The Singapore Free Press, 16 February 1948
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Title Section18 1948-02-16 1 The singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1948 PRICE 10 CENTS18 words
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Article130 1948-02-16 1 \V\SHINGTON, Sunday. SERAL Duight Eisenhower, former Allied Supreme Commander m Europe, today warned fricans to be prepared to repel a sudden atomic w k He was reporting on his work as United te> Army Chief of Staff, from which he retired Feb. 7. AmericaU.P. - 130 words
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Article, Illustration434 1948-02-16 1 15 WILL CONTEST SIX SEATS Spore council nominations JODAY is nomination day for Singapore's first Legislative Council elections. This morning it was certain that 15 candidates would contest the six seats m the four constituencies into which the Colony is divided, but last hour additions may raise the total to434 words
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Article, Illustration53 1948-02-16 1 JHIRTEEN firemen and police men were sent to hospital yesterday In Toulouse, southwestern France, with injuries sustained In fighting a fire at an electricity plant which caused damage estimated unofficially at 20,000,000 to 30.000,000 francs. One hundred workers have been thrown out of lobs by theReuter - 53 words
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Article19 1948-02-16 1 Quadruplets were born within nve minutes early yesterday to li-year-old Mrs. Barbara Zavada of Pennsylvania.19 words
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Article90 1948-02-16 1 JAPANESE Government officiaLs are plan n if. g a 40 per cent general increase m industrial production this year. Tiu? biggest increase is scheduled for textiles, Japan's j major export item. The plan calls for producing 480.000 000 pounds of cottons and 40.000,000 pounds ofA.P. - 90 words
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Article74 1948-02-16 1 THE United Nations' Educational. Scientific and Cultural Organisation plans to intensify its efforts to remove obstacles to spreading ideas and information I through Press, radio and other means. Mr William B'.nton. former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Btate, said this m a letter to U.S. SecretaryA.P. - 74 words
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Article202 1948-02-16 1 TO JO PICKS HIS DEATH NAME LJIDEKI TOJO expects to receive the death "sentence when the Allied Tribunal trying Japanese warlords hands down its verdict and sentences about May 1. Tojo has already picked his posthumous name—a Japanese Buddhist custom usually carried out shortly before death Tojo committed "mental karakiri"U.P. - 202 words
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Article106 1948-02-16 1 LAHORE. Monday. THE Clril and Military 1 Gazette. Lahore, says the Nawab ol Bhopal will succeed Mr. Jinnah as Pakistan's Gov-ernor-General because of Mr Jinnah s indifferent health ard his wish to retire m the very near future. The British -edited Daper predicts the NawabA.P. - 106 words
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Article28 1948-02-16 1 Air Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd, Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force m the Far East, returned to Singapore from Ceylon this mornir.g. accompanied by Lady Lloyd.28 words
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Article34 1948-02-16 1 Two Indians, ono armed with a pistol and the other with a knife pounced upon another Indian m a back lane off Rochore Road last night and took $40- from him.34 words
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Article150 1948-02-16 1 LONDON, Sunday T HE United States, Britain and France will meet here on Thursday this week to seek agreement on Western Germany's future. Upon the outcome may depend the success of the Marshall Plan for European recovery. Russia has not been invited but its activitiesA.P. - 150 words
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Article35 1948-02-16 1 Only 38 cases of eruptive typhus have broken out m Tokio this year as a result of tnc typhus prevention campaign launched by the Metropolitan epidemic prevention authorities, it was announced yesterday.35 words
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110 1948-02-16 1 WASHINGTON, Sunday. riK Navy tonight announced a $53 million programme to streamline a number of fleet submarines as the first basic step toward the design and construction of "true submarines." The new submarine, according to theory, would be a vessel completely selfsufficient under water without110 words
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Article96 1948-02-16 1 Nationalising Italian Industries ROME, Sunday. THE gradual nationalisation of Italian industries has gained fresh impetus from new Cabinet decisions. The Ministers have agreed to raise the capital of the Industrial Reconstruction Institute to 60,000 million lire (U.S. $100 million). The State-owned 1.R.1, controls 90 per cent, of the shipping industry,A.P. - 96 words
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Article75 1948-02-16 1 THE projected general food rationing for Shanghai, due on March 1. has been postponed until April, according to the newspaper China Press, quoting information from the Bureau of Social AiTairs. The postponement is i.ecessary because the Bureau requires more time for its preparations. Detailed measures for rationingReuter - 75 words
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Article31 1948-02-16 1 Two tornadoes m Mississippi flooded rivers m seven states over the week-end and left 10 persons dead, 42 others m hospital and thousands homeless m freezing weather.31 words
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Article21 1948-02-16 1 The 237-ton vessel Daifuku Maru sank with 264 tons of wheat while en route from Nagasaki, to Miji.21 words
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Article112 1948-02-16 1 WASHINGTON, Sunday. rpHE main points m their A European recovery programme of Mr. Truman and Mr. George Marshall have been included m a bill unanimously approved by the Senate Foreifoi Relations Committee, but Its chairman, Mr. Arthur Vandenberg, looks like heading for a showdown withU.P. - 112 words
