The Singapore Free Press, 27 February 1948

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1948 PKH I n s
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  • 596 1 HAVEN'T LEARNED' -PERCIVAL 1941 already is forgotten WARE, (Hertfordshire), Thursday. J T.-Gen. A. E. Percfval, G.0.C., Malaya in 1912, today expressed to Reuter the view that the lessons of the Malayan campaign described in his despatch published tonight had hot been learned. Recalling Britain's total unprepared ness for war in
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  • 147 1 GOVT. REFUSES TO ALTER DIVORCE LAW LONDON. Thursday. FE British Government today rejected a suggestion by Lord Meston In the House of Lords that the law should be amended to provide that a marriage might be voidable where one of the parties at all times refused to allow the procreation
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  • 170 1 C.C. TAN HITS AT ELECTION BOYCOTT TFree Press Staff Reporter HE call by Mr. Philip Hoalim. chairman of the Malayan Democratic Union, to government servants to boythe Singapore elections amounts to advising them not to elect anyone who wiil helD remove their grievances, Mr. C. C. Tan. President of the
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  • 58 1 SENATOR Arthur Vandenburg. chairman of the Senate Pt!?tl">ns Committee, will initiate the debate on the European recovery programme in the U.S. Seriate on Monday. As drafted by the Committee, the Bill authorises the spending of U.S. $5,300,000,000 in the 12 months starting from April 1
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  • 45 1 lORD TREFGARNE. chalra man of the Government's Colonial Development Corporation, said yesterday that Britain plans to increase production in the West Indies, British Guiana, and the Bahamas. British managers, technicians and agricultural experts will soon be sent to these areas- A.P.
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  • 27 1 The transport Samaria Is on its way to Palestine to repatriate 2,000 troops and civilians the first to leave under •the British withdrawal plan.
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  • 28 1 lay. I i ;he Cum- P. O. j y re- they ...ion L'.d SCC- that! I wly- the r a jmmer- j Nu e so- my A.P.
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  • 212 1 LAKE SUCCESS, Thursday. THE Renville truce between the Dutch and the 1 Indonesian Republic was attacked in the Security Council today by M. Gromyko, the Soviet delegate, who described the agreement and the report on it as "one of the most shameful documents ever written
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  • 65 1 FIFTEEN German war criminals were executed at Hamelin yesterday, including 13 concerned with killing Allied Air Force officers recaptured after escaping from a orison camp in Silesia early in 1944. The other two war criminals executed were the former chief guard at Ravensbruck concentration camp and Fruedrich
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  • 195 1 NEW YORK, Thursday. rpHE area of conflict in Kashmir is spreading as r military activity on both sides increases, said the Pakistan delegate at today's resumed Security Council debate on the India-Pakistarf dispute. He added that violations of Pakistan's frontiers were increasing daily. Sir Mohd. Zafrullah
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    41 1 Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, better known as Oliver Baldwin, who succeeded to the peerage on his father's death last December, has been appointed Governor of the Leeioard Islands in succession to Sir Brian Freeston, who is to become Governor of Fiji.
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  • 209 1 CANBERRA, Thursday. FE Commonwealth Prime Minister. Mr. Joseph Chifley, told Parliament here today that Anglo-Americar. aid. the Marshall Plan, lendlease and the Havana Trade negotiations were all linked with the "great struggle of the democracies agair.st Communism." 'Communism has grown in soil fertilised by the
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  • 307 1 U.N. urged: Act to avert chaos LAKE SUCCESS. Thursday. ]l/f R. Try^ve Lie, Secretary- General of the United if Nations, warned today that Palestine would be in chaos when the British withdrew unless the United Nations acted quickly. Asked what might happen if the partition plan were not enforced, he
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  • 77 1 Free Press Staff Reporter I A PISTOL was produced when three Chinese robbed a taxi driver of $5 at Clemenceau Avenue night. Police said the men engaged the taxi in Angullia Park, retained It while they went to the Great World Amusement Park, drove back
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  • 40 1 The president of the Malay Union, Singapore. Inche Sardcm bin Haji Jubir, who is standing as a candidate for the Rural East Division is calling his first public meeting tomorrow afternoon at the Kampong Melayu school, Jalan Eunos.
