The Singapore Free Press, 20 March 1948

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    21 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST APTERWOOM SALE IN MALAYA K«_ SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MARCH 20 t 1948 PKI4 b in ILN ,s
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    GOOD TURN-OUT AT THE POLLS
    419 1 GOOD TURN-OUT AT THE POLLS Voting going smoothly Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE went to the polls this morning for the first time m the Colony's history. Voting was relatively brisk, from ten to fifteen per cent, of the electorate voting m the first three hours. All 75 booths remain
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    56 1 picture. Ims, Mr. G. Hawkins, and his staff Theatre at 6.30 a^.mMofiav. Free Hawkins (standing) with Mr. M. rk (left)'. Mrs. Hawkins, and Mr. A. raphef. A polling agent, with his candidate's symbol m his lapel, studies an electoral register this morning. He is Mr. G. P. Mahthni, agent for
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    THE WOMEN WERE VOTING EARLY
    156 1 Free Press Woman Reporter T*HIS morning I cast my vote m Singapore's first election. There was no excitement at the polling station, no sign of the boycott pickets I had been warned to expect. In fact, thie policemen on duty at the station, swinging his
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    French security is tightened
    83 1 THE French National Assembly yesterday approved a Bill aimed at tightening internal security to prevent a possible Communist coup or a nationwide strike. The Bill authorises the Government to appoint eight In-spectors-General with power to aid the Minister of the Interior m maintaining order The Minister
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    £50,000 GOLD ROBBERY
    38 1 £50,000 GOLD ROBBERY ICB da) I don ol ibout wire •Id. hop .ent 'lice driven into a was proke shop itment 1 ">bbery In a re of m fiold, .:es. the uhm ir haul. the de i U.P.
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    APPEAL FOR AID
    11 1 [I to mili- ■•■•lv- r the n U.P.
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    America speeds A-bomb making
    157 1 WASHINGTON, Friday. United States is making atomic bombs on a scale calculated to meet any emergency, an authoritative source said today. This production, he disclosed, was already being pushed long before President Truman made his haltCommunism plea to Congress this week. This source pointed out that
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    Red succeeds Masaryk
    67 1 PRAGUE, Friday. MR. Vlado dementis, a 46--year-old Slovak Communist, has been named Foreign Minister to succeed the late Dr. Jan Masaryk. He was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and for several years had been Dr. Masaryk's chief assistant. The appointment was made four weeks after the
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    MALARIA CURE
    26 1 Dr. Hirozo Yamada of th" Nagoya University medical c chool claims to have cJeveloprd a rew oure for mmaria by means ol inj ctions.
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    Save on lights tonight, please!
    202 1 Free Press Staff Reporter ONE polling-day appeal is the call by the Supervisor of Elections, Mr. G. Hawkins, to Singapore people to cut their electricity consumption tonight by half. This is to prevent the possibility of black-outs at the polling stations and at the returning
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    FIGHTING IN HOLY LAND
    81 1 PVE Jews were killed when Arabs opened fire on Friday morning on Jewish labourers working In Am Harod quarries m the plain of Esdraelon, northern Palestine, police reported on Friday. Nine Arabs were killed and three injured when two Arab lorries were forced off the road
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    TODAY'S FIFTEEN CANDIDATES
    160 1 Free Press Staff Reporter FIFTEEN candidates are today contesting six seats m the new Legislative Council. Three candidates are contesting the two seats for the Municipal South-West Division. They are Mr. C. C. Tan and Mr. N. A. Mallal (Progressive Party) and Mr. M. A. Majid (Independent).
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    42 1 Polliiig stal \ns this m ing all bore ofjicial vlacarus reading "Notice of Contested Election," with translations m Malay ana Chinese. This Free Presi picture shows in f ending voters studying the notice outside the polling station m the Social Welfare building
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    US abandons partition
    327 1 US a bandons partition m H p ft ,u ac* NEW Y °RK, Friday. JiHE I mted States tonight abandoned the present t nited Nations plan for partitioning Palestine and proposed instead a temporary Tnited Nations trusteeship while efforts are made to restore peace and discover a method of peaceful
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    Showdown with Russia urged
    69 1 INTRODUCING a resolution m the Senate yesterday, calling for a discussion of Soviet -American "difficulties" by the United Nations, Senator William Flanders (Republican) urged President Truman to "seek a showdown" with Russia at a special session of the General Assembly. He told the Senate that the
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    U.S. INDUSTRIAL PLAN FOR WAR
    40 1 Senator Owen Brewster. of the Senate War Investigation Committee, said m New York yesterday he is releasing a report m ten days calling for industrial mobilization for war to be effective anvtimp Congress directs. U.P.
