The Singapore Free Press, 31 March 1948

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA FGDFGDFG SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1948 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    22 SHOT IN CABARET QUARREL
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    BILL CALL COUNCIL
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    TIN PRICE RAISED
    80 1 LONDON, Tuesday. THE Ministry of Supply A announced tonight that baying and selling prices for Malayan tin will be increased on April 7. The Ministry's buying price at smelters m Penang or Singapore will be raised from t5OO a ton to £504. Tlie Ministry's selling price at
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    SINGAPORE 'SEAMEN' IN DRUG RACKET
    107 1 SINGAPORE 'SEAMEN IN DRUG RACKET Fre« Press Staff Correspondent MELBOURNE. Tuesday. CINGAPORE smugglers are d involved m a racket to sign on ships for drug running, alleges today's issue of the Seamen's Journal, organ of the Australian Seamens Union. The Journal says Singapore seamen have appealed to the union to
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    UK has record budget surplus
    189 1 LONDON, Tuesday. PHE Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford x Cripps. next Tuesday will have the paradoxical duty of announcing an all-time record budget surplus to a country -striving to avert economic disaster. Wi:h a domestic credit balance of probably £800,JOO. Sir Stafford Cripps. as
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    GAG' PROTEST IN FEDERATION
    692 1 How Council will work Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. PROTESTS that they would be gagged by the proposed Standing Orders of the new Federal Legislative Council came from the only two women on the Council when it began discussion last night of its Select
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    29 1 MRS. B. H. OON of Penang, who yesterday attacked the new Federal Council standing orders which make no provision for adjournment speeches as an attempt to gag Unofficial members.
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    KILLED AFTER A QUARREL
    55 1 A SINGAPORE Indian mandore was arrested yesterday following the death of a Municipal labourer m a quarrel at the Syed Alwi labourers' lines. The labourer is alleged to have been hit on the head with a daching pole. He died of a broken skull, without regaining
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    CZECH BOYCOTT
    40 1 THE Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry announced m Prague yesterday that her United Nations delegate would not appear before the Security Council to discuss the Chilean complaint against the Communist coup m j Czechoslovakia, if summoned Reuter {to do so.—
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    CIVIL WAR FEARED IN BURMA
    141 1 CIVIL WAR FEARED IN BURMA RANGOON, Tuesday. pIVIL war loomed today m Burma as the Communist White Flag Party urged a fight to the finish against the Government of Thakin Nu. The Government itself faces crisis with the Premier's decision that the Peoples Volunteer Organisation, private army of the Government
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    Soldier tried to sell Pulau Brani revolver
    98 1 A REPORT by a Chinese that a European had tried to sell him a revolver led to the arrest yesterday by military police of the private soldier now being held m connection with the loss of 11 revolvers and two sten guns from
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    SAILORS ROB TAXI DRIVER
    46 1 A CHINESE taxi driver n jumped from his vehicle and ran away yesterday, after three Europeans, believed to b e sailors, had robbed him of a wrist-watch. The Europeans drove from Kampong Java Road and abandoned the taxi m Boon Keng Road.
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    COLONY COUNCIL MEETS TOMORROW
    186 1 COLONY COUNCIL MEETS TOMORRO W Free Press Staff Reporter A REHEARSAL of the parade of the guard of honour for the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, when he arrives to open the new Singapore Legislative Council tomorrow, was held m Empress Place this morning. The new Councillors also attended at the
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    12 DIE IN CRASH
    32 1 UORE than 12 people were 111 reported killed and 18 injured when a train collided with a crowded bus, cutting it into two north of Mexico City yeserday.
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    HOUSE VOTES U.S. AID FOR FRANCO
    174 1 WASHINGTON, Tues. THE House of Representatives today approved the inclusion ot Spain m the Marshall Plan by a vote of 149 to 52, on an amendment proposed by Representative Alvin Okonski (Republican), who called the Franco Government the "greatest bulwark against Communism m Europe."
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    Perak to mourn for 100 days
    314 1 SULTAN'S FUNERAL TODAY Free Press Special Correspondent KUALA KANGSAR, Wednesday. PERAK will go into mourning for 100 days for the late Sultan Sir Abdul Aziz, who is to be buried today, next to his first wife m the Royal cemetery at Bukit Chandan. The
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    Strike would be revolt warns Nehru
    253 1 Strike would be revolt warns Nehru NEW DELHI, Tuesday. /GOVERNMENT employees m Calcutta who have announced their intention to strike on Friday were warned today by the Premier, Pandit Nehru, that their strike would be "a challenge to the Government on the political plane/ and would lead to their dismissal
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    CHINESE HELD ON MANUS IS
    70 1 CHINESE HELD ON MANUS IS MANUS ISLAND, m the Admiralty group, where 300 armed Chinese were reported to be defying the local administration, was described as "normal" by a New Guinea police superintendent, Mr. James Grimshaw, yesterday. Mr. Grimshaw has returned from a two-day visit to the island. While there,
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    YUGOSLAVS TO DIE
    14 1 Yugoslav officials aharged uith "economic sabotage" have been sentenced to die.
