 instead of at 60. For about six hours, 150 spinsters from all parts of theReuter - 83 words
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Article35 1948-02-12 1 Gold bars— bt\'i ten-ounce and one-ounce bars —in Shanghai have been mixed wiU> brass, it has been discovered by goldsmiths in their investigations. The adulteration ranges between four to eight per cent.35 words
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Article66 1948-02-12 1 I^HE rationing of essential A foodstuffs in China is to begin on March 1, it was stated in Nanking yesterday Peiping, Shanghai, Tientsin, Canton and Nanking will all have rationing schemes, but their exact nature has still to be worked out. The schemes will be applied66 words
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Article119 1948-02-12 1 LONDON, Wednesday. THE British Foreign Secre- tary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, said today he doubted whether It was appropriate to refer to the Convention of Human Rights the case of Miss Margaret Goosey, a British subject, sentenced to six months' imprisonment in Virginia, United States, because ofReuter - 119 words
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Article130 1948-02-12 1 TO JO WAGED 'ILLEGAL WAR TOKIO, Wednesday. rpHE International Military Tribunal trying ex-Premier Hideki Tojo and 24 other Japanese leaders for "crimes against humanity" was today asked to make an "authoritative pronouncement" that there could be no Justification for killing in an "illegal war." The British prosecutor, Mr. A. S.A.P. - 130 words
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Article126 1948-02-12 1 NANKING, Wednesday. DESTRICTIONS by colonial Governments are hampering overseas Chinese businessmen in south-east Asia, the director of Overseas Chinese Nationals Bureau of the Central Government, Mr. Kan Yung, stated today. He has just returned from a two-month tour of Malaya, Siam Nand the N.E.I. The tourU.P. - 126 words
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Article51 1948-02-12 1 f The appeal for a re-trial of u Saw, former Burmese Premier sentenced to death on Dec. 30 for his part in the assassination of Prime Minister Aung San. and his Cabinet continued yesterday in Rangoon High Court and is expected to last until early next week.Reuter - 51 words
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Article26 1948-02-12 1 Mr. Joseph Chifley, the Australian Premier, speaking in Sydney said that "opportunities for expansion and development offered today are the greatest in Australian history.'' ReuterReuter - 26 words
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Article154 1948-02-12 1 TINS DOWN IN MARKET OPENING THE Singapore share market opened "very hesitatingly" this morning after being closed for two days. This hesitancy was caused by the uncertainties prevailing in the London and New York markets (which have remained open for the past two days) after the speeches of the Chancellor154 words
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Article14 1948-02-12 1 Heavy American snows have almost "miraculously" saved the nation's wheat crop.14 words
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Article246 1948-02-12 1 LONDON, Wednesday. npHE rice-exporting countries of the world will need A another live years to reach their pre-war levels of exports, although production has increased in the Far East since the war ended, the Industrial Federation of Agricultural Producers said today in itsReuter - 246 words
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Article91 1948-02-12 1 MUNICH, (Germany Wed. THE bullet-riddled bodies of 1 two Negro G.l.'s and the knifed, half-naked body of a German woman have been discovered in the woods north of Munich, it was disclosed today. Police have so far been unable to identify the soldiers. TheU.P. - 91 words
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270 1948-02-12 1 LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday. fyHE delegation representing: India in the UNO x Security Council discussions on Kashmir has cancelled its passage home. It intends to remain In New York. The cancellation gives new hope for arbitration over Kashmir. On Monday the Indian delegation had asked forReuter - 270 words
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Advertisement43 1948-02-12 1 Annual Anniver;iry Off «g atAßgmtNi Each Po«e ol Portrait f in our StuMio detwren Jan 1C Peb 15 > studio DE LUXQ High Class Ponr j| Outdoor PhotoM jners > 33 Stamford Rd. (near Capitol Theatre) Phone ;836 More people than ever are saying PM-443 words
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Article765 1948-02-12 2 Is Scott too much for babes? A Malayan bookshelf BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT CCOTT suffers,* like Shakespeare, from the fact that most people start reading him when they are much too young to understand him properly. Why this should be so with Shakespeare I have never been able to understand.765 words
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Article263 1948-02-12 2 CANON LAW RE VISION u n ANO N" comes V/ from a Grvck word meaning straight rod. from which derives "Canon Law," the ruK'3 which lay down the practice of the Church. Recently the higher governing bodies of the Church of England began the second stage of a lengthy, overdue263 words
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Article, Illustration289 1948-02-12 2 QJOUTHS four-heart rebid shoA.-d pommtmi suit and denied ir terrst in wmAem. However, because North's top Uh vai in hearts and c! lie expnm <i interest In ;i slam and. knowing his partner had tVO acv.s South carried on to si\ We.st opened sp.tde Bast'i nine forced the289 words
