The Singapore Free Press, 28 February 1948

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA l_ SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1948 PRK fc if < I
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    538 1 Revelations in navy budget LONDON, Friday. British Navy's present operational strength of capital ships— battleships and oavv aircraft carriers— is nil, the White Paper on the Navy estimates disclosed today. Not until August will the first battleship become operation:^. Bilt while naval strength must be adjusted B policy of
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    191 1 LONDON, Friday. Switched uneasy Europe today in appreision u- inued relentlessly in her line of .the Communisation of hind the iron curtain*', while pressi mutual defence pacts. Pessimism spread over Finland today when the Helsinki Government announced that it had received a "request" from the Soviet Union directing the
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    NEW JEW THREAT ALERTS TROOPS
    220 1 JERUSALEM, Friday. FJRITISH Bren gunners took up positions in the roadway in front of Palestine Police Headquarters in the heart of the fortified zone of Jerusalem today as a"bout 200 troops and police be^an a combout of apartment buildings opposite. Thr> security swoop came after
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    4 SCIENTISTS PASS THROUGH
    65 1 4 SCIENTISTS PASS THROUGH Four German scientists and a woman mathematician, in transit from Germany, left Singapore this morning for ralia where they will work I r the Government and lor private industry. They are the first of a group of thirty scientists engaged by the Australian scientific mission in
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    COLLAPSE OF WORLD TRADE TALKS FEARED
    98 1 HAVANA, Friday. THE United Nations trade and employment conference is undergoing a new and grave crisis as the United States counter-pro posals on governmental aid to economic development and on preferential trade agreements encounter the frank opposition of the majority. The United States delegation
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    Chinese envoy angers Siam
    109 1 A SIAMESE Foreign Ministry A official said today that Siam Is considering a formal protest to China over the criticism of the Bangkok Government made at a press conference in Nanking by the Chinese Ambassador to Slam, Mr. Li Tieh-tseng. Mr. U was recalled from Bangkok
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    EMERGENCY IN QUEENSLAND
    74 1 r FHE Queensland GovernJL ment last night proclaimed a state of emergency to end the railway strike. Any person who pickets, or urges a person to leave work or not to return to work Is liable to arrest without a warrant. The Queensland Government closed almost the
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    New American restrictions to save tin
    122 1 WASHINGTON, Friday. AMERICA will limit the use of tin in the canning Industry from next Monday in order to build up Government stockpiles, the VS. Commerce Department announced today. The use of tin for coffee cans is forbidden, and restrictions are placed on its
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    SYNTHETIC TAX OFF
    28 1 President Truman yesterday signed legislation freeing imports of synthetic rubber scrap from Customs duty. It nas been subject to a 7§ per- cent tax. A.P.
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    50 1 To ensure that no weapons are concealed in packages of food, sent to the Jews besieged by Arabs in the Old City of Jerusalem, parcels are thoroughly examined by British Army mine detectors. British Military authorities have of/ered to evacuate the beaeiged Jews but they refuse to leave their hornet.
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    NEW RULING ON COURTS MARTIAL
    178 1 LONDON. Friday. A DECISION by Lord Chief j Justice Goddard today < that no one who had held an j emergency commission in the British Army was subject to military discipline or Jurisdiction of a court martial after release from the forces set the 3ri
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    Benes holidays —purge goes on
    311 1 Benes holidays purge goes on PRAGUE, Friday. PRESIDENT Benes broke his week old silence tor day, when he administered the oath of office to the new Communist-dominated government and told Premier Gottwald: "I wish for you and the nation that this way may be happy to all." Then the President
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    101-GUN SALUTE FOR ADM. BOYD
    56 1 A SALUTE of 101 guns from the Port batteries of Saigon, French Indo-china, greeted the arrival there yesterday of the British cruiser, H.M.S. London, flying the Flag of Admiral Sir William Boyd, C-in-C, Paciflc. The cruiser was escorted by the destroyers Constance, Consort and Concord
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    ANGLO-DUTCH TRADE PACT
    36 1 AN Anglo-Dutch trade agreement, providing for the exchange of about £70.--000.000 worth of goods, was formally signed in London yesterday. Britain will supply industrial products, getting increased quantities of foodstuffs in return. A.P.
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    PRAISE FOE MALAYA 'S 'LITTLEMAN'
    361 1 PRAISE FOE MALA YA 'S 'LITTLEMAN' Percival Despa£a Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Friday. "fFHE most inspiring parts" of the Percival De. A .af-'i on the Malayan campaign "are the glimpses of the ordinary man or woman British, Australian and Asian carrying on in the shadow of death/' says the
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    QUADS IN CEYLON
    38 1 Quadruplets three boys and a girl were born to a 28--year-old Tamil woman at Chilaw, about 42 miles from Colombo on Tuesday. All four babies and the mother are reported to be doing well. Reuter
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    WOMAN PILOT DIES IN CRASH
    106 1 WALLJNGTON, Friday. MRS. Patricia Beverley. a woman co-pilot, was killed and Pilot Wing Commander W. H. Whetton, former Royal Air Force pilot, and two passengers seriously injured when their twin-engined plane nosedived to the ground 300 yards from Croydon airport a few seconds after its
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    120-YR-OLD DIES
    33 1 Harajaoua Fat i m a Ben Tahmed, died at Phillip Ville. Algeria, at the age of 120. it was reported in Paris yesterday. She had nine children, three still alive. Reuter
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  • FEATURES...
