The Singapore Free Press, 1 March 1948

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON BAJLE IN MALAYA [itf* SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1948 PKICfe IV VMS is
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  • 330 1 F IGHT TO END I.E.F.C. CONTROLS Baguio talks on rice BAGUIO, Sunday. THE T.E.F.C. system of rice allocations will be the big issue at the Food and Agricultural Organisation conference which opens here on Monday. The delegates of all 13 nations agree that the overall rice shortage will not be
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    41 1 On sate at almost every shop in the old walled city of Jerusalem are arms and am munition of every desription. Picture shows a middle aged Arab woman examining an American automatic pistol and rifle ammunition at a street vendors stall.
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  • 104 1 I SHIN WELL WARNS LONDON, Sunday. ■r. Mr Cmanuel Shin well, declared that the principles of demoned by European distress, which for political confusion than any 'caihe. .ted that ;\:iy people are not ncerned about retaining liberty of speech ive institutions based on democracy ted to
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  • 96 1 ASIAN IS NEW TRADE UNION REGISTRAR Free Press Staff Reporter THE appointment of Mr. Sng Choon Yee to the post of Registrar of Trade Unions, Singapore th c first Asian to hold the post— was officially announced this morning. Mr. Sng takes over today from Mr. J. J. Steel, who
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  • 74 1 PARLIAMENT will scan the state of Britain's defences today under pressure of sharp Conservative criticism of further Services cuts. An amendment expressing "concern at the apparent absence of comprehensive measures for a co-ordinated and up-to-date system of national and imperial defence" will be moved by the
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  • 151 1 WEDDING GUESTS AID ARREST Free Press Staff Reporter WEDDING guests from a house in Thomson Road helped to arrest one of three robbers who were getting away in a taxi on Saturday evening. The other two escaped Police said three Chinese drove away with a taxi after robbing the Chinese
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  • 122 1 Free Pross Staff Reporter INCHE Bakar bin Gudumeh's Sunday morning battle in Telok Kuraw with a Chinese gunman will receive public recognition, a police spokesman said in Singapore this morning. Bakar chased one or three armed Chinese who were running from the scene of a
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  • 37 1 THE War Office announced last night that Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, will visit the Belgian Army from March 31 to April 2, at the invitation of Belgium.
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  • 227 1 CAIRO, Sunday. "rjATTLES are now raging at the gates of Sanaa," according to a cable from Seif El Islam Ahmed, eldest son of the late Imam Yahya of Yemen, to his father's representative in Cairo. The cable was received a few hours after the Arab League
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  • 62 1 ANKARA, Monday. rpURKISH authorities yesJL terday decided to reply with arms in the event of any repetition of attacks on Turk- ish boats in the Aegean Sea, reported to have been made recently by armed boats manned by Greek guerrillas. The raiders were said to have chased,
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  • 33 1 Mr. Donald F. Carpenter, vice-president of the Remington Arms Company, has been named as deputy to the U.S. Secretary of Defence, Mr. James Foflrestal, "in atomic energy matters."- A.P.
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  • 156 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A BILL to provide for the introduction of a new t% constitution for the Singapore Municipal Commission is now being drafted. It is expected that it will be among the first measures coming before the new Legislative Council, though it may be
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  • 132 1 59 RAIDERS KILLED IN KASHMIR LONDON, Sunday. FFTY-NINE raiders were killed when an Indian Army patrol made several bayonet charges in a night attack near Naoshera. Kashmir, the New Delhi radio reported. The raiders were driven off and several machine- srun posts were destroyed. the radio added. The Pakistan Defence
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  • 68 1 MOSCOW radio declared yesterday that the United States, using Argentina and Chile as tools, was trying to "ciowd Britain out of the Antarctic." in a review of the dispute over the Falkland Islands dependencies. Upholding British sovereignty of the territories. Moscow radio said Chile and Argentina had
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  • 40 1 The Washington Bureau or Standards says that sunspot activity had cron^ into a decline after 11 years and, for the next seven years, there should be considerably less sunspot -induced interference with radio communications.
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  • 176 1 LONDON, Sunday. rpHE Sunday Pictorial said 1 today that Princess Elizabeth's social activities are "ludicrously out of tune" with the stern realities of British life. It advised her to dismiss her advisers, get out of West End night clubs and visit the factories and the fields.
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  • 283 1 ARMED JEWS ROB £10,000 FROM P. W.D. a w JERUSALEM, Sunday. A KMED Jews today took over at pistol point the office of the Palestine Government Public Works Department in the Jewish quarter and occupied and searched the building for four hours, while the stall* was lined up against the
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  • 107 1 BAl^v'lA, Sundjy. THE Indonesian Republican 1 Premier and Vice-Presi-dent, Dr. Mohammed RftUa, declared in a broadcast over Jogjakarta radio tha;. the United Nations cou'd not, guarantee the "four freedoms" in either Indonesia or China a Netherla. els Easi Indies news agency message sa:d
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  • 70 1 M AN KILLED AT JUNCTION Free Press Staff Reporter ACEYLONESE pedestrian was run over and killed by a car at the Lavender StreeiKallang Road junction at 6.40 today. He has rot yet been identified. Two men were admitted to hospital shortly after midnight yesterday wh?n the car in which they
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  • 31 1 Two unarmed Chinese pounced on a Chinese pedestrian at the junction of Neil Road and Cantonment Road at 10.30 last night, and robbed him of $210 in valuables.