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Article, Illustration807 1948-02-12 2 RONALD PRESTON - RONALD PRESTON By Reuters' Correspondent gRITAIN'S younger and less known authors are having a difficult time as a result of a sharp fall in the public demand for books, especially novels, and the shortage of paper due to the economic crisis. Many of them, finding it impossible toReuter - 807 words
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Article433 1948-02-12 2 PETER QUENNELI A new Japan MO one has ever r^ quite succeeded in understanding th e Japanese. Indeed, it is doubtful if they understand themselves. Westerners who profess to have done so usually turn out to have had some slightly suspect motive. In the smallness of Japan they have found433 words
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Miscellaneous717 1948-02-12 2 r SINGAPORE -J«~ Are S«e.-t 8.45 Musk.l CrossBlue Network fi# KIUS? J i{ra~ 1 3i From 12 00 noon to Ofl n m THURSDAY (Theatre; 11 p.m. In Coo 526 metres in the medium »*«>' 3 am Cross to Mt> lbourne Style; 11.30 Hem from London band and 7 20717 words
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Miscellaneous157 1948-02-12 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune for D<»KN -n lh.- Cl D Urthdty, have fh n jm similar etea* ill of tti ait r which can to (o l.i' in vour chie career. I'irk.ipy \(>ur stand;,, i hara your \crvitiiiy. i: mi eapaUe M so h things th.it ym maj w trouble157 words
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484 1948-02-12 3 U.S. NA VY IS JEALOUS OF AIR FORCE I TNIFICATION of America's armed forces under a V-> single Secretary of Defence has failed to banish all traces of traditional and bitter inter-Service rivalries. In the past, disputes were keenest between Army and Navy. Now, the latter service, is chiefly opposedReuter - 484 words
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Article151 1948-02-12 3 600,000 JEWS WANT TO QUIT EUROPE THE chairman of the 28--man delegation of American Jewish leaders making a study of Jewish displaced persons in Europe. Mr. Irving Rhodes, said today that 600.--000 Jews wanted to emigrate from Europe and would need three times the amount of (U.S.) $250,000,000 presently soughtU.P. - 151 words
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Article88 1948-02-12 3 BLIND ex-sergeant, Dan Pieter Pretorius, formerly of the South African Tanks Corps, was received by Princess Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace and later left guided by two-year-old "Nell," a sable-coloured Alsatian guide dogr. The Princess devoted a sum of money given her as wedding present toReuter - 88 words
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Article71 1948-02-12 3 GFDDFHF without them. Then Mike did what few Ixmdoners could have done— he called "taxi" and got one 1 away to drive him and his daughter all the 78 miles to Southampton, where they boarded the liner with 90' minutes to spare. For Mike, who has been -•ivins for71 words
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Article183 1948-02-12 3 MORE than 17 years ago a Manchester postal clerk bought a microscope and learned to spot a cheese mite on sight. He devoted all his spare time to acarology the study of minute pests and mites— and today he is th e first acarologist to183 words
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Article97 1948-02-12 3 BRITAIN is answering the Argentine's claim on the Falkland islands by improving the constitution of this far-ofT British possession, and bestowing greater citizenship rights on its inhabitants. On the new municipal council of Stanley, the capital, the six elected members will have a majority. Falkland islanders, ofU.P. - 97 words
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Article29 1948-02-12 3 About fifty thousand applications for accommodation in vacant premises have been received by the Government of Bombay but the total of vacant flats is only 200. ReuterReuter - 29 words
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Article355 1948-02-12 3 C HINA CRITICAL OF US POLICY Being neglected in favour of Japan 4 MERICANS m China are watching with keen interest, Chinese criticisms of the United role in Japan. Editorials and news >(ones in the Government-controlled press in recent weeks, have been taking an almost identical line: that the UnitedA.P. - 355 words
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Article37 1948-02-12 3 SETTING THE FASHION HOLLYWOOD'S men stars bring offrred all the tribies. hombures. and bowlers they like free of charge if only they will wear them. Th? reason: Sales drooped from 144,000.000 in 1927 to 70.000.000 last year.37 words
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Article50 1948-02-12 3 The War Office has and :he appointment of Licuvenunt General Sir let W. Allfrey. Royal Artillery Colonel Commandant, as Colonel Commandant of Royal H<orse Artillery, With effect from Jan. 7, 1948, in succession to Major General A. A. Goschen, (retired) whose te.?iure expired on Jan. ReuterReuter - 50 words
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Article58 1948-02-12 3 I)ROBABLY the iirst lecture ever heid in an airplano ■ll that recently sponsored by Dr. S. G. Davis, lecturer at Hong Kong University. Dr. Dav's chartered the plane and took a group of students from the University and the Northcote Training College for a short flightA.P. - 58 words