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Article226 1948-02-16 1 BOMBAY, Sunday. INDIA cannot agree to withdraw her troops from Kashmir until normal conditions are restored and people there are m position to decide their political future, Mr. N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar, who led the Indian delegation to the United Nations Security Council, said here today. AddingReutcr; A.P. - 226 words
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216 1948-02-16 1 Indies troop withdrawals now complete f HE United Nations announced tonight that the evacuation of Republican troops from behind Dutch lines has been completed and that 55 military officers o?sL.fat^ including British Chinese and Americans, will s^n take up their positions on the demarcation line The communique said that 24,000U.P.; A.P - 216 words
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Article52 1948-02-16 1 Mrs. Harriet S. Stevens, former missionary to Burma who assisted m making the first translation of the Bible m the Burmese language, died m her home m Hampton (U S Sunday night at the age of 106. Mrse. Stevens' parents served as baptist missionaries m Burma for52 words
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Article111 1948-02-16 1 UK film picked as best in 1 947 HOLLYWOOD, Monday. THE British film. "Great Expectations." was nominated yesterday for the Best Picture Award of 1947. by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The American films also named were "The Bishops Wife," "Crossfire," •Qentlenun's agreement." and "Miracle on 34th111 words
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Advertisement25 1948-02-16 1 dasfdasf dsf f MOSS CREPE lj^'i|B '^'"'u-rv i^» \0 W0 I IK is -[^TEXTILES I fl^p F3 404S MOi rv Hi* 31. RAFFLES PLACE, S'POKK.25 words
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Advertisement73 1948-02-16 1 KOBSZB3333CBEZSB Effortless ironing with the new G.E.C. Streamlined Automatic Iron Thermostatic Control by setting dial for woollen, silk, cotton or linen fabrics maintains correct temperature for each.. .In Primrose enamel, as illustrated Cat. No. D. 5822 6-lb. Streamlined Automatic Iron with 3-core Domestic Flexible. Loading: 750 watts, for A.C. mains73 words
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Article, Illustration1168 1948-02-16 2 Hall Romney - THE G-G's VISIT TO UK Hall Romney nliiiiMuiiniuiiii ii iiiiiiiniM.il n i.iiii|ki>_ I LONDON I I LETTER I By THE thoughts ol many of us have been with you ir> Malaya as you step towards nationhood and self-government. Were such an interest not entirely natural on tiie part of those1,168 words
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314 1948-02-16 2 Russian Authors Not Read in Russia By EDDY GILMORE A. P. Correspondent r[E Russian Ministry of Higher Education is being sharply criticised for shortcomings In the teaching of! literature. Mistakes and shortcomings of the programmes of general literature were disclosed pubUdy by the newspaper "Culture and Life" recently and the314 words
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Article, Illustration241 1948-02-16 2 Hindus Take Over Bazaar St. C^HANDNI Chowk. street I of bazaars m Old Delhi, known Ui-e world over as a place where the tourist can purchase practically any article manufactured under the sun, literally has been taken over by the Sikh and Hindu-refugees from the Punjab. The red fez ofA.P. - 241 words
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Article, Illustration260 1948-02-16 2 MOfil player* believe t.iat while their opponents fiequontly hold tremendous hands they themselves seldom are dealt a two-bid. Perhaps this lack of practice accounts for the mishandling of so many "big" hands In this deal. North's two-bid was a doubtful one, but having used it. he should thereafter260 words
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Article361 1948-02-16 2 BARBARA STEVENSON - Narrow waists longer skirts. BARBARA STEVENSON NEW FASHIONS IN Park By Reuter's Correspondent MARROW waists, longer and fuller skirts, and increased decolletage, were features of models introduced by leading Paris fashion houses at their preliminary spring shows. The shows carried on the "new look" introduced by Parisian fashion houses twoReuter - 361 words
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Advertisement59 1948-02-16 2 MAlStt' VALLY (Ladies' H.ir NOW OPEN at GOODWOOD MM TELEPHONE 7869 Attention Travellers!' l WHEN VISITING SINGAPORE ST I THE TAVERN I (European Residential Hotel) t The first hotel operating immediately •JJ'J I tion. Spacious rooms, luxuriously f" rms J room has its own bath to itself. I Cool and59 words
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Miscellaneous477 1948-02-16 2 the 41 metre band MONDAY p.m. 19.84 metres and 49 .38 Prom 6.00 p.m. to 745 p.m. 103 a m Australian News Bui Tnl*?! 3 fht 19 8I metr from 9^o pjn to 11.00 p.m.: ?%10 <° R <eords by Request; nd W M m 2^ DAT 626 metres m477 words
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Miscellaneous239 1948-02-16 2 YOUR LUCKY STAi Fortune forecast for rateable thand people born today an lltist Mnter creative talents may find '^Vi if i Vomitexpression m one or more of the fine arts. Your emotions Mi w Your versatility is un- the top and an fl usual m this respect and tapped. If239 words
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Article, Illustration495 1948-02-16 3 MARSHALL PLAN FOR ORIENT 'NECESSARY' Asia and the 'Phalanx of Democracy 9 THE Philippines 9 United Nations delegate, Mr. Carlos P. Romulo, has called on the United States the greatest nation on earth now to establish a Marshall Plan for Asia "if she wants 1,200,000,000 Orientals to join the commonA.P.; U.P.; Reuter - 495 words
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Article81 1948-02-16 3 THE postman knocked at a 1 house m Ospringe-road, Kentish Town, N.W., with a parcel "from home" for Mr Robert Ashton, a Bolton art student. It contained food and a pullover. Mr. Ashton was out, so another tenant took it m and left it on the81 words