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    39 KILLEO IN TORNADOES
    128 1 39 KILLEO IN TORNADOES A Chicago, Friday. T Last 39 person* wer* reported killed and 3GO others injured by a seiies oi tornado s that left a trail of destruction across ths Mid Western United Si ales from Texas to Ohio. Proper y damage runs into many millions of dollars.
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    CAT BURGLARS TAKE $700
    58 1 tHDUR armed men climbed a water pipe into a house m Borneo Road (oil Kampong Bahru Road) early yesterday morning, and robbed the occupants of $700 m cash and jewellery. Although there was a telephone m the house, the victims did not make a report to
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  • FEATURES
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      MANAGING THE STAGE
      912 2 MANAGING THE STAGE A GOOD deal has /ibeen said about the importance of the producer to arv amateur company, but it should be stressed that the singe-manager can be almost as important, and i< indeed more important during the actual run oi p«r romances. An incompetent or unsy.ii^anKVic sta^e-manager oaa
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      POLITE BIRDS
      141 2 p >uu ever meet a i.t remember your manWhen penguins n. you. they bow to the waist. Tl one of the things leraman David Eastman, OJ the Australian InformaDepartment, found out when he visited the 10,000 penguins of Heard Island with the Australian Antarctic Expedition. Only penguins not
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      MODEST MAIDENS
      9 2 T'*Jta*rk IW .>rri f S P.tcnj Off^t
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      102 2 For the first time m its history, Covent Garden opera House, London, had an audience composed exclusively of schoolchildren when, as part of their musical training, 1,700 boys and girls from 39 London secondary schools saw a special performance of the opera 'The Magic Flute." For one of them. Phyllis
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      Bridge Problem
      115 2 gPADKS are trumps. South leads. North and South axe to wm six of the mvm (ricks against any defense. South leads a heart, and North run's with a low trump. The queen of diamonds is then led. If East puts up the ace of diamonds, he cannot prevent
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      MAESTROS' LETTERS
      589 2  -  E. B. LONG By A. P. Correspondent NEARLY 75 letters, many unpublished, written by some of the world's most famous composers have been found m Chicago. Included m the collection are 17 written by Giuseppe Verdi, Italian opera composer, and numerous other letters by Hector Berlioz. Charles Gunod,
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      Colouring music
      125 2  - Colouring music RUSSELL LANDSTROM By A.P. Correspondent I OVELY Austra-lian-born Eileen Joyce has stirred up controversy m the lU\tish music world. It all began when she caused a sensation m the Royal Albert Hall by changing clothes, hairstyles and even perfumes to suit what she called the different moods ol
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      42 2 IOEES UJC7 IN4 VIOU«NJ yv\A<iNgS a«e cut BfTweetsl PEBaUARV A.^sl^ A,C»«ii_--. WORMS AQE INIACTIVE' C?UglNj<3 TMAT Xl/VNC... usually y 6Tgu^^ Am LCSS T^ANJ *^*MS VET WiTM>* /'JT^' Xif sco l&s. /j4'h(& 1 \x *> n O^ ijlg^ -A WOB?M LIVC >M Y^JK^-^Pt^ crac<s
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      593 2 Singapore Fsafs.&Mrsja. issa asi jftwasß-tttiK i w s is 1 r rid Bli.e Network M^k* Interlude 7.30 ,0 on, mo W«ld Lnd T, y ?tI" £2S V" s tor A king; From no., to p.m. gcji^to M ,,,> 7.45 Jjg* --Jf. io J 520 metre* m the medium wa« «i'i|u»"L
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      245 2 YOUR LUCKY o 1 AJ\ Fortune forecast for people bom today BORN today, you have many of the fjualitios of the individualist who is a law unto himself. You heartily dislike suggestions from others and resent anyone trying to superimpose their ideas upon your own. However, you have enough of
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  • CHINA NEWS
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      RED THREAT TO SHANGHAI NANKING
      323 3 RED THREAT TO SHANGHAI NANKING Mitral China defence talks SHANGHAI, Friday. loomed m North Kiangsu as j moved m more than 20,000 to re-establish "a border tin eastern seaboard, from which anutze delta where Shanghai Kinking arc Im-ated. V* reports said Nationalist moto•o the seaboard to meet the and wore
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      HOUSECOLLAPSES
      14 3 HOUS ECO LLAPSES House collapses m Hong Kon? durine 1947 killed 2R persons- A.P.
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      FIRST JAP ADVISER
      12 3 FIR ST JAP ADVISER I I by toind. m to '10T, Reuter
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      RESTRICTIONS ON RADIO
      20 3 n be flu! nth m the atom t to <n\LSt tOO city's dd- up rcial \dde- Reuter
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      POT STANDING FOR ELECTION
      5 3 POT STANDING FOR ELECTION U.P.