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    STOP PRESS
    25 1 A U.S. Senate-House conference committee last night reached agreement on legislation to extend the synthetic rubber control programme to June 30. 1950. A.P.
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    Everything found
    1095 2 AROUND SINGAPORE SHOPS FOR one awful mo-j ment I did think; that the Singapore: shops had failed me: for once, and that: there was something: that they could not: produce when I want-" ed it. j But even the Easter; Eggs appeared all right,: which only goes to
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    35 3 I ri the ground. Augustrn Boto RegateI \*Z making his debut at the open- bullfight season at the Pla^a is I j tew seconds earlier had tossI no one of its horns into his thigh
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    Ready to strike imediately'
    342 3 Ready to strike i mediately' U.S. STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND WASHINGTON, Tuesday. Mrateiric Air C<Hnmand is prepared n immediately if war should the Assocbted Press aviation editor. k «>nly for an initial thrust, but it jjiih and manned largely by combat CT and hit harder than any earkind. It is familiar
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    Films to play big part in UK education
    67 3 Films to play big part in UK education ■Ut: ire .m even j ruture I > youth. Ti- > are rn^-i luctloo B ducaI large I .:ually I Lhe 30,000 I .11 be ect rs. I have ifis I .ids" post I "\ngI ci 800 Ipftanda b will be I
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    FIRST MORO DIPLOMAT
    28 3 J -irtment it -I noI r iiploI ->dkar. I Butu. I r.tual 1 iurI r.omiI Los I comI udies I ment w I »hp Reuter
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    WOY TO CEYLON
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    HIGH OFFICERS TO SEE MINES
    91 3 THE National Coal Board has 1 announced that m order to Rive advice on prospects m the mining industry to me» leaving tfoe armed forces, high Army and Royal Air Force officers of the Imperial Defence College will visit Yorkshire on April 21 to view
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    CZECHS QUIT IN LONDON
    58 3 CZECHS QUIT IN LONDON TWO Czech officials In London have resigned their "s in protests against the' Cmmunist coup m Prague. They are Dr Alfred Dr fcer, legal adviser to the Lon- Embassy and Mr. Hans m. director of the Czech iLs Shipping .and Supply :>:iny m London and s<>vnment
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    ROBBERY AT ART MUSEUM
    45 3 pOLJCE authorities report I that three priceless paintings by Albrecht have been stolen from Graz (Austria) Museum. The picture* were cut from fheir frames They include the "Knight. Death and the Devil," "Melancholy" and "Adam and a»e. the police said. U.P.
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    NO LABOUR FOR ROCKET RANGE
    141 3 INLES3 more shipping is made availably by the \J British Government no migrants can be allocated to work on the rocket range m Central Australia said the Australian Minister for Immigration Mr A. A. Calwell, m a Sydney address. British migrants could not be directed
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    BRITAIN IN BARS CZECH WOMAN
    95 3 BRITAIN IN BARS CZECH WOMAN A LABOUR Member of Parliament said that he had asked the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin to tell him why Mrs. Magda Reinerova, a Czech, is banned from England. "Magda and I are personal friends." said Mr. Tom OBrien, an official of the British
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    48 3 Princess Elizabeth a few days ago visited a Clerkenwell (London) diamondcutting factory, where she watched work m progress on the cutting of the 54--carat pink diamond given to her as a wedding present Dr. H. T. Williamson (above), a Canadian who owns a rich diamond mine m Tanganyika.
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    STATUS RAISED
    21 3 The Afghanistan Legation m London and the British Legation m Kabul have been raiseed to the status of embassies
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    More U.S. ships are sailing to Hong Kong
    201 3 More U.S. ships are sailing to Hong Kong rpHE greater proportion of ships under the United States Hag operating transpacific services compared with before the war 15 commented upon m the annuai report of the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce. American tonnage now accounts for a large proportion of the
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    ROOSEVELT STATUE
    35 3 Though still veiled, the statue of President Roosevelt which was delivered m London a week ago. is drawing crowds to Qrocvenor Square. Tne statue will be unveiled by Mrs. Roosevelt on April 12
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    STILWELL FAVOURED CHINA REDS
    466 3 STILWELL FAVOURED CHINA REDS 'Better than Kuomintang QEN. Jofpfc rvi »e*ar ~.i»-- ter| y w?** 1 thoughts oil «he leading war-lime X&3 < 5 ta Britein and America were pubO°mma»*er of tfce South-East A8i B Command and Commander of th* C.S. Army's China Burma-India m i2S' < tw'?i?' S /5?
