The Singapore Free Press, 17 March 1948

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    22 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I :M" SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1948 PKII fc m l I> t >
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    5 1 the :.onhat, he acn m
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    PLAN TO POOL COLONIAL RESOURCES
    315 1 Britain and Europe Union TU LONDON, Tuesday. I Hh pooling of British colonial resources with those of France and Belgium, and the eventual disappearance of British imperial preferences, are regarded by British observers as the outstanding contributions which Britain will make to economic co-operation m
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    45 1 The Handley Page Hast' ings, Britain's most modern military transport aircraft, which arrived yesterday at Tengah, took off at 7 a.m. this morning for Darwin piloted by Sqd.-Ldr. H. G. Hazelden, chief test pilot for Handley Page. The Hastings is capable of carrying 50 infantrymen.
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    More riots on Gold Coast
    64 1 ou -a I (Gold Coast), Tuesday. *l p roadblocks and police opened m I at Kumasi, 120 miles M ew di>iurbances reported here j*SB aJ of six men arrested m con- 9 of living" riots m Accra from :J people were killed. In I ttvS
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    ANTI-BOYCOTT MEETINGS
    120 1 Free Press Staff Reporter \T the two meetings to be held tomorrow and Friday by the Singapore Civil Service Association, to urge members to exercise their s on polling day for the Legislative Council election?, i he speakers will include: Dr. A. A. Sandosham, acting Professor of Biology:
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    5 STATES TO SIGN TODAY
    203 1 5 STATES TO SIGN TODAY BRUSSELS, Wednesday. r£ Western Union will come into formal existence this afternoon when the Foreign Ministers of Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg sign the 50 years treaty of mutual assistance and economic cooperation initialled here last week. Mr. Ernest Bevin, M. Georges Bidault,
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    Dutch to settle their war debt
    82 1 THE Netherlands is to pay Britain £45,000,000 m a final settlement of wartime debts, says Reuter. This payment, which will cover all claims and counterclaims arising between Britain the Netherlands and the Netherlands East Indies, is to be made m 20 annual instalments. The
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    BOMB ATTEMPTS ON BOLLAERT
    164 1 SAIGON, Tuesday. q^HE French High Commissioner for Indo-China, M. Emile Bollaert, had a narrow escape when a grenade exploded 15 yards away from him while he was visiting Nha Trang m Annam, on Mar. 11. No one was injured. Another grenade which did not explode, was
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    6 DEAD IN PLANE
    37 1 The wreckage of a missing Brazilian airliner was found yesterday with all the six occupants dead. The plane had been missing since it left Rio de Janeiro for Sao Paulo last Saturaday. A.P.
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    CLAMP ON BOOKS
    32 1 The Board ol Trade has placed seven? restrictions on imix>rt of all books, masazJr.es and periodicals from abroad as a further means 01 reducing tbt drain on dollars, U.P.
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    £30 MILLION OFFER BY UK RETAILERS
    146 1 £30 MILLION OFFER BY UK RETAILERS LONDON. Tuesday. BRITISH retail distributors today answered the Chancellor of Vhe Exchequer. Sir Stafford Cripps* plea for reduced prices and profits with an offer to bear die £30,000,000 cost of a 50 per ce«nt cut of the Government's purchase tax. The efforts of manufacturers
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    LOYALTY TO BRITAIN
    52 1 A FEW hours after the British cruiser Sheffield left Belize, British Honduras, yesterday, the Legislative Council adopted a resolution of loyalty to th e British Empire. The Governor, Mr. Edward Gerald Hawkesworth, reviewed before the Council the dispute with Guatemala, m which Guatemala Is claiming the British
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    TIN ALLOCATIONS
    29 1 The Combined Tin Committee has allotted Pakistan an additional 140 tons of tin and Yugoslavia an additional 110 tons for the first half of 1948. A. P.
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    RECORD CAR SALES
    23 1 General Motors Corporation reported today for 1947 a record peacetime net sales of U553,815,159,000 and a net income of U*****,991,000.
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    CONSUL FALLS TO HIS DEATH
    76 1 Mr. Norman Sands, British Consul at Saigon, seized by a fit of dizziness, fell to his death from a balcony behind the Hongkong Bank building m SaigcLi yesterday. A statement issued by the British Consulate said that Mr. Sands fell about 30 feet to the
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    TO VISIT U.K.
    39 1 Che YusofT bin Ishak director of the Board of Editors of the Utusan Melayu, is to join the six Malayan journalists who are visiting England next month at the invitation of the Central Office of Informaion.
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    Truman may ask new powers
    239 1 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. "THE jittery United States capital, reports United 1 Press today, feared that President Truman, m his "crisis message" to a joint Congress session tomorrow, will seek new emergency powers and finance for a re-armament programme to check the creeping Communist invasion of Europe.