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  • 20 1 The Legislative Yuan In China yesterday approved a budget calling for an expenditure of $96,000,000,000 000 (Chinese).- U.P.
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  • FEATURES..
    • 733 2  -  Hall Romney j LETIER By I DRITISH parents to- day are feeling almost as anxious about the well-being of their sons in Malaya as were the parents of those youngsters of the 18th Division w T ho were thrown so uselessly into the Malayan baUle six
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    • 449 2  -  Avocets by By ALAN HUMPHREYS TN a suite of oldfashioned offices on the second floor of a building in Victoriastreet, S.W., a group of men are anxiously waiting to hear of an. air invasion of Britain. The news will come tt them from watchers along the East
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    • 605 2  - Blindman's Cane Sees For Him ELEANOR GRIESEMER By A.P. Correspondent DESEARCHERS have taken the first step towards a device small enough to lit in a blind man's cane and sensitive enough to do his seeing n for him. Such sensory devices would allow a blind person to scan a landscape
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    • 450 2  - Singapore 's Pioneer In Plastion Roy Fcrroa by CLEEK, fin -shaped wall lamps in a variety of hues and shades appearing on the walls of the restaurants and cabarets are the product of Singapore's only plastic factory. It is owned and operated by an enterprising young Chinese, Mr. Ytow Meng
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      229 2 'J'KERE are some deals where it is impossible scientifically to bid the maximum value of the combined hands. II North had bid his six-card heart suit instead of merely raising the spades, perhaps East might hawdoubled to get partner's ck of clubs or diamonds. Then it is probable
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    • 960 2 SINGAPORE "-2 p *?J p m VUM M V4 ■"y-• Rl.w w~«« -I. metrt utl «e*m«yel««. M-M metres and 19.18 m«tre«. Blue Network monday 11.3p.12 ».m. t».M m *uel 12 From 12.00 noon to «.M pm 10.30 Australian Neus: 10 40 n -5 p.m. 16. M metres 19.84 526 metres
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    • 88 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for peopje bom today DORN today, your honest, rugged bluntness is a key characteTiutr'c You say what you think at all times, no matter whether H is tactful, diplomatic or even kind! In the long run, you will find that this strict adherence to your
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    • 260 3 CULTURE (6din£) ON THE RATES MPs debate strip tease. Santa Claus C r M™* on the rates in a big way in Bri ta "V The House of Commons helped it a on« by talk.ng about striptease, Santa Glaus, .reck tragedy dull cinemas, and Mr. AneurTn Hevan s dmidical tendencies
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      82 3 picture. picture. Anti-aircraft quns in a military ceremonial parade at Jullundur (East Punjab), the nearest cantonment to the Pakistan border. Thousands of people lining the route during the march past, when Governor Trivedi took the salute. Planet The High Commissioner for India in London, Mr. Krishna Menon. and the Australian-born
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    • 161 3 Two Indian leaders jailed in S.A. TWO leaders of the Indian 1 Passive Resistance Movement. Dr. Y. M. Daddo, President of the Transvaal Indian Congress and Dr. G. M. Naioker. president of the Natal Indian Congress, were each sentenced to six months hard labour by the Durban Magistrates for aiding
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    • 47 3 Ten thousand canaries are to be shipped from lapan to the limited States for the first time since the end of the wmi At the same time 70 5011ns: swine will be sent to Okinawa for breeding: purpose and 50 hirses to Korea. Reuter
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    • 131 3 [Aquitania. 45 t 0004o« lunard White Star liner— nny to her reu— has been reprieved from 'h e scrapyard. will sail regularly from Southampton to Canada after bins decontrolled and overhauled in a few weeks. Many people are waiting for passages to Canada, and can earn dollars for Brl'airi
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    • 25 3 ■s- I Reore- Aiwralian Jdered the when namer enemv I be •^rat* to AusL :or this u a .s beC^ out and ho houed
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    • 20 3 .iriy i the J. B. the i will ;.ge- ill to and will be conf :i as •m- Reuter
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    • 102 3 /COUNSEL defending 14-year-|V old Anthony Dickinson found Guilty of murder at Hertford Assizes, said It was obvious that some extraordiI nary storm took place in the boy's mind. It had been alleged that Anthony went out with a stolen gun and within a few hours
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    • 64 3 PRESIDENT Manual Roxes I has ordered an investigation of the commercial airline piano clash at M"at4 airfield near Davao in which 13 persons were killed. Lntcst reports say the cause of fihe crash has not been determined. Ten bodies, I all of which were beyond re-
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    • 28 3 A police officer who followed a trail of blood for more than a mile at Dagenham Essex > fund a man lying unconscious in an alleyway. I
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    • 26 3 The repatriation of German prisoners of war from Britain will be completed by July 1948 and from the Middle East by October 1948. Reuter
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    • 108 3 Missing a year- found dead TWO women, never reported missing although it is more than a year since they were last seen, have been found dead a few yards from the path to the cottage where °ne of them lived. They lay huddled together under a weather -rotted coat 1
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    • 181 3 TIIE U.S. Office of Education has accused Russia of u>ing its vast school system to poison children's mind* against America and the world. The Russians are building a "perfectly fantastic loyalty to Stalin and the Communist Party" in the ▼ounjf. At the same time th e
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    • 144 3 Memorial fund for Gandhi in Ceylon CIR Ivor Jennings, Vice\v Chancellor of the Ceylon University, suggests that the best, memorial to Mahatma Gandhi in Ceylon might take the form of a cancer hospital or a Cultural Home. "There is no doubt," says Sir Ivor, "that a cancer hosi pitai is
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    • 22 3 The founder of the Magicians' Club. Will Goldston. died In London last week. He wrote 51 books on magic. A.P.
