The Singapore Free Press, 14 April 1948

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1948 eiiwt io a\ii
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    a KILLED IN BLAZING CAR BATTLE
    359 1 a KILLED IN BLAZING CAR BATTLE Highlanders to rescue JERUSALEM, Tuesday. PRTY-two were killed today m a blazing i T.'i_i* iI convoy battle on the slopes of Biblical Mount SCOPUS. The Jews lost 34 killed and 33 j j _T 4 i m j j -if* j- j i WOUnded,
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    POLICE HUNT FOR MANIAC CHILD-KILLER
    40 1 POLICE HUNT FOR MANIAC CHILD-KILLER Taes. be- 1 has and chest were scour.r.try- :"or the' tore r-old -*dly -ate. tb itiiicr t zisrzafr Sticks chxl- takts on Falmoutti years a*ro Sne »w on bicycle Patricia •ed by a »Uon. A.P.
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    Cripps levy is 'once only'
    163 1 LONDON, Tuesday. rHE Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, winding up the five-day debate m the House of Commons late tonight on the budget and Britain's economic position, gave an assurance that there would be no repetition of the special levy on investment income.
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    STEEL RECORD
    27 1 British steel production m March was at the rate of 15.117 000 tons annually, an all-time record, says the British Iron and Steel Federation.- A.P.
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    BOGOTA REVOLT QUELLED
    146 1 a n A s Government troops rer\ gained control of the shattered Colombian capital, delegates to the Inter-Ameri-can conference decided to ref r e u s|{f n SS ic revolt broke out last Friday, The united states secretary w f h s 0 ta s c c
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    Detective hit by gunman's sixth shot
    127 1 Detective hit by gunman's sixth shot Free Press SUIT Reporter IN a gun battle on Sembawang Road last night, a Singapore detective was hit m the hand by a bullet which smashed the butt of his pistol It was the sixth "shot" of the duel. The other five cartridges misfired.
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    RED VICTORY IS SEEN IN COSTA RICA REVOLT
    161 1 WASHI/GTON, Tuesday. RED victory m the Costa Rica revolt, which the Government says is being supported by the Governments of Panama and Guatemala is believed now to be only a matter of time with the rebels marching rapidly on the capital, San
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    H.K. CURRENCY CHECK
    142 1 L _^DON. Tuesday. TIHE Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps. was asked m the Ho' of Commons today ion the Government d to take arising from •eat investigation into -c currency and a gold mart m Hong Kong, i Sir Stailord replied that only the preliminary
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    BRITAIN BLAMED FOR PALESTINE
    220 1 NEW YORK, Tuesday. THE United Nations Palestine Commission declared today that a military force must be sent to Palestine to avert chaos after the British withdraw on >lay 15. A military force would be needed urgently, regardless of what the Assembly decided a.out partition, it said.
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    G.O.C's. car hil by bullets
    74 1 THE British G.O.C. m Palestine, Lieut. -Gen. Cm. H. A. MacMillcn. was last night taken to Jerusalem from Kaland'a airport, five miles away, m an armoured car, after his car had twice been hit by bullets during the Mount Scopus convoy bati-le. No one was
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    CANADA HALTS DOLLAR FLOW
    72 1 CANADA has informed Britain that as from Apr. 14 until further notice Britain will not be able to draw upon about $250,000,000 remaining of the $1,250,000,000 credit granted to Britain m 1946. A Canadian source explained that Britain's withdrawals on her Canadian credit had been very
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    RUSSIA HAS BIGGEST AIR FORCE
    311 1 RUSSIA HAS BIGGEST AIR FORCE WASHINGTON, Tuesday. THE United States Secretary for Air, Mr. biu^rt Symington, told Congress today the Russian Air Force was bigger than the American and was growing fast. "The Russian Air Force is many limes larger than the American would be even with 70 groups, but
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    Soviets stop U.K. courier
    139 1 VIENNA, Tuesday. RUSSIAN armed guards demanding passes with photographs from travelling British troops m the Vienna area today halted a courier carrying British Foreign Office despatches and turned him back from the British-controlled Schwechat airport. A British spokesman said this latest Russian action constituted a direct
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    DANISH LEADER DIES