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  • 274 1 BIG THREE CONDEMN CZECH REDS LONDON, Thursday. TN a statement unique in post-war diploma. th-> L Big Three tonight condemned Soviet policy > i Europe and events in Czechoslovakia as "plac:ii«r .1 jeopardy the very existence of the principles cf VU 2. ty to which all democratic nations are attached."
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  • 43 1 A WOMAN, Miss A. D. Stevans, heads a British Board of Trade delegation which is now holding talks with the Soviet military administration in Berlin. The delegation is seeking to conclude a pact between Britain arid the Russian-occupied zone of Germany.
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  • 102 1 WASHINGTON, Thurs. CHINA has asked the United States for a currency stabilisation loan on top of the $570,1)00.000 she is due to get for machinery and essential imports, Mr. George Marshall, Secretary of State, said today. He asked for quick congressional approval of the
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  • 72 1 The Japanese us d .?O3.G<>o men and 670 aircraft i'\ their invasion of Malay: reports the Associated Pr:ss from Tok'o this moii Quoting Japanese sources, A.P. says that t! 9 Japanese lost 331 lircrs and 270 fighters and bom'•ers were added to thfl original 670, alo"g with nc,v
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  • FEATURES..
    • 561 2  - They may have to work harder ROY ESSOYAN CABARETGIRLS IN SHANGHAI By A.P. Correspondent TF official government declarations re carried out, another Shanghai institution the Chinese cabaret girl will disappear during the course of 1948. The Chinese cabaret girl, originally a product of foreign influence, has long been accepted M
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      42 2 Six hundred thousand members of the Bulgarian Democratic Youth Organisation, aged bcticccn 14 and 26 years, are giving their work voluntarily in their country. Picture shoics viembers of the 300,000 strong sports club attached to the Youth Organisation, marching in a parade.
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      254 2 "\yilEN this hand actually was played. North responded to his partner*! strong urge to a slam by bidding six hearts. S nee the success of the contract hnu'.d only upon the location of th<- spade ace, it m mathematically, a sound smallslam b;d. But it was far from
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    • 179 2 DABIES have push- ed dollar shortages and politics aside as public topics in South Africa, where between 60 and 100 test-tube babies (the doctors call them "tubies") are due to be born in Capetown in the next few months. Also, immigration officials have unearthed a large-scale
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    • 80 2 BRITISH women are given a new of rights under the Nationality Bill, 1948, published. Under it they will in all oases be able to retain rafr.iaral.t.y if ti'iey marry foreigners. Here is a twominute guide: Q. Does this new Bill apply to women alreadv married? A. Yes. For
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    • 258 2  -  ROSEMARY ARCHDALL By IT seems unlikely, as things are going at present, that every housewife who needs one will have her own home for some years to come. Consequently a great number of women Will be compelled for a time to live in more cramped conditions than
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  • NEWS...
    • 422 3 Call for help came too late HIE Royal Air Force could have provided air cover for the ill-fated battleship. Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser Repulse if the Navy had sent word that the two warships had been diverted to Kuantan after turning back
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    • Article, Illustration
      12 3 picture street scene tm Chinatown after an earlv raid on Singapore- M.O.I.
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    • 309 3 Prince of Wales sinking 4 VIVID picture of hundreds of British Navy men clinging to bits of wreckage in oily water "cheering and joking as if they were holidaymakers" is given by a Royal Air Force pilot in an appendix to Air Vice Marshal Sir
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    • 178 3 hal, Sir Paul Maltby reports that under his command was ed. "Officers for filling vacancies lot tl itly expanded Air Headquarne' v s were largely found by enanel from Australia and New Zealand. "It was possible to riv«' them only a shor'. disciplinary course combined with a
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    • 25 3 I Multby, i, 'J k r 'f an ade£io S n ha n rp lx > s We h i Vl denied J^Whld, they A.P.