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      COUNCIL PLANS CURRENCY STABILISATION
      160 3 COUNCIL PLANS CURRENCY STABILISATION NANKING. Friday. CHINAS State Council has approved, m principle, a plan to attempt currency stabilisation with U. 5.5400-.-000,000 worth of Governmentheld assets, the Government spokesman, Dr. Hollington Tong, told a news conference. This is the first official confirmation that the Council has discussed means of halting
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      Reynold pens to aid China
      158 3 MR. Milton Reynolds is impatiently waiting m Nanking and Shanghai, while the plane Explorer returns to the United States, where it Is being repaired so that he can try and chart a possible world's highest mountain. He said he would ship production machinery to set
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      NATIONAL LABOUR UNION FORMED
      165 3 SHANGHAI, Friday. I ABOUR representatives from Great Britain, the L United States and other countries will be invited to attend the inauguration of thte Chinese National Labour Union on March 25. According to Mr. Ku Chcngkaxig. Minister ol Social AtTairs, kibour unions ir. 25 of China's
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      Voting method to be mapped
      99 3 NANKING. Friday. I"*HE Kuomintang will decide its procedure on the election of China's new president and vice-president at a meeting of the Central Executive Committee plenary session on March 28— one day before the scheduled opening of the National Assembly. Whether the Kuomintang will pick
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      WAR CALL BY KUOMINTANG
      44 3 pENERAL Wu Teh-chen. VI" Secretary-General of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee, has called on the Chinese people to rise as one man against the Communists, as Western European countries were doing, m a speech at Taipei, the capital of Formosa.
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      TRAINING IN TAIWAN
      68 3 picture. Taiwan, returned to Chma since the surrender of Japan, is a training base for Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist army. One thousand Americans act as training adviser* on the Island, but they do not take part m the actual training. Picture shows Ping Tung trainees learning machineounning during
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      Visual & sound aids for school
      246 3 Visual sound aids for school SHANGHAI, Friday. AM ARKLNG another stage m China's uphill battle to IYI eliminate or, at least, reduce the widespread illiteracy m this country, the Chinese authorities have mapped out with educational film and radio experts a five-year project to make available to some 900,000 institutions
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      JAPANESE CAN BE CITIZENS
      198 3 JAPANESE CAN BE CITIZENS SHANGHAI, Friday. THE Excutive Yuan of the Chinese Government has issued a new set of regulations to solve the problem of national status of Taiwanese married to Japanese. Henceforth, all Japanese men married to Taiwanese women and actually living with them may acquire Chinese citizenship through
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      PIRATES RAID LIGHTHOUSES
      202 3 SHANGHAI, Friday. MAVIGATION m the China Sea is being endangered iN by continuing pirate raids on lighthouses, from Ningpo to Tsingtao, for kerosene and food supplies says a report m China Press. The latest raid was carried out on Steep Island Light Station, some 150 miles off
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      DOUBTS ON EFFECT OF
      372 3 SHANGHAI, Fildsy. OPINION m China itself is divided on whether American military aid can bring about a Nationalist victory m the civil war, according to an Associated Press canvass of the views of foreigners and independent Chinese m Hong Kong, Shanghai Nanking and Peiping. In the
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      FOR PRINCESS
      22 3 Three larp;e carpets have been manufactured m Tientsin for Princes* Elizabeth as a present from British residents m China U.P.
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      NANKING TO EXPOSE TAX EVADERS
      234 3 NANKING TO EXPOSE TAX EVADERS NANKING. Friday. THE Chinese Government win use the threat of "public censure" to collsct ten per cent of the property of certain wealthy citizen^ for special relief tax. The Government's spokesman, Dr. Hollington Tons, describing: the tax as a 'compulsory levy. said no .e?al penalties
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      RISE REVERE FOR RELIEF
      157 3 CANTON. Friday THE revenue from the si relief rice m Canton will bo used for worthy projects wl enever they may be located m Kwangtung. Kwan<rsi or any other parts of China. This was pointed out by Mr. H. T. Samson. Director of th»' Urlted States
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      118 3 '•Crossword No. 340 kr^-4 LM!!_ZZp 8 cv« ross r :0. Out of date <3>. 11, Revolu- 15, Slewed <8). 17, Born ff r ;4U5l °d <S). ?1, Cominun sense rtabi. homo (4). 26, Spell of duty «4> Qniss «3). 32, Undying (8). |'6h;iik b r Tc^ (•>. 38. Succeas (3>.
