The Singapore Free Press, 12 March 1948

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA IIT.IIO SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1948 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    BRITISH INDUSTRY TO PEG PROFITS
    345 1 BRITISH INDUSTRY TO PEG PROFITS New cci ling en selling prices LONDON, Thursday. DRITISH industry today put the nations manufacturing firms on their honour to hold or lower all price and profit levels. The action came m answer to the Government call for a plan to help curb inflation and
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    THAT CHINA IS TOLD ABOUT MALAYA
    41 1 >yan tven to Nanking chung. I the Hua daily public*not giv< up have little running iheir said And it Chinese fl Books d of Singa1 1 low con- I '.'S Of R'Utold >.pore tnp Chinese
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    'Stop talking says Russia
    205 1 BIG 4 MEET OH PALESTINE NEW YORK, Thursday. WHEN the "Big Four" met to discuss Palestine today M. Gromyko (Russia) announced that he rejected any proposal to have further consultations with Arabs and Jews. If that was intended, he would not participate. The views of both
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    THROWNOUT OF JEEP, KILLED
    47 1 THROWNOUT OF JEEP, KILLED A Chinese woman was fatally injured yesterday when she was thrown out of a jeep as it swerved to avoid a dog m Jurong Road near the junction of Bukit Timah Road at 9.30 p.m. She died shortly after being admitted to hospital.
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    THEY 'LIFTED' A TANK
    71 1 FIVE youthful Palestine Arabs anxious to enlist m the Arab Liberation Army rolled into Beirut yesterday m a 12-ton tank stolen from the British Army camp m north Palestine where they had been employed. Lebanese police promptly took the tank from them and handed it back
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    PEACE WITH INDIA POSSIBLE SAYS JINNAH
    136 1 KARACHI, Thursday. THE Governor-General of Pakistan, Mr. M. A. Jinnah. declared today that if the Indian Government would shed its superiority complex and deal with Pakistan on an equal footing," there was hope for a peaceful settlement between the two Dominions. He told a
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    PAWN SHOPS: PENALTIES INCREASED
    163 1 Today's Council Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE pawnbrokers have not been fully cooperative m the recovery of l stolen property, said the Attorney-General, Mr. E. J. Davies, m explaining to the Advisory Council this mornIng a bill which increases the penalties for not reporting the possession
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    Venezuela now claims Trinidad
    77 1 THE Trinidad Guardian yesterday reproduced a photograph of front page banner headlines of the Venezuelan weekly paper La Prenza which declared that Britain should I "return" Trinidad and British Guiana to Venezuela, "or we will take them by force." The Guardian commented: "The one request we
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    12 KILLED IN AIR CRASH
    65 1 t I l i THE latest reports state that 12 people were killed and the sole survivor, a woman, was critically injured, when a Skymaster plane, taking off for Miami, crashed and burned out at Chicago on Wednesday night. The plane had nine passeni gers
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    5-POWER PACT READY TODAY
    174 1 BRUSSELS. Thursday. DELEGATES of Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg announced today that they expect to complete by tomorrow a 50-year military, political and economic pact for a Western Union intended to stem the further advance of Communism m Europe. It is expected m London
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    29 1 picture. The extra work entailed m the Marshall Plan to aid Europe has necessitated the appointment of Mr Frederick Hoyer Millar, as an additional Minister to the ington. Planet
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    CHINESE ABROAD MAY PAY TAX
    27 1 mHE Nanking Special Tax A Supervisory Committee has decided that the collection of a "Soak-the-Rich" tax from overseas Chinese would be "optional."
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    MacA NEWS CEHSORED IN JAPAN
    229 1 NEW YORK. Thursday. special New York Times dispatch from Tokio said tha' the OccuDawon authori- tit s are carefully screening 1 the material the Japanese are allowed to read about the American reaction to Gen. Mac Arthur's announcement i of his availability as a PreIsldential
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    More stop-gap aid for Europe
    194 1 TRUMAN ASKS WASHINGTON, Thursday. PRESIDENT Truman today asked the Congress for an additional U. 5.550,000,000. 550,000,000 to help to tide Western Europe over until the European recovery programme is enacted. He said events m Europe "do not permit os, with safety or prudence, to risk
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    GIANT PORT FOR CANTON
    72 1 CANTON is to have a harbour capable ol accommodating 30,000-ton vessels, to be built at the mouth of the Pearl River. Reuter reports. It will take two years to build. The scheme is part of T. V. Scong's reconstruction programme for Kwangtung Province and more than
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    Planning big U.S. tin talks
    92 1 BRUSSELS, Thursday. MALAYA was not represented at the meeting of the executive committee of tne International Tin Study Group here on Wednesday, a member of the Belgian delegation told Associated Press. He said the meeting was routine to plan what would be discussed m Washington
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    P.I. RICE BID: MALAYA MAY GET LESS
    178 1 P.I. RICE BID: MALA YA MAY GET LESS BAGUIO, Thursday. THE Philippines Government is to ask for Burmese and Siamese rice to help meet the 1,200,000-ton deficit m this year's supplies. President Roxas announced today. If the appeal is successful, it can only be at the expense of Malaya, India
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    AMMO EXPLOSION
    40 1 TWELVE workers were killed and another was seriously injured when four explosions rocked the munitions depot at St. Maurice De Remens. Central France, yesterday. Fifty tons or high explosive shells and bombs, former German war materials, exploded. Reuter
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    India protests to Malaya
    74 1 NEW DELHI. Thursday rE Government of India had already made "suitable representations" to the Malayan and United Kingdom Governments regarding the Debtor and Creditor (Occupation Period* Ordinance 1948 introduced m the Malayan legislatures said the Pr?mier. Pandit Nehru, m Parliament today. He added that this Ordinj
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    RED CHIEF HELD
    34 1 Thakin Soe. leader of the i Burmese Red Flag Party, ha, been arrested m Rangoon. where he has been In hiding jsince his Communist mrty i was bannd m January 1947.