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    • 5 3 y an d Dutcl
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    • 28 3 I a I t D auii L ro- i r j ft area h ir orders' K Ba^ru r. I B 8. i
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    • 3 3 I Maltby
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    • 79 3 >8p U h th. i Radar detected the approaching raid at a distance "i 130 miUs but the Fighter Control Operations Room "was unable to obtain any response from the headquarters of the Civil A.R.P. misatlon, -with the result that the civil population received no effective warning, nor was
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    • 611 3 FIIE Dutch Commander- in -Chief In Java, Lt.-Gen. Ter Poorten, ordered surrender to the Japanese in March 1942 of all forces under his command including British without consulting the British commanders, according to a despatch of tiie British Air Oilieer Commanding during the Java
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    • 31 3 THE arrival in January of 51 Hurricane fighters caused "exultation" in Singapore, Sir Paul Malthy says. "Many confidently expected that the Hurricanes would sweep the Japanese from the sky".- Reuter
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    • 165 3 AiR Ifanhal Mallby gives n ftlil timetable of events of the clays leading up to the Jj.pajie.se unvasioa; Nov. 22: Genera] Headquarters exsed a belief 'that any major ac.om by Japan in the r future would take place trom souih Indo-c^nu Lnat Siam," but did not t
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    • 101 3 4 AKRODROMES In North rt Malaya, pji which so much was to depend, esyeclallv during the early stages of the war, had nc«v of the prerequisites of secure air bases for occupation tei the face of the enemy. "The number of fighters available was very inadequate lor
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    • 80 3 Of the withdrawal from Butterworth aerodrome the Maltby despatch says: "There was no senior officer at Butterworth with sufficient weight to take control and some of the personnel of 21 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, and 27 Squadron, Royal Air Force, both of which had already been
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    • 382 3 'STRENGTH SAPPED BY EUROPE WAR INITIAL reverses in the Far East are readily anil 1 briefly explained, says Air Vice Marshal Sir Paul Maltby's despatch, "We lost the lirst round there because we, as an empire, were »u>t prepared for v»ar on a scale necessary for the purpose." "When war
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    • 41 3 Sir Paul Maltby suggests that the lesson of the experience was that "the most drastic and comprehensive measures are necessary to shake up a community, which has long lived in peace, into realisation of tho dangers of war."- Reuter
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    • 28 3 There weiv 60 heavy an'.iajrcrait guns In Singapore, Instead of tbe 104 authorised, and none at all for such cities as Kuala Lumpur a..id Ipoh, Reuter
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    • 50 6 Gen. Percival estimates that the Japanese used a minimum of 150.000 men and 300 tanks in the Malayan campaign Total of officers and men v>ho took part in the British side was a little over 125.000. but the strrn^th in Malaya at any one time was considerably Reuter
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      45 6 I '.-Gen. Gordon Bcnformcr G.O.C. of the r alia a forces in Malaya. The Pcrcival despatch makes no mention to his escape from Singapore on the day of the capitulation, which led to acute controversy at the time and to an il inquiry in Australia.
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    • 46 6 At midnight on Dec. 7 "the Command was at the fullest ree of readiness but there was no undue alarm owine: to G.HQ.'s viow that the Janan^sp exnpdition was directed va: 1 m, say a Air Vire Martha] Maltby in his re- I
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    • 365 6 Malaya didn't face realities: Percival THE ten weeks' Malaya campaign was lost and Britain's vital Far Eastern strongpoint at Singapore fell to the Japanese in February 1942 because over-confidence in British naval might led to neglect of military and air defence preparations. In Malaya itself,
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    • Article, Illustration
      37 6 picture. Japanese tanks destroyed by Australian anti-tank gunners when they tried to break through a road block during a fierce clash near Gemas on the day the Australians first went into action.- Australian In for mation Dept
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    • 187 6 Troops in North Malaya were less well trained when war broke out than those in the South. Throughout the Army there was a serious lack of experienced leaders, the effect of which was accentuated by the inexperience of the troops. Malaya Command was not well supplied
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    • 99 6 (^EN. Percival dliclo— that J the British forces under his command during the re-tn-at through Malaya and the battle of Singapore did not y out a total "scorched earth" policy. "Our forces were withdrawing through a country inhabited by Asiatic peoples to whom we had
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    • 73 6 CiEN. Percival pays special I tribute to Eurasian and Chinese girl telephone operators. Writing of the British evacuation of Ipoh, he states: "Among* the last to leave their posts were Chinese and Eurasian girl operators of the telephone exchange who were handling military traffic and who continued
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    • 339 6 N° abilit y t° notary service was imposed upon .lithe Asiatic population," states the Percival despatch. "Many of the Asiatics were of a type unsuitable for training: as soldiers and the difficulties of nationality, of registration, and of selection, would have been great. "There were
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    • 46 6 Not until Dec. 11, 1941— three days after the Japanese invasion began was Gen Percival Riven a free hand as G.0.C. Malaya, to make expenditures lor defence oositlons. Previously such expenditures had to be approve x by the War Olfice in London A.P.