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Article, Illustration58 1948-02-12 3 picture. The 52,000-ton battleship Sew Jersey, passes beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, Neio York, en route to Oravesend Bay to unload her ammunition and then back to the Brooklyn Naiy Yard for strip-ping. The mighty vessel, one of the heaviest armed ships in the world, will eventually be berthed at BayonneA.P. - 58 words
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Article, Illustration57 1948-02-12 3 picture. The handing over o/ the Freedom Casket to the Honorary Colonel of the East Yorkshire Regiment, Lt.-Gen. Sir Desmond F. Anderson, by the Lord Mayor of Hull (left). The casket completes the grantinn of the Freedom Of the City of Hull to the Regiment, which ions conferred in aHull Daily Mail - 57 words
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Article33 1948-02-12 3 Starlet Patricia Neal, having got rid her Southern drawl, has insured for £25,--000 against its return because "Ma and lil brother" are coming up from Tenmessee to liv* with her.33 words
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Article27 1948-02-12 3 The Manila Stock Exchange, after struggling along for more than two years on one telephone, has finally obtained 18 more, one for each member. ReuterReuter - 27 words
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Article164 1948-02-12 3 'Citizens of India first MR. RAJKUMARI AMRIT KAUR, Health Minister of the Indian Government delivering the convocation address at the Government College at Ajmer Raj pu tana) said "no matter what professions you adopt you must remember first of all you are the citizens of India and other things areA.P. - 164 words
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Article68 1948-02-12 3 A CANTON-BOUND train r\ from Kowloon was held up for nearly an hour recently at Sin Tong Station when word was received that bandits were waiting a few miles along at Nam Kong, the next stop, to rob the train. Troops were rushed from Canton to NamA.P. - 68 words
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Article72 1948-02-12 3 A LONE fighter plane of the Royal Indian Air Force flew hundreds of miles over the snow-capped Greater Himalayas to bomb and strafe a white house believed to be used by raiding tribesmen in Gilgit, 40 miles north east of the imconquTed 26.000-foot peak Nant*a72 words
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Miscellaneous41 1948-02-12 3 ARZAn After Storm By Edgar Rice Burroughs I "^sSsPSSH VmSS?* cJ^f^ "1 I ATE TMEfQ M6ALS RAW FOR TXERE WAS NO W »OOot M, )l ►*AD BEEN !CrS EDi > AT P^j |?^||^M f* P "SIS^ B€U>C5 FILLED TXOAR Jj|/ >( i\ k41 words
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679 1948-02-12 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, FEB. 12, 1948. Export or Perish fFHREE comparisons in the JL White Paper on Britain's balance of payments tell of the peril. In 1938. British investments abroad paid for 21 per cent ol her imports, but today they pay for only three per Cent; last679 words
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Article1098 1948-02-12 4 Politico - It Seems To Me.. Politico By WHILE there cannot be legitimate complaint at any steps which may be taken to stop the dollar leaks in colonial trade it is time to enter a mild protest against the assumption of British exporters that the colonies have arbitrarily blocked imports from Britain.1,098 words
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Article299 1948-02-12 4 A European Customs Union "and the inevitable merging of economics that comes with it" seems to be the outsandinK road to an effective solution of Europe's present economic plight." says Edouard Herriot, 80--vear-old President of the French National Assembly. Generally speaking, the suppression of customs barriers Is theA.P. - 299 words
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Article110 1948-02-12 4 THh pioducUoj of jute ki 1 India could be increased by n aily 20 lakh bales by Rrowing early varieties as a second crop In about 10 million acres of land now entirely confined to padi in E ngal, Bihar aaid Oris.su say.-- s. Datar Singh, presiding over110 words
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Article19 1948-02-12 4 I am the good shepherd: the Rood shepherd niveth his life for the sheep. St. John 10. 11.19 words
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Article, Illustration83 1948-02-12 4 Sir Harold Gillies, the well-known plastic surgeon has held the first exhibition of hit paintings at Foyles. in Charing Cross Rd. He first taught himself to paint in 1932 wht a illness kept him to his bed and now at 65 he is a member of the Royal Institute of83 words
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Article802 1948-02-12 4 'KALLA Y JOHN' Ceylon's first Premier is called A DEVOUT Bud- dhist whom Christians in Ceylon regard as the greatest unprofessed Christian on the island was the central figure at the opening by the Duke of Gloucester of the first Parliament of the newly-created Dominion. He i.^ Don Stephen SenanayakeReuter - 802 words
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Article325 1948-02-12 4 Independent Burma is having By William Weathersby A. P. Correspondent FREE Burma's difficulties are nc greater than those faced by most countries on the morning of independence despite the popular belief that the country faces an unusually gloomy future, the foreign Policy Bulletin oi the American Foreign PolicyA.P. - 325 words
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Article, Illustration33 1948-02-12 4 Dick Button of Bnglewood, Nc:<: Jersey, U.S. Men's Figure-skating chamoton Hhntma Ml teammate, tor the Olympic Winter Games Eileen Seigh t lc, l). SSTSJScfcS Van Zandt Merrill, on a St. MoriU rinti. I33 words