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    • 122 3 THE British Government has opuosed the sale of the i.i.000-tan turbo- electric liner Monarch of Bermuda to am Argentine company because she would have become a oo^ential competitor to BriUsh shi oping. Negotiations for the sale Had been complete and awaited only
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    • 44 3 THE new Eire Government 1 has announced that It will revoke tax Increases on tobacco, beer and entertainment. The removal of the tax boosts was the first step in Prime Minister 'John Costello's Coalition Government's promise to reduce taxation.—
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    • 30 3 Mr. Churchill will on May 21 unveil at Westminster Abbey the combined memorial to the submarine branch of the Royal Navy and the Commandos and Airborne Forces.
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    • 129 3 11HE Investigation commis- slon sent by the United State War Department to the Middle East has decided that partition of the Holy Laand will endanger American security interests in the Middle East. UP. learns. The commission studied military problems with military attaches in Cairo.
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    • 35 3 Samuel IgnatiefT Johnson a soldier of fortune who fought from the Arctic to the tropics, died at San Francisco last week at the age of 74. He formerly lived In the Philinpines.- A.P.
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    • 135 3 CCOTLAND YARD took a hundred-to-one chance of m '2?i som V >ne who had seen the ki "er of five-year-old Eileen Lockhart, found strangled in Chiswell -street, Fmsbury, London last week For three hours detectives* stood outside Friendly House the bomb-damaged buildin» where Eileen
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    • 39 3 Twenty-flve countries plan to be represented at talks in Washington on tropical medicine and malaria from May 10 to May 18. The last international meeting to discuss these diseases was held at Amsterdam ten years ago. A.P.
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    • 252 3 Ra ilway deal brings home the beef CIR STAFFORD CRIPPS'S announcement that ti '-> trade and payments agreement had been reati d with Argentina points to the £150,000,000 for thArgentine railways being paid over in cash to (he companies today, writes a London financial corrtspondent. The fact that the railways
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    • 111 3 CEVERAL trade unions have u promised support lor the Australian Legion ot Exservicemen and Women s "sponsor a migrant" plan, which is designed to briritj British people to Australia. The Legion has asked its members and m mb:rs of the public in New South Wales
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    • 82 3 THE Russian composer Prokofiev, whose "'Peter --h e Wolf" ls often performed in Western Europe has confessed his "failure to create a democratic Soviet music free from modern bourgeois influences." He has thanked the Communist Party for the "asMs- tance Rivca me in correcting my
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    • 45 3 The Arab League's Political OomfniUjee ls reported at Beirut to have reached a decision to create an Arab oil corporation to replace American companies in Saudi Arabia if the Security Council decides to use force for Palestine partition.- U.P.
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    • 78 3 MAJOR-GEN. C. G. Nicholson, who led the British Second Division across th e Ira...iddy River near Maadalay i n March. 1945. has been appointed General Officer Commanding British Forces in West Africa. He takes up his Dfi* command in Außrust. Gen. Nicholson commanded the 44th Indiam
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    • 17 3 The co-operative movement in Czechoslovakia will celebrate the hundredth anniversary of its origin this summer.
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    • 394 6 NEI THE PAWN OF POWER POLITICS Western Dowers seek own interests THE Netherlands East Indies is the victim of at post-war power politics, says an analysis of the Indonesian dispute written by a highly placed Dutch authority and widely distributed in Batavia in both Dutch and English, reports Associated Press.
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      40 6 The Royal Air Force has a new scheme for training cadet pilots. Training is divided into three stages elementary, advanced, applied flying each lasting 16 weeks. Here a group of cadet jnlots are seen receiving instruction by a "weather man."
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    • 177 6 ter Poorten replies to Maltby LT.-GEN. Ter Poorten, C-tn-C. of the Netherlands East Indies Army during the Japanese invasion in 1942, dismissed a,s "definitely untrue" a statement that he ordered the surrender to the Japanese of all the forces under his command—lncluding the British— without consulting the British commanders. The
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    • 59 6 WITH the Olympic Games promising an invasion of hundreds of thousands with foreign money to spend, publicans around Wembley Stadium are worried about beer, which. tr*»v say. is an invisible export. So they arc to ask the Food Minister, Mr. Strachev to let the breweries
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    • 71 6 TWO persons alleged to be 1 involved in the robbery and killing of Karl Kenner, Bavarian brewmaster of the Ewo Brewery in Shanghai on Tuesday have been arrested by the Shanghai police and CN.$2O million in cash and a camera stolen from the victim were recovered.