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    • 139 6 THE Percival despatch deals separately with the relations between the Services and the civil government. There was a marked improvement in these relations during the summer and autumn of 1941, it reports, but adds: "I feel bound to record that in my experience of Malaya there was a
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    • 118 6 i r X)MPARING the campaign \J with earlier Allies retreats in Europe Gen Percival writes: "The retreat from Mons and the retreat to Dunkirk have Deen hailed as epics. In the former our Army was able with the help of a powerful ally to turn the
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    • 169 6 /^EXENRAJL Percival writes bluntly of the quality of vJ troops under his command. "The troops generally were inexperienced and far too large a proportion of them were only partially trained practically all Indian Army units had suffered severely from the rapid expansion of that Army which had
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    • 41 6 "Personnel of Air Command remained unaware up to the outbreak of war of the qualities of the Zero fighters which were to prove superior to our own fighters", says Air Vice Marshal Maltby in his report on the campaign.
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    • 154 6 npHE publication last night of Gen. Percival's despatch on the fall of Malaya breaks six years' silence which has aroused intense controversy. Written by Gen. Perclval when he returned to Britain Irom Japanese prison camps, the report was finished nearly j two years aj?o.
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    • 374 6 THE first landings on Singapore island took place 1 about nine o'clock on Feb. 8, and very soon the whole of the front between the Kiver BuU and the right company of the 2 19 Battalion was being attacked. Some craft also attempted to ertltor
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    • 32 6 Ottering his "reflections" on the campaign, Air Vice Marshal Maltby writes: "When the war came the construction of aerodromes in Malaya had outstripped the provision of air forces to occupy them." Reuter
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    • 36 6 "During the short campaign there were In all five Com-manders-in-Chief." the Percival report said. "Such rapid changes. though largely forced upon us by circumstances, are naturally not calculated to create an atmosphere of confidence.- A.P.
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    • 96 6 IT is difficult to say whether the Siamese officers who came on official visits to Malaya (before the war) were sent with the Intention of misleading us or not, but there can be no doubt that there was at least an advanced degree of co-operation between some
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    • 251 6 'S'PORE NOT FORTRESS UNDEFENDED' OINCJATOKE was not a for:; 0 the Straits of Johore u, H|J ed. Troops, their morale aln NJ withdrawals, were disappo'.i extent of the defences, says the I But between the eveni] Japanese landed on the is] Feb. 15, when the British for bit of ground
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    • 108 6 the I use tho i,» l$ *4 ih was also the dan M 7 i-throntli no o delivered ail clrtrrmnipd attack. T!! ■'> no good re: on the defensive. /•Tlw alternative nther (a) to counter-atS nnnndrAtoly lorr^iaj trol «>f the rt-servoirsaiirf the military fort depots J to drive
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    • 124 6 GEN. Percival describes as *a gross misrepresentation" the often heard charge that the loss of Malaya could be attributed to "whisky swilling planters." His report reads: 'The picture of ten portrayed of the whisky swilling planter' a gross misrepresentation of conditions under which Europeans in Malaya lived."
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  • LEADER...
    • 579 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1948. Now It Has Been Told VINEGAR Joe Stillwell, when he tramped out of Burma, put his story of that campaign in a single, vivid sentence, "I claim we took a hell of a licking." In substance most of Lt.A. E. Percival's despatch
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    • 1028 4 A CONCRETE re- commendation i s made in the Report of the Inter-Depart-mental Enquiry on Oriental Slavonic, East European and African Studies just published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, that study centres be established at Raffles College, Singapore and at Rangoon University. A general recommendation
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    • 766 4  -  ROBERT CLYDE Cyprus. VOU probably won't find Xylotimbou on any map you have in your bookcase. But today it is one of the biggest towns in the British Colony of Cyprus and by far the ugliest. It has been slapped casually down o n a aleak, barren,
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      2 4 TUaIMY DUNCAX
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    • 27 4 Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. 1 St. Matthew 25, 40.