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      How to put over Shakespeare
      984 2 How to put over Shakespeare ,l O S T producers have their own p^t theories on the staging of Shakespearo. This weok I shall try to set forth in brief, the ams and experiences ol cue or tw o people who have set themselves to tacklo this problem in Singapore
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      63 2 Ace swimmer and fibn star Johnny Weismuller, the screen Tarzan met his new partner, Belita, at a London swimming bath for a practice to the delight of the Ufual lunch-hour swimmers there. As well as a swimmer Belita is an ice-skater, dancer and film star; they will appear together in
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      SHE HAS NO MORE AWFUL HEADACHES
      222 2 Since She Started Tak'n? Kfuschen Salts This 1 mans h. adaches wr no' of the "htivt aft*- th- ii"h» bef-r •vai y. T V y dii no- yieli tc tablets or ph. Rut wh^, Kn.'crh n tackl d the ro o of <h e
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      Bridge Problem
      61 2 THERE are no trumps. South leads. North and South are to win six of the eight tricks against anv defence. South makes the queen and ten of clubs, North discarding the jack-nine of spades. South leads spade three t o put West in, and after West wins two
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      U.S. cats for Europe's rats
      268 2 WITH perfectly straight faces, American animal lovers are in the nvdst of a first rate row over whether or not to send 1,000,00C American cats across tht Atlantic to eat European rats. The theory behind the plan, first conceived by the American Feline Society, Is
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      70 2 JJJc*. the White-handed Gibbon, thinks Ginger, the cat. is a grand fellow. Each morning they play hide and seek together in the Monkey House at Dublin Zoo where Ginger's boss, Mr. John Supple. Is head keeper. And if Ginger gets bored with the game and starts to wander off ivhy,
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      307 2  -  PIERRO JEANNERAT By INT I MIST, cubist, constructivist, expressionist, vorticist, surrealist paintings and sculpture in fact, most of the "isms" that have thrilled or exasperated, dazzled or disgusted the art world in the course of the past 40 years are to be met with at th<e Academy Hall, in
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      KREMLIN Am,
      95 2 THE Kremlin now turned its attention to Soviet composers. Prokofiev. Khachattu and Shostakovitch. it seem> "distort music irto a cacophony of nuaningless noises" They pos.s( i mallvt/c anti popular dencies." They ignore such important elements as an lody. This, decrees the Cf Committee of the I munl^t Party,
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      637 2 STmS? I cut this out «lF^nHH e^ band and 720 mecacyrle* «n From 12 to 2: 526 m\, res R~li 10 nA o' A a Dancers Only; 11.30 M'^: 2 L. tf orrh,.s:ral M.w m.-d.um Mv band: 4.825 Sv 40 p n i, I ral^ H Ul; 12 noon Vignette;
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      105 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast lor people bom today DORN today, you are essentially the dreamer and find it difficult to cope with a bustling, busy, commercial world. However, you intend to reach your soal and if you will force yourself to face realities, you have the latent push and
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  • CHINA NEWS..
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      Frontal raid on Mukden swing
      97 3 VIKING, Friday. i £>wing te ip i f is •■•".rally d in N:.«Wng P Pnln a nst Aden itselfl So. wh has d^ y nts in andJJllukden in .enSjjug in v i and -m in in a Bort these Ifvc/ Assault Qslnmlo expose •.•It. tvailReda
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      54 3 HONG KONG Friday WON dispatches state tot the National Defence iW7 has agreed to send Force piano against ttn Communists who are olng most active. s will b" dispatch- either Nanking or he Hainan admlnJJ. called a meeting of toes fr-m nine dlsty^ an anti-bandit so to launch indiewere
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      10 3 Ro-i-ador to v a xers has •one A. P.
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      39 3 picture. JAhSuSriSftffZ T £5""? /"fc™""" Francisco uith th* r£LS n £LT' W na had Dr. Aguilar VtiH t,7 c Grand Cordon of the Order of the Brilliant Star, at a ceremony at the Foreign Office in Nanking Chinese official
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      Envoy's speech is attacked
      228 3 C/.5. 'DIPLOMATIC BLUNDER' s'uiS l^ blunder on the P art tbTcSited Kuomintang officials expressed strone dissatis faction with the Ambassador's action in aoiealini direct to the Chinese people, stating 'It wolifd bl unimaginable if the Chinese Ambassador in Washington did the same thing I »<*>™vot m
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      ANTI-SMUGGLING AGREEMENT
      71 3 S-iiA^'UHAI, Friday A DISCLOSURE that the Macao Government had agreed to conclude a n antismuggling agreement with the Chmese Gorernment and that negotiations were under way for such a pact, was made by Mr. Ting Kweitong, Dep\i ly IrwpecoorGoneral of Ch iiese Customs on his return from a
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      17 3 At the Australia Day reception in Shanghai- Mr C Black, Mayor K. C. Wu. Mr. Eric Davies.