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    • 219 6 QOME 8,000 Chinese nationals, who are at present stranded in China awaiting re-entry in the Philippines, are no longer considered "returning residents," according to Immigration Commissioner Engracio Fabre. Claiming: to be "displaced person," they petitioned the Philippine Government through the United Nations, on the strength of
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    • 82 6 JOHN Richard Miles aged 81. farm worker, of Manor Farm, Ash (Surrey* died just belore he hanged. At an inquest at Farnham, Surrey, the Deputy Cjroner, Mr. W. J. Francis, said Miles was found hanging by a rope from a beam, but there was no
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    • 27 6 All further imports of raw silk have been prohibited bv the Government of India with a view to stimulating prices of indigenous silk- Reuter
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    • 112 6 UK newsman his bride held by Russians DRITISH authorities are at- D tempting to get the Rus- sians to release a British newspaper correspondent and his bride of five days, who were arrested in the Russian zone of Austria. A British spokesman in Vienna said that G. E. R. Oedye,
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    • 94 6 THE British Medical Associa--1 tion. with a membership of 56.000 doctors throughout Britain, on Saturday announced that it had issued writs for libel against four Laboiu doctor Members of Parliament after a letter from them, published in the Press, had criticised the conduct o"f the recent plebiscite
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    • 61 6 17- YEAR-OLD youth con- fesscd to Mr. W. Blake Odgers, K.C North London magistrate, that he had never heard of the Ten Commandments Said Mr. Odgers: "That Is the way you have been brought up? There is a very short one. No. 7, 'Thou shalt not
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    • 23 6 The British European Airways Corporation will" discontinue their London-Manchester-Liverpool service from April 17 because "it has proved uneconomic."- Reu ter
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    • 190 6 AIR PATROL OF 'SHARK BE A CHES rleaoeq the risk of shark tragedies the New South Wales Surf Life Saving Association will ask the Royal Australian Air Force to fly weekend patrols over Sydney beaches. The President of the Association. Mr. Adrian Curlewis. said lie was gravely concerned at the
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    • 60 6 THE Big Four Foreign Minis- ters' deputies, discussing the former Italian colonies, reached a compl ete' deadlock when they failed once more to agree on whether i the other interested govern- i ments should state their views before or after receiving the reports of the Four-Power Investigating
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    • 27 6 The new Elrean Government, in a message to Pope Pius XII, pledged itself to seek "a social order based on Christian principles."- A.P. A. P.
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    • 37 6 £RIC JOHNSTON. Americas Him boss, said "Mo* AmeriWns e JIn l *«r',i h U ll |i in c?i s S It m re han h Briu,d2!?^iS3St"V^S."" to hlßh te He b
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    • 105 6 If Britain falls, we all fall BRITAIN'S economic collapse would mean the end o£ self-government as Australians know It, Sir Ernest Fisk, managing director of Electric and Musical Industries, London, said in Sydney. "Australia might find herself the 49th State ot America." he declared. "The British Commonwealth must now stand
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    • 83 6 T lEUT. Luther R. Daniels of the United States Navy is facing a general court martial at the United States Navy headquarters in Shanghai on charges of having violated the Chinese maritime customs regulations. He is alleged to have attempted to bring goods into China
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    • 61 6 PLAUDIO Giorigi. aged 32, has been held for questioning by Rome police after his wife was found shot dead in her bedroom on Thursday evening. Police said an accusation made by the couple's son, Arnaldo, could not be accepted because of the boy's hysterical condition, allegedly
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    • 37 6 Yoshio Kodaira, the "bluebeard of Japan," was sentenced to death in Tokio on Saturday. He was charged last year with criminally assaultIng and murdering 12 women, and convicted for the murder of seven.- Reuter
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      49 6 The first of a new fleet of C is accepted by Mr. Kenneth /;< ral Manager of the airline, s/ij nard K. Schwartz. Lockheed Burbank (California). Air 1 owned by Air India, him plan two weekly round don, with stops at Cairo, the operational crews wiU be 1 '■< dlkkjl;fdkfd
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  • LEADER..
    • 604 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY. MARCH 1. 1948. The New India |N the draft of India's new constitution no point has attracted more attention outside the country than the definition of India's status. India is to become a sovereign, independent republic. Can this status be reconciled with membership of the
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    • 915 4 FORGOTTEN MEN OF BATAVIA By MARC PURDUE A.P. Correspondent THE forgotten man of the almost three-year-old conflict between the Dutch administration of the East Indies and the Indonesian insurgents is in his own opinion the Dutch resident of the islands. Be he civil servant, a sub-executive or a planter, the
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    • 399 4 When The Sun Black Out •THE most exhaustive 1 preparations in history are now being made to observe tne eclipse which will sweep in a 5,320-mile arc across the world from Southcast Asia to the western tip of North America in May. It is hoped to nad an aruswer to
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    • 52 4 k ONE-WOMAN bat le rt against th e MacArtn; for President movement befog fought bv the general's first wife, Mrs. Alf Hcilb.r" Every week she Rives the Press a n. w wisecrack against 1 cx-husband. This weeks --If ho is a oresidential dark horse, ho is in the
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    • 19 4 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. St. John 10, 11.