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    GUARDS STOKE PALACE BOILERS
    205 1 LONDON. Tuesday. I ATE this afternoon men of j the Brignde of Guards began to stoke the boilers at Buckingham Palace after the kitchen staff had refused to perform the strikers' duties. It has not yet been decided whether to send Guardsmen 10 revive the central
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    UPROAR OVER 'VARISITY MPs
    108 1 LONDON, Tuesday. THE House of Commons was In an uproar tonight with 500 members cheering and counter-cheering until the House was almost deafened, after tension had arisen from the Government's decision to abolish separate university representation m Parliament. The Opposition strongly objected to this 300-year-old tradition
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    'Roving circus' in Asia
    177 1 'Roving circus' in Asia BAGUIO, Tuesday. nnHE nine-nation Kood x and Agricultural Organisation conference at Baguio today adjourned one day ahead of schedule after adopting by five votes against four a two-year rotation system for the proposed office m South East Asia. The Indian delegate. Mr. 6 Y. Krishnaswamy. who
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    GERMANS GET MORE FOOD
    54 1 TERMAN rations m the Anglo-American zone will be raised on April 1 to th?ir highest level since the occupation began, the Bipartite Control Office announces. The rise will increase the daily calorie average to 1.560 calories from the present 1 300 and will include more sugar,
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  • FOR WOMEN.
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      A 'MIXED GRILL'
      1013 2 Around Singapore Shops TOWN, without shame, that my favourite lunch is a good mixed grill. So, although there are, I believe, people who have sunk so low as to use the term mixed grill m a derogatory sense, to me it stands for a glorious assortment, blending
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      HUMAN NATURE
      169 2 PARENTS who allow intelligent lads oi 11 to play with bows and arrows aro not negligent according to a ruling by Mr. Justice Stable m the King's Bench Division. Boys df that age. he said. cannut br rxpern-d to play with woolly balls. The judge dismissed a claim
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      35 2 The Kinp and Queen arid Priticcss Margaret (whose latmt portrait is seen here) u-ill be yuests during their Australian tour next year of ex-boilermaker Mr. William McKell. ivho succeeded the Duke of Gloucester mt Governor-General.
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      32 2 British film uc.ress Hazel Court models a house coat, part of the collection of British cotton-ivear which she is displaying m Stockholm, Sweden. It is of a raspberry pink white scollop design.
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      195 2 SINGAPORE Blue Network From 12.00 noon to 2.00 p.m. 520 metres In the medium ware band and 7.20 megacycles In tbe 41 metre band. From 6.00 p.m. to 7.45 pun: from 9.10 p.m. to 11.00 p.m 526 metres In the medium wave band, and 4.825 megacycles In the 61 metre
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      202 2 talk A announcements; 8.26 Calling All Hospitals; 9 I.T.M.A. 9.30 News; 9.45 Melodies from i British Films; 10.15 Short Story; 10. 30 Dance Music; 11 Last News Summary. PROGRAMMES IN MALAY: 12 noon Programme Summary, 12.05 Musical Interlude: 12.45 News In Malay; 6 Pro gramme Summary; 6.05 Religious Hour; 6.30
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      390 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune loreca^t lor people bom today BORN on St. Patrick's Day. you may find yourself to be something of a bundle of contradictions. You have the ability to make many friends hut you never push yourself forward to pain attention unduly. You are keenly interested m the
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  • NEWS
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      'We want to buy British' —Pakistan
      283 3 'We want to buy British' Pakistan jUR. AHMED E. H. JAFFER, Pakistan industrial, I'l m a recorded talk flown to Brita n by the Bri i^ i Broadcasting Corporation, said speed m the deiivei of industrial equipment was essenJiaJ to Paki t i and for that reason they were sometimes
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      CZECH UNO MAN WON'T QUIT
      64 3 SOON after Vladimir Houden presented his credentials as newly- appointed Czechoslovak delegate to the United Nations, the old delegate, Dr Jan Papanek. dismissed by the new Gottwald Government, declared he would continue to act as his country's representative. He told reporters over the phone that
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      TAFT'S CRASH
      35 3 A plane, carrying Senator Robert A. Taft on a campaign tour through Maine, crashed on Monday on the ie Kennebec River, Mr. Taft, Republican nominee for the President, escaped without injury. A .P.
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      Bad year for Ceylon rubber
      131 3 Bad year for Ceylon rubber IfEYLON expert 80 8C 3 v tons of rubtrr Eg tiia year 1047 against 101,172 «ens m the previous yz&r. mi considered to be It*, ci lowest to be r corded— h s: total t€in« 111.929 ton the year 1542. Rubber ace- unted for oolv
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      Indian sailors train in U.K.