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    STOP PRESS
    33 1 The Conservatives he'd North Croydon (result de--1 clared this morning Mr. Fred Harris increas'n.; their majority from 607 to o^r 11.000. The liberal candidate, Air Vice-Marshal Be met. forfeited his deposit.
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    Ideal Home Show Cooking Column PARTY PUDDINGS
    523 2 Ideal Home Show Cooking Column PARTY PUDDINGS The Royal Family attend THE King and Queen, accompanied by Princess Margaret, spent an hour and a half at the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition, Olympia, last week, before it was opened to the public. "This," said the King at the end of
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    436 2  - Joan Castle By THE sweet course must always be chosen to balance and complement the main course. We have all been to a badly planned dinner party where one heavy though delicious dish followed another till with regret we had to say nc altogether to the last course. More cure,
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    Bridge Problem
    309 2 YOU never can tell how the cards wm lie. In this deal the East West cards are shown' and if you play it wrong you' still can make your contract if you rues* it right. But the idea i 8 to play it so you'll make it no
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    Slave girl loses her number
    262 2 By KATHLEEN LYON ■THE girl from Ausch--1 witz can never blot out her memories though the tattooed figures on her arm have gone. She was 16 when she was seized by the Germans m 1942 and branded with the number 1741. The Germans were scouring
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    A BLACK SPRING
    576 2 By Preston Grover A. P. Corr^pondent DARIS'S opening fashion shows disclosed that it is going to be a black spring and you can pick flowers off the hats. Fully half the dresses, suits and coats at the first openings were black or heavily trimmed with black. Hat
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    CHINESE TROOPS COULDN'T HAVE SAVED BURMA
    408 3 Wavell's story of jungle retreat LONDON, Thursday. CIELD-MARSHAL Lord Wavell denied tonight that Burma was lost to the Japanese due to his reluctance to accept Chinese troops when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek first offered them. But Lord Wave]] admitted he was guilty of an error
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    EXAMS. DROVE STUDENTS MAD
    57 3 A NUMBER of students at Farouk University, Alexandria (Egypt), became mental cases last year through taking drugs ir. an effort to pass examinations. Revealing this, the University's Director of Healtfa said 92 per cent, of the 4,300 students were ill m some way m 1947 and
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    'Local troops disappoining'
    92 3 'Local troops disappoining' ORD WAVKI.L reports thai many of the local Imp proved untrained and unreliable. "The jjubitanN of Bumia have shown themselves brave huu<;*h lighters m defence of their country, but rir as irre£iilax> m guerilla warfare," he writes. Regular soldiering and discipline make no ap- dto tlwm. he
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    80 3 picture. A Jewish inter-city bus, after it was struck by a land-mine m the Jerusalem "no- man's -land." One Jew was seriously injured, and another wounded after Arabs were reported to havefired on the occupants as they tried to escave after the incident. Planet Dr. Hitoshi Ashida (second /rom left)
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    Veteran gets his medal 35 years after
    55 3 Mr. W. N .ser- at Monmouih a few to receive the t Medal— -m 1913. Royal •rs -.hen. a-, ncid by or uresent iment at i holder a vacamcy carries with it ElO. and no <.500 a year can he :/uni*ter. reply re"c
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    THEY OUGHT TO BE SHOT
    76 3 THE Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Fisher, said at a meeting at Lambeth: "People ivho go about saying that recovery is round the corner ought to be shot. "They are doing a dreadful thing m encouraging us to think everything is all right." Later his chaplain
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    BRABAZON SAVED
    33 3 The Brabazoci, Britain s biggest air-liner, which has already cost £2.000,000. was I threatened by fire im hangar at Filton, Bristol. Water frozen as it left hoses, but the firemen won.