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Article243 1948-02-12 4 O^isJ I r! ir stll N"iJ cly 'mi, Zm 1U rnd t Jrt Jl under Prof I Burn at the t I great We ig I started. bl lh *]l Tt -n studeir y/EIGHTSar;* J a fi lin? card 21 nts have been 2B return at the eri 0243 words
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16 1948-02-12 4 IT :> l'^ rntd r S* 1 nine any A^g viriod in ReuterReuter - 16 words
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Article383 1948-02-12 5 WARNING ISSUED TO TRADERS Freeing Of Imports Govt clarifies new rules n, *>ee Press Staff Correspondent piE Registrar of Imports and Exports, Mr. A. D. Stutchbury has issued a warning to importers "who may have misinterpreted the vecent announcement of the relaxation of import licensing." Only goods actually manufactured in383 words
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Article, Illustration85 1948-02-12 5 What was the Japanese Club building is now being used by the Chinese YMCA, an institution which, among other purposes, is doing much to re-model the youth of the Colony. The closest liaison exists bt ticeen the Chinese Y and the YMCA in Orchard Road, the Chinese Y President, Dr.Free Press - 85 words
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Article91 1948-02-12 5 3idadan n.xt Siuur- u p.m.. a short -ill be hold Lian Teek. will take place chapel, j memorial to I I to be r n has I Municipal rs for the puri z. of the it Church, will c<>ntnd ti r.i%. rethe Legislative the Municipal CumS'raits ish ANV'Ciation.91 words
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Article37 1948-02-12 5 Public Mission Hospital i- Ln| of the 1 inference of the ti isur'iliams, said that spent this mission Slam, ik and I use In Sinstart a small pub:y arriv-Am-Tica to take hospital. Equip- wffl bp built at37 words
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103 1948-02-12 5 70 celebrate New Year at Boys' Home CEVENTY inmates of the Bukit Timah Boys' Home celebrated Chinese New Year with a feast and sports. They were given a special meal on New Year's Day, with chicken on the menu. Parties of the boys worked on the playing field at the103 words
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Article40 1948-02-12 5 MR. Walter Abeygoonasakera, proprietor of the Singapore Municipal canteen, entertained the oiTtcials and stall of the Municipality yestorday in honour of Ceylonese independence. Mr. Ng Mor Ngu entertained the gathering to a perform- •Av.ce of conjuring tricks.40 words
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Article, Illustration54 1948-02-12 5 si u injured pasaenuer t>j the CNAC plane that crashed in Mukden is carried from wreckage which is shown in background. Eleven were killed in the accident, which occurred during the evacuation of Government officials and their families. The evacuation was ordered by the Nanking Government when Mukden was gravely54 words
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Article24 1948-02-12 5 Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Allen have returned from leave in Australia. Mr. Allen will resume duty as Controller of Posts in Singapore.24 words
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Article394 1948-02-12 5 CFFORTS are being made lo form a Life Guard Corps i-^ in Singapore. A preliminary meeting ha* been held at the YMCA, and those willing to help in the formation of the Corps are asked to get in touch with Mr. Rowland Lyne at the394 words
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168 1948-02-12 5 Court tackles 60 cases in one day MORE than 60 cases con"4 cernlnc gaming, hawking without licences, disorderly behaviour and drunkedness alleged to have committed on Chinese New Year's day and the day before were dealt with in the only police court which was open yesterday. The magistrate. Mr. R.168 words
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Article51 1948-02-12 5 1 .IKS. Tay Lian Teck will IT! speak on "Ancient Chinese Ceremonies'* at the Y.w.c.A. fortnightly club on Monday, Feb 16 Girls living in the Katong area who wish to join the Krep Fit Class are asked to contact the Y.W.C.A.. 11. Leonl c Hill Rnml. Singapore Tel.51 words
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Article155 1948-02-12 5 Free Press Staff Reporter TWO tigers, purchased from a Chinese in Northern Malaya, are now Dcrformine in a circus. The Kamala Circus, an allIndian show, lost its two Bengal performing: tigers while touring Malaya. One of hem escaoed. and the other died shortly after that incident.155 words
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Article, Illustration54 1948-02-12 5 pictures. AsTociatin^ 'H? e H S a i the dinner given b V the Sinhalese (from le?n Mr eavi Z? Hotel on Tuesday evening: I Ravmnr, Z' S ll Lady Tan Hoe him and Mr. Pcrern^if 111 10 73^ 1 PresidcnL On left is Mr. P. E. rcrera, president ofFree Press - 54 words
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Article206 1948-02-12 5 Free Press Staff Reporter COME of the bomb* dumped by the Japanese at the T-ir ?f l t ell> surrender in 1945 outside Pulau Tekon ff pier have exploded, and are proving to be inhabitant of Tekong island told the Free Press yesMr Joseph Fernandez, Sanitary206 words
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Article71 1948-02-12 5 SEVENTY-NINE Japanese returned to Japan on the troopship Devonshire this morning. Included among them were Japanese who have been serving prison sentences in Malaya for crimes committed against civil and military laws since the liberation. There was also one Japanese priest. The others are listed as71 words