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      NEI CHINESE TO BE SENT BACK
      90 3 CANTON. Friday. CiABLE Instructions have been received by the International Refugee Organisation. Canton sub-office, from the IRO Hong Kong branch office, authorising commencement of registration of eligible applicants for repatriation to the Netherlands East Indies. The IRO Canton Office has made the necessary preparations
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      21 3 Major Hiroshi Yoshio, Japanese chief of the Kowloon gendarmerie, was hanged in I Stanley Prison Hong Kong at I dawn yesterday.
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      NEW RICE RATION: 8 OUNCES A DAY
      153 3 NEW RICE RA TION: 8 OUNCES A DAY NANKING Fridav A PPROXIMATELY half a pound of rice or flour P er da y f or each person is the scale laid down under a new rationing scheme expected to become operative in early March or April, according to a Ministry
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      BIG REVOLTS' FEARED IN SHANGHAI
      323 3 Concern over soaring prices SHANGHAI Fridav A WARNING of big revolts ui' Shanghai if lx the city authorities fail to check soaring prices and carry out effective refugee relief work, was given by Mr. Wu Kai-shein, Commissioner of Social Affairs, at a City Council session
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      35 3 picture. Madame Chiang Kai-shek is shown pinning the Grand Cordon Order to Rear-Admiral Stuart Murray, retiring commander of the United States Naval Advisory Group in China, for meritorious service to the Chinese Government Chinese official
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      URCHINS HAD FIELD DAY
      111 3 HONG KONG, Friday. A CURIOUS accident berL fell 23-year-old Chan Kit as he walked along the street carrying a large basket of oranges. Stepping on something slippery, he fell. In doing so, he bowled over the man ahead of him, and the two of them crashed
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      Chinese ships carry exports
      88 3 SHANGHAI Friday. ONLY shipments exported by China's Governmentoperated concerns will be carried solely by Chinese ships. This modifies a report by Central Nt ws Agency that all exports from China will, in future, bo carried by Chinee ships. Among the Governmentoperated enterprises which may handle exports
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      COALITION IDEA IS REJECTED
      144 3 NANKING, Friday. THE recent peace rumours drew a heated debate in the central political conference, with the majority of the members opposing the idea of a "coalition government" as a solution to the NationalistCommunist conflict in China. Kuomintang extreme rightists charged the Americans with ignorance of
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      SIAMESE ATTITUDE STIFFENS
      181 3 NANKING, Friday. HTHE Chinese Ambassador 1 to Siam, Mr. Li TUJI* tseng, said today that t»ie new Siamese Government's attitude towards overseas Chinese is turning from one of friendliness to one of discrimination. Mr. Li arrived here yesterday by an American military plane. Here to report to
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      UK's FAITH IN HONG KONG
      161 3 BRITAIN'S faith in the future of Hong Kong ;s reflected in extensive rebuilding: plans proposed bv the nationalised communications organisation. Cable and Wire-, less. Ltd. This was emphasised by the company's Hong Kong manager. Mr. F. S. Coote. when giving details of the clans. He
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      CHINESE REDS ALLEGE GAS
      47 3 HTIHE Chinese Communist J. Army headquarters have protested against alleged use of poison gas by Chinese Government forces north of Mukden in Manchuria. The protest declared that il this crime against humanity were repeated the "peoples army" would take decisive retaliatory measures. Reuter
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      H.K-JAPAN LINK-UP
      33 3 Wireless communication between Hong Kong and Japan will be inaugurated on March 1 when Cable Wireless. Ltd., is scheduled to begin operation of a new circuit for com--1 mercial traffic- U.P.
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      Policy on Jap peace changed
      225 3 NANKING, Friday. rjHINA'S attitude to the Japanese peace settlement has undergone a radical change recently, and has shifted towards virtual identity with United States, it was learned authoritatively here today. The new attitude contrasts sharply with the Government's former stand, announced last year as similar
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      'JAPAN AS 49th US STATE'
      234 3 'JAPAN AS 49th US STATE' SHANGHAI, Friday. CHINESE criticism of the United States' role in Japan Is increasing. Editorials in the Government-controlled Press are taking an almost identical li^e. The United States, they say appears intent on developing Japan as a 49th State. It i& seeking to make Japan a
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      BLACK MARKET CHARGE
      140 3 SHANGHAI, Friday A SYRIAN merchant. C H Matouk. with an ufflce in down-town Shanghai and Natalia YavovlefT. a Russian woman, were among the 14 persons arraigned, before the Shanghai District Court on a charge of engaging in blackmarket transactions In gold and foreign currencies. The accused persons
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      97 3 Bearings £rfi?^r Rice Burroughs WF^f^Br' fJI I"I A.M TH3AKQF ZCXAA^'SAiO THE 1 M'' > fW ASKED 6A6EBLV. "DO ""OU <*OW -'tfc J r»_" "*S >t^A--> >^ l^ *Jk 'A* A fy«f 'J I J^NA, 7N£ «£f? O^ 2CKAM>-J K tt iPHPr y\ y& M *B^^^HHBBBB^fl '^V'^iifi^ >^»^**^Sr^JJr^B rr .'W- >v>tAT
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, FEB. 28, 1948. Cen. Percival on the Volunteers
      658 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, FEB. 28, 1948. Cen. Percival on the Volunteers ONE of the most Interesting features of Lieut. -Gen. A. E. Percival's lengthy Despatch on the Malayan campaign is the section dealing with recommendations for the future development of the Volunteer forces, whose organization for some years
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      TOO MANY IDLERS
      1048 4 GRAHAM STANFORD has flown to Africa to uncover the facts about Britain's great expectations from the new 'Garden of the Empire.' NAIROBI, East Africa. DRITAIN'S scheme to make a Garden of the Empire in the wealthy wastes of East Africa is facing a crisis. Unless a rapid,
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      ONE MORE DICTA TOR
      447 4 CLEMENT Gottw aid L as middle Europe's newest dictator, is a veteran of a quarter century of the Communist struggle for power. Czechoslovakia's premier, now 51, sometimes is referred to as the nation's own copy of Russia's Joseph Sialin. He has been an adherent ol the
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      Drama Director Fakes Leave
      93 4 AFTER 20 years with the BBC. Val Gielgud. Drama Director, is leaving at least for a year. He has been granted a year's leave of absence from next August. Gielßud thinks that, after all that time, he ought to have a look at the place from
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      71 4 Twenty Morrison air-raid shelters, bouvht from the local council, have been used in building a cabin cruiser -on a hilltop fifty miles from the open sea. The boat has been taking shape since May last year, sandwiched between his house and the house next door. Now the craft is almost
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      What's In A Name?