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Article66 1948-02-16 3 Questioned m the House of Commons about cuts In Services food rations the Food Minister, Mr. Strachey, said there would be no change m food supplies available to the N.A.A.F.I. for distribution to Services canteens. But the recent increase m the ration cash allowance woulc. mean the N.A.A.F.I.Reuter - 66 words
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Article63 1948-02-16 3 HUSBAND wh se wife night -jig "Jack Jack." and aivund him, i a df-cn v nisi m Court, London. X nk-en rpret Ellisi n rhe Dell, don, S.E., was cause of ■:d's cruf It ft Ellison, the Pine -grove, mii- k Os- that. i the63 words
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Article28 1948-02-16 3 VARDAY BOYS SUCCEED an Varfrom aps of and matron ue ILtocolnahlre), aused two Ms to hi:ch-hike JU^^e the Km;," HtajH" appointed to trl^' "MlltMlH -nt of the home28 words
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Article16 1948-02-16 3 is *r for ImmiKra•ftS? r()v d ad M mor.» northern l| *<*** to help cane crop16 words
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Article56 1948-02-16 3 TILE War Office has axv- noimced that, after negotiations with local authorities l n Westmorland, the War Department has accepted Lanßdale Fell as a suitable alternative to the Martindale Fiold firing range. Martindale has now been cleared of unexploded missiles, the order under Defence Regulation 52 h©s56 words
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Article253 1948-02-16 3 \IR. STERLING COLLETT, an official of the Labour Division of the Supreme Allied Headquarters m Tokio, (old a Japanese press conference that Japan must end her "coolie system" by March 1. He said Japanese "labour suppliers" hold hundreds of tnousands of workers virtually aaReuter - 253 words
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Article97 1948-02-16 3 A SECOND scandal involving mass murder of m Lints through malnutrition at a Tokio maternity hospital were reported when th« police found that false death certificates had been made out to 43 babies who had died of malnutrition during the past year. The proprietress and physician ofReuter - 97 words
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Article73 1948-02-16 3 m ago °!«s Hooter, crashX Moth the the engine was salvaged and taken to Australia, where it was installed m a Genairco aircraft. For the last 18 months the Diane and en«lne have been lying idle at a Queensland aerodrome Now it has been boughtReuter - 73 words
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Article199 1948-02-16 3 FROM the deck of a cabin cruiser off the Orkneys ashes of a London woman were scattered while a choir m the boat sang "For those m peril on the sea." This took place where the woman's sweetheart was drowned 30 years ago m199 words
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Article51 1948-02-16 3 RESOLUTIONS calling on world journalists to fight against "gangsters of the pen" and asking the International Organisation of Journalists to call on the .United Nations to declare "war mongering a crime against humanity" were passed at a congress of Journalists from Slav countries meeting at51 words
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Article143 1948-02-16 3 FROM a report by Colonel William Collingwood, Britain's police may develop new tactics against spivs raiding poultry roosts. Coliieigwood was flying In a h,overplane as British observer with U.S. Colonel Robert Wienicke. They watched food being dropped to paraTroopers bivouacked m the snowdrifts of uwper143 words
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Article50 1948-02-16 3 RUSSIA has offered to return to the U.S.A. one cargo vessel and seven tank<rs as partial settlement of her £2.750.000.000 Lend-Lease account. The United States has asked Russia to return nearly ioo borrowed ships unless th/»r#» Is a cash settlement.— Reuter adsfdasf dsf sf df fReuter - 50 words
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148 1948-02-16 3 THE Burmese Government Is taking steps to increase the efficiency of police and customs officials m the frontier areas m an attempt to check the illegal entry of foreign nationals and smuggling, which have been reported on a large scale. A number ofReuter - 148 words
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165 1948-02-16 3 AN estimate of a record yield of 228 million bushels for the 1947-48 Australian wheat crop by the Commonwealth Statistician Dr. Roland Wilson t is expected to bring Australia about A £170 million. 7 Despite losses from bad weather at harvest time. New South Wales165 words
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Article45 1948-02-16 3 "VTO more medical certlflli cates for washing machines" is the plea of an East Horsley, Surrey, doctor m the British Medical Journal. Business houses should be told, he suggests, that doct yrs "have other duties than selecting customers unable to do washing."45 words
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Article67 1948-02-16 3 OLUTONIA, a new atom city o: 20,000 people, is rising around the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's plutonlum works at Hanford, Oregon. From th^ other atom city of Oak Ridge, Te»n»nessee. go 110 vanloads of material to enlarge She works. The U.S. Government has decided that its67 words
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Article40 1948-02-16 3 Gerritt Keizer, a nvember of the Dutch Ajax football club and once an Arsenal player, is to be charged with smuggling: £4,000 into Holland. Be is a vegetable wholesaler, and has made many trips to England.40 words
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Article37 1948-02-16 3 The U.S. Presidential Race warming up, but a Michiin postman takes a poor /icw of the whole thing. He tdmits destroying a hundred political circulars because there's too much of that atu£ isi the mails."37 words
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Article, Illustration291 1948-02-16 3 picture. BECAUSE Philip John Guard, 19-year-old actor, refused to take up "forestry, land work or hospital work as porter, orderly, stoker or stretcher bearer," on being classed as a conscientious objector, the Ministry of Labour summoned him at Marylebone (London Guard wrote to the MinistryA.P. - 291 words