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      15 4 through" system it enables a •nuJitl 9 ?l lt mto operation. Known as the "all-
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    • 491 4 COCIALIST Governments in Australia and NewZealand are against a family conference to work out ways of strengthening the Commonwealth against collapse but the non-Socialist Governments of Canada and South Africa w r ould welcome a conference of Commonwealth leaders. Four viewpoints received tell some of the story.
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    • 697 4 'Wh ite Supremacy By JAMES MORLOW A.P. Correspondent "WHITE Supremacy" is the battle cry of Congressmen from the Southern United States. They are angry about President Truman's ideas on civil rights. He asked Congress recently to do these things, among others. Pass laws killing the poll tax in seven Southern
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      225 4 VERY COLD War S T f RII^i 3 from I mvaders h I Canada I square mi;. I rf K I quarts, I head fr.-n.Ja the deep ji,,,,^* hiS; b bleak, ice-hn I State* recent; were Mli*| £J < the identity f«js attackers And the only cj Washington's brasSf reach
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
    • 254 5 teachers write to UNESCO free Press Staff Reporter pss discrimination against locally-re-ritcd teachers in Singapore is removed, I be no possibility either of improving |(lal( i of education or expanding educa- the Colony, declares the Singapore Cm' Union in a memorandum on education to the United
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      108 5 A Singapore factory, the first to start the manufacture of plaslic-ware on a big scale, is turning out hundreds of table and walllamps for local cinema halls and hotels. Proprietor of this workshop is 32-year-old Singa-pore-born Yeow Meng Cheow, who started plastic manufacture as an experiment in his backyard. His
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    • 86 5 THE aainual general meeting 1 of the Singapore Family Benefit Society will be held at the Victoria Memorial Hall on March 2, at 5.15 p.m. The Society was established in 1913 and. according to its a<iv.iu«U report, has a membership of 600 spread all over Singapore, Malaya.
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    • 95 5 AN amendment is being made to the Municipal Ordinance by the Singapore Municipal Commissioners giving them power to control buildings or structures erected either during the occupation or in the Deriod of the British Military Administration. The penalty for failure to comply with the new rules
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    • 22 5 Plague exists in an epidemic state in Rangoon. wh .ch has been declared an infected place under the Quarantine OrcLmance.
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    • 262 5 Juvenile Court 'is not of much use' Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Teachers' ril 1On A. to a memorandum to the United Nations Educational, Social and Culh?1l Organisation referring to the work o f th* Juvenile Court, savs: "We feel that ?™f a most of the children appearing before
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      87 5 Mr. (ind Mrs. A. L. Langley and their daughter i*io are In Singapore on their icay from Burma to Australia. Mr Langley was a Sub-Lt. in the Burma Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve until recently. He is one of thr hundrds of Anglo-Burmese who have de cided to seek jobs in
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    • 379 5 AH lOC a voyage of 100 days, the 950 ton Britanica has reached London from Singapore, with a crew of nine Europeans and 42 Malays, Chinese and Indians. Skipper of the ship was Capt. William ♦'Tiptoe" Tulip. r A flat-bottomed river craft, never meant
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    • 63 5 Singapore police yesterday afternoon recovered the body of an unidentified Chinese, aged about 40. in the Rochore Canal. 50 yards from the Rochore Police Station. A Chinese boatman saw the body stuck in the mud at low tide and made a report to the police. Police
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    • 73 5 Free Press ChL.ese Oorrcsponden t MR. Yong Yit Lin. has been elected chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Com merce for 1948-1949 H^ defected Mr. Li< a Ying Chc»w. pre-war Chairman ot the Chinese Chamber, by a narrow margin of 16 votes to 14 Mr. Tan
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    • 99 5 INCREASED rations of daily I necessities, textiles and i consumer goods in the NEI are coming into force in the near iuiure. according to ofTicial information in Bata- via. A s irom today, the nee, ration wiil be increased. The 1 textile ration, hcis increased; bv
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    • 229 5 OIXGAPORE Food Control authorities are tightening •J their check on the supply and iswue of weekly rations of rice, sugar, wheat flour, and butter by retail shops. New food control reflations published by the Government over the week-end wani holders of retail licences that they
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    • 106 5 IN COnJttQCtlOn with the visual education programme of the Education Department, the Public Relations Film Unit, which has already shown Henry V to 12 schools in Singapore, will screen the film for four more schools this week. The Film Unit will arrange seven shows (including
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    • 28 5 Durir.g the temporary absonse of Mr. P. A. B. McKerron from the Cojony, Mr. Andrew Gilmour. Secretary for Economic Affairs, will act as Colonial Secretary.
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    • 189 5 AN official Dutch statement estimates rubber production during 1948 at 275,000 tons fo North Sumatra and 169,000 tons for the East Coast region. The statement says the potential production will not suffer more than 10 per cent as old trees are removed. Th<? high average production
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    • 296 5 rrvHE Malayan branch of the X Royal Asiatic Society will publish in August or September this year a journal devoted to two papers en certain aspects of Mohammedan law by Mr. Justice Taylor. In process of production, is the Society's 175-page journal, containing articles by
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    • 48 5 A batch of Republican soldiers, who were evacuated from the East Java front, has arrived at Blitar. The Chung Hua Chung Hui (Chinese Association) of Madiun and Bodjonegoro has sent a total of 50.000 rupiahs. to be used for the benefit of these soldiers.