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    • 415 4 KNOWN to countless thousands throughout the world, Circular Quay, most used part ot Sydney's beautiful Harbour, is to be dominated by a 61 -foot hig-h railway and roadway structure, described by architects as "mad,"' "completely t r a g ic "horrible scheme" and "architestural nightmare.'* The railway will
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    • 651 4 People in S'pore make new THREE comrades of the Malayan skyways are Co-Pilot and Navigator TOMMY DUNCAN, of Glasgow, Co-Pilot and Navigator T H O M A S McQUEEN ROBERTSON, of Perth (Scotland) and Radio Officer GORDON ALBERT CLARKSON, of Leeds all of the Malayan Airways. The trio joined the
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
    • 80 5 FREE CHILD FEEDING EXTENDED Free PW Staff Reporter md that older children who accorniwtem the ages of two and six years (Yntres are themselves underIhc Sin-; p<»re Government has approved a provide free meals t o a maximum of 25 per J3 (he rfdnr children. Advisory Council yesterday apure t
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    • 31 5 Youth confab in Bombay M 20 re- in being All-India ■y in h. id to Ident 47. Mr Rais Botn- pro- 1 dwfll uth band .iiid also in- i mu ic.
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    • 46 5 1 05.000 FOR SAFER PRISON CECURITY measures recent- lv taken at Outram Road Prisom cost the Singapore Government $105,000, an amount approved bv the SinKapore Advisory Council yesterday. The security measures included the heightening of the boundary walls, barbed wire feneea, a«id lights around the priscn.
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    • 333 5 CTATING that exchange-free importations into the NEI are no kmger possible, an official Dutch an.?o U r«?? ien \y rai>ns that any ffOods shi^^ after Feb. 1948, to the Netherlands East Indies Hill be returned if not accompanied by the proper export declaration approved by
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    • Article, Illustration
      63 5 pictures. The fourth Army welfare and health centre has been opened at Gilman Barracks. Singapore. Upper picture shows Mrs. L Cox, wife of the G.0.C., Singapore District, nith Lady Kerr, the uife of Major-Gen. Sir Reginald Kerr, Major General Administration at GFIQ., FARELF. at the opening. The other picture shows
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    • 90 5 THE steamer Hal Lee is bringing from Foochcw to Singapore with 500 displaced Chinese. All the 500 have n screened by the International Refugee Organisation. T s^P's nest slop will be Hoi Ho*-, where 300 m^re displaced persons will be loaded International R fugee Organisation officials
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    • 123 5 nONATIONS in Malaya to date to the "Nurses ol Mhkiya" Fund amount to $8,185.65 Donations totalling £533.14.2 have been received in England for the Fund. The Fund was launched in England by Singapore internoes in 1946 with the object of raisins enough money for an antnual British
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    • 73 5 I ADY Gimson spent nearly an hvyur yesterday morning at the Indian Trade Exhibition a: the Grcai World. The Representative of the Government of India in Malaya. Mr. J. A. Thivy, conducted her aroun^ the Exhibition halls. Before leaving, Lady Gimson was presented with two
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    • 504 5 LONDON, Thursday. T»IN, official publication of the Tin Association, says, in Hs February issue, that "a free market in tin while there is no stabilizing influence within the industry would spell eventual ruin for the tin producer." "Today there is no buffer stock; no
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    • 223 5 EAST COAST FREIGHTS REDUCED Rubber shippers will benefit a Dl ,nrJ ree Press Staff Reporter REDUCTION on freight charges will come into effect from next week in respect of cargoes carried by Straits Steamship Company ships plying between Singapore and East Coast ports. A Straits Steamship official told the Free