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      115 3 TARZAN The mob By Edgar Rice Burroughs AS CARS Ri/SHED M4M TARZAN I (t^" I 6RASPIN6 Ca«BS wR^T m BOTH II ~^^B^ TXRLfST AS4O6 T>C CAVE MANS /V V^tf^^^ HANDS. TARZ AN TURNED STOOPtD. A K*4*E ANO CaOPPEO K-JW WITH f/ ifJLM WL. A.ND. WTTM THE CAVE ALAN'S ARM J^T
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  • LEADER
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      The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. MARCH 20. 1948. Polling Day
      659 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. MARCH 20. 1948. Polling Day QTNGAPOREANS began pollO ing m the first Legislative Council elections this morning and early indications ■uffeat that a hi^h percentape of the registered electorate ol 8.000 will cast their L votes before the day is out. Jn most countries where
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      HARD UP BLUES
      420 4 HARD UP BLUES ANEW warning that the Boat Raco may hare to forsake the Putn< y-Mortlakc course and go back t o Henley whole it began 119 yeari ap is founded on hard m, s. d o; thlg verir's nee. on March 27. i s that it will Ch University
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      FAITH
      17 4 Hip blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleansetli us from all sin. 1 John 1. 7.
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      'Backroom Boys' Of UK's Reds
      948 4  - 'Backroom Boys' Of UK's Reds Roy Marchant by DRITAIN'S Labour Government this week initiated a purge of Communists from positions vital to the security of the state an unprecedented curtailment of the liberty of the subject m peacetime. But m the present "cold war" it is probably no bad thing
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      SECRET BALLOT OF 6,000 B.C.
      558 4  -  ARTHUR KNOX By CINGAPORE'S first O six representative Councillors are being elected today by secret ballot. The principle of a secret ballot is a great deal older than Is generally thought, tor although the modern system was introduced as recently as 1856 -it was known
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      Annamite Reaction
      562 4  -  HARRIS JACKSON By A. P. Correspondent A NNAMITE nationa- lists seeking their own united government m Eastern Indo-Chim are sharply critical of Flench approval of the autonomous internal administrai ion for the 25(>,000 Thai tribesmen m western Tonkin north Indo China. French officials defend the action as a
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      WHITHER CANADA?
      445 4  -  CHARLES LYNCH By Reuters' Correspondent CANADIANS who, before and during the Second World War, liked to think of their nation as a neat-ly-fitting piece m a British Canadian United States triangle, are uncertain today just whore they belong. They do not want to he united to the United
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      69 4 i* Will glasses alone improve your Eyesight?'* NO Pr; taMMMU services and technical skills are the essential aids to your "seeine ability." your visual comfort and efficiency. It is for these services and skills— not for glasses alone that you Day for your fee. 9 Stek Professional advice tfot glasses
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      ANTI-TB CHECK IN SCHOOLS
      215 5 cpanded Press Staff Reporter health authories plan to expand rk among school-children. Deschenc cannot be given at this ledical spokesman told the Free' ay m an interview: 'This work is TH is tackled early, \j U\v> ran l)e saved/* I the Singapore Medical Department the health
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      MEN QUITTING UNDER LOAD OF DEBTS'
      32 5 all at is to an adyees MOO a n on the most men Of my pathy, m>t Mr. I my my the m the are much
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      Same fees for food lands
      393 5 r AND KrtMt fee* m th« rural areas will remain at L- the nominal figures of $2 per acre, as the Government has no intention of rhanging the policy helping the poorer classes of agriculturists, says an official statement on the increases m fees charged
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      Workers protest: Win Council'
      109 5 Workers protest: W in Council' D (>t I tnmuniI .t in for pro--11 the Ol the imben of I ork>unci] of w. n, there were representatives of the w rken and m the now Federal Government quite a number of seals have been allotted to men who have identified themselves
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      UKPAYS FOR TRAINING STORE MEN
      422 5 UKPAYS FOR TRAINING STORE MEN THE Colonial Secretary. 1 Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, told the Advisory Councu yesterday that, pending establishment of a Malayan University and more facilities for higher education, the Singapore Government had sent to England as many as possible specially-selected officers m all branches of Govern
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      ASSIZE TRIAL ON ARMS CHARGE
      266 5 tree Prtbs Correspondent JOHORE BAHKU, Friday. AT the conclusion of a preliminary charge oi possession of firearms before the Magistrate. Ungku Ismail, yesterday, Wong Ptng Wan. Leu Choon Guan and Wong Ah Lai were committed to the Assizes. Inspector Karthcgasu of the Johore CID said
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      Farewell Party
      115 5 Members of the British Medical Association (south?™ branch) the Alumni Association and?K?d<cS Co«?oc Union photographed with Prof. English Seated eiahh from nght), who is retiring after 26y£rl™e%%? 9 £tH the Snwnpore Government. th'l m»h KooiGuat making a presentation on behalf of t£ SSI* £2?? ¥u mon toPr °f-
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      GOVT PROMOTIONS 'They must await salary revision'
      463 5 GOVT PROMOTIONS 'They must await salary revision' QNLY when all the salary scales throughout Government service had been properly revised and co-ordinated, could promotions to the senior service start, said the Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A B McKerron, m the Advisory Council yesterday. Such promotions as had been made so
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      ADVICE ON VOTING