      102 3 THE second contingent of Indian naval .ratings w^> 'will man vh e cruder Acn which hns been j\i i the Rvxr] I'ian Nnvy an i ia at pre-^r.t refitt n at: CliaUiajn, ye arrived at Pprtamouto frrm Borr vb' art the Rryal I. f naval
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      ARMING OF U.S. MERCHANTMEN
      69 3 "FHE US. Sena!* lias pass i Without a dissent a bill saying the Coven ment nr y ami morc.^ t shins In t»me of na.tior.il emorwncv. T)v measure row goes to Vtkt House. The old Neu**-alitv A''^ forbade arming them At tfhe start of the war
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      WHEAT FOR IRAO
      17 3 Australia's liist \*:ieit s'-il" mcnt to Iraq. tota'Vnc 8.600 tons, has arrived at Br.srai
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      VS. KICKS OUT ALIEN COMMUNISTS
      414 3 Drive now m full stride i POSTWAR drive to get alien Communist ot the U.S. Immigration agent has been faUing with increasing frequency on the shoulder of n£t Commun st f with this announcement Here is a warrant for your deportation More than 30 arrests
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      Hollywood sells out to witch hunt
      89 3 Hollywood sells out to witch hunt Lg Hollywood ir.iininist witch-hunt by the In.ties Committee has been suspenditt!\ as the result of a "gentlemen's" agree- j(»r film companies and the U. S. lorn Clarke. 1 by Hollywood for immunity from was the sacking of ten Hollywood ncluding Edward Dmytryk m, director
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      11 3 IKha--d m 'i has c du:y of the pped and Planet
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      3 BANZAIS AS HE DIED
      56 3 IfEKYO SIIIKATORI, Jap- anese manager of Mvntoukou coal mines near Peiping during the SinoJapanese war. has liCon executed m Peipinp .is war criminal. Before the firing squad shot him. Shiratori shouted three Banzais one for Dai Nippon, another for the Republic of China and the
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      TRANSFER FEE
      22 3 Thieves stole £10 from the petty cash m the office of Mr. Harry Storer. manager of Birmingham City Football Club.
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      Manila airport to be rebuilt
      27 3 has tiilipwill fe rn? l) 0 0° i conlanila y in both rlims that r tho field, m unand an furCivil A.P.
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      6 3 I'n and BJj. Ol ,1 for
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      TROOPS-FOR SAIGON
      19 3 The steamship Athos II has left Marseilles for Saigon, carrying 1.781 troops and 191 civiVar. passengers. Retuer
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      Qualification for government
      100 3 THAT a person had taken kading part m the freedom struggle against British rule In India was no qualification for service under the National Government. This reply was given by Prime Minister Jawaharlal to a questioner m the Indian Parliament. Pandit Nehru added: "Certain persons may be
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      FIRE DESTROYS ASSAM BAZAAR
      59 3 AFIRE, which blazed for ren hours before it was ;^ht under control, destroyed thj greater part of PalUii bazaar. business centre or Shillong. capital of the tea growing province of Assam Hundreds of people arc homeless and several head >f ca'tle were burnt. The damage may
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      REPARVMONS
      26 3 Pakistan has become a tully fledged member of the Inter-AUicd Reparations Agency, and will he allotted half of the German reparations earmarked for India. Reuter
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      10s. EACH TO GROW FOOD FOR BRITAIN
      134 3 FARMERS m Queensland are selling their laud 1 without argument and the people are paying 10s. head to help to grow food for Britain. Up to 100.000 acres of ler- 1 tile Queensland soil will b;ready for sowing m June. Every pound of
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      LIVING, HAS 114 DESCENDANTS
      45 3 Mrs. Eliza Smith, of Broadwater Road, Tottenham. London, Is a very proud woman. She has Just become a great-great-grandmother and has 114 direct descendants living. She had fourteen children, eleven of whom are living. There are 42 grandchildren and 60 great-grandchildren.
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      SCOUTS' SALUTE
      21 3 The King will take the salute at tn^ Boy Scouts' St. Georrc's Day narade at Windsor on April 18.
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      Released PoWs were 'cheated'
      265 3 THE Australian Army Department has been guilty of 'sharp practice" m its treatment of Eighth Division prisoners of war, according to Mr. R. G. Curnow, a former vice-president of the Returned Servicemen's League. Mr. Curnow declared that the department has refused to refund certain amounts deducted
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      Buddhists are critical of Indian stamps
      143 3 Buddhists are critical of Indian stamps THE design ol Indian stamps featuring Buddha's head has been subject to criticism among Buddhists m Colombo since its publication a few days back. While Buddhists of Ceylon are pleased to see the rising interests m Buddhism In India they feel date-stamp-ing over the
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      'OCCUPATION' OF ANTARCTICA
      177 3 MR. PATRICK DONNER asked the Under-Secret ury for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Christopher Mayhiew, il he would state the number and location of all Argentine and Chilean bases m British territory m the Antarctica. Mr. Mayhew replied. "Since January. 1947, Argentine bases have been established at Gamma Island
      U.P.  -  177 words
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      BAGHDAD REDS SENT TO JAIL
      75 3 A BAGHDAD court has sent- enced seven Communists to one year's hard labour and eight other Communists to six months' hard labour, for illegal propaganda and "unlawful activities against the country" Aziz Sharif, leader of the Communist Party, which has been closed down, was questioned
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      AID FOR SEYCHELLES
      49 3 Britain ha s agreed to pay 30 per cent of Itoe cost' of a new warehouse at Victoria Seychelles, chief port of call between India ai.d Africa. It trill house tiie island's coconut kernel, which last year a record amount »I edible oil for Britain. Reuter
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      War in the Holy Land
      100 3 War in the Holy Land picture. picture. Arabs, sniping at this Jewish armoured truck m the Sheik Jarrah quarter of Jerusalem, caused the Jewish driver to lose control when rounding a bend, and the vehicle overturned. Then they lined up and fired at the driver through the slits m the
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      CONSUL'S NEW POST
      21 3 Mr. John G. Riddick. US Vice-consul at Johannesburg, has been named U.S. Vice-Consul at Hanoi. IndoChina. A. P.