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Article74 1948-02-16 3 NYLON, originally used m America for hosiery almost exclusively, has for some time been adapted to industrial uses. One of the wider applications during the war was for valve seats, a highly industrial use where high pressures were encountered. The latest application is for washers,A.P. - 74 words
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Article68 1948-02-16 3 /ILL foreign-owned business. including thosj operated i by British commercial concorns, will be taken ov.r by the Burma Union Government within two years, v was* officially stated m Rangoon. Und^r the present pla, s, major industries, like forestries, mines and oil will com? under direct Governing tA.P. - 68 words
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Article41 1948-02-16 3 PRESENCE of Mr. Attlee at Oxford University Labour Club's dinner is not a "special occasion, the Food Ministry has ruled. Only 100 will sit down to dinner but the gallery will be opened for the Prime Minister's speech.41 words
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Article27 1948-02-16 3 The King received fci audience at Buckingham Palace the first Ambassador from independent Burma. Sir Maung Gyee, who presented his letters of credence. ReuterReuter - 27 words
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Advertisement17 1948-02-16 3 YELLOW TOP CABS Fi now available the public from 7 A.M. 1 Mid-night: RING 5959 YTC X17 words
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Miscellaneous39 1948-02-16 3 K£ AN Vain Search By Edgar Rice Burroughs S>^^ 'hi^ 7*'^'*^^l^'. "ifc^i^^W^n HE POONO HIMSELF AT THE EO6E C^ A VAST "^Z^SJ Wlfl'w 'MdkM*^£&kiL/+*i SAZING BE s^n^ M'NiA^uCE INLANDS INTO M^^*^ml\ jji« "^i: '//T^^S^.'-te'i] TXE STPAN<SE,BOWL-L^E PtSTANCFCTPEILOCOAR. tsto l!mi^oWft\39 words
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457 1948-02-16 4 The singapore Free Press MONDAY, FEB. 16, 1948. Back to Baguio IF talk and conference could do it. Asia would be rice rich. There seems almost no end to international discussion of the problem of first restoring the pre-war production of rice and then increasing it. But the combined efforts457 words
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Article117 1948-02-16 4 Britain will not win her grim I economic battle without the naUonal unity for which Mr. Churchill pi -jaded m his Saturday broadcast. But having congratulated hi.countrymen on the absence (of fundamental constitutional cleavages such as wrack so many states Mr Churchill proceeded to make a ureat117 words
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Article1339 1948-02-16 4 FACING THE RISK OF INFLATION Britain's 'Wages' White Paper THE British nations economic welfare depends largely upon its ability to make and sell the exports necessary to buy the imports they need to feed the people and keep its industry going. Costs of production are of vital importance and they1,339 words
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Article, Illustration539 1948-02-16 4 J. M. ROBERTS - J. M. ROBERTS By A. P. Correspondent THE United States, having learned its lesson m Greece and other spots, has bten putting pressure for self-help ahead of American aid shipments to China as weil as to Western Europe. Now, on the eve of a ChineseA P. - 539 words
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387 1948-02-16 4 DENIS WARNER - First British Entry In Emperor's Contest DENIS WARNER By Reuter AAP Correspondent HTHE first British 1 entry m history that of Lieutenant Commander P. S. Evans, Royal Navy, and now commanding the destroyer Comus based on Hongkong— failed to win an award m Emperor Hirohito's annual thirtyone .syllable ImperiaJ poetry387 words
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Article19 1948-02-16 4 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. St. John 10. 11.19 words
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Article, Illustration658 1948-02-16 4 Dom John Stephen - Dom John Stephen By 0.5.8. Monk of Buckfast ■THE hymn "Adeste 1 Fideles" ("Come All Ye Faithful") has been sung and enjoyed for at least 200 years and is easily the best known Christmas hymn m the world. But identification of its author has puzzled658 words
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Advertisement6 1948-02-16 4 3U UH4A £FFtCi£~M~CY TRANSPORT AGENCY I?6 words
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Advertisement73 1948-02-16 4 COMMON SENSE TREATMENT^ S Impurities m the blood t&l pc of prevalent ailments s.ch a$ f aches and pains, itifl P ain m and common skin disorders c |H|g Biood Mixture as «>*^ I "rf^S purifying medic.ne cleanses cne and assists In restoring g°° c •,-.fS^3ri'<t ammh Tht* L.W m73 words
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Article477 1948-02-16 5 MALA YA IN FRONTLINE OFV.D. WAR Fret* Press Staff Reporter v niav be m the frontline pf a world-wide „,'iin-t venereal disease which is to be hv the t>rld Health Realisation. D committee of the Organisation has just n conference m Geneva, and has submitted c tSmnnd-itions to the Organisation477 words
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Article52 1948-02-16 5 cir> m Singapore are hrine given S( re- rivite motor tars mJm have hid S lt( r lorries rune been I for nulit.ir> vehicl-s rfHMtf r^istrations. jsjj b u>ed for (.ovcrn- nl m ,»tor car>. J reiiiNtration Utters nlU a!l> become «»hMil» te thf (..ivernnu-nt i'.»rs t taken off52 words
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Article69 1948-02-16 5 {ULTRA supplied 13.629 out Htbber K rt> la^ t E according to official '.eased. sources of supply o 1.204 tons tf 187 tor.s. Sarawak h Indo-China io R-->:der.cv 911 515 tons. t 668 tool, other Dutch •is and Slam 170 i ration of Malaya same69 words
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Article74 1948-02-16 5 1 indred recruits will part m a Police the first to Uiayan Police i;ee DelOge R..ad. Kuala 'our days from lUrting at 9 p.m. 1 which promises iir. will c various aspects Rework and training. :amm P consists of rwtini items. A > welcome the 1 th a salute74 words
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Article19 1948-02-16 5 campaign for r^toratiun o i the anfheir pension to be the love- s «2S A.PA.P - 19 words