      87 5 DROADCASTING from *-f Radio Malaya last "ight. the Supervisor oi Elections, Mr. G. Hawkins, advised the electorate m Singapore: Go t/> Uhe polling statioi very early m the day; Tell your friends to vote and tell them how it is done: Make only on c cross ?n
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      PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION
      57 5 THE St. Joseph Photographic Club, which was founded a year ago, is holding its first exhibition today. The exhibition will consist of photos printed and enlarged by the members themselves. The exhibition will be open to the public till 6 p.m. today and also on Monday, Tuesday and
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      RATION CARDS
      33 5 Ration cards may be sent by post for cancellation to the Rationing Office, Victoria Memorial Hall, Singapore. The final date for voluntary cancellation has now been extended until April 3, 1948
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      CHINESE CONSUL
      27 5 Mr. Cheng Ohia-hua, the new Chinese Consul m Singapore, is expected to arrivo on Mar. 23 from Fiji via Australia, acrordir.or to Chinese Consulate sources.
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      POLLING RESULTS
      15 5 The results of the pollinwill be broadcast by Radio d-ilaya lrom 10.30 tonight
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      MORE PAY FOR SMC MEN?
      277 5 MORE PAY FOR SMC MEN? Free Press Staff Rep!>ripr THE Singapore Govern--1 ment's r*ecr\sion m accepting certain recommendations by the Trusted Salaries Commut* on, will not afTec^ ti o term? of service of Municipal employees, Mr. L. Rayman, Municipal president, u>id the Free Press yesterday. Ir is probable Chat an
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      INDIANS IN MALAYA
      67 5 The spokesman of the Representative of th-^ Government of India p. hits out In connection with nt made by him In Thu Free Press on the par! tion of Indians ii M affairs that his genera] and were not a r by the Representative to the Malayan
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  • NEWS
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      GOOD OFFICES' REJECT PROTEST BY REPUBLIC
      410 6 Dutch moved too fast for Jogja THE U.N. Good Offices Commission has rejected an Indonesian Republican request to forward to the Security Council a protest against the establishment of the Indonesian provisional Federal Government by the Dutch LieutenantGo ver nor General, Dr. Hubert us
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      32 6 Dr. Samuel Green (maskless, centre), Georgia (U.S.A.) Grand Dragon of the Klu Klux Klan. attacks President Truman's programme of civil rights for Negroes at Writesville, Georgia. He addressed more than 300 Klansmen.
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      COPRA SHORTAGE IN PHILIPPINES
      76 6 FEARS of a civra shortage recently voiced m Manila bustnesg circles now have been officially confirmed by reports received by the Bureau of Commerce from coconutproducing areas In the Philippines. These reports say that copra tradinK m many places, notably the Bieol region, has virtually come
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      Ritual slaughter 'Is cruel'
      171 6 Ritual slaughter 'Is cruel' METHODS ol ritual slaugh- ter of animals by Jews and Moslems were criticised m the House of Lords by Lord Dowding, a former air chief marshal m the Royal Air Force, who described the methods used as 'cruel' II j laid that it was unfortunate that
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      Premier warns peasants
      85 6 \RMED police stood guard over Rangoon newspaper oil ces a-s lever*] hundred numbers of the Burmese Pra- Party demonstrated m the city. Thakin Nu. Burmese Premler, paid a surprise visit to meeting and warned the demonstrators thai the Government would take punitive action If they t<x>k the
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      P.I RED CROSS STUDY TRIP
      65 6 PHILIPPINE National Rod Cross Homo Service National Director Mrs. Minerva G. Laudico will be sent to the United States sometime m April for a social work studyvisit with the American Red Cross. Tli is Is In response to an Invitation extended to the organisation by
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      Peace fire ends native wars
      155 6 DRITISH officials m Kenya (East Africa) have reD sorted to native ceremonial to settle differences between the Masai and Kikuyu tribes. For many years both tribes have staged marauding expeditions against each other, raiding cattle and murdering. British officials induced chiefs and elders of the
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      THE PARTY SPIRITS
      53 6 ACCOUNTS of Ihc Mayor's Christmas Party to children at St. Pancras (London) included 21 Quarts of brown ah- 13 quarts of light ale, one bottle each of whisky, rin sherry, and port. Aldermen of St. Pancras hare queried the accounts. One alderman said: hope none of this
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      Glamour girls to fight duel
      63 6 BLONDE Diana Gosselin Carnival Queen of Nice, is to fight a duel with a rude dancer. Henriette Kermis. Henriette. a contestant for the title of Queen of the Carnival, .said the judgrs' decision was unfair. Henriette and Diana decided to settle their differences m the
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      FILM HORSE STARVING
      64 6 AHORSE which appeared m the Mm "Odd Man Out" was stated at Beaconsfleld < Bucks) Magistrates' Court to have been m a Held bare of grass "grovelling on the ground and unable to rise owing to starvation William James Flight, a commissionaire at Plnewood film studios, who
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      CAMBODIAN HONOUR
      33 6 The CainbocLan Oovernnu'i.t h;k> conferred t-ie hi'iiour ol Uio Commander ol the Order of Cambedi.i on the Philippines Secre^iry of Guakrno. lor his work for international tvar^ nr.d uixicrsta! dinng Reuter
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      PENNIES FOR SILVER
      26 6 Members of Mothers' Union branches all over Britain are subscribing a penny each towards a silver wedding present for the King and Queen.