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    INDIA HAS BIG COAL OUTPUT
    66 3 FX)R tne wnoie or the Indian Dominion, about 2,200,000 tona of coal were moved from the coal mines during the month of February, said a press note issued by the Railways Ministry. Of this figure. 1.750.000 tons of coal were lifted by the railways from
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    ARTIFICIAL BREEDING OPPOSED
    156 3 ARTIFICIAL BREEDING OPPOSED A RTIFICIAL insemination -il. should bo forbidden Decause it flouted the laws f nature, declared Mr. Vincent a Country Party member during a debate m the New South Wales Legislative Assembly en a bill which provides for the licensing of veterinary surgeons and premises connected with production
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    Loaf baked in five minutes
    79 3 r EADERS of Britain s bakIJ ing industry are taking a close interest m a new electrical high frequency system which bakes a loaf m minutes. The normal time u> 45 minutes. Tests have Just been madf> of this revolutionary method at the London premises
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    3 TO A CELL
    73 3 IN UK GAOLS OVERCROWDING m British *J prisons was described by Mr. Ede. the Home Secretary as "a startling reversion to conditions unknown for 40 yean." Mr Ede was addressing th i Royal London Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society, at the Mansion House. London. In many orisons,
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    CZECH RED RECANTS 'Bolshevik-run police state'
    179 3 CZECH RED RECANTS 'Bolshevik-run police state A WELL-KNOWN Czech author a*d poet, Mr. Ivan t\ Blatny, who arrived m London on Saturday as a member of delegation of the Czech syndicate of authors-approved by the present regime—has issued a statement dissociating himself from the regime and criticising it as a
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    Red attack on U.S. consul
    93 3 /CANADIAN authorities on V Tuesday blamed a vigorous crackdown on Communist border traffic by the American Consul. Mr. John Bankhead. for a third attempt on his life on Sunday. The assailant leaped from behind bushes and fired two shots at Bankhead as he drove up
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    THEY WERE COOLED DOWN
    59 3 POLICE were called into I the Streatham Ice Rink (London) to control :->ectators demonstrating asainst a referee's decision m an icehockey match. For nearly a quarter of an hour men threw programmes. The manager said the trouble began when the Streatham goalkeeper, Monty Reynolds, was sent
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    'CIIOSTHUNTER'DIES
    31 3 Mr Harry Price, Britain's best-known "ghost hunter," died at Pulborough (Sussex) on Sunday, aged 67. He investigated many reputedly haunted houses on behalf cf thr Council for Psychical investigation.— Reuter
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    Urges racial separation
    86 3 THE South African Nationa--1 list (Opposition) Party leader, Dr. D. F. Malan, said m Capetown that Communism among coloured people m the Union most be "eradicated." The best way that this could be done would be creating better liring conditions and strict legal measures, he Raid m
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    ENVOY TO TURKEY
    14 3 Kfty-six-year-old Dewar Chaman Lall ha« been appointed India's ambassador to Turkey.
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    WOMEN CHANGE JOBS OFTEN
    133 3 CHORTAGE of labour m Australia is being agifiua Vated by the fact that wom «n and girt m m dustry cannot be relied upon to stay on The job o C ?StL a SUrTey Conduc^!^y^e a r:; The survey showed that absenteeism is highest among women
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    BEST RADIO CUSTOMER
    44 3 JNDIA is Britain's biggest radio customer. During December 1947. Britain ex Ported to India 20 per cent of her total radio exports Norway and Eire came next with six per cent each In terms of sterline India Jr&i"™* that -3 A.P.
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    PLANE COMPLAINT
    22 3 to Y ti£ Sla i^. h as "^Plained to the United States thai the Yugoslav border thre. times this year.
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      68 3 TARZAN Danger By Edgar Rice Burroughs THE TRICERATOPS STOOD AT BAY, rTS ATTENTION ON THE 1 V& r KW f'■ j» I StOWLY APPRCACHINS HORIS LEADER. SUDDENLY THOSE II v -W& U >^>^ S T><E ENTIRE B^O OF SNAKg•N THE REAR DARTED FORWARD AND WOVE THEIR r«S\\ :i </V.'.i F
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  • The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Mar. 31. 1948.