    30 1 Christmas Moeller. former Danish Foreign Minister, died last night from a heart at- i tack. He was the wartime leader of the Free Danes m London. Reuter
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    Course Of Action
    106 1 The American authorities declined to forecast the action they would take if the Russians stop American military personnel on the road to the airport, but they appeared to be m agreement with the British that nothing should impede communication with the airfields. In Berlin. the AngloRussian inquiry
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    Eight held on drug charges
    95 1 Free Press Staff Reporter EIGHT Chinese arrested by Singapore detectives who raided premises believed to be used as drug dens will be charged with "keeping premises for the administration of deleterious drugs." The raids followed inquests on three trishaw riders who died from tetanus contracted
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    BIG COTTON DEAL
    27 1 The British Raw Cotton Commission has concluded a £10,000.000 deal with the Sudan Government for the .^cchase of 200,000 bales of Sudanese cotton Reuter
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    MARINES HURT, IN AIR CRASH
    61 1 FJ FOURTEEN United States 1 Marines were slightly injured when their transport plane crashed and burst into flames on Shanghai's K:angwan airfield yesterday. The pilot turned back to the field after one of the two motors failed on taking off for Tientsin. The plane, landed
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    TURKS GET ERP AID
    74 1 Turkey has been admitted to the category of ra'inDj which will receive credit/ under the European rr-coverr programme, said the in^u Q n tial newpaper Aksam pub!'. Ed by the Turkish ForMinister, m a dispatch froir Ankara. A.P. Slim dark bodice. capsleeved, developing into a skirt
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    Schools are closing
    1095 2 AROUND SING APORE SHOPS AT the end of this f week the schools 0 close, which means that for the next two J weeks I shall have,, companions with men on my shopping visits. For, with so many 0 things on my list off wants, and with
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    Tricky Skirts
    118 2 THE average cycling woman has no idea how she keeps her skirts down while pedalling. reporter Jack Leland of the Charleston .V i .tnd Courier discovered after what he termed an "exhausting" survey. "There are no tricks, no lead Wrights sewed m the skirt hems no wire fran
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      853 2 SINGAPORE Victor Sylvester; 11 Last News metre*, 5 30 -night IU 84 metres Summary. Programmes m Malay: and 49.38 metres Blue Network 12 Programme Summary; 12 05 WEDNESDAY from 12.00 noon to 2.00 p-m. Musical Interlude: 12 45 News m 8 Muse on the Air; 830 World 526 metres In
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    PHILIPPINES TO BE 'LOW TAX' COUNTRY
    585 3 Hopes to attract foreign capital A fortune m silver is being unpacked at Par v a barracks, Leicester. It is the silver of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment. Much of it is priceless and irreplaceable. Part of the collection has just arrived back from India
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    Some nations are selfish
    188 3 Some nations are selfish OLD FOOD SHARE-OUT I«_Mnur(N. o_ some nations is threatening the <em .1 drilling scarce foods among importing .1 Emergency Food Committee world polit cai pressures are m.- supplies evenly and '•>■ The Committee is the agency which recommends how world food supplies should be divided. It
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    100 STRANDED IN RED AREA
    64 3 THE U.S. Navy was asked on Monday to tend a warship to rescue 400 passengers from the grounded Chinese freighter Wanlee now stranded m Chinese Communist territory on the Kiangsu coast U.S. naval sources m Shanghai said they believe a warship will be sent from
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    LABOUR MEMBERS
    35 3 rE British Labour Party has more than 4,685.000 members— the first time memship has topped the 4.000.000 mark since 1921. Mr. Morgan Phillips, secretary of the Party, told a meeting at Birmingham Reuter
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    TO DEFY NEW HEALTH ACT
    53 3 SEVENTEEN Windsor (Eng- land* doctors, m a public statement, say they will refuse to accept patients under the new National Health Act. and among them is Dr. Edmund Maiden, physician to the King at Windsor Castle. Members of the Eton College Medical Board have also
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    TREASURE TROVE
    17 3 Five 18-gallon casks of beer were washed up on to the beach at Brighton (England >.