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9 1948-02-16 5 GAPORE MUNICIPAL 4½% DEBENTURE STOCK 1930/70-80 m the v9 words
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Article258 1948-02-16 5 NEW AUSSIE STAMPS FROM TODAY TWO striking new designs 1 will be introduced to the Australian postage series as frorr. today a n ew l/3d valu-. destined to replace m time the current l/4d., and a new design for the 2/- denomination. The l/3d stamp features the head of a258 words
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Article28 1948-02-16 5 Raffles Library has received a valuable gift of books from the British Council. The books will be incorporated into the Library m the near future.28 words
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Article345 1948-02-16 5 to grant a final extension until the end of February 1948— until after the Chinese New Year on the distinctly understood condition that this third extension is the last and ftna'. one that will be granted, and that they must remove by end of345 words
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Article66 1948-02-16 5 Dr. E. S. Monteiro, who, after doing post-graduate work at Oxford, has been pursuing further studies at the Nuffleld Institute of Social Medicine and the Radcliffe Infirmary m London, is now working at the British PostGraduate Medical School at Hammersmith. Dr B. H. Sheares, who66 words
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Article67 1948-02-16 5 THE feast of Our Lady of Lourdes was celebrated at the Ophir Road Church yesterday. Bishop Olcome:.dy performed the high mass m the morning. In the evening after the Vespers, the Rev. Fath r Moran of the Rtdemptorists preached a sermon. The niche containing the statue of Our67 words
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Article, Illustration235 1948-02-16 5 HELPING to relieve rice shortage throughout consuming areas by destroying weevils, which annually take heavy toll of stored grain, is the British drug Gammexane, which is being shipped to the Far East m quantity. It Is m the form of insecticide that this latest235 words
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Article, Illustration49 1948-02-16 5 Seen chatting with the Governor -General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, at a party at thm Colonial Office m London recently are Miss Esther Yuen (left) and Miss Eve i Chona Also at the party were Misses Alice and Agnes Tan (below) daughters of Mr Tan Cheng Lock of Malacca.49 words
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Article203 1948-02-16 5 MALAYS PROTEST TO UNO Free Press Staff Reporter Ala special meeting of the r\ Malay Union, it was resolved to send a formal protest to the Secretary of Human Rights Department of the United Nations Organisations on the expulsion of 14 Malay seamen from Australia. The protest stated that the203 words
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Article205 1948-02-16 5 IWO tin-mining company. reports just issued report! the following: Ipoh Tin Dredging; Limited report and accounts for the year ended March 31, 1947, record the receipt of £5,346 m tribute from tin won m the Lahat area of the company by the dredge of an-*205 words
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Article, Illustration525 1948-02-16 5 STAFF SHORTAGE 'IS NO HANDICAP' Income Tax Chief Says Accountants join Dept. Free Press Staff Reporter IN spite of an admitted shortage of experienced income-tax officers, the Comptroller of Income Tax, Singapore, Mr. D. H. Tudor, is confident that his Department will be able to carry out its work of525 words
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Article247 1948-02-16 5 ALL ARABS 'AGAINST PARTITION' Free Press Staff Reporter THE entire Arab world is against the partition of Palestine, and m Saudi Arabia alone, the people have contributed $4 million to the cause of the Arabs m Palestine, said Mr. S. I. O. AlsagofT. who has just returned to Singapore after247 words
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Article133 1948-02-16 5 THE recent statement that restrictions by Colonial Governments were hampering Chinese businessmen m South -East Asia, made m Nanking by the Director of the Overseas Chinese Nationals Bureau. Mr. Kan Yung, did not apply to Malaya, the President of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Lee133 words
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Advertisement29 1948-02-16 5 bluest CEYLON TEA 1 LB (PACKET) $2.25 PACKED IN WOODEN CHEST FOR DELIVERY TO U IC 3 LBS (chest) $9. 50 2 LBS (chest) 57.25 WJT RAFFLES PLACE SINGAPORE.29 words
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Article, Illustration323 1948-02-16 6 Air survey of north Australia DKITISH and Australian Government officials will embark on another vast "Grow more Empire food adventure this week when they start a survey from the air of great stretches of and m Queensland and the Northern Territories hat haveA.P. - 323 words
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139 1948-02-16 6 THERE is a music-hall song which insists that "You can't ration love." But the Scottish town of Kilmarnock believes that love ca-; at least j?o on points. The question arose first When Kilmarnock town council decided to treat unmarried couples equally with married139 words
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Article46 1948-02-16 6 Yugoslavia has declared her readiness to resume negotiations on her demands for $60,000,000 worth of gold frozen m the United States and on American demands for compensation for property and other claims against the Yugoslav Government, the US. State Department said last wrek.46 words
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Article84 1948-02-16 6 ALL-CEYLON Students Congress, formed recently, has decided to send delegates t<> the South East Asia Students Congress to be held m Calcutta towards the end of February. The Students Congress, which is m its infant stages, has not sufficient funds to meet the expenses of theReuter - 84 words
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Article23 1948-02-16 6 Married for 72 years. Mr. E. T. Kennard. a ma^terbu.ldcr. has died at Stratford-on-Avon, aged 93. His widow is 92.23 words