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      Ceylon's record coconut exports
      134 6 THIRD of Ceylon's produce— coconut and other coconut products yielded 103 million rupees m 1947 whtreas it obtained only 68.257.381 rup os m 194 C. Ninety one per cc.it of tin trade m coconut produce is represented by exports of copra, coconut oil. desiccated nuts and
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      New fighting in West Java
      104 6 DUTCH sources In Bat a via have unofficially confirmed reports that serious fighting is going on between Indonesian Republican irregulars and Dutch troops m the rugged Madjalengka district, 25 miles south of Cheribon, m West Java They said the Dutch Army was taking action to
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      CHOOSING INDIA'S NATIONAL ANTHEM
      230 6 A RECENT announcement by the Indian Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, that a number of military bands had been asked to 'practise special orchestral renderings of Rabindranath Ta^ore's song "Jana Gana ftfana," m connection with the choice of an Indian National Anthem, followed a press controversy
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      Peer attack security fog over defence
      274 6 Peer attack security fog over defence INITIATING a debate on defence i 1 Lords, Viscount Briiisn,. n l S r information about Britain's armed i the fog of security about them was Zt/ 1 J vj Britain, among people entitled to kn. n, a( S among foreign powers. He thought
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      Burmese Reds coup d'etat'
      30 6 Burmese Reds coup d'etat' Hr H e Bt 9 I Eft I I B I I m I trie ■■p man I A walk would cut 'KB' I! B; A.P.
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      SECRET PLAN LOST
      15 6 I I of saiH Prol :ind r* 11 f<lM ■fur negligence.- A.P.
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      58 6 JAINC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya RUM DOWW ToIHE BUL&S? V LOWf KS?Y >' 1 L TA KF. CARtN] /l HEY WOM*r LJKt ACS^V^ w VIU.AGF, forliockTsi'm COOKjmo ThE OP THAT? tl^/ IT MlSS'—f WAS V^ S^ NNTO AMD GET SOME ftULfcSj OEMTs' DINNER, WHAT'S THIS W
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      Selections by "Call Boy"
      40 7 Selections by "Call Boy" ;> („.H,, for FOCI NDS Ui< ».itU MiX KM I gulirin< rtfCM.4STI R V 1 Vu«i"«'> M.iid P"' v ptian ouern i Boontj pr<atc j f,\MH spfirir.irth v f»T( Brit* KIISEEIM I jjdv Ruth UiALUCS Olympic Haiw
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      SARITONE, GAMELAW NAPS TODAY
      547 7 wing yielding From EPSOM JEEP pAVOURITES are likely to score at X, yielding. winds. The going will be Four Winds will be hard to beat m the nrst race. Karman Is the only danger. Democrat should make no mistake m the second race while Marland should
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      Wrestling cards for tonight
      151 7 Italian heavj weight grappler, Leon Labrioki. will come up against a sufl test tonight when clashes with the Malayan Chinese heavyweight champion, Son of Kong m the main event at the Happy World Stadium. Labriola 1) i r b. n unbeaten m Singapore and has scored
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      Inter-Varsity Athletics today
      15 7 Inter-Varsity Athletics today ■non V: LonLhey and are t>les" •r.ond. 1 .500 f the .-.row.