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    U.S. NAVY IS 'ALL IN MOTHBALLS'
    116 3 U.S. NA VY IS 'ALL IN MOTHBALLS' yUE U.S. is not satisfied 1 including 19 battleships. It is "all m mothballs," C mgressmen complained, and they estimated it would take 90 days for a first-class Amen?al fleet to put to sea. Congressman Harry Sheppard. a leading member of the Appropriations
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    GERMAN GETS LIFE TERM
    46 3 IMPRISONMENT for life was imposed on Wednesday by an American war crimes tribunal on a German police officer. Lieut. Gen. Ulrich Greifelt, for his share m carrying out the Nazi programme of genocide and kidnapping foreign children to raise them as Nazis.
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    UK LOOKING AT CEYLON'S OIL
    71 3 UK LOOKING AT CEYLON' S OIL THE British Government was "looking at the position m Ceylon," where there was no oil rationing, Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer, told the House of Commons on Wednesday. Mr. O. Crosthwaite Eyre <Cons.) had asked Sir Stafford if he would look at
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    Most Aussies are against strikes
    185 3 Most Aussies are against strikes SIX out t>f every ten Australians interviewed m a recent Gallup Poll expressed the view that if men strike the Arbitration Court should not consider their claims until they go back to work- To the question: "If men go on strike, do you think the
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    Vampire plane girl killed
    72 3 TALL. slim. 38-year-old Mrs. Pat Boverley. killed when a plane crashed into a Croydon (London> garden, was the only woman to have flown the 600 m.p.h. Vampire. She was a close friend of test-pilot Geoffrey de Havilland. who died when his experimental jet plane crashed. Mrs.
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    DEHYDRATED ORCHID
    33 3 The White Orchid that topped the Princess Elizabeth's wedding cake had been dehydrated and is expected to retain its natural colour and shape for five years, says the British Travel Association.
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    'Government, troops unprepared'
    126 3 f ORD Wa veil's despatch on the Burma campaign of 1942. published last night, makes clear that m Burma, as elsewhere m the Far East, the British authorities and the local population were unprepared for war. It states that many of the Burmese and Indian troops proved
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    Big windfall likely for PI veterans
    94 3 Big windfall likely for PI veterans rpHE U.S. Veterans' AdX ministration told surprised Filipino veterans and heirs today that the U.S. Congress has put them m line for a possible U.S. $250,000,000 m wartime insurance benefits. The Philippine Army estimates that 50,000 Filipino casualties suffered on Bataan and m the
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    Inquiry into Gold Coast riots
    111 3 THE British Government will set up a commission to inquire into the Gold Coast riots, which cost 26 lives up to March 8, the Under-Secretary for the Colonies. Mr. David Rees-Williams, told Parliament on Wednesday. The terms of reference would include a study of the
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    NEW DEAL FOR EDUCATION
    74 3 DURING the conference of the Australian Teachers' Federation, to be held m Camberra on April 27 and 28, a request will be made to the Conynonwealth Government for £100,000,000 for a "new education deal." The secretary of the Federation, Mr. W. Dobell, stated that one resolution
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    Allied flyers fought Japs to standstill
    316 3 Allied flyers fought Japs to standstill IN RANGOON ttEftENfCG LONDON, Thursday. HEAVILY outnumbered British, American and Indian airmen fought the Japanese to a standst ll over Rangoon and made possible the destruction of vital installations and the evacuation of troops when Britain lost the port to the Japanese m 1942,
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    BBC BROADCASTS
    38 3 The British Postmaster General, states m a written Parliamentary reply yesterday, that the Government has agreed to the BBC. proposal to re-introduce broadcasting until midnight m the light and third programmes as from April 11.— Reuter
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    THE LOSS OP RANGOON
    87 3 "THE last hope of holding Rangoon pract cally vanished," Lord Wavell reported, when the Australian Government refused a request to send troops to Burma. He said he requested support °f Australian troops, at that time en route from the Middle East to Java. when it became
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    GIPSY TOLD (AND GOT) A FORTUNE
    123 3 GIPSY TOLD (AND GOT) A FORTUNE INTO the village grocery sat n of 44-year-old Miss Pall"' Da vies, near Eghvyswrw CN. Pembrokeshire), there walkt:l a gipsy who told her fortune ior £1. The gipsy. 50-year-old MM Geraldine WorraU call* d again and agajn. Miss Davies parted •H b £1,823, and
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1948. Death of a Democrat
    384 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1948. Death of a Democrat AfiHE pry and horror with A which the world has read of the death vi Jan Masuryk cr e as much the measure of democracy's grief for the passing of Czechoslovakia ribute to the memory of great democrat.