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      Corvette Monies river steamer
      114 3 II FORMER Royal Australian n Navy corvett«, H.M.AS. Bcndigo, has been converted at Hony Kong into a passen-ger-carrying river Steamer. Renamed the Cheung Hing. I Bhe will soon be engaged on a. service to Portuguese, Macao, across the Pearl River estuary. Bendigo was built at Cock-
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  • LEADER
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      The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY. MAR. 17, 1948. Malaya's Voice in Trade Talks
      563 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY. MAR. 17, 1948. Malaya's Voice in Trade Talks I^HIS week's comments by Sir John Hay on the role allotted to technical advisers to colonial delegation! at International conferences have given fresh emphasis to Malayan claims that Whitehall should take early action to revise the whole
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      An American looks at Singapore
      1063 4  -  Roy Ferrao TODAY'S PROFILE By AG L 0 B E-trotter with a difference came to Singapore last week. Armed with visas and passports to visit 43 different countries, the visitor, an American, is taking along with him the tools of his profession p enc i
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      WILL ITALY GO TOO?
      797 4  -  HENRY BUCKLEY Uy Reuters' Correspondc nt ITALY followed recent political events m Czechoslovakia with much the same apprehension that a patient, waiting m a dentist's ante-room, hears screams coming from the surgery. So far, local politicians trying to penetrate the secret-s of the future, have produced
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      Guatemala Showdown?
      731 4  -  ALEXANDER CLIFFORD By GUATEMALA CITY: THE Nationalist fervour m Guatemala about British Honduras is being 1 whipped steadily higher. You can't be here long m this charming, mountain girt city without realising that the quarrel must riow be resolved m some way. It can't just sink back into
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      2 4 THE FOG
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      FAITH
      20 4 Blessed are the peace- j makers: for they shall be called the children of God. St. Mathew 5. 9.
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      RED LOOT
      113 4 RED LOOT tropi I so^-c-s said. 1 I I I I I I I I I HI I of rei I I Ql I H Part of hibil I of I I ~-H I I Bi I Dcrie: P said CIH I cularly the I dead city 1 The X
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      Radio made in Malaya
      83 5 Radio made in Malaya Pr^s:;iir Reporter ne m road- storMalaya 10--h up mitting idio" of hant, pore D first n tho t mo. 11.67 .idios 48.3 Operator %rd, who possible, I !ot. plane's Al-"-odd 'he between Mr. I v i adio ;)art- DOX M can any I 100 their i
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      112 5 With a vieio to increasing c fl i l of food f r om South-East Asia countries a7? D n jf ed Kin 9dom, Mr. A. R. Pratt < above), an expert on food mattcrt has come to Singapore to act as agent on the spot" of the British Government.