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    • 178 5 SCBA to fight for volunteer allowances TH-ee Press Staff Reporter HE Straits Chinese British Association will press for an early implementation of the recommendation in the Worley Report for a cost of living; allowance to be paid to the dependants of deceased and missing volunteers urcier the Personal' Injuries (Civilian)
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    • 93 5 Civil liabllity tribunals to be set up J EGISLATION is to be j introduced in Singapore and the Federal on lor setting up of tribunals to consider volunteer evil liabiity claims. The tribunals will have power to grant ex-grsula assistance to an appropriate extent in particular cases where circumstances of
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    • 129 5 JJEW arrival among luxury cars In Singapore is the A.C., famous British sports cars product of the A.C. Cars Ltd., for horn the Austral Asian Trading Company an? anoints here. A five pammfgr car, of 16/74 horse power, the A.C. ha a top speed of well
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    • 95 5 Tiiii &u~<:£c Government 1 has decided to extend the time limit to June 30, 1948, for submission of claims by Allied companies and individuals to property in, China which was under Japanese or puppet control during the war Property unclaimed after that date wall be -egarded
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    • 77 5 THREE Singapore trade unionists, P. Veerasenan, P. Govindasamy and Amuthalingam, were acquitted by the Second District Judse, Mr. A. M. Webb, yesterday arter a four-day trial on charges of housebreakinß to commit mischief and committing mischief on Nov. 6. ]ist year. The prosecution alleged I that the
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    • Article, Illustration
      31 5 Major C. B. Molony is seen being presented with the Military Cross by the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson (right) at yesterday's meeting of the Advisory Council. Public Relations •picture.
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    • 680 7 RUSTLE BULLRING LOOK WINNERS First day of. Penang races By Free Press Racing Correspondent fXN form and figures, Rustle, Bullring and Lovely Vy Bore should make the three safest bets at Penang tomorrow, the first day of the Penang Turf Club Leap ear Meeting. The balance of form has been
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    • 110 7 HEAVY FINAL TONIGHT SPONSORS of the Far East Army Boxing finals at the Happy World stadium tonight have made last-minute arrangements for a heavyweight Unal. The contestants will be Lieut. Watts of Malaya District and C.S.M. Mulholland of Singapore District. The heavyweight championship will complete a card of eight championship
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      40 7 Sgt. Raymond (Ceylon Garrison) right, jumps back to avoid a blow from S. I. Lowe (S'pore District) in their lightweight bout at thee Far East army boxing semifinals at Tanglin Barracks on Wednesday. Sgt. Raymond won on points.
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    • 425 7  -  GORDON TAIT By SYDNEY, Wednesday. AUSTRALIA'S Olympic games squad, totalling at least 45 men and women, will b e selected on March 6, and may fly to England. Olympic officials here hope the swift air trip wilJ enable th^Aussies to land in England in top condition.
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    • 296 7 LONDON, Thursday. ORD Chief Justice Goddard In the High Court today, dismissed with costs an action j brought against the Jockey Club, which controls flat racing, by racehorse trainer James Russel. Mr. Russell has claimed damages for alleged breach of contract and for alleged libel in
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    • 272 7 T*HE Singapore Amateur Football Association's first x division league will start on Monday, with a match between the Seaforths and the S.C.F.A. (Tiger S.C.). Following is the list of Div. 1 fixtures (all games to be played at the Jalan Besar Stadium unless otherwise stated >: Monday, March
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    • 47 7 By Epsom Jeep PENANG, Friday. Jockey Harry Gentles was tak:u to hospital this morning as the result of a kick from Golden News, a horse not entered for this meeting. Gentl >s had dismounted when the mare wheeled and kick d him in the thigh.