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    South East Asia's Rice
    266 4 ONE of the reasons which has prompted the Filipino and Indian delegations at Baguio to se?k the transfer to Asian countries of responsibility for the allocation of South East Asia's I rice is the feeling that the I.E.F.C. has treated British colonies too generously. It is
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    Ceylon's social progress
    799 4 Ceylon's social progress THE problem of unemployment and social service schemes are now under the active consideration of the Government of Ceylon. Though the question oi unemployment m Ceylon does not give rise to alarm the Minister oi Labour and Social Services Mr. T. B. Jayah is convinced that the
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    HEAD OF WEST JAVA
    194 4 RADEN Wiranatakusuma, chosen last week as head of the new West Java state. Pasudan. began his association with Republican politics m 1945 when he became Minister of Internal Affairs m President Soekarno's first Republican Government. In November 1945, he resigned, m order to become president of
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    People in Singapore make news
    956 4 People in Singapore make news Lieut-Col. G. B. Hett, D.F.C., of the Pre-occupa-tion Claims (Army) Commission attached to G.H.Q., FARELF.. and Mrs. Hett. Thus commission is engaged m investigating all claims against the Army for work done and properties requisitioned before the fall of Singapore with a view to settlement
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    GREATER KILLER THAN WAR
    891 4 GREATER KILLER THAN WAR results from their own resources. By PATRICK CROSSE Reuters' Correspondent BETWEEN four and five million people are killed every year by tuberculosis more than were killed m any year of the war it is estimated by the World Health Organisation. Between forty and fifty million are
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    179 5 p rei Press Siaff Reporter poKt i> hl me furtl%er shipments of Japans tkia month, valued at about $750,000. jndmks tfc* fir-t exports from Japan lt dt.it;.! -upplies, thermos bottles, rubber!>a shoes and ■dHHi. ships the Glenapp is due to ihni tl>e next few days. .She consignment of "ginseng"
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    PLAQUE TO NURSES
    32 5 [he BSf? is to .ke olace at he 4 30 Gimsor. a.H is been pur-.->ore *s" M lay* s at for I rr and subscrib- arc invited to »nv.
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    Greeting Gurkhas
    53 5 picture. Commander T. Culliford, R N., Superintendent of the Sea Transport Office. Far East, who escorted the Governor of Singapore. Sir Franklin Gimson. the G O.C. Gurkha Division, Major Ge-.ieral C. H. Boucher, and other Serx>ice chiefs of beard the Strathnaver yesterday to meet members of the Gurkha
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    Anxiety over HK legislation
    448 5 DEBTOR-CREDITOR BILL IF the principles of the Singapore Debtor-Creditor (Japanese Occupation) Bill are applied to Hong Kong, the result will be the validation against the bank of considerable sums, both m genuine and m occupation currency, which the Bank never received but which were paid to
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    BANKS ASK 'FAIRER DEAL'
    232 5 Memo to Govt. on new Bill Free Press Staff Reporter CINGAPORE Chinese and Indian banks, which were compelled to function during the Japanese occupation, have sent a joint protest to the Government against certain provisions m the proposed Debtor and Creditor (Occupation Period) Bill which they
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    'REBECCA' IS WORTH SEEING
    139 5 'REBECCA' IS WORTH SEEING night is the last X night of Singapore Stage Club's show Rebecca at the Victoria Theatre. As an experiment, the performance will start at 6.15 p.m. to give playgoers the opportunity to attend the RAF dance m the Memorial Hall afterwards. The Stage Club is slowly
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    Police found 1,000 firearms in Peninsula
    177 5 Police found 1 ,000 firearms in Peninsula ABOUT 1,000 firearm? and nearly 251, 00 C rounds of ammunition, m addition to a huge quantity of explosives, were either recovered or found m the Malayan Union during 1947 as a result of inten sive probing by the Police Official figures show
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    51 5 picture. Two Chinese nurses from Malaya, Miss Alice Chia (iiift) and Miss Ooi Son Im, winners of the A.I. F. Scholarship Fund, who are students at the Kindergarten Trainins College, Melbourne, will represent the women of China m a payeant to raise funds for the Australian war Nurses Memorial Centre.
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    FAMED AUTHOR IN SINGAPORE
    83 5 DICHARD TREGASKIS. famous American journalist and author, is m Singapore for a one-month stay durine which he expects to write about this city and the Federation of Malaya. He is the author of "Guadacanal Dairy," one of the best-kn;>\vn war books. The motion picture of the
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    41 5 picture The Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, accompanied by his ADC. Capt. D C. Snowdon. are here seen about to board the troopship Strathnaver at the SHB wharf yesterday to meet officer and men of the durkhn Rifles. Free Press
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    5 years, rattan for robbery
    67 5 PUND guilty of committing armed robbery of three pieces of copra, valued at $1, and a petrol lamp at the Cheang Meng Oil Mills it Lorong 23. Gey lan*, m FVd. last year, Tan Ah Keat alias Tan Ah Kee was yesterday sentenced tx> five
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    Prisons inquiry
    85 5 THE formation of a Prison Inquiry Oommisr>i?n 10 Singapore was formally announced yesterday. Its terms of reference have been extended to include: The reformative treatment of offenders of all cla^se s and ages; The aiding of oiler. ders of all classes and ages both before and after *e!e«se
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    'GREAT SCOPE' IN BORNEO, BRUNEI
    183 5 fTiHERE is "undoubtedly great scope" In British North Borneo ar.d Brunei for enterprise such as the British have shown m the past m developing the ra tural resources of backward territories, and the outlook is very promising for these jWho have energy and inika- tive,
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    CHINESE HAIL TRADE TALKS
    267 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent /CHINESE merchants m Singapore are gratified over V- the reports that the trade talks, now beinjr conducted between Malaya and the N.E.1., will resuit m an agreement providing either for the abolition or the relaxation of trade restrictions between the two countries.