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      INDIAN WINS APPEAL
      101 5 .idoz. I DO d to I rigorous lmW*& and fined $1,000 g"*uit a further three ■ypprison:;.. by th^ r ac■Jtt illegal gratlllc*- Mr I at ■JfP° r e i; O urt J^Counscl, Mr. Murray Buttrose. alleged that Fernandez illegally accepted a gold ring, six bottles of beer
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      BACK PAY
      76 5 ARRANGEMENTS have now Jt\ been made with HQ Malaya District to pay all locally-enlisted men residing up-country, and accounts and claims have been forwarded to HQ Malaya District. Pa>mert to RE and RA (HAA) will be made at the English School, Oldham Lane as follows: Army Nos. 1
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      Robbers get jail, whipping
      155 5 A YOUNG Chinese, Lee Kirn Seng, was sentenced at the Assizes yesterday to eight years' rigorous imprisonment and 12 strokes of the rattan for armed robbery of cash and jewellery, valued at S3lO from a women s hairdressing: shop m Geylang Road on \us 6 la>t
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      PROBATION SYSTEM ALREADY
      575 5 'Most helpful to magistrate' oixmA^E^ Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE has taken the lead m the treatment of juvenile delinquency, and has a juvenile probation system already m operation and awaiting legislative sanction, Mr. Yap Hong Kuan one of the three student probation officers attached to the Singapore
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      81 5 The ceremony of installing the new Board ol Directors of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce took place on Monday morning. The ceremony was conducted by the Chinese Consul-General, Dr Wu Paak-shing. This picture, taken at the ceremony hy the Sin Chav Jit Poh, shows Dr. Wu administering the oath
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      NEW SITE FOR TRADE FAIR
      133 5 QWING to objections by the IT authorities^ the Malayan iracie and, Industries Fiir will now be held on a n eightacre s ite off Chanel Road innew« plans submitted are stead of Mountbat/ten Road, as originally proposed, if the approved. The objections concerned lighting and
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      To attend U.S. rubber talks
      60 5 THE Singapore Chinese Rub--1 ber Dealers' Association has appointed Mr. Lee Kor.g I Chian as their representative j at the forthcoming rubber! study Rroup talks m Wash liisrton. Mr. Lee will excharge views with American rubber in- 1 tenets, .so as to strengt.hon trade rolatiors
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      $6 million plan for housing
      245 5 A Mn n^ J* resS Staff Reporter A $6,000,000 scheme for the development of five f\ housing: estates m Singapore each 1 oil draft the {rule* and bylaws^whic^^ir/n prmapally on tho^e for y si mi ,a r S^™. i^BrW I wnen the society is established,
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      PRISON RATIONS REVISED
      310 5 PRISON RATIONS REVISED Free Press Staff Reporter RATIONS for prisoners have bp(*n altered. One important change m Asian prisoners' diets is to give chappatics instead of rice to Indian prison, rs, who usually prefer the former. Emergency diets for Asiin prisoners (oLher than Northern Indians, Sikhs and Brahmins) include the
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      34 5 JOhore bahru. Tuesday K:m Meng. a lorry driver *as lined $150 yesterday by the Johore Bahru District Judge, for moving six baas of rift without a permit. The rice was ordered to be confiscated
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      NEW BOOKS AT LIBRARY
      305 5 r VAE following new books A will be added to Rattles Library within the next few Non Fiction: Cynl W. Beauc? n Y r S e f ddKr s BaI1 *<; Alive S.r W T Layton o Crowther An introduction to the biudy ol Pncs; Mary
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      45 5 Picture shows th^ Governor, Sir Franklin Qimson, waving homage to the ashes of Mahatma Gandhi at' the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday. In the picture are 'from left >: Mr. J. A Thiry. Mr. V. S. Swaminathan. Sir Franklin, Mrs. Thivy and Mr. Sethi Free Press picture.
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      GOVT CO-OP GIVES TO CHARITY
      141 5 HRKE deserving causes will benefit from a decision taken at the annual general meeting of the Singapore Government Servants' Co-operative Thrift and I^oan Society Ltd. It was decided to declare dividend of 4 2 per cent, and to contribute two per cent to the Singapore
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      JOHORE ROVER DEN
      126 5 JOHORE ROVER DEN Free Press Correspondent j THE Scout Commissioner for j Malaya Mr. F. C. Sands, will visit Johore Bahru on Friday for the opening ceremony of the Johore Rover Crow Den. The Rover Crew was formed m October last year with a membership of 13 ex-scouts from the
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      Big demand for Bibles
      113 5 JHE cry everywhere is lor Bibles and more Bibles and there are more orders t I Ha n m?S can &u PP!y. states the 1947 report ol the Singapore agency of the British and Foreign Bible Sooi ty The report describes the staff members as the
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      BUILDING FUND LOTTERY
      153 5 *THE Singapore Union of A Postal and Telecommunications Workers is running a lottery m aid of the Union's Building Fund. Tickets are priced at $i each, and may be obtained from Mr. Goh Soo Ker (Air port), Mr. Paul Ng Fook Chin (Mails). Mr. Tai Chong Cheong
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      64 5 FILM REVIEW S DADIO Malaya is starts a new series ot weekly film reviews by 'Critic" called "Let's Go To The Pictures" U> be giver, every Thursday evening at 8.18 p.m. The first, however, will be Riven on Wednesday. March 17, m view of the talks on the Singapore elections
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
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      S'pore films
      189 6 A LONDON Film Production. "The Man About Tlie House" b» £ins screening at the Pavilion on Friday, and people who knew Dulcie Gray, the girl from Malaya who made good m British films, will have the opporunlty of seeing her m this film as Ellen Isit. t in
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      19 6 JohJi Mills and Joan Qreen- srurs- m the Two CUiea film "October Man" as they appear m the film.
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      HOLLYWOOD OF THE EAST
      569 6  -  DANIEL DE LUCE By A.P. Correspondent BOMBAY, which calls itself the lollywood of the East, nakes nearly 200 alkies a year. A thousand gossip columns are not enough o tell all the studio chit:hat m Urdu, Tamil, jrujarati, and the rest oi India's 200 complex languages.