      763 4  -  THOMAS ALDEGUER China's New Democracy By Reuters' Correspondent ALTHOUGH China's 20-year-old one-party rule was officially ended with the promulgation of the new democratic C o n s t i t u tion last Christmas, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek's Kuomintang Party will, to all intents and purposes, continue
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      COLD SNAP
      13 4 Illingworth's portrayal of the recent freezing of wagrs and prw« n
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      Seven Flags Over Antarctica
      383 4 Seven Flags Over Antarctica THE British cruiser Nigeria, sped westward from her base at Simonstown, near Capetown, and is j now showing the flag" in Antarctica the 6,000,000-square-mile uninhabited continent in which seven nations are today taking an increasingly active interest. Now, what is there actually or potentially in a
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      FAITHS
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      75 4 ''Will glasses alone improve yomr Evcveht?" NO Prcessiov.ai services aru techn cal skills are the essential aids to vour "seeing ability," vour visual comfort and efficiency, i It is for these services and skills not for glasses alone that you pay for vour fee. Stek Professional advice Not glasses at
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      6 4 "L'ENDROIT CriOlSl" J 7 Oxley Rise
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  • LOCAL NEWS....
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      COUNCIL ASPIRANTS STEP UP CAMPAIGNS
      360 5 COUNCIL ASPIRANTS STEP UP CAMPAIGNS Big programme of meetings Free Press Staff Reporter ELECTIONEERING by candidates for the u Singapore Legislative Council will be stepped up from tomorrow as polling: day March 20 approaches. The Progressive Party will hold a meeting tomorrow for the South- West constituency and on Tuesday
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      39 5 I l E?;£^^W^ (•in-yiny oil in bulk, overturned at Id on Thursday, and was badly 'ie driver and an attendant were injured and accident occurred on a straight cho! road. Picture shows the overturned lorry just after the accident.
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      27 5 picture. Two warders photographed outside one of the new quarters in the vicinity of Outram Road jail. The auarters have been named after British admirals.- Free Press
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      Trust building 64 new flats
      200 5 Free Press Staff Reporter T ARGER rooms and separate laundries will be fea- tures of the 64 new flats which the Singapore Improvement Trust expects to start building on the Old Race Course (Farrer Park) next month. The fiats will be used mainly to house
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      EXCISE DUTY ASSESSMENT
      100 5 IJOR purposes of assessing Customs and Excise duties in the Federation, the values of rubber, copra and coconut oil have been fixed as follows: Rubber for the period Feb. 26 to Mar. 3. 39 cents per pound. Copra, consigned to the Ministry of Food, United Kingdom, $314
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      CAPT TOOK OVERDOSE OF DRUG
      131 5 CAPT TOOK OVERDOSE OF DRUG AN overdose of drug administered by himself caused the death of 46-year-old Captain J. S. Ogilvie, master of the Straits Steamship Company's vessel, Sinsgarang. Capt. Ogilvie was well-known in Singapore and Malaya. At an inauiry yesterday before the Singapore Coroner. Kir. W. G. Porter, a
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      HELPED PoWs, GETS QBE
      67 5 COR assisting Allkd prisoners of war in Japanese c*mp& on Uw Burma-Si am Railway during the war Mr Albert Tamier, a member of the Swiss community in Singapore, has been awarded the 0.8.E. (Honorary). Mr. Tanner is the imports manager ot Borneo Company, Lid., Singapore. The
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      114,000 VOTE OR DREDGERS
      214 5 IRH.U LS U» :tnd running expenses of Singapore's two dredgers. Mudlark and Tembakul, will an additional §114,000. Sanction for this mditure has been authorised by the Advisory ncil. To overhaul and continue to operate the dredger 111 cost an additional $48,000. This is in ftion to
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      UNKNOWN
      38 5 1 .688 pal lab l whm a uration oi T» ioBB came from the .enl. made heir L Rayman. JJ., and ■cate stair who norr worked on Sunc. Question by to how were Mr layman labe cts
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      19 5 Jr? 1 will kfch-," 11 m Bln hala fe Buddha Rt T -nala in Ou ■nhalas are m-
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      NEW RADIO STATION
      25 5 Plans are being made to srt up a new raduo station at arinda in East Bomro. says the Dut< h news agenc
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      CHANGI JAIL
      24 5 SPECIAL xpt-nditure ot $20,000 for the rehabilitation of the Changi Prison which was released by the military last October, has been approved.