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    SENT TO JAIL
    56 5 TWO Chinese trisha riders, 1 Teo Ah Puay and Low Ah Puang, were yesterday sentenced to 16 months' a.nd four months' rigorous imprisonment respectively, by Ihe Fourth District Judge. Mr H A. Forrer. whe n they were fcrad guilty of being th^ occupamts of a house us^d
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    UK stopping through HK
    246 5 UK stopping through HK £N the House of Commons yesterday, the Pinjn'nl j Secretary to the Treauju. Mr Glsnvil Hall, said Brk; 1 'shall strain cv r y n rye o find a solution and stop i, c preventable leakage of d otars" through Honj Kon^. He was answering an
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    RURAL BOARD
    27 5 The monthly meeting of t u e Singapore Rural Board will be held on Mpr C h 13. m the Laiul Office, at 10 a.m.
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    TUDOR LOSS INQUIRY ORDERED
    474 6 'Women m Star Tiger were scared' LORD MACMILLAN, a former Lord of Appeal, is to hold a court of investigation into the loss of the Tudor IV. Star Tiger, with 31 lives, on its flight to Bermuda on Jan. 30. It is the first court of
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    63 6 Two saloon coaches have been prepared at the London Midland Region railway workshops at Wolverton (Buckinghamshire) for use by Princess Elizabeth and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh. A view of the lounge (above) shoiving the settee, four easy chairs and small table. (Left), a corner of Princess Elizabeth's bedroom,
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    Huk round-up likely to be postponed
    124 6 Huk round-up likely to be postponed THE Philippines Secretary I of the Interior, Jose Zulueta, ha s issued orders to stay the impending arrest of I suspect Huks and Peasand Union members, as well as of the two orRanisatioiLS, which were outkiwed by President Roxas this week. The Secretary told
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    BUGS DROVE THEM OUT
    53 6 A I the telephones In the small Ruhr town or Radevormwald were out of order for 36 hours when bed bugs squatted In the telephone exchange and multiplied so rapidly that operators refused to carry on a<nd walked out. After fumigation, the lodgers left and the
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    'THE IDEAL AMERICAN'
    64 6 THE ideal American of the day, says 33-year-old Mr. Harold Taylor, Americas youngest University president. Is one who "tells all his secrets without being asked, believes we should be prepared for war with Russia, holds no political view without prior consultation with his employer, does not ask
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    MacA may have to quit army
    269 6 QIIOI'LD Gen. Mac Arthur win the Republican O presidential nomination he would have to retire from the army to campaijrn. This is provided m a joint Army-Navy agreement announced on March 10, 1944, and which is .still m effect. It says a member of
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    GIRL LIKED 250 DOCTORS' VISITS
    158 6 LEONA MOULES. aged 7 years 6 months received a visit from 250 doctors at the Royal Melbourne Hospital recently. Their Interest was professional. Leona. whose life was despaired of last July, was introduced to the 250 doctors because of the medical interest roused by the
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    ONE BRIGHT SPOT TODAY'
    84 6 TH E American ConsulGeneral m Batavia, Mr. Walter Foote, said m San Franciso yesterday; "Indonesia, if the peace agreement sticks, is one bright spot on earth today," because m normal times exports were four times the amount of imports, and there has been tremendous progress" m
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    ROYAL DOLLAR. RAISER
    32 6 Six tapestry chair seate worked by Queen Mary have beeoi sold m America for U. 5.510,000, says a cable from Dowager Lady Reading, chairman, to W.V.S. headquarters m London.
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    MPs uneasy on Argentine railway deal
    291 6 MPs uneasy o n Argentine railway deal THE Argentine agreement, under uk effect hands over the Arirentin h Bri^ turn for food, was vigorously 1^ h *<l of Commons by Mr. John Strachev V n lh *t He challenged the Opnos tnn i ltr «f L food ought not to
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    Libel settled out of court
    117 6 The High Court m London has approved a settlement, out of court, of a libel action brought by Dr. Chaim Weizmann. Jewish Agency head. against the London Daily Mail. Dr. Weizmann complamed of an erroneous report, m some editions of the Daily Mail on Jan.
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    INDIAN ENVOY
    46 6 The Indian Ambassador to Washington, Mr. Asaf All is leaving his post at the end of April or early m May. The Ambassador's appointment for one year expired on Fob 20 but nc is remaining temporarily at the request of the Indian Government.— Reuter.