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    • 134 5 AN increase in the export trade of the Netherlands East Indues is repoited Oy the Central Statistical Otfic© of the NEI Government at Bate via. which has just released figures lor December last. The total export is valued at 42 million N.F.I, guilders (Malayan $33,600,000). The rubber
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    • 104 5 MIXED CLUBS DENOUNCED MIXFD youth clubs for boys and girls under 16 were denounced by Mr. Basil Henriques. an authority on youth education, who is visiting Australia under the auspices of the British Council, during an achlr in Melbourne. Boy s should be trained to be manly, and girls to
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      50 5 ba^^u^t in M S /r S/ c an K d So ?th Pacific, the site of proposed Australian naval nri nJLIeZ the art e u s bas the war against Japan. Flying boat nose hanpars are visible under the palms. The other buildings were formerly used as storesheds and workshops.
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    • 68 6 JAINt Exclusfae to the Singapore Free Press in Malava MORE OATtS mtr^° r Yotl OOfl'r VhO —rM KWOWMNjJf^TMERE'S THE -^lMtii Kwn THIS K wupof WcN^lAl^i AND BARBtD WIRE Jg( HAVE To SMUGGLE J HERE, JANE!-Taml-iKiN .LAB. K^j R V?^lm\^ URStLF INTO IN FACT H-'S <j AND PLANT— HI/ LIVE IN
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  • SPORTS...
    • 165 7 Queen's Park Hold Derby To -Draw I round of this season's F. A. Cup brought I cks, Queens Park Rangers going closest to I i days sensation by holding the powerful I to a I—l draw. Rangers players and most I ipportera will never be convinced that I sing goal
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    • 194 7 OL YMPIC TEAM MAY GO STALE r\ spite of what many feel is the dangerously close proximity of the national swimming championships to the Olympic Games, it is now unlikely that any official move will be made for a change of date They will be held at Scarborough from July
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    • 87 7 Arcadia California, Sunday. THE Argentine horse Talon, carrying eight st. 10 pounds, and ridden by E. Arcaro, won the $100,000 (£25.000) Santa Anita handicap here yesterday by a short head from On Trust (8.9), ridden by J. Longden. with Double Jay (8.6), ridden by J. Gilbert,
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    • 83 7 Ted Ftnton, manager of Colchester, is preparing a new Plan.This time it's an A plan. Ted's latest job is to think ,of some way of cracking Arsenal's stonewall defence in the friendly game with League leaders at Highbury provisionally fixed for April 27. Manager Tom Whittaker thinks
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    • 62 7 Soccer tours between the United Kingdom and the Dominions, on similar lines to present cricket and rugby trips, may result from an Empire conference to be held in London this summer durGames. The Football Association are now awaiting replies to letters of Invitation sent last j
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    • 28 7 Singapore Harbour Board Boys' Club beat the Harmony Musical Association three-two at table tennis. In another match the Boys' Club lost to Yew Chee Sia two-five.
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    • 70 7 SKI. Sun l ..ips. title d trea ft :-5660 points 1 \t title cont st with I Kims, and H ird with 5 in hips lor the fee, did not get a re--0li?e into the first Bnal piacings. gai *> v won the of the champi
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    • 340 7 LONDON, Sunday. IIfORE than 170,000 spectators saw the four Cup ties, and special squads of police were on duty at the grounds to shepherd them. Many of the thousands of Blackpool fans, whc arrived in London to see their team play, were or the ground
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    • 397 7  -  ARCHIE QUICK By FROM what I saw of Royal Navy and Royal Marines soccer eleven against the Spartan League at Slough they are likely to be poor relations of this seasons inter-services tournament. They were much poorer than the teams the Army and R.A.F. can
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    • 446 7 DESPISED" HORSES WIN $150, 000 Record of K. L. importations WXTTPXT ,r KFSOM JEEP HEN Mr. S. B. Palmer imported for Selangor owners, the first batch of maidens, cynics shook their head and passed unanimous judgment that they formed the worst batch of racehorses ever to be brought to Malaya.
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    • 161 7 RANDOLPH Turpin made ~hort work of Gerry Me. Cready, the Belfast middleweight, at Harringay the referee stopping the ontest in the first of their six-round bout. The Irishman had no defence against Turpin's punches, McCready was staggered by a right to the chin as soon as
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    • 118 7 German To Play For Leeds LONDON, Sunday. k GERMAN prisoner-of- war has registered as a footballer with Leeds United, the English League Division Two Club. He is Heinz Mosch. a 25--year-old ex-Luftwaffe sergeant from Annaberg, near Chemnitz, in the Russian Zone. Mosch, who will play under the English name of
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    • 89 7 Georgetown, British Guiana, Sunday. THE second cricket match between the Marylebone Cricket Club and British Guiana was abandoned Saturday because the grounds were unplayable. Torrential rains fell throughout most of the night. When officials of the M.C.C. and the j British Guinea Cricket Board of Control inspected the
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    • 138 7 Olympic athletss unknown THE U.S. track and field 1 squad in this summi.s Olympic games will be studded with names of athletes o now are comparatively unknown," Princeton University track coach Matty Geis jredicted. He said that "every Olympic year brings out a new crop of champions and near-cham-pions—and 1948
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    • 50 7 London Beach, Cal. Feb. 29. J ANKY Jack Kramer required just 40 minutes to dispose professional tennis opponent, Bobby Riggs in straight sets, 6-2 and 6-2. in u match at the Municipal auditorium. Dinby Pails downed Panche Segura, 6-1 and 6-3 in the preliminary.- U.P.