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      UP FINAL REFEREE
      6 7 I the LinesI
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      RIFLE ASSOCIATION TO INSURE PROPERTY
      348 7 J^ DECISION to insure the club house, its property and Ut take up a third party insurance policy was made at the Annual GencraJ Meeting of the Singapore Rifle Association at the Singapore Volunteer Corps Hall on Wednesday. The meeting, well attended by the members
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      PORTMANTEAU WINS LIVERPOOL CUP
      58 7 MR. J. Hetherton's Portmanteau won the Liverpool Spring Cup by a neck from Mr W. Nightingale's Command Performance with Mr. J. Rogerson's Silver Pencil a head away m third place of the twelve runners. The betting was 100 to 6 on Portmanteau, 6 to 1 Command
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      AUSTRaLIAN TEAM SAILS FROM PERTH
      30 7 large crowd including many cricketing personalities, gathered on the quayside at Perth to bid farewell to Australia's cricketing tourists Whn VPstprHnr l/»ff England. Reuter A.A.P.
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      High standard promised in today's rugby
      691 7 High standard promised in today's rugby England team which meets Ireland and The x Kest m the last game of the rugger season this afternoon at Jalan Besar stadium will be represented by some of Malaya's linest rugger players and this final game In the local international series is likely
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      Today's teams
      100 7 FOLLOWING arc the England and Ireland and The R«st J tettu today. Kick-off will bo at 5 I o'clock. ENGLAND IRELAND A 111 -T Ma]. Svilmon J. A. O'Brien (capt.) A. C Cooper S.Ld. Watorkeyn J. Oates K.F.H. DroogleeveA C Corr (rapt.) F. Homer F. Lt. Harris Cpl.
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      Cup thrills at Valley Park
      70 7 Joe Robinson (right) Blackpool goalkeeper dives to save from Eddy Baily (left) of Tottenham Hotspur. SuiinS the semi final of the F.A. Cup at Villa Park, Birmingham, Mar. 13. Blackpool beat Spurs by three goals to one, after extra time. Manchester United beat Derby the
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      Weekend Sport
      182 7 Rugger; England v. Ireland an the Rest at Jalan Besar Stadiun: 5 p.m. Cricket; Medical College l&t. X vs. SRC. Ist. XI, Medical Col leje ground; St. Joseph's Inslitu tion vs. S.R.C. 2nd. XI, Padang V.M.C.A. vs. (V)limiils, Chanj Prison ground; C.S.C. vs Sea forth Highlanders, t'.T.A. ground.
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      44 probables for National
      213 7 J£Rlo/iii;R SANDY lias been withdrawn from the Grand National, leaving 44 horse* to oontcst the tur-and-a-nillt ,;lcchaM> at Alntree, Livvipool today. The following is the full amended list of probable jockeys and riders. Prince Regent. T. Hyde; Happy Home. G. Kelly; Klaxton, R. Smyth; Rowland Roy.
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      ATHLETIC TRIAL
      34 7 THE Singapore Chinese Amateur Athletic Federation will hold a trial at the Jalan Besar Stadium tomorrow starting: 10 a.m. to pick team for the Malayan Chinese Meeet m Penanpr over the Easter.
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      MCFA sitting on the fence
      793 7 MCFA sitting on the fence By THE SPORTS EDITOR WHILE the Malayan Chinese Football Association. JhJhllT™' L S SitUnff n the fence not knowing whether to make preparations to send a team to the China National Meet or not, information has been received from Hong Kong that China's team for
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      HOME SOCCER FIXTURES
      263 7 THE following are U.K. football fixtures for today. FIRST DIVISION i Arsenal v Chelsea Bolton v Blackmirn Burnley v Grime by 'Charlton v H'field Liverpool v Blackpool M'chester U. v Wolves M'le?brough v Derby Portsmouth v M'chester C Preston N.E. v Aston Villa Sheffield v Evert on
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      Today's rugger at Murrayfield
      82 7 ALTHOUGH there v> little but tlie task of avoiding "•winning" the International "Wooden Spoon" at stake, today Calcutta Cup match between the R.igby Union teams of Scotland and England at Murrayfield will probably attract a very big attendance. This annual tussle between the two countries has
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      SEAFORTHS WIN
      60 7 JN what has been one of the dullest first division league soccer matches of the season, the Seaforths beat the Malays by the odd goal m three at Jalan Besur S indium yesterday. Malays opened the scoring through Dollah m the first half but after the interval the
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      Crossword Puzzle
      15 7 rrso DAY'S crossivord puzzle A and solutions for j/esterday appear m page 3.
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      MUST STOP THE REDS QUICKLY'
      422 8 MUST STOP THE REDS QUICKLY' Marsha II gives new warning BERKELEY (Cal.) Friday. THE U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. George Marshall, declared tonight that quick action is needed to stop the spread of Communism, but added that "the door is wide open for any general conciliatory moves" by Russia. Mr.