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    UNKNOWN
    21 6 Rl Or <hi«l s F the Dolphin t!** knoekMl ?andl Fun r'"^ lfld June tow was knorL, doctor revived A.P.
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    76 6 lihe Can has been asked to lei rl«d Chines their v. out ri At presei.; C can go to the live only al produce a The Coir. peal of the Ch;: tion Act Ml regulations for submission I Ls m mb.r> eious, universi' representatives 1 ter.d that the contrary
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    LOST AND FOUND
    39 6 THE White H to lose i appointrr. Franks a* Brttttl m or n*i TIV F< i pate: would be aco ipearcd. it tbc Bta art the White They were not W"i the British Ep discreetly, bi:
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    14 6 Mr. Eamon D mer Prime MH arrived m Wasl Secretary C Marshall U.P.
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    GRAND PRIX TO WIN AGAIN
    690 7 GRAND PRIX TO WIN AGAIN Game Law may be chance From EPSOM JEEP Both iw KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. 1/111 Trainer Milton Sullivan and Jocky Abdul Mawi are not worried over Rosewell's Boy's splendid gallop on yesterday morning and are confident that their stable pride, Grand Prix 11, will do it
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    Horses to follow
    68 7 MINSTREL BOY. Twice unlucky at Bukit Timah KENOIR. In splendid form. ATHLETE. Won like champion at Bukit Timah GRAND PRIX 11. Retaining his brilliant form ELECTROPLATE. Won cleverly over distance at Bukit Timah, m line fettle. SKITTALS. Improving with every outing, out to equal Malayan Turf record
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    Chinese Olympic Swimmers
    61 7 Chinese Olympic Swimmers i" U fn L er holi- gu, ripon Penang The Smcupore Chipropose crn set- t team, and JJJ for the Malayan Compete m Shanghai rti the two team* ft Wan teams will I*- > ore on *?and 4 for the big will be orgathe Singapore Lswimmins Club.
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    23 7 irsday. a of :n a match. ins Walcotfs first apPK since the pion tson a ted Is 1945 and held Wa round.
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    D-DAYS BAN AFTER K.O.
    44 7 10S lay. KER world heavyweight n Jack Dimpsey f rid be favours a leftsI prrvidine a boxer who tec Irnocked out could :xty cpsey said he aas m f) accord" with the Bill lin the Musachusetti providing such a U.P.
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    FRENCH TEAM VS ENGLAND
    89 7 PARIS, Thursday. THE French Rugby Federation today announced the team to meet England at Colombes on Mar. 29 as follows: Andre Alvarez (Tyrosse): Michel Pomathios (Agen), Maurice Therreau (Bourg), Pierre Ddzabo (Tyrosse), Jean Lasseque Toulouse); Leon Bordenave (Toulon). Yves Bergougnan (Toulouse); Jean Prat tLourdesV Guy Basquet
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    ITALIAN TO MEET AL PHILLIPS
    47 7 LONDON. Thursday. ALVARD Cerasani, 22-year-old Italian featherweight, will fight Al Phillips, former British featherweight champion, over eight rounds at 129 pounds at Harringay Arena m London next Tuesday night. The Italian fighter substitutes for Johnny Mollav. a North of England boxer.- A.P.
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    GREEK RIDER IN ENGLAND
    93 7 LONDON, Thursday. DIMITRIOS Papadopoulos has joined the ranks of English flat-race jockeys, and has been granted a licence by the Jockey Club. He was champion jockey m Greece m 1933, 1934. 1935, 1936 and 1938; of Rumania la 1942, 1943 and 1946, and of Hungary m
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    Wrestling Will Be Good
    151 7 A GOOD nght can be ex■rv pected at the Happy World Arena tomorrow night, when the Italian heavyweight wrestler, Leon Labriola meets the Sikh champion of I poh, Jagindar Singh. Labriola had little difficulty m stopping Bosca Boa last week. However, he will find the Sikh
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    PAKISTAN TO PLAY SWITZERLAND
    28 7 ZURICH. Thursday. The first round Davis Cup tie between Pakistan and Switzerland will be played at Montreux from April 30 to May 2. Reuter.