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      The Colony's Own Defences
      546 4 THE Singapore Government's decision to appoint a S r Defen to bo welcomed as evidence .v effort to coordinate m that are special concern of the i and as an indication U is b*-:: to defence preparedness. which no country can allord to neglect m a
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    Don Iddon's Diary
    1043 4 Don Iddon's Diary NEW YORK: AFTER the dollars the doughboys. As the U.S. poises her pen over the Marshall Plan cheque there is scarcely a politician left who thinks money alone will halt the Russians. Even before the recovery programrrfe gets under way America moves into the next phase of
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    FINNS' UPPER LIP IS STIFF
    666 4  - FINNS' UPPER LIP IS STIFF AXE MALMSTROEM By HELSINKI: WITH new threats over their heads, worn by two wans within a decade, Finns are still keeping a stiff upper lip. They have seen hard times and are accustomed to occupation. They even had a civil war. Hardships do not frighten
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    FAITH
    21 4 The prayer of faith shall save the sick pray one for another, that ye may be healed. James 5. 15-16.
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    Johnnie Turk is so very nervous
    618 4  - Johnnie Turk is so very nervous BOYD CAMPBELL By JOHNNY TURK, who has had one nervous hand on his gun for nine years now, thinks he may have to use it one day soon. He thinks another world war is a near certainty and some Russian move against his country
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    MADAME WU TO EXHIBIT
    63 4 MADAME WU TO EXHIBIT MADAME K. C. WU, wife of Shanghai's mayor, who is presently visiting Manila. Is scheduled to present her works at an exhibition. Her paintings dt-plcting birds, flowers and trees are ex pt-cted to attract considerable interest among the citys lovers and patrons of art. This will
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    THEY want PEACE
    27 4  - THEY want PEACE SPENCER MOOSA 15. A l> c -**<- A J I ir Arm I >%■ I .H I "I .1 1 I i W i 1 A.P.
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    UK WARPLANES FOR IRAQ
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    CUT INDIVIDUALS' BLACKOUT PLEA
    325 5 Getpowers,say Ratepayers Free Press Staff Reporter TO cut down the necessity for blacking out parts of Singapore owing to the power station being overloaded, the Singapore Ratepayers' Association has asked the Municipality to seek powers to cut off from electric supply any individual consumer guilty of
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    30 5 Ex-Warrant Officer Arthur Mansfield, on the roof of the Windmill Theatre m London, describes the route he will take on his round-the-norld flight to a group of admiring "Windmill girhr
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    Round the world flyer spurns love
    312 5 Round the world flyer spurns love Press Correspondent LONDON. Monday. inder, who is due m Singapore on a round- I he world record flight tl <>n Wednesday m his 200 h.p. fruiter aircraft! "The Windmill off he will leave behind a ?irl him if he persisted m the Arthur Mansfield
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    Adult classes attract 89 students
    173 5 Adult classes attract 89 students Free Press Staff Reporter MALAY drivers and policemen. Indian newspaper vendors and office .boys, Chinese Customs officers and shopkeepers, are among the 89 students who are now attending "adult education classes' m English m Singapore. 5 The class has been organised by the Peoples Educational
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    OFFICES CLOSED
    30 5 Because of the inauguration of the Singapore Legislative Council tomorrow, the Food Control Rationing and Distribution Offices at the Victoria Memorial Hall will be closed for the day.
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    52 5 Mr. and Mrs. Boon Pian Sin after their wedding at Kamvong Kapor church last week. Mrs. Boon was formerly Miss Stella Lim, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lim Ban Huat of Singapore. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs Boon Thian Choen, of Banka. The Rev. Goh Hooo
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    RENEWING CONTACT
    65 5 AN agreement has been r% re«u:hed by the Indonesians and the Dutch m Sumatra with regard to telephone communication between Republican and Dutchoccupied areas, disclosed Capt. Hammond, Australian Military Staff member of the Three Power Commission, who is now m Sumatra. Repair work is now under way and
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    PACIFIC FLEET IN MANILA
    62 5 PACIFIC FLEET IN MANILA DMIRAL Sir Denis Boyd. Commander-in-Chief of the British Pacific Fleet, arrived m Manila yesterday •rd his flagship, H.M.S. London, for a courtesy visit. The destroyer Consort and sloop Alert accompanied the cruiser London. The ships visited Singapore from Mar. 8 to Mar. 15 and called at
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    Accused of Murder. discharged
    16 5 Accused of Murder. discharged I 1 I I I I ■oorin a Ig 21 and he
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    EI INDUSTIES RE RECOVERING
    123 5 EI INDUSTIES RE RECOVERING r m Indonesia is makin ood f""-*^^. I i (KiiK i ion si 85 per cent of the pre-war l-*ter the figure had been d'ns to the X.E.I Economic i r Ice factories have reached 35 of their pre-war average produ ti n and beer factories
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    'They always come back'
    114 5 Free Press Staff Reporter pOMMENTING on defilement of the Cenotaph, Mr. L. Rayman, President of the Municipality, said that the Town Cleansing Department of the Municipality had made continual raids on the hawkers m the Cenotaph area— and would continue such raids but m the past
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    Half world's rubber from Malaya
    156 5 MALAYA accounted for just over half of the world's output of natural rubber m January. Malaya's production, m long tons, was 62,099, out of an estimated world total production of 120,000 tons. According to the Rubber Study Group's March statistical bulletin. Indonesian production dropped to
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    5 5 Singapore's Cenotaph on Connaught Drive
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    Dope peddlers imprisoned
    97 5 A Chinese, Goh Ah Pee, was n sentenced to a year's rigorous imprisonment and end -$1,000, or a further six months imprisonment m the Second District Court, yesterday, for being the occupier of a "dope house. The Singapore police raided a house m Sungei Road on Feb.