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      VAMPIRE JET AT KALLANG
      47 5 VISITORS to Kalhmg airport this afternoon will have I an opportunity of seeing the Vamp; jet aircraft, which will be on display there from 2 to 4.30 p.m. There will also be a flying demonstration by the pilot Fit. Lt. J. W. Wilson.
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      WHERE TO CAST YOUR VOTE
      848 5 THE location of polling stations in Singapore for the forthcoming elections was announced yesterday. The stations will be found at the following places: MIMdPAL NORTH-EAS,T Middle Road at Singapore Volunteer Corps H.Q., Beach Road; Rochore Road at Our Lady of Lourdes. Tamil School. 50 Ophir
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      Ban on written labour contracts
      332 5 Free Press Staff Reporter /CONTRACTS, terms of payment and how wages should be paid to labourers are set out in a new circular from the Singapore Labour Department to all Indian and Ceylonese employers, two of whom have recently been brought to court. The circular,
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      DEATH FOR TAKING PART IN SHOOTING
      93 5 THE death sentence was passed at the Assizes yesterday on a second Chinese, who took part in a shooting incident at a coffee stall in Balestier Road during which a CMnese detective was shot dead. The man was Soh Khim, who was found unanimously
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      More new houses for jail warders
      251 5 More new houses for jail warders Free Press Staff Reporter MORE quarters for tne prison staff at Outram Road ja'l are being built this year. The sen erne, which has already started, provides for 15 new-type flats at Pearl's Hill Terrace for European warders and four single quarters lor women
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      POLICE BAND
      46 5 THE Police Band will give public performraices next month. The dates of the performances are: Mar. 2, at Waterloo Street; Mar. 9. at Botanic Gardens; Mar. 16 at Farrrr Park. Mar. 23 at Jalun B?sar. The performances will be from 5.30 to 6.30 p.m.
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  • NEWS...
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      69 6 Mr. Michael Poluck. the drivt r of the taxi which was ind in a collision with a car in which Princess Elizabeth and Duke of Edinburgh while on their wau from Ki nsington Palace the Princess to her office in Buckingham Palace, and the Di ke to his duties at
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      Not according to the book
      108 6 DANIEL Ahem, author of "How to Commit Murder and Gc*. Away With It." has Ixen held In New York on charges of robbery and a-^.ult. A hern, aged 45. with a t>oUce record of 18 arrests and a ninr.ber of COnvictiOdi b«i been twice released
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      SOCIALISTS ATTACK THE OLDGUARD
      389 6 SOCIALISTS ATTACK THE OLD GUARD Nationalisation battle in India INDIA'S Socialist Party, its strength an unknown quantity, has entered into a fight with the powerful old guard forces in the Congress Party over the degree to which the government of Free India should swing to socialism, and the speed with
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      53 6 piciwrc. This picture shows a midget two-seater, two cylinder French "Rovin" car. which is the smallest automobile displayed at the Brussels motor show, the first to be held in Europe this year. Public interest in economy of running costs is emphasised by the interest displayed in the low horsepowered automobiles
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      BRITISH COAL POSITION GOOD
      96 6 DRITAIN would be able to u export this year two to three million tons of coal over the 13,000 000 millions tons pledged to the Marshall plan countries, the mild winter having made lower drains on the nation's coal stocks than had bean anticipated. Announcing this
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      Police were gangsters
      84 6 FjK>UR HUNDRED Japanese policemen have been dismissed from office at Osaka since Jan. 1 for co-operating with blackmarketecrs and gangsters. Osaka— pre-war industrial centre of Japan in the last few months has been the centre of hoarded poods and black market scandals. Of sonic 4.000 new policemen
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      GIRLS GET GUNS
      18 6 Wives of American airmen stationed in Bavaria will be trained to protect thomselvs airainst prowler*.
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      Vote holds up Siam's rice delegation
      176 6 CIAM'S new Khuang Aphaiwong government, which -J faces a joint session of Parliament on Monday for a confidence vote, contains 12 Democrats, 12 nonparty members, and presents almost the same lineup m the government, installed after Marshal Phihun's coup in November last year. The
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      30 6 and picture. Capt. Roy Farran and his mother leaving Buckingham Palace after an investiture, at which Capt. Farran received the D.S O. and Bar to the Military Cross. Sport General
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      COSGROVEGETS THE VOTE
      63 6 An opposition vote of no confidence against Mr. Robert Cossrove. re-elected Tasmanian Premier after his acqui.tal on a change of accepting bribes, was defeated Vn the Assembly on Thursday by 13 votes to 12. The motion of censure was based on evidence relating to the Labour Party's
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      BRITISH IS REST
      36 6 Mr. Amarnath Kapoor. general manager of the Indian Red Lead Factory, Ltd Calcutta, who has just completed a world wide buyine mission, declared that British machinery was the best in the world- Reuter
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      KASHMIR FILM FOR AMERICA
      60 6 A DOCUMENTARY film of Kashmir will be shown to American cinema audiences rvext week, according to Lt Col. Naval Gandhy, the Indian producer who recently brought th<e film to the United States Col. Gandhv also announced that the picture, which Jjrals with the Kashmir fighting and
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      FARMERS FEUD
      20 6 Jealous farmers fired into the home of a prosperous 1 fam! at Tani che. Mexico, and killed six.