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    PAKIR REACHES SEMI-FINAL
    492 7 A G. B. Pakir, ex Junior champion of Singapore, provided the surprise of the evening when he had a fairly easy victory m two straight sets against the former Malayan and Singapore doubles champion, Yadi, m the quarter-finals of the singles tournament of the Singapore Lawn Tennis
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    CHAMPION AFTER 15-FEET VAULT
    238 7 CHAMPION AFTER 1 5-FEET VAULT NEW YORK. I^ARLE Meadows, who won the pole vault for the United States m the 1936 Olympic games, predicts he will clear 15 feet m his current comeback "if I can get enough competition between n^w and July." "It takes time to regain your form
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    18 7 photos. England's champion jockey, Gordon Richards, working horses at Newmarket m preparation for the flat racing season.- Pix
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    MALAYAN B'TON ENTRIES
    536 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. are 76 entries for the Malayan Badminton A Championships to be held at Victoria Institution Hall from Mar. 26 to Mar. 29. Mrs. Cecilia Samuel, triple Crown winner at the last Championships has not entered. The following are the entries: Men 's Singles Selangor:
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    REGATTA AT CHANGI
    98 7 The Royal Air Force Chang i Yacht Club will hold its second post-war regatta on Sunday. Besides the Changi club, the R.A.F. Seletar. H.M.S. Terror, Far East Land Forces, Royal .< l.i gapore, 19 Air Formation Signals and Naval Base Yacht Clubs will participate, and it is
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    WEEK-END TEAMS
    182 7 *J*HE following have been selected to represent the S.C.C. II at soccer vs. Chung Cheng High School to-day at 5.15 p.m. on the Padang. J. Bell; M. Collins. Calder; Hamilton, O. Taylor, H. Twist (Capt); Elchlesheiir, A. Howes. N. Davis. W. P. Hill, Saunders. Reserve: P. Gilmour. The
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    Player off in div. one
    170 7 Player off in div. one DOUGH play developed AY during the closing stages of the S.A.F.A. first division league match played at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday between the R.A.F. Seletar and the Malay Football Association and Salleh, the Malays' player, was ordered off the field following an argument with
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    Lincoln & National callovers
    167 7 Lincoln National callovers LONDON. Thursday. THE cards on the Lincolnshire Handicap (Mar. 13) and the Grand National I March 20) were called over at the Victoria Club here tonight. Lincolnshire 100-6. Clarion offered. 20-1 taken: 20-1 Flexton taken and offered; 22-1 Cresta Cup offered. 25-1 taken: 25-1 Aigle Royal offered.
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      73 7 SPORTS DIARY FOR TODAY SOCCER: S.A.F.A. League, Div. I—Rovers1 Rovers S.C. v. I.A-, Jalan Resar Stadium, 5 p.m.; Mansfield XI v. -vocony a.C Geylang Stadium, 5.15 pan.; Kota Raja Club w. Kr*n# Urr.'i-Ns Station XI. Victoria Srhool ground, 5.15 p.m.; SCC. M< A" v. Chang Cheng High School, padanc. 5.15
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      246 7 F.P. Crossword No. 333 CLUES ACROSS 2, Magnificence (9). 7, Nobleman (4). 9, Chalk pencil (6). 11, Symbol (5). 13, Small nail (3). 14, Others (4). 16, Unhappy (3). 17, Shilling (3). 19, Suffer (3). 21 By way of (3). 22, Inferred (7) 24, Clattered (7). 26. Foundation (3). 27,
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    UK ENDS DEADLOCK WITH HOLLYWOOD
    385 8 UK ENDS DEADLOCK WITH HOLLYWOOD 4-year pact on payments LONDON, Thursday. BRITAIN and Hollywood today ended their sevenmonth deadlock over the Import of American films, the President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Harold Wilson, announced m the House of Commons today when he reported that a four-year agreement had
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    34 8 UQ JSf The small, store-built Cornish village of M ll> Boscaswell, m the heart of the tin mining cjuntry. The bell-cawed building on the left was once v\9d as a Smuiav School for children.
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    IRON CURTAIN MAY FALL ROUND CHINA
    174 8 IRON CURTAIN MAY FALL ROUND CHINA NEW YORK, Thursday. THE Chinese Ambassador to the United States, Dr. Wellington Koo, warned today that the iron curtain will fall around China if the Communist Party there succeeds m overthrowing the Nationalist Government. Dr. Koo was addressing the New York State Chamber of
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    Anglo-Dutch claims pact
    67 8 LONDON, Thursday. AN Anglo-Netherlands agreement for the settlement of war-time and post-war claims was signed today by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, and the Dutch Finance Minister, Mr. P. Lieftinck. The pact also applies to claims and counter-claims between Britain and the Netherlands East
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    56 8 picture. The coffin of Special Constable C. S. Dasen. being borne by six of his comrades pass a Police guard -of -honour at Chua Chu Rang Cemetery yesterday afternoon. SPC Dasen, who ivas accidentally shot by a comrade at the Hongkong Bank on Tuesday, while on guard duty was buried
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    RADIO APPEAL
    39 8 On Sunday, at 9.45 p.m. the Pt Rev. J. L. Wilson, Lord Bishop of Singapore, will be broadcasting from Radio Malaya an appeal for funds m a.d of the Orthopaedic Hospital. Singapore. and St Nicholas Home. Penang.