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    36 5 St T a l\?Jl!n<«°n\l- c*e bronner after their MddiriQ at M. Andrews Cathedral yesterday. The bride urn* thr former Miss Eleanor M. Hitchcn of Yorkshire (England M> Neubronner is a chartered accountant loith Evatt and Cc.
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    'Don't defile the Cenotaph' call
    298 5 Free Pr«*> Staff Reporter THE Ex-Services Association of Malaya will discuss, at a committee meeting to be held on April 13, what action to take to prevent the continued desecration of the Singapore Cenotaph, Mr. VV. G. Smith, chairman of the Association, told tlie Free
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    'Bring'em back alive' woman in Singapore
    161 5 'Bring'em back alive' woman in Singapore Free Press Start Keporter a month m Singapore is Miss Genevieve Cuprys, a visitor from N Jersey < U.S.A. >, who is her,- on a -bring em back aliv< M mission Miss Cuprys intends purchasing hundreds of Java monkeys, snakes, rare birds and fancy
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    Conditions for immigrants
    106 5 Fre« Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. rpHERE was no quota basis 1 for the immigration of Chinese into the Federation of Malaya. Mr. Tan Slew Sin was informed In reply to a written question m the Federal Legislative Council today. Chinese immigrants, it was added, were
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    BIRTHS & DEATHS IN SINGAPORE
    43 5 BIRTHS DEATHS IN SINGAPORE There were 528 births m the Singapore Municipality m the week ended March 20 and 162. deaths (109 males. 53 females) m the same period. Main causes of death were tuberculosis (29). malaria '16 pneumonia <13». and enteritis 13 >
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    Dead end kids join new child centre
    358 5 Dead end kids join new child centre Free Press Staff Reporlet WHEN the Social Weifare Department authorities set up a third children's centre at Prinsep Street last wee* among the first new members were a group of grubbyfaced Chinese kids whose former haunts were the dirty, congested lanes branching off
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    BOY GETS A REWARD
    75 5 Singapore police have rewarded a 17-year-old Chinese bey. Teo Bok Chui. who led them to 3.500 rounds of 9 mm. ammunition at Woodlands on Sunday. The boy was cutting grass on the road leading to the Singapore Naval Base near the Woodlands Police Station when he
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    FLAGS AT HALFMAST
    30 5 The Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gi has ordered that all fla public buildings shall t half mast today 10 mark the funeral of the Sultan Pcrak.
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    Without his cash he'd still be 'big'
    611 6 Without his cash he'd still be 'big' SILHOUETTE: J. Arthur Rank •TO reach Mr. J. Arthur 1 Rank's magnificent Queen Anne walnut desk from the door of the palatial Mayfaii room that is his private office you walk half the length of a cricket pitch over a sumptuously carpeted floor.
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    Behind the scenes
    152 6  - Behind the scenes PIKRRE JEANXKRAI By A FASCINATING exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. South Kensington, brings the manin-: he-street and his family right on to the film set. as it were. and also into the oflices where the first -spade work is done before Miss Gloria Gaudy and
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    Bridge Problem
    257 6 A S d^&cMbea yesterday, declarer had laid himself open to defeat by winning the diamond opening, yanking three rounds of trumps, then hading a spade East's failure to duck the first m> tde lead, however, gave the I .ur- back to South. But South never should have been
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    MODEST MAIDENS
    24 6 Tr**«*rt lU«.iurf4 U S Tumi o*.* "She switched ffvm the social register to the cash register and rijjgs up $2,000 a week!"