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Article123 1948-02-12 5 I OKD and Lady Ailwyn were among the 113 passengers to disembark in Singapor yesterday by the P. and O. ship Canton from Southampton. They were met on board by* Lord Killearn's A DC, Capt. Lord Kerr. Lord Ailwyn, who is a retirtd captain in123 words
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Article72 1948-02-12 5 jyjESSRS H. M. Danker and N. A. Kularajah have been elected to represent the Singapore Government Servants' Co-operative Society, Ltd. at the Malayan Cooperative Conference to b~ held at Kuala Lumpur on March 6 and 7. In order to provide accommodation for the Income Tax Department, the office72 words
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120 1948-02-12 5 INDIAN MASS MEETING THIS AFTERNOON INDIAN labourers are holding a mass meeting this afternoon timed to coincide with the immersion of Mahatma Gandhi's ashes in India's sacred rivers. A procession will start from the Serangoon Road Indian temple at 1.30 p.m. and will go to Waterloo Street padang where the120 words
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307 1948-02-12 5 World may gain from Malayan rice tests THE first part of an fi^ periment in mechanical rice growing, through which it is hoped to revolutionise rice-production and bring an improved standard of life to millions has been successfully completed in Malaya. Mr. David Rees Williams, British Under-Secretary of State forReuter - 307 words
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Article43 1948-02-12 5 T^HE advance party ol first Gurkha troops I Hong Kong left S I i tho Devonshire tl^is morThe party eomprl S three British officers. Gurkha officers and 43 Qurkha otfer ranks from t^e lOtl; Battalion at pT^ent in Malaya.43 words
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Article404 1948-02-12 6 Drama, films, concerts on the Rates DRAMA, ballet, films, and symphony concerts may be subsidised by every city and town in Britain soon if the Commons agree to a Socialist proposal. Mr. Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, promised in the House of Commons to draft a404 words
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Article160 1948-02-12 6 Dined on mice in slave camp A DUTCH witness who was a J\ slave labourer for the Nazis testified at Nuremberg In the war crimes trial of Aifrtd Krupp and ll <>th« r Krupp officials, that conditions and food at the Krupp punishment camp were so bad thatJie cookt dU.P. - 160 words
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Article56 1948-02-12 6 The American State Department said it was gratilud that France and Italy had decided that a customs union wai practicable. "The realisation of an eventual economic union between Prance and Italy wuld be of historical importance, not only for the two countries but for Europe asA.P. - 56 words
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Article80 1948-02-12 6 Webster 800-h and Ainne Z: 'jler will tour Australia from April to December. A duty white-painted truck with a Union Jack insignia on its side has arrived in Cape Town after a gruelling 10,300 mile run from Britain to the Cape. The four occupants, three British, ex-officers, Ralj>h80 words
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Article113 1948-02-12 6 /CONSTRUCTION has begun on what wIU b<- J Kong's second highest building and the talh tin the mainland suburb of Kowloon The building is to be erected for the Hong Kong Telephone Company and will contain 12 storeys. It Will be 192 leet high, or 24Reuter; AAP - 113 words
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Article63 1948-02-12 6 YfR. Ronald Chamberlain. ITI Labour M.P. fur Norwood, has resigned Ills post as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Town and Country Planning: because his recent criticism of some Government policy might cause embarrassment. He wrote to Mr. Silkin the Minister: "I must be free63 words
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Article17 1948-02-12 6 Croydon (Surrey) Council are to appoint a children's >t! cer to look after homeless children.17 words
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Article68 1948-02-12 6 j m|INISTHY of Food officials. I It! noticing unusual mounds I on a farm at Wootton. Kent, dug them up and found re- mains of cattle. As a result owner of the farm, 51-year-old. Victor Spring, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and fined £300. Spring68 words
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Article16 1948-02-12 6 Building licences for £91,--000 have been granted for the Olympic Games preparations in Britain.16 words
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Article88 1948-02-12 6 riiKOOPKK Maurice Edward Harmes, acquitted by a courtmartial at Flensburg (Germany) of murdering an elderly Gorman clergyman, has written to his home in Brighton that ho will never play the Good Samaritan's part again. The 20-year-old Tank Corps soldier said he found the clergyman lying injured on88 words
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Article178 1948-02-12 6 A WIFE whose husband married her for a bet and then "walked out" has been granted a decree nisi on the ground of non-consummation. Granting the petition of I Mary Elizabeth Descours, of > Swansea. against George Lamson Descours. a mer- I chant seaman,178 words
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Article94 1948-02-12 6 AT least 50 qualified chefs are wanted in Melbourne. They could almost name their own salary, states the Adelaide News. In Melbourne an experienced chef can earn up to £25 a week; a cook up to £10. Chefs were mostly imported before World War 11. Today theReuter - 94 words