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      CANADA TALKSON FALL OF H'KONG
      157 6 MR. MacKenzie King, Canadian Prime Minister, and opposition party loaders have discussed privately whether full evidence of the Royal Commission's inquiry into' Canada's part in the defence of Hong Kong before it fell to the Japanese in 1941 should be published. It was believed that
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      Bollaert joins hill clan
      95 6 H'WO hundred elephants 1 on Tfa rsday knelt before M. Entile Bollaert. the French. High Cominissioner in Indo-China. in the solemn ceremony of the Moi clan known as the "Great Oath,' the France Presse News Agence reported. During the ceremony one of the hiUsmen. a sorcerer
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      HALF HIS DREAM CAME TRUE
      41 6 A Perth (Australia) man dreamed he won first prize in a lottery with ticket No. *****. Next day ho bought a tickrt was handed No. ***** half the number he'd thought of. It won second prize.
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      UK HELPS GERMANS
      35 6 A Royal Air Porcf. aircraft carrying: Uo tons of clothing given by the people of York (England) has arrived at Hariburg. The clothing will be distributed through German welfare organisations A. P.
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      Britons told fag for prosperity
      165 6 Britons told fag for prosperity CIR HARTLEY SHAWCROSS fcuL J General, said in London "th a ?'f a S e increases f,, r (1,, e that the average standard V; But, he added, "if M; unrelated to increases b we shall not only lose cur eXDori n^P**! will be such
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      Mr. Bevin is annoyed with envoy
      69 6 Mr. Bevin is annoyed with envoy M H Bnwrt Bevin.tbJ 111 eten Secretary £1 noypd in the h2l Commons with thTU Ambassador to jL^ Alvary Gascoigne the Ambassador sC ng Jap: "d with some f J ■-••■-bassador U I me. I will take isly why he J romp 1 -bers
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      P.I. boats, men held in NEI
      86 6 THE Netherlands Es&t indies authorities hare ja the Moro crews of more t 100 sailboats and confiscated their sailboats, according M> a Manila repor The Moros (Muslim i; b ibitants of Mindanao. P.1.) are alleged to have helped the Indonesiajxs in their against the
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      FIRST PAY OF PENANG RACES
      240 7  - FIRST PAY OF PENANG RACES EPSOM JEEP Catherine to be at odds on By A PENANG, Saturday. fATHERINE, United Pisces and Lovely Bore were strong tips for today's races on the course this morning:. The going has improved following a heavy shower last night. It is likely to remain very
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      89 7 By Call Boy Race 1: 1. CATHERINE 2. Effingham 3. Our Hope Race 2: 1. LOVELY BORE 2. Craigmount 3. Fairweek Race 3: 1. JOHN HAM 2. Skittals 3. Little Lady Race 4: 1. NEW ERA 2. United Pisces 3. Barham Race 5: 1. MAINTAIN 5. Sir Keith 3.
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      Today's Jockeys
      98 7 Today's Jockeys I%( Our Hope !ix«d). iiam ved). M..wi>. r Week n (Flanird), Doti Stone DftWMB), ut (1 Tuconee .<. The rambula-Vallt-y Star John H.nn iwler), I^dy B«-nnle Grey (Spencer), N Era n (Hari;\.d>, DanHariman Ba«I>>nda Turner), Sir :c (TanFlying Xt& Four Winds th), Idea II not H- yal Huron
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      S.H.A. FIXTURES
      28 7 i nxPOre UncKry rompetiPollce P m. c Rangers t 5.15 V :S V. St choree's Ist. I v. B R.C.. V. ;-ame. Lnnen i* Eurasian^ -n.
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      £36,000,000 TOTE SLUMP
      107 7 FTE takings on London's greytiound tracks dropped more than £36.000,000 last year, mainly because of the suspension of mid-week racing. This year takings are down by another 10 per cent because of the Government's 10 per cent tax, imposed on Jan. 4. This was stated by an
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      WEEK-END TEAMS
      400 7 •pHE following will play badminton for the Singapore Municipal Services Union against the Everglow Table Tennis team this evening at 7 o'clock. The match will consist of seven men's singles to be played at the S.M.S.U.: Leow Cher Young (Captain), Mok Ylng Hnon, Louis Lim Teck Huah, Loe
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      England's Hopes In Third Test
      407 7 FROM the West Indies come reports of much brighter prospects for England in the Third Test at Georgetown, British Guiana. Hutton is there, Hard- i staff is practically fit and, perhaps best of all, there is fresh in the team's minds that very creditable draw
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      S.R.C. CRICKET
      90 7 The Singapore Recreation Club's «ams for tomorrow's home-and-'wrnp match at II a.m. have been revised as follows: 1947 XI: V. C. Wostrrhout (capt.>, J. Anohant, A. Clarke. G. Clarke. B. Barker, E. Ebert R. Jansen. R. Perry, N. Si'bcl. C. Schubert. J. Sanderson and A. Watts. The R*s
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      WALCOTT AGRESS TO MfiET LOUIS
      242 7 JERSE Joe Walcott announ- 1 ced yesterday that he has agreed to meet the champion, Joe Louis, in the return he :.vy weight title fight at the j Yankee Stadium on June 23. The announcement was made personally in the jammed Convention Hall where Walcott
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      30 7 picture. Freddie Mills attacks Bueno with a hard left to the body during their recent bout at Harringay. Mills won on a knockout in the second round.- S. and G.