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    Film of presents here soon
    789 6 Film of presents here soon BY OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT YOU m Singapore and Malaya who wore unable to join the queues of thousands of people to see Princess Elizabeth's wedding presents will soon be able to do the next best thing— see the 27 minute Technicolor film of the gifts,
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    77 6 Eatraraian-styie gown ana elbow length gloi worn by film a i Romney when she insitea the world premiere of tht British film 'Corridor of Mirrors m which she play> the lead Winners of awards fur best motion picture p formances during 194? t. trophies given them c banquet m Hollyuood
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      203 6 mSntSrSKG Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya I 1 J I WHY ARE MY WE WERE ~T" I I DON'T TELL ME. I KNOW. L-' 11 7 ■1 1 r -m THINGS BEING TOLD TO MOVE f- COUNTESS DESIRE'E BOUGHT L, !5S AT ,r S ns?! NG J
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    SAFA SHOULD BRITHEN UP SOCCER
    484 7 SAFA SHOULD BRITHEN UP SOCCER More special games needed By Our Soccer Reporter A*T?fL th \r ce k encrs SOCcer especially the lively f* Easter Monday game between the Malayan Malays and Malayan Chinese, which did a lot tC quicken spectator interest, yesterday's league game was a dull and colourless
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    Amicables join the leaders
    336 7 Amicables join the leaders By Our Soccer Reporter THE Amicable Athletic Association collected two x lucky points at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday when they beat the Malays by one goal to nil m a first division game. The result shoots the Amicables up to leadership with the Changi Airmen and
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    HIGH COST OF OLYMPIC TEAM
    98 7 does X cost to send a team to the Olympic Games? Plenty! The Argentine Government has authorised 112,500 pesos to purchase and ship food to London fur the Argentine Olympic team. The full budget is 1.900.CC0 pesos. Other expenses besides food include: transport to London
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    32 7 M C. Kailasapathy who took 15 Selanyor wickets for 62 runs m the state cricket match played between Singapore and Selangor at Kuala Lumpur over the week-end. Singapore lost by 12 runs.
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    MASKELL TO DEFEND TITLE
    10 7 MASKELL TO DEFEND TITLE I:, tl for 1 m U.P.
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    Referee was beaten to death
    101 7 Referee was beaten to death 4 N Argentine soccer l\ official. Salvador Naredo, was kicked and beaten to death by players and fans who disagreed with a penalty he called during a game m Buenos Aires on Monday. Naredo penalized the "Eleven Stars" soccer team and the players of that
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    S.AFRICAN TEAM FOR GAMES
    128 7 i L, COLEMAN, the British J* Empire marathon champion and record holder, who finished sixth m the 1936 1 Olympics, and DennU Shore, South Africa's leading sprln- ter for some years, are included m South Africa's team of 11 chosen for the Olympic Games m London
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    U.K. RUGBY UNION
    58 7 RUGBY UNION results yesterday were: Bath 3, Leicester 16; Cardiff 32. Devon port Services 10; LJanelly 3. Welsh Universities 6; Meestem 8, Nuneaton 3; Newport 5, Barbarians 3; Pontypool 19, London Welsh 0. Sheffield 3. Bradford 27; Stroud 6, Notts 6; Newbridge 14. Birmingham 5; Exeter 11,
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    N. ENGLAND TENNIS TITLE TO POLE
    53 7 IGNACY Tloczynskl, a Pole resident m England, retained the men's singles championship m the north of England hard court tennis tournament at Scarborough yesterday. He beat G. Godsel 7—5. 6—o. Joan Curry retained the women's title by beating Mrs. E W. Dawson Scott 6—o,
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    RUGBY LEAGUE
    33 7 UK RUGBY League results yesterday were: Batley 26. Featherstone Rovers 4: Halifax 17. Sal ford S; Huddersfield 2, Bradford Northern 7; Leeds 21. Braml*y 16; Wakefield Trinity 33. Widnes o.— Reuter
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    FINE INNINGS BY DE KRETSER
    276 7 J^ BRIUHT innuigs by F. de Krtoser featured Saturday's crickot match at Chang i Prison ground m which the Colonials C.C. beat the Indian Association by five wickets: After dismissing the Indians for I 54 runs (A Perera five for 14), the Colonials made the
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    CARTER PLACED ON TRANSFER LIST
    37 7 RAICH Carter, who plays Inside forward for Derby County and also for England In international football matches, was granted permission yesterday to leave his club. Several clubs are seeking Carter.— A. P.
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    S'hai prepares for overseas athletes
    161 7 S'hai prepares for overseas athletes THE Chinese athletic authorities m Shanghai arc busily combine the city for accommodation for Malayan r.nd Indonesian Cluno.se teams which have formally entered for the china National Moot to be held m Shanghai during the week beeinDing May 5. The meet, which will open with
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    CHEE SENG IN ACTION
    34 7 These pictures from the Jtadmm yesterday show Chee Seng saving a header from Malay centr e- for tear d Jabbar and kicking clear from the feet of the same player.