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Article53 1948-02-12 6 Mr. James P. Warburg, banking; expert and author, said yesterday in New York that the Marshall plan and the Truman doctrine must be separated If the United States is to stay out of trouble. Although the world's economic and political problems are related, they need separate treatment,U.P. - 53 words
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Article22 1948-02-12 6 Mr. Jerome K. Huddle, first United States Ambassador to Burma, arrived in Rangoon by plane from Singapore. A.P.A.P. - 22 words
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Article36 1948-02-12 6 The "Big; Four" Foreign Ministers' deputies put off until Friday a decision on a timetable for allowing other countries a chance to say what should be done about Italy's pre-war colonial empire. A. P.A.P. - 36 words
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Article, Illustration70 1948-02-12 6 picture. A helicopter flies by itself at Palo Alto (California), as two test pilots xoatch it hover just above the ground. The inventor claims that it is "inherently stable," in that it nill tend to right itself if tip; d by a gust of wind. Stabile vA.P. - 70 words
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243 1948-02-12 6 COUNCIL ALLEGATION, AN R.A.F. depot at Chilmark, (Wiltshire ii, a than 300 people— -"drones (h( nothing to do, declared Aldornvan Daniel f a meeting of Mere and Tislmrv Rural r,v "And," he said, "a little U^ dressed in better clothes than a ratepave243 words
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Article62 1948-02-12 6 SCOTLAND YARD received a 999 call from Mr. Lipmain Misell, of Marina-court. Bow, E., who said that he wa.waiting to keep a business appointment in Pwnton-^street l Islington, N., when a car drew up. One of the four men in it him with a revolver and robbed62 words
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Article18 1948-02-12 6 George Vaughan. a Rhondda (South Wales) miner, has been inaugurated president of Cardiff University Debating Society.18 words
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Article21 1948-02-12 6 Mars will pay earth a 'visit' i -jiiJ earth world I In r In. >r will far The in the Un21 words
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Article61 1948-02-12 6 MR Scotland i id a q land a eai of Main cau* might hart r bet tl« b e that I R Utr cai p States. "Do y >u mi igh for inha go 'd en >ufli for G Mr Woodburn r is i. t^ctU.P. - 61 words
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Article55 1948-02-12 6 Mr. Bdward Mai member I th« LoI I dOC JJ Council, yesterdtf denaJ that plans be made bomb shelters for the (V because "we are 2' Poi. last 3.500 v'arsth** onJy 4uu years o\ Martcl said there was^ denco that "we would. 8 in aU.P. - 55 words
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Article127 1948-02-12 6 "TT is a poor comment on the Australian way of life that people are letting the beer shortage worry them so much." said the chairman of a Melbourne brewing firm. It was extraordinary that in a time of acute shortage of housing, suits, motor cars, tyresReuter; AAP - 127 words
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Miscellaneous68 1948-02-12 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malava MR GRUFFYDD/^ /WISH I COULD MFETTMT /Vo LIKE To ASK MiAO/mO iVl'lA AeA IF YOU DROP ME HERF I (OLD BOY FACE To FACE.'-' THE OLD SNOOP WOtonafeS JdAQ OHCe CAN POST MY LETTER l'M SURE EVANDERS < STRAIGHT OUT WHAT-^68 words
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611 1948-02-12 7 TRACK NOTES Oriental. will de ready soon r>v "CALL BOY' r y iurle\ s horses, Gold Caste, Donnell 1 1 ii's Tick returned the best times at h thia morning:, but there were no more nrkouts than the half pace runs by the lVf iental and Gold Medallist. hud a611 words
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Article107 1948-02-12 7 Australian tour team selected THERE are no real surprises in Australia's cricket team to tour England this summer. Seventeen names were officially announced in Melbourne yesterday as follows: D.G. Bradman, South Australia; W. A. Brown, Queensland; S.G. Barnes, New South Wales; R.A. Hamence. South Australia; R.N. Harvey, Victoria; A.L. Hassett,Reuter-AAP - 107 words
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Article267 1948-02-12 7 INTERPORT SOCCER Exclusive To The Free Press OHANGHAI defeated the Combined Chinese team, two to one, in an Interport soccer game played in Hong Kong yesterday. EarHer, Hong Kong had beaten Shanghai, five to one, in a Lunar New Year Day Interport game on Tuesday.A.P. - 267 words
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Article65 1948-02-12 7 THE Indian team to play the 1 Victorian Country side at Gcelont* on Saturday a: d Monday will bo chosen from the following: ftfanad, Hasmre, Nayudu. Gul Mohamed. Amir Elahi. s n R&ngnekar, Kishenchand, Phadkar, Adhlkart, Rai Singh and Ranvirsinhji. The remainder of the IndianReuter; AAP - 65 words
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Article, Illustration26 1948-02-12 7 The American ice hockey team give their "war cry" before the start of the first match of the Winter Games at St. Moritz.26 words
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Article45 1948-02-12 7 ERIC Boon, contender for the British welter-weight boxing title, has been matched against Omar Koudri. former welter-weight champion of France at the Royal Albert Hall. London, on March 1. The fight at 149 lb will be contested over eight threeminute rounds. A.P.A.P. - 45 words