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      Featherwei ghts make Ejood showing I
      475 7 |>EST fight of the evening at the finals of the Army Far East championships at the Happy World last night, was between Lt. Griffiths (Singapore District) and L/Cpl. Hood (Malaya District) in the featherweight finals. Griffiths' bobbin? and weaving tactics puzzled Hood in the
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      TABLE TENNIS
      88 7 The Singapore Indian Association beat the Union Jack Club five-two at table tennis on Wednesday. Results (S.I. A. players mentioned first) Sardool Singh beat Griffiths j 21—16. 21—18. 21—11: S. R. S. Naidu beat Howard 21—7, 21—10. 21 12; S. Suppiah beat Sander: 21—10. 21—13, 21—17; Supiamanlam beat
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      RAFFLES COLLEGE XI
      95 7 The following will represent the Raffles College Union Ist XI at cricket against GHQ FARELP tomorrow at 10 a.m. at Bukit Timah: M. Thilagaratnam, S. Ratnam. Cyril Samuel. Rudolf lam, M. C. Kailasapnthy, P. Rajendra, V. Somasundram, A. Selvarajasingham, B. K. Sen, A. Navarajasingham and C. Schubert.
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      US looks for successor to Kramer
      319 7 US looks for successor to Kramer OVERWHELMING opinion in the United States, Where th#> draw lor the Davis c 9 was made last week, is that Australia, despite ■■■->: own lack of optimism, will again emerge a^ the cnallenginsr nation. Furtheimore. there U concern im seme quarters air .t America's
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      Toshack passed
      184 7 SYDNEY, Friday. ERNIE Toshack, Australian and New South Wales left arm medium pace bowler, was passed fit today and will accompany the Australian cricket team which is to tour England this summer. All other selected members of the team passed the doctor's examinations last week, but Toshack was
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      276 7 Week-end sports TODAY Union v. R.A.F. Changi Sepoy RUGBY: England v. Wales Lines. 10 a.m.; SRC. 1947 (replay), Jalan Besar Stadium, lst XI Tn« Rest, padang. 5.15 p.m. 11 a.m.; C.S.C. home-and-SOCCER: SC.F.A. Inter- home match. St. George's Road, district League "B". Bras Basah 10 30 a.m.; Rocklites v. Road
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      216 7 F.P. Crossword No. 323 i i j i %jiii 00%% %^m wamjMFf T"r fr n 1 CLUES ACROSS 2, Applauds (6). 6, Withered (4). 8, Lively (4). 10, Snow carriages (7). 11, Seed (3). 12, Bend (3). 13. Stomach (6> 14, Frighten from (5). 16, Amaz« (8) 20, Acquiesced (8).
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      U.S. help for China armies proposed
      256 8 U.S. help for China armies proposed WASHINGTON, Friday. A PROPOSAL for United States help for Chinese Government irmies today lessened the chances of the Secretary of State, Mr. George Marshall, getting the additional U.S. $270,000,000 he wants for military aid for Greece and Turkey by April 1. The Republican leader
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      HOME
      40 8 Some of the horses entered for the Grand National next month at exercise on the x Berkshire Downs at Lambourn. Rowland Roy is ridden by B. Marshall and is followed by Revelry and Housewarmer, all three Grand National horses.
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      BURMA SEEKS MEMBERSHIP IN UNO
      98 8 BURMA SEEKS MEMBERSHIP IN UNO LAi^L S\J CCkJSS, Friday. BURMA has applied for membership of the United Nations. Ambassador U So Nyun, writing from Washington, to Mr. Trygve Lie, United Nations Secretary General, applying for membership, said: "The new Union of Burma, being a peace-loving state, dedicates herself to the
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      CHINA IS AFTER WAR PROFITS
      75 8 THE Chinese Government* 1 "soak the rich" programme is aimed at persons who reaped 'enormous" war profits during World War II and the current civil war, says the Chinese Press in Shanqhai. It is hoped to raise 10 billion Chinese dollars by this measure. Gen.
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      BELGIAN VRMS HAUL
      48 8 The Belgian police last night seized 117 boxes of rifles from Czechoslovakia consigned to Callao, Peru. The boxes were marked "iron goods."- The United Slates Army has dismissed seven employees of the Army Finance Centre at St. Louis (Missouri) for alleged subversive activities.- U.P. A.P.