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Article113 1948-02-16 6 'Corrupt officials' charge ALLEGATIONS Of "irre- guLarities m the control of prisoner of wax labour amounting to corruption" wer t > ckuiied m the House of Commons hy Mr. G. A. Browwi, Ministry ox Agriculture Parliamentary Secretary. Mr. S. Dye (Lab Norfolk S.W.) said a n official who brought these113 words
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Article143 1948-02-16 6 HUSBANDS would be made to share their income fifty-fifty with their wives, after household" expenses had been paid, if a private Bill now being prepared for Parliament became law in Britain. The Married Women's Asso- ciatiom, 2,000 strong, plans to j- A present it to143 words
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Article23 1948-02-16 6 Dismantling the front of his bath to mend a leak, Mr. W. Edwards, of Hemel IKnxpstead. Herts. found jewellery worth £500.23 words
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Article26 1948-02-16 6 -ickey Rooney. the film star, who is suffering from vaccine fever, has flow n back to the United State* from London tor treatment.26 words
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Article105 1948-02-16 6 Steward, aged 18. iS the youngest member of the crew of "guinea pig" submarine Ambush which is leaving for endurance tests m the Arctic. As he tried on his £80 worth of special clothing Ajithony declared: "It U comfortable, warm and easy to put on."Reuter - 105 words
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Article120 1948-02-16 6 MISS Hermione Lascelles youngest daughter of Sir Alfred Lascelles, X.C.. and Lady Lascelles, of Terrington York, was married at Westminster to Major-General Walter Lentaigne. who succeeded Major-General WinKate as commander of the Chlndits m Burma. "Joe" as General Lentaigne was known to the Chindits Is120 words
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Article203 1948-02-16 6 REORGANISATION of betting and gambling m Britain "on commonsense lines" is to be urged by thirty Labour back-bench M. They have tabled a motion which "deplores the great anomalies of existing law" and asks the Government for an immediate and detailed investigation of 1 the203 words
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Article66 1948-02-16 6 THE name of Mrs. Walter Boland, of Lakeview, Georgia, is now famous throughout America. She told a gang of Ku-Klux-Klan Negro baiting. antiSemitic American organisation that they were •'cowards dressed up m bedsheets." After that, sbe kicked their symbol, a flaming cross, out of her66 words
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Article228 1948-02-16 6 SUPER SPIN HAD2 CARS 2 MANSIONS QVERSEAS traders who wenl \^fj W orders to company clirtvtnJ n k Mcßae had never the slight' V, r t the entertainment and hoxp^iju Xl l <» eJg For personable Mr Mcßao c oir «edC liked to make his guests. W I Britain, comfortable.228 words
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Article13 1948-02-16 6 <• s -icher's cobb A film director use ttv same D fi; si13 words
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Article53 1948-02-16 6 DILL FISHER, a 74 year-old Sydney oarsman, ha^ agreed to rac^ Albert Haydon, of Manly, who says' he is 75 or **t hereabouts". Fisher's conditions are: Race fox £50 purse or morr; Haydon to be allowed to train for six months; the race to take place anReuter - 53 words
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Advertisement102 1948-02-16 6 AIR-CONDITIONED PHOV FIVE TIMES DAM 11 A.M.. 2. 4.15. <>.3O AND MS P^ OASffINBADVENTUJEIj^MISIII^ ("I maria MONTEZ -rod CAMERON r Preccdotl h\ The Latest Fox Mm it tow v k "GANDHI'S FUNERAL MoTin* Scenes of that GRKAT LBADI I U mile eorte«re to the banks of th.- with Lord and102 words
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Miscellaneous9 1948-02-16 6 JANb Exclusirx to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya9 words
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Article119 1948-02-16 7 j n e gallop by rand Prix II By "CALL BOY" PKIX tin* Second, who carries 8.7 m the division one, race over seven furlongs iss h on Wednesday, the second day of the "irin races, did one of the best workouts rack irai opened for fast work this galloped119 words
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Article79 1948-02-16 7 B ..°X- lltfi t) I Trai:. which d A.S.I. the scores ill of action Jf -his the last. boir. .suffered •.'anson. emerßpokitinß but the l lot to be de-vat-edlv and v-n how advantage would orobablv otallv different 'o Roae to the Hamid had •n>ed m n a^d airj»ravatin? and79 words
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Article36 1948-02-16 7 DAFFLES Institution first team beat Singapore Indian Juniors at table tennis at R.I. Hall by four games to three on Saturday. A return game will be played this Saturday at the R.I. Hall36 words
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Article, Illustration33 1948-02-16 7 Jockey Gordon Lansdoume is here seen scoring his first win on the Malayan Turf when he brings m Hunter's Call m the third race at Bukit Tirnah on Saturday.33 words
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Article753 1948-02-16 7 i ror nousc superintendents. The jobs, particularly those of interpreters, are open to foreign students studying m Britain. About 2.250,000 tickets are new being printed for the games, and it is estimated that half of these will be for j home use. The amount taken753 words
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Article49 1948-02-16 7 TfcL- British West Indian star, Herb McKenley, came within two-tenths of a second of equalling the world indoor record when hp easily won the Buermeyer 500-yard run m 57.3 sec. at the New York Athletic Club indoor eames on Saturday night. McKenley is from Jamaica. A. P.A.P. - 49 words
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Article34 1948-02-16 7 ADELAIDE, Sunday. It was officially announced hore that Lindsay Hass<it has been appointed vice-captain of the Australian touring team In England this summer. Don Bradman WM earlier nominated captain. ReuterReuter - 34 words