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475 1948-02-12 7 By "CALL BOY" ORIENTAL, one of the six new horses entered for the Singapore Turf Club Spring Meeting, has a brilliant record as a sprinter in Australia. His successes included the P.L. Reilly Stakes (t'800), a Welter H'cap (1600) as a five year-old, and475 words
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Article442 1948-02-12 7 GRIFFITH HITS BRILIANT CENTURY England 230 for six in Test i rriHANKS to a grand innings of 110 not out by the scored 8 2?o 7i Ck f e h k f per S C Griffith, England had scored 230 for the loss of six wickets at close on theReuter - 442 words
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Article93 1948-02-12 7 ENGLAND— Ist. Inns. J. D. Robertson run out 2 S. G. Griffiths not out ..110 J. I. Ikin b Ferguson 21 K. Cranston c and b Ferguson 7 G. O. Allen c Walcott b Gaskin 3$ Howorth b Ferguson 14 Evans c Walcott b Williams 30 Smithson not out93 words
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Article166 1948-02-12 7 THE Rugby League tour of Australia by a French team has been cancelled and M. Fernand Queillard, General Secretary of the French Rugby League, has explained the main reasons. The first was the fact that Australia wanted the French team to arrive by May 10, butReuter - 166 words
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Article165 1948-02-12 7 THERES going to be some fun and games in the English cricket world later this year when the publishers remove the dust-jackets from "Cricket Controversy," a new book by Radio Sports Commentator. Clif Cary, writes Neil Murray, columnist of the Australian newspaper, Sydney Sun.Reuter; A.A.P. - 165 words
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Article98 1948-02-12 7 RICHARD "Pancho" Gonzales, 20, overnight tennis sensation, has turned down an offer of Mexican citizenship and a cinch berth on the Davis Cup squad to take his chances in the United States. Holding wins over Jaroslav Drobny. Bob Falkenberg, Frankie Parker and Herb Flam,U.P. - 98 words
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261 1948-02-12 7 r ALA Amarnath, India's Test captain, replying to Duleepsinhji's criticism of, his captaincy, alleged that Duleepsinhji's criticism had been destructive, discouraging and technically wrong. "There is no truth in thej allegation that I took no notice of the bowlers in placing the field," saidReuter-AAP - 261 words
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Article312 1948-02-12 7 EIGHT more ties were concluded in the seven a -side rugby tournament on the Padang yesterday. Despite the earlier downpour which transformed 1 hepitch into a quagmire, Rood rugger was witnessed and many of the games had thrillinc finishes The first match of the312 words
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205 1948-02-12 7 TTJICHARD BERGMANN. a 28-year-old Austrian, son ot a Polish farmer, became by virtue of his British naturalisation the first English player since Fred Perry in 1929 to win the world's men's singles table tennis title when he defeated the defending champion, Sohumil Vana. ofReuter - 205 words
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Miscellaneous230 1948-02-12 7 F.P. Crossword No. 3€9 ■^^Hb^^Hß B 10 (Ills ACROSS f rion l ly (8K 7 Disli^ng (6). 9, Take on (6). 11, Spirit trap? (3). 12, Confederate (4). 14. Requirements (5). 16 Invite (3) 17, Spout (3). 19, Sediment <4;. 21. Stocking material (5) 24 Happen again (5). 25, Hub230 words
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Article, Illustration46 1948-02-12 8 PENZANCE Gale-lashed seas breaking half-way up the 110- foot r- Vu* t A ou cr defeated attempts by the Trinity House relief ship 'Triton' to get supplies to the three men stranded for a month on the Wolf Rock Lighthouse, eight miles off Land's End.46 words
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Article190 1948-02-12 8 SECURITY DEMANDS OF FRANCE LONDON. Wednesday. FRENCH demands for a security bridgehead on the east bank of the Rhine are high on the agenda of the coming Anglo-American-French talks in London on Western Germany's future, according to diplomatic quarters here. A British Foreign Office spokesman acknowledged today that the agendaA.P.; Reuter - 190 words
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Article41 1948-02-12 8 The walls of a tunnel crumblrc! and crushed part of a train running between Mala- tya and Fevzipasha, in Tur- 1 key. killing and Injuring 1 several people according to reports received in Istanbul. Four coaches were destroyed. i41 words
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Article427 1948-02-12 8 US difference on partition THE United Nations plan to form an international army to enforce its decision to partition Palestine may be abandoned. This belief is gaining currency in United Nations circles despite a new United States assurance of continued support for the partition plan made in Washington yesterdayReuter; A.P.; U.P. - 427 words
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Article131 1948-02-12 8 LONDON, Wednesday. WARNING of "marked uneasiness" In the House of Commons and in Britain generally about the continued silence of the Government on the strength of the British Fleet was given in the House today by Conservative member Mr. J. P. Thomas. However, Mr. John Dugdale, FinancialReuter - 131 words
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Article177 1948-02-12 8 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. rpHE appointment of an administrator of Cabinet rank to run the European recovery programme, with a "little Cabinet" of 12 men and "a roving ambassador," has been recommended by the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This was announced last night byReuter; A.P. - 177 words