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      64 6 Rtgina Robinson is lost m admiration as world's boxing champion Joe Louis flexes the biceps of his right arm and Invites her to "ferl mv muscles Regina is an usherette m the sports section of the Health and Holidays Exhibition at Earl's Court. London, and if her job includes ushering
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      Snippets
      249 6 UTALTER pidgeon let .slip the otiier duv the information that his left shoe b a size 13 and 1 2 ar.d his right au. Ai\ opera-* tion lor blood p<»Lso: kng nine yean ago, he Unnics, partis rniinjunrt th e I< l arch, Walter hus hi s shoos custom
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      Tracking Currents
      438 6 CEA charts of unsurwyed waten around the 3Tasawa Group of the Fijian inlands may soon contain information collected by ships employed by M The Blue Lagoon film unit. Captain W.F.D. Hay. commander of the unit's motor cruiser l< The Royal Flight* 1 devoted his spare time to plotting-
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      MODEST MAIDENS
      25 6 TrjV~,fk Ktt MM U. S r»:»« Oflk* "A/y folks suggested I go out and meet iteu people so I got a job here!"
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      NO EQUAL
      126 6 British {il ms WHOEVER may be gloomy about th< outlook for the Brit is film industry and qu a lot of "dismal |imm have been airing then views lately Mr. J Arthur Rank is not numbered among them. "Our organisation is m better heart than ever before", he
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      Bridge Problem
      137 6 THIS was a difficult hai d correctly. Bouth'x op three-bid was of the type many experts, non-vuln Some Rood ph four spades at on c with tta hand, but his con of thnv spades cannot bcised. North 'r. excellent ■onably sure that I partly fcK^ause Urn East playt-r
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      12 6 ViA\S»SESS CA?IOTTAt CP /VNEXICTQ, PEA3IKICS Bd' EGQS LAi^ IN »-»C« i*^v SAB.E
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      178 6 Mandrake E^,,,^ Singapore Free Press m Malaya rfk/V STOP! IVE HAD ENOUGH/ II I BOUGHT YOU BOTH--ATA I I GAT-GAT-GITTLE— AH-WAH- fV/ 1 WE'RE THE WORLDS GREATEST SALARY YOU COULDN'T RESIST. V WAH--GIT-GIT-GATTLE-HOTCHACHA-- ARTISTS/ YOU'VE HIREO US-- I LIKE THAT KINO I TsJT^TI/^ H JS T VI T.7V FOR LIFE--TO
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      WORLD CHESS
      64 7 DR Max Buwe, Dutch chesa expert who had previously gained only half a point m the world chesa championship series at The Ha?ue. h-ld the leader and favourite Mikhait Botvinnik. the Soviet master, to draw after 40 moves m the seventh round last night. Other games between Vassih
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      Civilian XI selected
      81 7 rPHE following players have S.fr selected by the ili elec lon committee to play for (h c Combined lnsa f° re Civilian side to eet the Combined Services SU^W match at Jalan Besar Stadium on Mar. 27 m Olympic and Sports Council Abdul Rahman, Chin Lye J^mther,
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      Australian Test team fixtures
      289 7 Australian Test team fixtures •T*HE Australian Test cricketp c will °P f> n their tour o] England on April 28 when they *ill meet Worcestershire iof a UI llst of nxt «ros for the 1948 tour an-: Apr. 28: v. Worcester at Worcester: May 1: v Leicester at Leicester: May
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      Advice to Bradman
      11 7 EHHSBWN Premier <Mr. Hollway) stands by MLC whlle
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      MCFA send a protest cable
      532 7 THF M*io B^i. aUr S°<* er Reporter THE Malayan Chinese Football Association has sent a LIJuZL** 1 Ca < b e to he China Olympic team soccer selectors over the invitations sent direct to the Singapore Chinese players, Chia Boon Leong and Chu Chee Seng,
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      Turpin gains great win
      509 7 R A Si PH IV R PIN> <he »9-year-old colored i m dlew e'eht from Leamington, who has only 19 professional fights, sained hi" JI a c t h'fh'V i, Ha i; rin?ay Arena London! last ni- hi whe^ he beat the British champion, Vince Hanking
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      Perth cricket ends in draw
      77 7 HPHE Australian touring ™t C ICket team>s three-day S?,Sh ag inst th e Sheffield bhield champions. Western Australia, ended tamely Vn a diaw at Perth yesterday The Australian batsmen did not force the pace when they f h r n ad f m f ai
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      Today's sport
      11 7 SOCCER: S.A.FA SRr H.pp L y W^ld. ChiDl|> oMhl|>
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      BRILLIANT DISPLAY BY CHEE SENG
      70 7 mi Soccer ricep- Kong d by I re Chinese Chu much I Chinese H Chinese H Ml His id handling a rough ;md liocre. L< i famous B bared B In this B by B B 'he only m tag Press B Bong B The
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      England XV for Saturday
      27 7 England XV for Saturday Ireland final of ries Besar :non. IQ r 'H A.F ter- R. t,>; r R AF. SimI Base >_*• Oioson Hina, 'RE) Baker S.C.C.