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Article124 1948-02-16 7 Louis meets unwitting challenger JOE Louis met an unwitting challenger for the world heavyweight title on Saturday night m New York. The impromptu match was staged at the Ebony Club on Broadway. Louis and a party of friends ivere leaving when a man. identijying himself as Thomas Delaney, stepped upU.P. - 124 words
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149 1948-02-16 7 TArvING full advantage &f cosUy English defenali lapses, Ireland won a thrillpacked game at Twick-caham on Saturday bcf:-r^ a crowd of 60,000 by a goal and two tries 1 1 poimtsj .o two soala (10 poinis> and ca their display Ireland aland a firnc chanceReuter - 149 words
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Article152 1948-02-16 7 PUGBY League Cup. first round second leg ties on Saturday, resulted Bellevue Rangers 10. Liverpool Stanley 8 < Liverpool eliminated); Bradford Northern 15, Huddersneld 2 (Huddersflcld eliminated); Buslingthorpe Vale 2, St. Helens 13 (Buslingthorpe Vale pliminat^d); CastJeford 7. Wigan 19 1 (Castleford eliminated >: Desbury 10.Reuter - 152 words
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Article, Illustration707 1948-02-16 7 REJECTED HORSE NOW A CHAMPION Phar Gay Wins $20, 000 By "CALL BOY" JJAWITED around Malayan racing stables a year «i <3»n° rejected at prices varying from $3,000 to tinn?;. ?K rry Sleigh's PPrh *r Gay boosted his winnings to the region of $20,000 when he won the Jf,v«?#l a707 words
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302 1948-02-16 7 FUDGING from the strength of the Australian cricket team which Eton Bradman 'will lead m England this summer, the English County and Test sides are In for some hard work. The general consensus of opinion is that the Australians have chosen the strongest availableReuter - 302 words
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Article336 1948-02-16 7 f ONDON stole most of the lime-light m Saturday's English football, Second Division team Fulham upsetting the 'prophets by deservedly winning their fifth round cup re-play at Everton, and Arsenal displaying true championship form when completing the double again their nearest rivals, Burnley, at Highbury. Only oneReuter - 336 words
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Article23 1948-02-16 7 Chong Koon Lee of Korea was unable to take part m the European speedskating championships m Hamar. Norway, on Saturday owing to illness.-23 words
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Article147 1948-02-16 7 QUEEN'S Park Rangers, who have headed the English Football League's Third Division. South, for many weeks running, were unexpectedly beaten on Saturday and surrendered the leadership to Bournemouth who. with 39 points, head the table by one point although the Rangers still have a chance to stageU.P. - 147 words
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Article292 1948-02-16 7 X"ONE of the seven teams 1^ who. with Fulham, make up the F.A. Cup quar-ter-flnalists. wore beaten »n Saturday's English Football League games. Blackpool. Derby County and Southampton all won easily while Manchester Uniua. Preston North End. Tottenham m\<\ Queen's Pane Rangers all drew. TheReuter - 292 words
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Article95 1948-02-16 7 THREE world swimming records were improved m the 25 yards' pool oi Yal€ University. New Haven. Ccn^ necticut, on Saturday. Joe Vcrdeur lrom La Salle College, Philadelphia, swam the 200 metres breast-stroke m 2 .niiii. 32 sec, Lowering his ow" record by three secouds. AllenReuter - 95 words
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Miscellaneous223 1948-02-16 7 F.P. Crossword No. 31S iJHHHBh HHH^T~>t -V *i s a CLUES ACROSS 1, Splendour (12). 7, Charges (5). 9, Heathens (6). 13, Quintessence (4). 15, Headdress (5). 16, Emoluments (4). 17 Policeman (9). 21, Transmitted (9). 23, Carriage (4). 25, Pat (5). 28 Urgent entreaty (4). 30. Live (6). 32.223 words
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Article58 1948-02-16 8 QR Sayid Salim Jabur, exu Premier of Iraq, who fled uom Baghdad a fortnight ago after opposition to the Aiißlo-Iraqi treaty had forced him to rcsiepri. arrived at London airport last n i*M from Cairo. Dr. Jabur was met by his wife and went with58 words
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Article, Illustration256 1948-02-16 8 SHANGHAI, Sunday. THE United States Ambassador to China, Dr. John Leighton Stuart, said today the great majority of intelligent Chinese are becoming more and more discouraged/* and added: "The spirit of defeatism is spreading among all classes." The Ambassador spoke over the Christian BroadcastingA.P. - 256 words
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Article107 1948-02-16 8 LIVERPOOL. Sunday. MEDICAL officers and curses battled for days to overcome a measles epidemic which broke out on the 26.000-ton troopship, Empress of Scotland, a few days after it had left Bombay. Only when 48 of the 50 sickbeds were filled were they able to check itsReuter; U.P. - 107 words
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Article161 1948-02-16 8 ROME, Sunday. THE Catholic Action news- paper Diano Quoteidano reported today on the "moving and breathing" tatue of the Madonna at the Cathedral of Assist which has attracted thousands of visitors throughout the week. The newspaper said religious officials maintained reserve concerning the reports, awaiting aU.P. - 161 words
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Article13 1948-02-16 8 Today Tomorrow HIGH 2.17 pjn. 3.02 pm. 8.5 ft 7.1 ft.13 words
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Article181 1948-02-16 8 ATHENS, Sunday. Tin chiefs of the American and British military 1 missions m Greece have joined the Greek National Defence Council, an official announcement said tonight. Previously they were only observers at the Council, which directs the war against the Communist-led guerillas. The announcement wasA.P.; U.P. - 181 words
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Article54 1948-02-16 8 NATIONALISATION Of In- dia's eight air companies was recommended yesterday by the Standing Advisory Committee to the Ministry of Communications, New Delhi radio reported. The committee accepted proposals to start an experimental Government-controll-ed air service. Passengers flown by Indian airways during 1947 were thre« times thoseReuter - 54 words