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    EX-CHAMPION TO BECOME ACTOR
    326 7 MEMORIES of some of the greatest fights m modern ring history were stirred with the news from Los Angeies last week that Mickey Walker, ex-middle weight and welterweight champion of the world, is taking a fling m the movies* When Mickey retired, m 1935. he had
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    SINGAPORE BOXING IN THE DOLDRUMS
    350 7 [READING his report for 1947, the vice-president of the Singapore Boxing Association (Mr. F. W. j Brewer) declared, at the annual general meeting of the Association at the Happy World yesterday. that the past year "was one of the worst since the Association was formed."
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    W.I. flog weak MCC attack
    386 7 W.I. flog weak MCC attack npHE West Indies were right on top of the restricted England bowling when the fourth Test was continued at Kingston, Jamaica, yesterday, and at close of play had scored 490 m reply to England's first innings score of 227. England had scored 21 without loss
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    SCOREBOARD
    197 7 ENGLAND— Ist Inns: 207 WEST INDIES— Ist. Inns. Goddard c Hut (on b Howorth 17 Stollmeyer Ibw Howorth 30 Weekes c Button b Ikin 141 Gomez b Tretnlett 23 Worrell Ibw Allen 40 Rickard b Laker 65 Christ iani r and b Laker 14 Walcott c Hutton b Tremlett
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    Villa defeat Charlton
    71 7 ASTON Villa beat Charlton two-one m a ftrst division English Football League game at Villa Park yesterday. Other results were: SECOND DIVISION Coventry C. 0 Plymouth A. 0 W. Bromwich 1 Birmingham I THIRD DIVISION (Northern) Bradford C 2 Halifax T. 1 IRISH LEAGUE Arda 4 Deify
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    PARKER AND MULLOY FOR WIMBLEDON
    77 7 FRANK Parker and Gardner Mulloy will be America's nominated players for the men's singles at Wimbledon, it is learned m New York. They will also compete m the French and Belgian championships. Parker and Mulloy were second and fourth respectively behind Jack Kramer m the
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      236 7 F.P. Crossword No. 348 Bj'.- p* I 5 4 1I 4 fT~ 77 90 vv SSS 7Q >* >^ n*s U_J L^ CLUES ACROSS 2, Fundamental truth (9). 7, Vagrant (4). 9, Statute (3). 10, Render powerless (6). 12, Pattern (A). 13. Calmed <5). 14, Weakened (6). 18. Feeble (8).
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    HOME.
    30 8 For those to whom the grandeur of great cliffs, icindswept moors and the romance of tn.ugglers' caves appeal. Cornwall is the place. The picture above is of'Neicauay, North Cornwall.
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    P.I. mutineers defy police
    221 8 MANILA, Tuesday. MUTINEERS of the Philippines constabulary company, who machinegunned their three superior' officers to death yesterday afternoon at N tic, 35 miles from Manila, are continuing to hold out m their barracks while negotiations for their snrrendtef continue. The mutineers' weapons include four machine-guns. The
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    US leads world in shipping
    83 8 LONDON. Tuesday. THE United States has emerged from the war as th^ world's leading maritime owning more than a third of the world's tonnage, I res published by Lloyds showed tonight. The Americans increased Lr gross tonnage by 21,--25^.017 tons (233 8 per cent) between
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    AMERICAS' STAND ON COLONIES
    159 8 BOGOTA (Colombia), Tues. /\FFICIAL statements at the opening of the PanAmerican conference here today revealed the line-up of the 21 American nations on the question of abolition of European colonies m the Americas. Against European possession of colonies are Argentine, Guatemala. Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico. Panama,
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    Inquiry into HK graft demanded
    106 8 HONG KONG, Monday. TWO unofficial members of the Legislative Council today demanded an investigation into the Department of Supplies, Trade and Industry, because of "blatant favouritism' m the allocation of trading permits. In a speech during a budget d« bate. Dr. Chau cited instances of
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    U.S. SENATE APPROVES AID FOR CHINA
    470 8 U.S. SENATE APPROVES AID FOR CHINA Military and civilian help WASHINGTON, Tuesday. rpHE Senate tonight approved the U. 5.5463 million 1 bill for civilian and military aid to China after the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, urging its approval, had said that the situation m
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    36 8 The Dutch Crown Princess J uliana is seen aiming a snowball at Zermatt, Switzerland, where she, her husband and family are spending their annual winter holiday. W Princes Juliana is one of her daughters, Princess r<
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    ARTILLERY DUEL NEARCHANGCHUN
    249 8 ARTILLERY DUEL NEAR CHANGCHUN SHANGHAI, Tuesday. AS NATIONALIST forces and planes engage on "large-scale mopping up" operations on the defeated Red forces retreating from the Inner Mongolian province of Chahar toward their hill bases m Hopei Province, artillery fire was audible m Changchun, capital of Manchuria, as Communist forces continue
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    INTEREST IN RUBBERS
    417 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON. Tut-srijN IM'ILDING up of the I'nited States rubber stoc kpih stimulated interest m rubber shares throughout the list today on the resumption of bu^ine>> afivr tin Easter holidays, says Reuters financial correspondent. Some sharp rises were recorded but certain leading shares were irregular.