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    QUEENSLAND RAIL STRIKE IS BREAKING
    117 8 BRISBANE. Thursday MORE Qu*-t nskind -ailwaymon repotted back t work Uxlay than at any tim? since their strike began So da\\s a so. The Now South Wales Parliament rejected by 49 votes to 25 a motion of no confidence m trip Labour Government, moved by
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    H.M.S. NIGERIA RETURNING
    63 8 THE British cruiser Nigeria 1 left Port Stanley. Falkland Islands, yesterday. She is returning to Simonstown South Africa from which she sped on Feb. 16 for Antarctic waters after Argentine and Chilean claims to British territory there had been renewed. HM.S. Nigeria will rejoin the South Atlantic
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    MUSLIM LEAGUE TO STAY IN INDIA
    51 8 MUSLIM LEAGUE TO STAY IN INDIA THE MUSLIM League yester--1 day decided to continue to operate as a party m tho Dominion of India. A League convention at Madras vcted to revise its constitution and to devote its principal attention to the "religious, cultural, educational and economic interests t.( Muslims."
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    FRANCE CALLS UP 200,000
    63 8 THE French National Assem--1 bly yesterday passed a bill authorising the Government to call up this year the 200.000 men of the 1948 class < 20--year-olds > who would normally be call d up next year. The Communists, opposing the bill, accused the Government of turning
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    MUST TAKE IT EASY
    27 8 Queen Wilhelmina has been advised by her doctor to restrict her activities to urgent affairs of State, at l^ast until afer Easter- Reuter
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    PARTIES NEAR AGREEMENT
    252 8 PARTIES NEAR A GREEMENT House of Lords reform tTTRTTTAi LONDON. Thursday. V^Hnfh re ement T on the form which a revised British House of Lords might take hi« ho™ reached m the preliminary ™11-pary talks which were continued m London today, it is learned The talks, however, might still break
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    Case may go to Little Assembly
    364 8 CZECH CHL TO UNO NEW YORK, Thursday. T<HE Czechoslovakia's chief delegate to the United x Nations, Dr. Jan Papanek, said today that he would protest to the UNO Secretariat against the shelving of his demand that the Security Council should investigate the Communist coup
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    Canada bans Red aliens
    107 8 CANADA has decided to bar the entry to alien Communists, the Canadian Minister for External Affairs. Mr. Louis St. Laurent, tolii the House of Commons m Ottawa yesterday. The Government had come to the conclusion that it could bar Communists under provisions of the existing Immigration
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    GALE HITS BERLIN
    28 8 A 50 m ph. gal- ra<red m Berlin throughout Wednesday ni<?ht. bringing down more of the city's ruined buildings and inuirino: a aozen persons. Reuter
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    PLANEH, SILENCE RED ARTILLERY
    200 8 SHANGHAI, Thursday. by the Nationalist air force Gen. Fu Tso-yis hard-fighting Suiyuanesc troops have checked the Communists' 48-hour-old threepronged attack on Paoting, provincial capital of Hopei and railway hub, with vigorous counter-blows. To the southwest and east. Red troops are still entrenched on the outskirts, but
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    UK air record is confirmed
    125 8 LONDON. Thursday. THE Royal Aero Club has received a notiii«uic«i from the Fedvratiutti Aeron^utique Internationale that the 100 -kilometre closed circuit cours? record set up by Squadron Leader W. R. Waterman on Feb. 6 at Morton Valence airfield. Gloucester, has now been ronfirmed. Pilo:jnft v
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    SECOND VATICAN OFFICIAL ACCUSED
    154 8 ROME Thursday. liHE Osservatore Romano announced tonight that the resignation of Giulio Guibptti from the offlco of "Administrator of Holy See Properties" was provoked by his involvement m the financial c rations of Monsignor Edoerdo Prettner Cippico who la now m Italian Police custody. These operations,
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    SETBACK FOR SECURITIES
    464 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Thursday. ORITISH Government securities today suffered a 13 setback as a result of small but persistent selling. says Reuter's Financial correspondent. Both Tins and Rubbers were also down. N.Y. stocks J)ECLINES m grains and cotton prompted increased selling on the New York Stock
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    Rubber prices
    170 8 A SPECIAL Market corresponded givtm the prices of rubber at 11 *.ra. today M follows: Buyers Seller* Cts. Cte. per Ib per Ib tio. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose 3T^h 38 v« No. 1 R.S.S. fob m bales Mar. 38V. 38. No. 2 R.S.S. fob m bales Mar. 37
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    UK troops train guns on Haganah
    207 8 UK troops train guns on Haganah JERUSALEM tk,, I held S a I roadblock at th* to tne JeiSt^ headquarters t^l Positions 50 van? 1 trained m who had taken c>l rescue operational scene of the erij earlier today m 3 ;'ews were killed 'S| injured. A Jewish Agency spoj
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      41 8 WEATHER— Cloudy: rain WEATHER report for the next 21 hours compiled by the RAF: Cloudy, with pro«peeis of thundery rain or showers, gradually beromlnc fair tonight Wind Sooth to South Wrat, Hcht Temperatures: Mai 92 deg X: mm, Z\ drg F
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      13 8 I SPORE HIGH IIDES Today Tomorrow 11.41 a.m. 12.12 p.m ft. 9.2 ft.
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