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    • 131 7 The following players are selected to play in a CSC. homo and home game at the St. George's Padang at 10.30 am. on Sunday. President's XI: K. Muttukumaru <capt.), C. Thuraisingam, S. Yoe;arajah. S. K. Sundram. Lt. A. Percra, Lt. H. Perera. K. S. Rrtnam, U. W. De
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    • 156 7 Shannon's work impresive ARCADIAN CALIFORNIA, Thursday. SHANNON, the greatest thoroughbred sent to America from Australia since Phar Lap, today ranked a serious contender for Saturday's $100,000 Santa Anita handicap after two brilliant workouts. Clockers In the early morning workouts caught the seven-year old in\\ der working the seven furlongs in
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    • 299 7 London, Thursday. WHILE quite a number of football clubs look to the F.A. Cup ties to augment their finances it is possible to lose money over Cup success as can ce proved by Colchester, the Southern League side which went further than any other non-League siue
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    • 178 7 Bowes' record benefit LONDON, Thursday. THE Yorkshire County Cricket Club's annual report shows that the benefit for BiM Bowes, former Yorkshire and England fast bowler, realised nearly £8,084 a record amount. This is more than tw.ee the previous highest Roy Kilnear's £4,016 in 1936. The Bowes' fund gained a net
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    • 89 7 The following players are selected to play football for the Jollilads 2 XI against the RAF Paya Lc-bar on Sunday at MacPherson Road ground at 5.15 p.m. Sithambaram. Arumugam, Sintha. A. S. Pillai, Ghani, Nadarajah, R. Govindasamy. Ramasamy, G. Krishnasamy, Salahudin, Suppiah, Narayana. Ramasamy, M. Chandra, Noordin. The
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    • 49 7 THE Barbados Cricket Association have decided to recommend to the West Indies Board of Control the acceptance of an invitation from the Indian Board of Control to send a team to tour India from November 1948 to February 1949 says a R?uter message from Barbados.
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    • 50 7 VESTERDAY was again a blank day in the return match b?tween British Oui&na and the M.C.C. The wopthcr turned fine, after a downpour had made play impossible on Wednesday, but hop-s of n'av after lunch were dispelled bv the outfield remaining waterloKK?d in places.- Reuter
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    • 41 7 Today's Sports Events BOXING: Far East Army, finals, Happy World. 8.30 p.m.. SOCCER: S C.C. Trial, padang. 5.15 p.m.; Jellicoe Lads v. Chinese Engineering Assn., Geylang Stadium, 5.15 p.m. Meeting of Singapore Olympic and Sports Council, Y.M.C.A., 5. 30 p ni
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    • 221 7 F.P. Crossword No. $22 sol I ppgj \j m r~ CLUES ACROSS 1, Congratulation (12). 7, Suppose (5). 9. Spills (6). 13, Quarrels (4). 15, Stanza (5). 16, Corrosive (4). 17, Goes abroad Iti 21 Nonsensical (9). 23, Lake (4>. 25, Efface (5). 28 Servant (4) 30 Laugh at (6).
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  • 207 8 Newspeed record by British jet plane LONDON, Thursday. rrHE Vickers Armstrong 1 Company today claimed a new worlds air speed record for its Supernuirine Attacker. The company said the jetpowered plane flew a 100--kilometre closed circuit course at an average speed of 560.634 miles an, hour. The previous record, which
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  • 74 8 rjTOi Air Ministry announce* -S. that Air Vice-Marshal P. C Livingston has been upp >ln ed Director-General of I Royal Air Force Medical B TVicei in succession to Air !-<al Sir Andrew Grant. i Livinghas b en Deputy Directs r-G?neral of the R.A.F. Medical S "-vices
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  • 54 8 Y^orkshire miners, who 1 haTe b ~n on strike over v are exp clod to be kat work thla morning. Ci th 38.000 strikers, 18.000 back lay. the ot pita d Cid (i to resume t l ht and it v.is i mat the cest would b b:;>k
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    31 8 SoutH England is not entirety tftstural. Southampton, unique with Us double high tides, is one of the British Enpire's greatest ports, with dry dock facilities for the world's largest ships.
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  • 210 8 SHANGHAI, Thursday. I7UOMINTANG sources reported today that fighting Hired up near Hinghungtien, 15 miles west of Mukden, and the general assumption is that the Nationalist! have lost the two bastions guarding the approaches to Hinghungtien Sinmin and Penki. Nationalist warplanes are "violently attacking" the Reds,
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  • 48 8 CAR OUTPUT GOING UP vehicle production 1 in the United States and Canada will hit a new postWb; high mark this week, the Automobile News reports. The tradp paper estimated the combined United States aud Canadian production for the week at 121.293 compared with 111.305 last week.- A.P.