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      Reds break into Mukden area
      274 8 NANKING, Friday. i^FFICIAL reports from Manchuria announce the w execution of Nationalist General Wen Li for withdrawing troops of his division from an airfield in the suburbs of Mukden. At the same time, the despatches admit that Communist forces have captured Penhai and broken into
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      EAT PLANKTON, SAYS EXPERT
      208 8 A BRITISH biologist, Dr. G. L. Kesteven, fisheries expert attached to Lord Killearn's oflice in Singapore, proposed microscopic sea creatures might be used to ease world food shortage. He said tiny swimming organisms, known as Plankton "not only are highly edible but exist by billions in
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      NEW NI STATE RECOGNISED
      49 8 lUiE Bandung conference, considering a constitution for the proposed newState of West Java, has been officially recognisrd as a temporary State Parliament °y D r- Hubertus van Mook. Dutch Lieutenant G.vornorGeneral. The temporary Parliament wil represent about 12,000 000 people in Dutch-occuDied West Java Reuter
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      POLE-ROMANO PACT
      14 8 Poland and Rumania yesterday sigied a cultural agreement in Warsaw.- A. P.
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      AIRMAN FOUGHT WITH BROKEN NECK
      139 8 WASHINGTON. Friday. AIMER Army bomber pilot testified that he was required to fly 15 combat missions with a broken neck before medical officers would order him grounded. He flew them strapped to his seat and with a board strained to his back, he told a
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      RUSSIANS END NAZI PURGE
      42 8 MARSHAL Sokolovsky. Soviet zone commander, has wouvd up the de-Nazincation commission in the Russian zone. An ordtr published yesterday stated that the work of purging the administrative machinery of former Fascists and militarists has been fni filled.- Reuter
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      UK TO RESIST S. AMERICA LAND GRABS
      480 8 More forces for Honduras LONDON, Friday. ORITAIN is sending: two cruisers and an undis1J closed number of marines and troops, including a detachment of the 2nd Bn. the Gloucestershire Keg i men t, to British Honduras, in Central America, in a counter-move against
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      21 8 sir Reginald Leeper. British 4 '2 see signing the Trade A .lyreemeni, tt W(W signed Juan Domingo r 0/ ?r «is
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      SPEED KING GETS THIRD DIVORCE
      330 8 LONDON, Friday. OIR Malcolm Campbell. 62, world-famed motorboat and motor-car speed record holder, was awarded a divorce decree nisi today on grounds that his 40--year-old wile had committed adultery with a handsome French count, Louis de la Salle, a Paris import and export merchant. Lady
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      MARTS STEADY BUT QUIET
      316 8 Stock Excha» y T°P AY S session in the uMf SSS^JSSk^ A duced a small turnover of busing bu prices were steady with a quietly firm I although foreign politics continued iJ^ShS and even professional participation. financial correspondent. The gtlt-edged section encountered a steady demand which
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      Rubber prices
      102 8 A MM (1 M-irkrl conuifWW jiv^ thf priors of r&Kti 11 am lod.iT s« M Burni v* Ck N I >pot JJ No. 1 R.SS. fob in bales >t W No. K.S> fob in b. Mar. No. 3 K > v f<-b .n h.u- Mm Tone of market:
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      BRITISH JET RAISES OWN AIR RECORD
      126 8 BRITISH JET RAISES OWN AIR RECORD LONDON, Friday. TEST pilot Lieut.-Com. Mi- chael John Lithgow, who became the fastest man in England when he broke the world 100-kilometre air record at 560.634 m.p.h. yesterday, flew his Vickers Supermarine Attacker today at the new record average speed of 564.881 -m.p.h. today
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      PALESTINE BILL RELEASED
      66 8 THE text was issued of the Palestine Bill presented in the House of Common* on Thursday. Transitional provisions Include those for the termination of jurisdiction In abatement of Privy Council proceedings, prohibition of any action in respect of acts done in good faith and in the course
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      38 ESTATES IN JAVA REOPEN
      64 8 A SPECIAL correspondent of the Dutch news agency says that 38 rubber plantations, with an estimated production of 600 tons daily, are expected to resume operation again in East Java In a few days. Thirteen of these plantations are British -owned. Thirty-five sugar planations have
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      KING, QUEEN MEET TWO COMEDIANS
      44 8 KING, QUEEN MEET TWO COMEDIANS The King and Queen met two of the world's top comedians, the British Sid Field and the American Danny Kaye, Thursday night at the London Palladium. Princess Elizabeth. Princess Margaret and the Duke of Edinburph were also present. Reuter
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      ANOTHER COMET?
      29 8 The Japanese ni?ws agency rrnorted that the astronomer, Mir.oru Honda, who attracted world-wide attention by discovering a new comet, yesterday claimed he has discovered miothor comet. U.P.
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      15 8 SINGAPORE TIDES Today Tomorrow Hilfh: 110 p.m. I|| p. m 10 ft. D t tf
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      42 8 WEATHER— Showery WEATHEK rrport frmn the next 21 hour* compiled br the RAF: LsoUted showers ttiim afternoon and rvrnin.; Otherwise Mr, Wind: Northerly, 5 fo ly knot*. Sunset 6 M p m Sanrisr 6.45 a.m. Moomnrl 19.43 am Moonris« 9 29 p.m.
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