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      HOME
      30 8 One of England's worst blitzed cities during the war, Plymouth is Ceaselessly being rebuilt This shores the new Royal Parade built on the ruins of the old shopping centre.
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      UK recovery drive gains
      183 8 UK recovery drive gains LONDON, Friday. JjU'RTHtiK gains m Britain's drive for economic recovery were made last month, with average d tilv exports reaching a high level, the Board <>i Trade announced today. The total value of February exports was £112,900.000. The figures were the highest monthly total since 1920,
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      SMUTS' CALL TO RUSSIA
      85 8 CAPETOWN, Friday. THE South African Prime Minister, Field-Marshal Jan Smuts, told the Senate here today "The great powers should speak to one another as man to man. "Russia says she may have to defend herself from the West. The Western nations say they have to defend
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      QUEEN'S NIECE GRANTED DECREE NISI
      87 8 QUEEN'S NIECE GRANTED DECREE NISI LONDON, Friday. VISCOUNTESS Anson, niece of the Queen, was awarded a decree nisi on Friday on grounds of desertion by Viscount Anson, of The Grenadier Guards. She was awarded custody of their two children. They were married m 1938 She charged that he left her
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      BURMA'S NO TO US SCIENTISTS
      78 8 THE Burmese Government has refused permission to the American Geographic Society expedition to go to Mercjui, southern Burma, to study the solar eclipse expected on May 9. It was understood that the American Ambassador, Mr. Jerome Huddle, was taking the matter un with thp Government.
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      CHINA'S CAPITAL
      36 8 The Peiping City Council has adopted a proposal that Peiping b« made China's capital after the new National Assembly meets on Mar. 29 Peipins: (formerly Peking) Vas p ranit.al nf Phino till 1923 Reuter
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      21 8 The Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan have agreed to meet monthly to discuss matters of mutua 1 both Dominions.- A.P.
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      MANCHU POWER PLANT BOMBED
      248 8 SHANGHAI, Friday. GOVERNMENT planes today heavily bombed the great hydro-electric plant at Hsiaofengman. near Kirin City, former powerhouse for industrial Manchuria, a Government communique disclosed. The Red forces around Changchun, the Manchurian capital, were also heavily bombed. Fighting of an Indecisive character raged m Manchuria and
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      'Purge' debate next week
      59 8 LONDON, Friday. THE British Government ban on the employment of Communist and Fascist civil servants m security departments will be debated m the House of Commons next week. The Conservatives, while largely convinced of the correctness of the Government's action on security grounds, nevertheless want to
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      CHINESE ABROAD GET RESPITE
      184 8 'Soak-the-rich tax' NANKING, Friday. OVERSEAS Chinese will 'temporarily be exempted" from the special "soak-the-rleh" relief levy under which all Chinese will be taxed 10 per cent of their property, according to a decision reached today by the Tax Supervision Committee. The primary cause for postponing the
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      BOAC SERVICE TO JAPAN
      58 8 THE BOAC inaugurated Its weekly service to Japan yesterday with the departure of the flyingboat Penzanc c to Iwakuni. The LD.625-mile trip will be via Augusta (Sicily). Cairo Karachi. Calcutta. Bangkok and Hong Kong. It wHI take seven days. Iwakuni will be used as a temporary
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      PRICES RISE ON SMALL TRADING
      625 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Friday. REPORTS from New York that Britain's defence of sterling is undesirable created interest today m the London stock markets, says Reuter's financial correspondent. Apart from some appreciation of South African dividend-paving companies, accompanied by the revival of devaluation talk, this
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      'ACTRESS INVITED ME TO ROOM'
      322 8 'ACTRESS INVITED ME TO ROOM' Cabin rnwde* tot "1M HESTER r JIVING evidence today at his trial of murdering the actress Bi^JS on board the liner Durban Ca v guese West Guinea, a deck steward i OIT p *ti told the court that he pushed uU^N nude body of the
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      TOOK HER TO PARK: DIVORCE
      27 8 TOOK HER TO PARK: DIVORCE M R N Allen took I troll m i J •re, to hissurpn to an apu man. She tun and I D
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      WRONG MOVE
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      69 8 WEATHER Fnir WEATHER report for the next 24 hours compiled by the RAF: Scattered thunderstorms during affcerncon. Few bright periods. I air this evening and tomorrow morning. Wind: light, variable. Moonrise: 2.44 pjn; moonset: 2. 01 am. Temperatures: Max: tl de<r mm. 74 deg. Rainfall: A trace. STORE HIGH TIDES
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