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    Atom control talks fail
    100 8 NEW YORK. Tuesday. rT United Nations Atom Control Committee, appointed to draw up an inter rational agreement for aii Atomic Energy Control Board, collapsed entirely today, most members declaring that further discussion would be pointless m view of the Soviet Union's adamant stand on br issues.
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    SACKED FOR JOY-RIDING
    85 8 BANGKOK, Tuesday. fPIVS officials of the Royal Household Bureau have been retired, without pension, for joy-riding m a royal automobile without permission, it is learned. Fifty-nine officials were recently discharged from the Royal Household Bureau for "gross negligence, drunkenness and over-long absence from duty." The Royal Household
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    US ARMS REACH TURKEY
    52 8 AMERICAN guns and other i\ military equipment and vehicles, and a considerable amount of ammunition, comprising the second shipment of American aid to Turkey, are being unloaded at the Turkish port of Ismid. A shipment of mine-sweep-ing devices, radar instruments and steel submarine nets Is awaiting
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    3 KILLED IN ISLAND RIOT
    37 8 AIRBORNE troops were rushed yesterday to Italy's Pantelleria Island to quell a riot of 2,000 taxpayers, m which three presons killed and 14 injured. Other reinforcements are being sent by boat. A.P.
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    SURAKARTA CURFEW IMPOSED
    108 8 BATAVIA. Monday. /^URFEW has been imposed v^ on Surakarta, second city of the Indonesian Republic m Central Java, after another disturbance caused by "irregulars" alleged to be follower*) of the former Republican Maj.-Gen. Sutomo. according to reports from Jogjakarta tonight. During: the "mopping up" operations ordered by
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    ILLEGAL ENTRY INTO SIAM
    42 8 4 NNAMITES "In great numf\ hers" are reported to be entering Siam Illegally through the north-eastern frontier and settling In the border region. Cambodians are also crossing the border into Siamese territory it Changaboon and Aranya Prades.- U.P.
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    $3,000 MILLION FRAUD CHARGE
    148 8 HONG KONG, Tuesday. THE Crown Counsel, Mr. A. Lonsdale, opening extradition proceedings against Hsu Chi-cheng, former director of the Postal Bank, charged today that Hsu defrauded the Chinese Government of almost CNCS3,OOO millions through operation of threedummy firms which purchased surplus United States stocks on Okinawa.
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    N. Y. stocks
    30 8 N. Y stocks T^HF d one of Uh coveries of the pact y quickened arouiid n and ?ain& ranged to f* so at the dose w/ climbers moving g her
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    Rubber prices
    122 8 J^ SPECIAL Market correspond, m fire* the price* *f rubber 11 am today a* foilo»> SINGAPORE CHAMBER OF C OMMFR' V The Singapore Chamber of Oommerre Robber Ass»rlal*on pciees a4 noon yesterday: Cto. v per ft per !b No 1 RS.S. Spot IMH 41 41 No 1 R.S.S
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    N.Y. rubber
    37 8 MEW YORK crude rubtx-r c. wed 21 to 40 points I yesterday. Sales tofcillod oootracts. Offers were Ma> cent* •VS.): July 21: Bevt 20.74: Dec. 20.50 bid; No rtW*v smnfced sheets 21 5 8 nor
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    JaP Govt workers defy MacA ba
    20 8 Ja P Govt workers defy MacA ba si I j Dcadkck J 1 ■i J J J j J Reuter
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    RUSSIA ACCUSES US ON PALESTINE
    25 8 RUSSIA ACCUSES US ON PALESTINE AN American Ttm truce m Pfclestin Nations' trustees! i meeting of the Suntil Thursday af u i itJ to* U.P.
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    FINN-SOVIET PACT READY
    29 8 FINN-SOVIET PACT READY SIGNATURE of a Fn Soviet pact of mutual and friendship is exp< Moscow this week-end Finnish delegation h ready reported the treaty proposals to Helsinl Reuter.
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    AID CARGOES
    24 8 The U.S. Hous.> of R sentatives y-amt-ndment requiring I per cent, of Marshal: i I goes be carried m Ay. ships. Reuter
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