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    • 194 7 Results of yesterday's play ■In the S.L.T.A. indoor tennis championships were: Mixed Doubles: fttfai A. Mitchell and R. R. Macartney beat Mr. and Mrs. W. J. M. Warden 4 6: 6—l: 6—4. Mrs. M. Levien and On? Chew Bee be?t Miss P. Eber and Lim Bong Soo 6—3;
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    • 91 7 KANSAS CITY. Sunday. MEDILL GARTISER, a former Navy flier, bettered the world 60-yard low hurdle record on Saturday night as he led Che University of Missouri to a landslide victory in the Big Sevens indoor track meet. Gartlsers' time of 6 8/ 10 seconds was
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    • 228 7 LONDON, Sunday. TOTTENHAM Hotspurs, the only southern side cer--1 tain of appearing in the semi-final, owed everything to Leslie Bennett playing in his first Cup Ti e of the season. Bennett lost has regular place to Jordan but was recalled for this game and he
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    • 88 7 CoiM fawWiite ■mF.'- ■l\ „y *s§| GU^JV DUNLOP BALLS have been \J^ i/i chosen for exclusive use in V I— the 1948 Singapore Indoor *3^v Tennis Championships now in progress at the Happy jm^P^^ World. TENNIS BALLS HOLLAND SHIPPING AGENCY International Freight Forwarders. Travel Service. Equipped to arrange the Collecting-
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    • 159 7 Crossword No. 324 t Z JIF~~ I5/ l4^ Z I -ir.t 6 v M*OM I «3» i^' C i ff nnl >lemen (7). 10, Grow old I o*d 3, n (6). 15. Break down (8). 17, ■W" l3p 21. Continent (4). 22, Main KSfil?'. (4> 27. Large expanse 43). 28.
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    • 63 7 Today's Sports Events SOCCER: S.A.F.A. League, Div. 1: Seaforths v. Tiger S.A., Jalan Besar Stadium, 5 p.m S.C.C. t. Jollilads, padang, 5.15 p.m., 8.0.D. Sub-Depot No. 1 Challenge Cup match, St. George's Road, 5.15 p.m. BOXING: Singapore (Civilians) championships. Happy World. 8.30 p.m. HOCKEY: S.H.A. knockout tourney Shell Co. v.
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  • NEWS, LATE CITY...
    • 424 8 US. SYNTHETIC RUBBER POLICY ATTACKED 'StoppingMalaya from earning $s' Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sunday. COMMENTING on the recent approval of the Shaf er (Synthetic Rubber) Bill by the United States Armed Services Committee, the Economist says rubber is a very important dollar-earner for the British sterling area. Exports to
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    • 89 8 ABORIGINES PARADE FOR FREEDOM RANCHI, (Bihar). Sunday. THOUSANDS of Adibasis (aborigines) carrying lathis and bows and arrows yesterday paraded through the streets of Ranch! .shouting slogans and demanding a separate province of Adibasis. Jaipal Sinßh. Adibasis leader and a member of the Indian Constituent Assembly urged the creation of such
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    • 129 8 LONDON, Sunday. THE editor of The Times, Mr. Robert McOowan Bar-rington-Ward. died early today at Dar Es Salaam,' Tanganyika. He had been ill for some time and several months ago went on a cruise for health j reasons. Death occurred aboard the ship Llanglbby Castle.
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    • 77 8 TWO nephews of Subhas Chandra Bose, who headed the "Free India Government" in Burma during the war, were arrested by the police at their home in Calcutta yesterday in connection with the incident last Friday, in which bombs were thrown and shots fired at a reception
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    • 77 8 THE Supreme Court at Nanking has ordered the Hopei High Court to Investigate and seal all of Henry PuYi's properties in Peipin* according to Pres s reports This will affect Mrs. Pu-yi and their two children who are now living iii seclusion in Peiping. When
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      22 8 Hungry seagulls sometimes go inland and here they are seen folloiving a ploughman m a field near London Airport at Heathrow.