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      Speed and spin upset M.C.C.
      363 7 gPFJED and spin upset the M.C.C. touring team at riPiiv^7 1 nd Kentish wi th his second and fourth deliveries removed Jack Robertson and Winston Place, and formed a genuine pace attack with mnes Johnson. After these shocks 22-year-old Irving Iffla spun oui Len Hutton
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      BARTLETT LOSES HARD GAME
      360 7 BARTLETT LOSES HARD GAME ONG Chew Bee. Singapore's postwar tennis find" exceeded all expectations when he snatched a fine victory from \v. H. D. Bartlett m the L-aun Tennis Association In- r u cham Plonships held at th Ha^py World last night Chew Bee defeat.d BarUett c6 flnal^?1 n V
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      ST. PATRICKS' WIN
      111 7 JX a friendly maU-h of badminton between the Katong boys Club and St. Patrick's school, St. 1 Patricks won by seven games to nil. Results St. Pstrirlc's mentioned Ural C. Rodriguos boat .HA. Zaini 15—6. 11—15. 15—3: Tony Goh bent Gah Tee Chye 15—9 15— 1- Paul
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      C.A. GIVE REFRESHING DISPLAY
      433 7 By Our Soccer Reporter WITH all the enthusiasm and l rnergy of a youthful side, the Chinese Athletes, [Whose average age is 23. out- ran and completely outplayed the R.A.F. Seletar m a first division league soccer match ,at Jalan Besar Stadium yesI terday. Their four-one
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      WINSTREL BOY AND RENOIR BEST BETS
      520 7 WINSTREL BOY AND RENOIR BEST BETS Today's going will be soft soft. ccungj Th goiiiff remains think ft? wi!l bS^bleto'SmSSl S n^ ltlon that I while Renoir, whot l ays b S r^ 1X lb Penalty out, should be able tobeatTmn! the sec °nd time fancy, m spite o^^s^av^iSt a
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      Selections by 'Call Boy'
      18 7 r h i n i»" l lftJ 1 1. IMC l, MM Rath LMI
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      45 7 F.P. Crossword NoT^37 CLUES ACROSS fplilieillll 4^l,?^ g>i «s,f— one^,. lK fit SLT&S'tS?: o 44 CLUES DOWN 4 sJcrft a <el S^Eteefm Si.' 3 P relgn p "ltament (4» ArrftsB SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 336 UMU. 12. Educe. «3/^. te^ l^'*« N^^^ r Shred. 19.
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    Reds converge on Changchun
    367 8 SHANGHAI, Tuesday. OFFICIAL confirmation of the massing of Government forces m the Great Wall region of Chinchow, 130 miles south-west of Mukden, preparatory to "the big push that's m the offing" coincided with a Government admission of the fall of the stronghold of Szepingkai, about 100
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    THREAT TO PEACE
    515 8 Talk revived of UNO army NEW YORK, Tuesday. PAVING the way for fresh consideration of a United Nations force for Palestine, Russia, China, France and the United States today agreed m principle that a threat to international peace exists m the continued infiltration of armed, hostile elements
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    JEWS, ARABSIN SNOW 'WAR'
    106 8 JERUSALEM. Tutsday. 4 RABS and Jews lemght A each other ivith snowballs m central Jerusalem today following a 4-inch snowfall last night. Grouv* of RJLP. men standing by cheered as hits were scored. Passersbv scattered for shelter, ducking into doorways, as Arabs and Jews, separated by
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    MILLION PROBED
    30 8 The Federal Bureau of Investigation has already cleared more than 1,000,000 Federal employees In the Truman Administration's drive to rid United States payroll all subversive ele- ments- U.P.
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    360,000 MEN QUIT U.S. COAL MINES
    152 8 360,000 MEN QUIT U.S. COAL MINES NEW YORK, Tuesday. ANOTHER 55,000 miners m A the deep pits of Western Pennsylvania today joined the 210,000 bituminous coal workers called out by Mr. John L. Lewis. United Mine Workers' President, yesterday. At the same time, more miners from the soft coal fields
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    Princess gets 'Freedom'
    95 8 ¥>RINCESS Margaret, ill after 1 an all-night tr\p to Scotland, recovered enough to make a speech yesterday afternoon to 30.000 flagwaving Scots. She looked somewhat pale, but spoke crisply and confidently, as she accepted the Freedom of Glasgow on behalf of the Highland Light Infantry, of which
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    PARIS TALKS
    149 8 on turned from P*«e 1 Unitod States and British zone and the French zone should each be regarded as an independent participating area. Earlier en today's session, the heads of delegations promised co-operation m the reconstruction tasks ahead. Switzerland's co-operation "to the limit of its modest means" was
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    FDR STAMPS
    18 8 Bulgaria Is issuing Roosevelt stamps om the occasion of fhc third anniversary of his death. U.P.