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Article72 1948-02-12 8 THE British Ambassador to Burma. Mr. Reginald J. Bowker, yesterday assured the Burmese Premier. Thakln Nu, tnat rumours of British supI port for "certain communities" in Burma in their attempt to < revise their position under the constitution were completely false. "There can be no question of H.Reuter - 72 words
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Article174 1948-02-12 8 BATAVIA, Wednesday. INDONESIAN and Dutch spokesmen confirmed tonight that Dr. Mohammed Hatta, the Republican Premier, has urged the early establishment of an interim Government for the entire Dutch East Indies. In a letter to Dr. Hebertus Van Mook, Dr. Hatta expressed the Republic's willingness to participateA.P. - 174 words
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Article97 1948-02-12 8 COLOMBO. Wednesday. rORTY-TWO elephants, with trunks curkd to their foreheads, raised their forelegs in salute as the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester passrd them on a historic 80 miles 1 drive today to Kandy, hill capital of the old kings of Ceylon. Thousands of children dressed inReuter - 97 words
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Article88 1948-02-12 8 1 1 killed when police fire NAIROBI. Wednesday. AN injured British police n superintendent attacked by a crowd of 1,000 African tribesmen, ordered his small force of African constables to fire on the mob. Eleven demonstrators were killed and 20 injured, in this incident at Malakisi. near Nairobi. The demonstrators,A.P. - 88 words
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204 1948-02-12 8 TASMAN P.M.'S BRIBERY TRIAL OPENS HOBART (Tasmania), Wednesday. THE prosecution opened Its case today against Mr. Robert Cosgrove, who was indicted while still Prime MinisIff of Tasmania on charges of bribery, corruption and conspiracy. Mr. CosgTove, believed to be the first man in the history of the British Empire toReuter - 204 words
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Article, Illustration41 1948-02-12 8 Units of the Bikaner State Forces, including infantry camel corps and mule transport, paraded to honour Lord' Mountbatten, Governor-General of India, and Lady Mountbatten were the guests of the Maharajah of Bitaner. a Rajput State in Central India, for three days.41 words
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Article42 1948-02-12 8 An Egyptian newspaper report that the British Foreign Secretary. Mr. Ernest Bevin, would fly to Cairo to negotiate with the Arab League on defence questions in the Middle East was denied last night by the Foreign Office A.P. andA.P. - 42 words
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Article224 1948-02-12 8 LONDON, Wednesday. AIR Vice Marshal D.C.T. Bennett announced tonight he will contest the Impending by-election at North Croydon, Surrey, as a Liberal candidate to fight "against Socialist strangulation." The by-election was caused by the resignation of Mr. H. U. Willink, Conservative, who won his seatReuter - 224 words
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Article202 1948-02-12 8 NEW YORK, Wednesday. OALLIES.earIy this afternoon in grains and cotton 1V brought a better feeling in most sections on the New York Stock Exchange, notably industrials and rails, and stock prices continued to move up slowly from the day's lows. A grain trader in Chicago,Reuter; U.P. - 202 words
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Article272 1948-02-12 8 SAN FRANCISCO, Wednesday. HPIIE leader of China's Democratic Socialists, Mr. x Carson Chang, today asserted that Russia has "recaptured" Manchuria for the Chinese Communists. He said that Russia turned over territory and arms captured from the Japanese to the Chinese Reds. Mr. Chang, who is onA.P.; U.P. - 272 words
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Article112 1948-02-12 8 A SPECIAL Market correspondent Rives the prices of rubber at 11 a.m. today as follows: Buyer* Seller* CU. Cts. per lb. per lb No. 1 II s s Spot loose 40 4t4£ No. 1 R.S.S. fob in bales Feb. 40' to No. 2 K.S.s. fob in bales Feb.A.P. - 112 words
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Article28 1948-02-12 8 Birth of quintuplets to a Christian woman in a village in the Tanjore district of Madras is reported by a local newspaper. Two of the children died. A.P.A.P. - 28 words
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Article22 1948-02-12 8 and bmi and ma through G tion.s oncirci; n£ JJ] na were within range ol Jrars wag 1 esitai nSt U.PU.P - 22 words
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Article408 1948-02-12 8 London Stock ExchanJ LONDON. WedneW WIDESPREAD losses were seen in most sect* the London stock markets today following overnight publication of the White Paper 1< detailed account of the country's economic pi says Reuter's financial correspondent. There was a great deal of uncerJ particularly among the Industrial issues rt408 words
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Miscellaneous13 1948-02-12 8 SINGAPORE TIDES Today Tomorrow High 11.59 am. 1230 pm 9.7 ft. 9.6 ft.13 words
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Miscellaneous49 1948-02-12 8 WEATHER Showers WEATHEU report for th* nevi 24 hoars compiled by th« BAF: Scattered showers with bright intervals. Wind: Übrht, northerly, becominf calm to-night. Sunse-t 6.52 p.m. Sanrise 6.47 a.m. Moonrise 8.27 a.m. Moonset 8.46 p.m. Temperatures yesterday Maximum 89 de* F; minimum 73 de*. F. KainfaJl 2.42 inches.49 words
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