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    • 386 8 Czech purge is intensified AS the new Communist handpicked Czechoslovak Cabinet prepares to hold its first meeting on Tuesday, the purge of opposition parties, press, movies and radio was intensified following a call by the Communist Prime Minister, Klement Gottwald, for the extinction of "all agents of home and foreign
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    • 93 8 A CURFEW from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. was imposed here today 11 more police were drafted into Accra, after yesterday's rioting in which two African ex-servicemen were killed and 23 injured. The clashes occurn d when the Africans were marching to petition thp Governor on
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    • 73 8 DECLARING that a vote for Mr. He.:ry Wallace would help to elect a liberal United States Congress. Mr. William Z. Foster, national chairman of American Communists, on Saturday night lined up the extreme left w&ig behind the third party presidential candidate. Speaking at a Lenin
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    • 66 8 A United States Army spokesman said yesterday there was "absolutely no foundation" for the report* that American troops were digging foxholes along the line dividing the United States and Soviet sectors of Korea. American troops there had been on the alert since recent riots in the
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    • 228 8 FINN REDS' PRESSURE ON PRESIDENT LONDON. Sunday. nrTHE Communist press of JL Finland turned its propaganda full blast on "reactionaries" today as Communist organizations moved to i bring Finland more closely into the Soviet sphere Dy bringing pressure on President Juho Paasikivi to Initiate the Russo-Finnish mutual assistance pact "proposed"
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    • 89 8 TOKIO, Sunday. GEN. Douglas MacArthur advised would-be investors in Japan that there is a "critical shortage of materials and service facilities" in Japan. Gen. MacArthur, who last month announced that persons wishing to Investigate investment possibilities would be allowed to enter Japan, expanded that announcetoday. He
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      34 8 Fawzi Bey El Kaoukji was named commander of the volunteer Arab armies to liberate Palestine at a recent meeting of the Arab League in Cairo. With him in the picture is his wife, Tarfa.
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    • 216 8 chemist. The chemist found th* liquid to be genuine. Recently the German criminal police stumbled on the activities of the ring and one investigator posed as an Interested Swiss. When the deal was made, the operators were arrested.- A.P. MUNICH, Sunday. I^LEVEN men have been arrested
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    • 173 8 TOKIO, Sunday. MIAONARI SAITO, 21-year-old ex-convict of Nagoya, is reported to have offered to sell himself into slavery for 50,000 yen (U.5.5250) to obtain medical treatment for his ailing father. When Saito was released rrom prison on Feb. 11, after completing a sentence of
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    • 295 8 NEW DELHI, Sunday. UEAVY defence expenditure, cost of refugee relief, disruption of banking and insurance, dislocation of transport and communications since the creation of the two Dominions six months ago are blamed for estimated deficits of £20,000,000 for India and £25,000,000 for Pakistan. The Indian Finance
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    • 57 8 A German dance band player in Saxony-Anhalt in the Soviet zone, pushed his trumpet through a portrait of Karl Marx and played the comic song, "You are badly shp.ved today." with the portrait hanging on his instrument. He will be out of gaol in three months, the
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    • 50 8 Ram Gopal, famed Indian male dancer who has been playing to packed houses in Paris for the past fortnight, has received an invitation from Pandit Nehru, Premier of India, to represent his country at the International Dance Festival in New York in October.- Reuter
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    • 252 8 m/*i^ivii>o, aumiay. pENERALISSIMO Chiang Kai-shek was today vJ. reported to have announced the imminent dispatch of several crack armies to the Manchurian front to re-open the vital supply routes in the northeast. He said the Government, no less than the Manchurian statesmen, who were paying him
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    • 81 8 NANKING, Sunday. HERE is the latest note on the China inflation: In the Szechuan village of Luhsien, the Hsin Min Pao reported, street cleaners are burning the national currency in small denominations 100 Yuan and below by weioht. The charge is 92,000 (Chinese) per kati.
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    • 82 8 TAKING uranium detectors. 1 Mr. Milton Reynolds, the millionaire fountain-pen maker who flew round the i world with Captain William Odom. former British ferry: pilot, last April, took off from Chicago yesterday in a specially-equipped plane, piloted by Captain Odom. on the first stage of
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    • 74 8 A^TRALIvf 01 feS the Perciva? '^l that of Ml -si Bum 1 1 A ussk reacti* |Wi!jn includii c« oni I I I ins army in Mala?,!! CjPb." and lacked :-l modtrn warfare p I fcr^K 1 -I toria branch of the ftj I said J i b( gtonlnjj,
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    • 69 8 ATHENS. Susd| GREFK Army Headqs ek troop r Saturday cool offensivi forces filtrated int. Thirty-nine z killed in air attacks, a more were killed is II soaltlea were sever. UM 18 wounded. The eu n rrillas wertaS i to have kidnapped tit boys up to 14 years i from
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    • 46 8 RADIO Australia said!* that 13 hieh-rjj ralitn penerab JJ commended to the hm rnmpnt that aa- ary training K imm- TV. to tne Miniver said: m ic nor btcttfW nor racket bomb? other development minat. the nejes;^ trained army to i J hold territory. U.P.
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    • 34 8 Am'hclALMarkrtror'jJ jm ihe *%*r 11a.m. today m*^ No. 1 R.S.v Spd v t in hal« Mar^Vo I R.S v tS in iMIM So I»• f( > ii. teta n,ki J Ton*- of marW^J,.
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    • 140 8 TENDER No. 4 SALE OF ABMI POOWW I Tenders are Invited for the purci >r w>r PoodstufTs:- O NDl Tlo> LOT NO. ITEM. KfUKlT(**** SP/44 379 Tons ATTA FOH \NIMAU SP/45 5,000 Lbs DHALL SP/46 5 Tons OATMEAL. SP/47 2 Tons BISCUITS jl SP/48 42 Tons MILK POWDER .^C SF/49
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