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Article553 1948-02-16 8 Palestine war looms nearer JERUSALEM, Sunday. T*HE sporadic Arab-Jewish fighting: m Palestine L which has so far taken a toll of more than 1,000 lives, is likely to flare up into pitched warfare involving: between 80,000 and 100,000 armed men when the British MandateA.P.; Reuter; U.P. - 553 words
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Article79 1948-02-16 8 THE U.S. Attorney General. Mr. Tom Clark, said m Washington yesterday that the FBI had learned recently tha', "Communists m this country have started a campaign to recruit our children to their ideology." He said: "The communists know, as did Hitler, that if they get theU.P. - 79 words
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Article46 1948-02-16 8 The 9.100-ton cruiser H.MS Birmingham (Captain J. R. s. Haines), now on her annual cruise, arrived at Calcutta over the week-end. She is the first Royal Navy vessel to visit Calcutta since Indian Independence. She will sail lor Andaman islands on Feb ReuterReuter - 46 words
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Article, Illustration25 1948-02-16 8 HOME Leicester is essentially a modern city but many pleasing glimpses of thp m past stai remain. This photograph shows the picturesque !4th Century Guildhall.25 words
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Article165 1948-02-16 8 U.S. moves on captive marines SHANGHAI, Sunday. THE U.S. Ambassador, Dr. Leighton Stuart, Is returning: to Nanking .tomorrow for a conference with Admiral Charles Cooke over the four US marines believed to be held captive by Chinese Communists. In Washington, the U.S Nary said it had received no official wordU.P. - 165 words
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Article83 1948-02-16 8 The United States should create "the greatest air power m the history of the world" to promote peace, said Senator Robert Taft, of Ohio at a meeting m Denver, Colorado yesterday. "Not only will that give us the defence which we need, but it will83 words
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Article43 1948-02-16 8 Thj body of Mr. Alexander McFadden, Tennessee industrialist and cotton man, was found yesterday 10 feet beneath the surface of a snow avalanche that struck him the previous day on a ski course above the Colorado winter sports resort, Aspen- A.P.A.P. - 43 words
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Article165 1948-02-16 8 PACT 'BOUGHT TIME', SAYS MOSCOW MOSCOW, Sunday. THE Russian-German Pact 1 of August, 1939, which immediately preceded the invasion of Poland, was a measure to buy time, an official statement claimed m Moscow tonight. The statement was m answer to German documents published by the UJ3. State Department. Britain andA.P.; Reuter - 165 words
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Article26 1948-02-16 8 It was reported m Bombay last night that rioting against Brahmins broke out on Saturday m the Ratnagiri district, 200 miles south of Bombay.26 words
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Article267 1948-02-16 8 CHICAGO, Sunday. rvVER-thc-counter prices of many food items have dropped substantially m the last 30 days. American housewives will find further grocery reductions tomorrow, a survey suggested today. Retail prices, m anticipation, have dropped faster than whosesale commodity prices. Meats, nour, butter and other staplesReuter; A.P.; U.P. - 267 words
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Article19 1948-02-16 8 FsSa Landed m k sg the scene of tJT crack-ups within a takin? a toll of o* Renter19 words
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Article343 1948-02-16 8 Indecision at the week-end N.Y. LONDON STOCK MARTS NEW YORK, Sunday WALL STREET, looking to a crashing stock market for a clue to the future, today had a difficult job of interpretation, says the Associated Press. Quotations last week had cracked along with commodities then steadied. The mood at theA.P; U.P. - 343 words
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Article65 1948-02-16 8 A SPECIAL Market correspondent gives the prices of rubber at 11 am today as follows: Buyers Sellers U CU. per Ib per lb No. 1 R.S.S. Spot teose 39S 10 s No. 1 B.S.S. fob m hairs F>b. 39-.. 4«V» No. t K.S.S. foO m bales Feb. 39«,65 words
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Article47 1948-02-16 8 CAPETOWN, Sq THE British cr^l was iKi€xp cd -o sail lor nation toc^:: nstown, and the day ing hfavy woollen iadl inf. It il pointed rti is the cnn%i <o the Falkland li B .s ea Argentina ar.d cocifirn ed that the Nie:-r;aiM ordered to that M>47 words
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Article31 1948-02-16 8 BELGRADE. Sri COM IN FORM attacked the V. huge m determined on of the world's holdt rs m bank* ..:pping.li«i and milling enterprtj ited b] I controlled by 40WJJ ReuterReuter - 31 words
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Article183 1948-02-16 8 IN an article entitled "Rei 1 Standard of Life," pu received m London over th Harmsee, who is m charge international affairs m tlu that many of the means extract reparations from international law." Senator Harmsee demoulded that the whole question of reparations be put "i>nReuter - 183 words
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Advertisement166 1948-02-16 8 LOST. REWARD Lost at about 8 30am this mornine outsid° John Little a Platinum wristlet watch. Will the ppntleman who picked it up plense i return it to Mrs Whalam c o John Little. Singapore. SITUATION VACANT WANTED two experienced proofreaders and two experienced stone hanis for English-laneua K e166 words
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Miscellaneous68 1948-02-16 8 —WEATHER Showers WEATUEK report fur the n. xi 24 hoars compiled bj tb« R.A.F. Scattered showers this, afternoon. Fair tonight, cloudy tomorrow morning. Wind: Northerly, 5 to 10 m.p.h. Sunset 6.52; sunrise €.47. Moonrise 11.23 a.m.; moonset 11.35 p.m. Temperatures: Max. 89 deg., mm. 73 deg. Rainfall: 9 mm. (0.3(168 words
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