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  • 161 8 U.N. APPROVE ELECTIONS IN S. KOREA LAKE SUCCESS. Thursday. THE United Nations UtUe Assembly today approved the UniWd Spates resolution to hold elections in Southern Korea, with a vote of 31 to two. with 11 abstentions. Those who voted against were Canada and Australia on the grounds the Little Assembly
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  • 67 8 LAST UK. UMT QUITS PAKISTAN WITH colours raised, ba- yoncts fixed and Dines skirling, the Black Watch marched from Pakistan yesterday, the last British unit to leave the Dominion. Led by pipers in full dress, more than 100 officers and men paraded in the crounds of Government House to offeT
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  • 25 8 Twelve-year-old King Felsal of Iraq, who has recovered from a broken leg sustained during skiing in Switzerland is now back in London Reuter
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  • 386 8 'Honest loyal' —Gen. Bennett AUSTRALIAN VIEW OF PERCIVAL SYDNEY, Thursday. T lEUT.-GEN. Henry Gordon Bennett, former Australian General Officer Commanding in Malaya who escaped after the Japanese had taken Singapore, today described the full account of the Malayan campaign given in the despatch of LieutGen. A. E. Peroival, former General
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  • 58 8 THE US. Air Force said four 1 crew men were killed when a B-29 crashed into a hillside near Meridian. Texas. Eight others parachuted to safety. The survivors included Colonel ALan D. Clark. Commander of the Seventh Bombardment Group, who was chief of supply and
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  • 154 8 PARIS. Thursday. UENRI Verdoux. the Paris 11 citizen, who is bringing an action against the distributors of Charles Chaplin's wife-murderer film, Monsieur Verdoux, opened his case today by saying that he had six pptoits in common with his namesake of the film. They were: his surname, his
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  • 31 8 The Bulgarian National Assembly has nationalised all land, house/ and Hats, except tno f e belonging to workmen, and will compensate all owners except former Fascist police and collaborators Reuter
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  • 28 8 The US Air Force plans to train 6 000 pilots within the next two years. The pay of aviation cadets is being foioreased.- A. P.
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  • 407 8 U.K.RUSHES WARSE HONDURAS British colony threatened LONDON, Thursday. AS in the case of the Argentine and Chilean moves to seize British-owned territory in Antarctica, Britain's reply to Guatemala's newly-revived claims to the British Honduras has been to dispatch the cruiser Sheffield (9,100 tons) to Belize, capital of that British colony
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    32 8 Picture Powered by a 35-H.P. maim A, no **1 seen piloted by Kermit D. ;can %PicJ passed its first tests at S, L la^ equips man with nac lm "^ijj A. P.
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  • 381 8 London Stock Exchaml TOE London stock markets were iain tit their indeterminate moods, wherein DricJ* mosUy quoted higher despite a further prZ2 lack of interest, says Reuter financial «Z3 dent. 1 Although the foreigri political situation still contributed towards the lack of; enterprise, it was not
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  • 234 8 DTT^TMr^ u LONDON, Thursday. URING a debate on Britain's civil aviation in the House of Commons today the Conservative Opposition reaffirmed its undertaking to restore "a wide measure of freedom" to the British nationalised civil air lines "when the chance comes", meanwhile demanding a probe
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  • 201 8 LONDON, Thursday. THE British Government today declined to disclose the price the Government of India paid for the British cruiser Achilles, veteran of the Battle of the River Plate, in which she helped to destroy the German pocket battleship Graf Spee. The Secretary for Commonwealth
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  • 94 8 JHE Manila Evening News yesterday reported from San Miguel, Bulacan, that 30 persons were killed in an all-night fight between a Constabulary patrol and a Hukbalahap squadron through the thickly-populat-ed villages at the edge of the huge Candaba swamp in! Central Luzon. Four others were
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  • 38 8 Mr. Gcorce Keman. chief of the U.S. State Department's Planning Board, has been sent to Tokio to confer with Gen. Douglas MacArthur the Secretary- of State. Mr. Geo: Marshall. announced in Washington yesterday.- A.P.
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  • 86 8 ASKCIAI Markrt corral the priff? of i**l 11 i.m. today as fonon 1 So. 1 R.S S Spo« j^ m No K.Sn fob I in bales Mir. No. R.S.S. fob I in balrs Mmt. M^ No. 3 111, fob M in b.il«M»r. M > 1 Tonr of m»rke»
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