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    61 8 Free Press picture. The teak cabinet memorial, unveiled at the Nursa Quarters, General Hospital, yesterday, contains an autographed portrait of Princess Elizabeth. Mrs. Dorothy Nixon, Hon. Secretary of the Singapore Internees Nurses of Malaya Fund, shows where the portrait is located The memorial was presented m gratitude for services rendered
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    LNITED EUROPE' TALKS IN MAY
    187 8 LONDON, Tuesday. \f R. Winston Churchill is expected to preside over the plenary session of the United Europe Congress opening at The Hague on May 7. A spokesman of the British United Europe Movement, which Mr. Churchill leads, told Reuter tonight* "We expect that Mr.
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    TINS, RUBBERS ADVANCE
    471 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Tuesday. THE London stock markets were rather unsettled A and easier today due to the uncertain world political situation, says Reuters financial corres pondent. With buyers holding off, prices were unable to withstand small selling. Tins and Rubbers, however, were strong and advanced.
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    WEATHER Fair tonight
    58 8 WEATHER Fair tonight WLAIMER rt port tor the nest 21 hours compiled by the n\K: Sratt«ri»d shower* qt thundrr ■lorm^ during the afternoon. Soine bright periods. Fair tonight and tomorrow morning Wind: light variable. Temperatures: Max. 89 dr(. I mm. 75 drg. F. R'l.itive humidity percentax^*: Tewierday 7 Z9 a.m.
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    MacA MAY VISIT AUSTRALIA
    85 8 MacA MAY VISIT AUSTRALIA /GENERAL Douglas Mac\J Arthur Supreme Allied Commander m the Pariflc. mas visit Australia within the next six month. Mr. Joseph ChiHey. Australian Prime Minister, said Gen. Mac Arthur had been told that Australia would be happy to receive htm. Australia's interest m him was a:j a
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    'RED' PURGE MAY PROVE DANGEROUS
    123 8 'RED' PURGE MAY PROVE DANGEROUS LONDON, Tuesday. rIE Evening Standard today warned that the Government's purge of Communists, announced m the House of Commons yesterday, might set a dangerous precedent ".strange to our way of thinking and slimy to our touch." The editorial declared: "We are flirting with unwholesome things
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    U.K. RELAXES HOLIDAY BAN
    216 8 LONDON, Tuesday. ORITISH holiday-makers will be able to visit Austria, Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Switzerland after May 1. Announcing this modification of the ban on pleasure travel abroad imposed last Autumn, Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer, told the House of
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    Channel tunnel urged by MPs
    120 8 LONDON, Tuesday. BRITISH and French engineers and Members of Par- j llament met m the House of Commons yesterday to plan a revived campaign for a general tunnel linking Dover and Calais. After the engineers had discussed the technical details of the proposed tunnel, estimated
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    Rubber prices
    127 8 A SPECIAL Market correspond. give* the prices of rubber at 11 x.ra. today m follows: Bnyfi-i Seller^ Cts. <. v, per Ib per Ib So. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose 38^ R 3!* l. No. 1 R.SJS. fob m bales Apr. M 38 No. t R.S.S. fob m bales
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    N. Y. stocks
    65 8 QN the New York Stocjc change, leading issues y. day suffered their sharpest swiftest spill since oarly KbC Many pivotals finished d to around three poLius I totalled 940.000 shares. LJqu tion utis mainly dur to grown war talk, spreading labour putes and persistent bu secptfe Lsm.
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    N. Y. rubber
    39 8 NEW YORK crude rubber N closed five to 33 points lower yesterday. Sales totalled SO tracts. Offers were: May id 35-4. rents (U.S.); July 18.95; B 18.35 bid: No. 1 ribbed smoked I sheets 19^ A.P.
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    Big food plans for New Guinoo
    56 8 Big food plans for New Guinoo ■r iE A I I I commen I I Pap-, I 1 I I I I 'I o share costs 1 be shi-M pg ,ed over the next iv. T 2,l 'i m nnJi I to Africa 1 British exp -> r!] J from
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    'Severe battle' in Kashmir
    43 8 KARACHI I 4 VERE oaulfT> t »»j i\ night reponed by 9 Azad Kcuv ruj^H nmer.t to be riggS I I I -,J casual j by 3uTgß I bj i I M I "I for a Ktl U A.P.
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    MP acquitten of conspiracy
    36 8 THE of Cnaj day allowed an a:. Ed the c< I hs' imprisonnMß V £500 or. consr Jvc m I .^onment or. s^ ..d have **]W I which lasted am W Reuter
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    ONLY ONE ROBBERT
    8 8 I Chinese took Chinese pedestr^^->«
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    TALK OF ROYAL BABY IN OCT.
    163 8 LONDON A SOURCE close to B^ I l^ i f^f A united Press today that expecting Princess Elizabci h v is No confirmation from ttw I ng unuL«j and is not likely to be if isd customary with the Royal wnliy four months before
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    19-YEAR-OLDS FOR PALESTIN
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