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    Jewish '£500 wed me' offer
    90 3 MARRIAGES between British troops and police anc. Palestine girls— whether Jewish or Arab— have been banned unless prior consent Ls given by the authorities. The order, published last night, was issued by the Palestine High Commissioner, Gen. Sir Aian Cunningham. A British source said tonight
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    West Java invitation refused
    11 3 West Java invitation refused i i i Deer 1 :he I
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    Police Swoop on 'G-men'
    23 3 Police Swoop on 'G-men' 00. -_en. the --oup -rican heavily eral xere order: me out police .bers of B JJ -Hers' (>•' had You
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    ocial survey for Hong Kong
    93 3 I. hm* inoc of ion menta health _wnd social conditions •of the people. Laclc of sufficient information about social and economic conditions m the colony greatly handicapped Sir Patrick Ab rcrombi^. tbe noted town-planner. *he<n he was oreparinsj preliminary reports :he colcnv at -_?e end
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    P.I. ENVOY. TO CHINA
    22 3 The Philippine Minister to lima, Mr. Proccso Sebastian, M left by plane to his post m Nanking U.P.
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    UK hotels' merger to draw tourists
    204 3 EADERS of Britain's hotel industry have l~ announced a plan to amalgamate the two existing hotel associations, which will eventually bring n 1100,000,000 a year to the hotel trade. The new organisation, to be called the British hotels and Restaurants Association, will be an
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    'HIYA, KID'
    49 3 A YOUNG Government railway employee, slightly flushed with sake and the beauty of Japan's cherry blossoms, landed m trouble. He hailed Crown Prince Akihito as "Hirohlto *s kid" when the prince, on a study tour, alighted from a train. Police promptly arrested the young sake drinker. A.P.
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    CHILD DRANK SHERRY, DIED
    62 3 rE four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael McEvoy, of Meath Hill. Eire, got up during the night, drank a quantity of sherry, and was found staggering round the dining-room at 4 a.m. it was slated at an inquest. He died the same day from cardiac
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    PUBLIC MEETING OF AFTER CARE ASSN.
    78 3 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore After Care Association, which has so far been run by a small voluntary committee, i 6 now inviting the general public to join m the activities of the Association. A meeting of the Association, to which the public
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    AUSSIE FOOD PRICES RISE
    71 3 Prices of food and groceries m the six Australian state capitals rose by eleven per cent m the year ended Feb. p9, figures issued by the Acting Commonwealth Statistician. Mr. S. R. Carver, disclosed. Mr. Carver also compared recent prices with average prices between 1923 and
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    HUMBLE APOLOGIES
    28 3 The Japanese Communications Ministry announces that "by way of apology for recent strikes" that it would repair and inspect telephones fr«-* of charpp this month. A.P.
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    LUXURY LINER TO BE REBUILT
    61 3 THE Australian Government plans to spend one million pounds refitting the former luxury liner Bermuda Monarch for immigration service. Originally built for holiday travel between New York and Bermuda, the liner was gutted by fire. It Is estimated she will be ready m early 1949
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    YEW POST FOR JUIN
    39 3 Gen. Alnhonso Juin. 59 i year-old French President- General m Morocco and for- mer Chief of Staff, has been appointed Commander -m Chief m North Africa while retaining his present Dost m I Morocco. Reuter
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    Soviet gets British code
    86 3 CECRET code messages It .ween the British Govern- ment and its occupation authorities m Berlin have b~en intercepted by the Russians. And, according to a Berlin correspondent for Svenska Dagbladet of Stockholm, cipher experts attached to Russian Intelligence are busy at Karlhorst, near B?rlin, attempting to
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    21 ships for immigrants
    87 3 MR. Arthur Oalwell, Australian Immigration Minister, has announced that nearly half a million tons of shipping was "m sight" for the United Kingdom-Austra-lia service. "The Australian Government expects to have by toe end of the year 21 ships totalling 360,000 tons m service." he said. "Eight
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    Russia tightens her divorce laws
    115 3 F)USSIA was tightening her divorce laws because V divorce had a disastrous effect on the outlook of children, Professor Kolbanovsky declared at a 4 Moscow lecture. "Divorce is an act of criminal baseness." he said. "Love as a mere biological relationship is totally alien to
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    'Make divorce honest, hum an and realistic'
    340 3 'Make divorce honest, h um a n and realistic' RECOMMENDATIONS that it rhouid fagubtc ti make divorce "honest, and leaKed**" hre h tn made to the Austral'an Government by t'e Chr'stian Social Order Movement of the Church of EngtaftC A sub-committee of the movement dicw up recommendations after examining tie
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    U.S. OFFICER QUITS POLAND
    64 3 THE Polish Gover__m at h;«s form r.i stdd Hi; removal Df Ll CO] L ssic. ll Attache at the Qni ed S Embassy m v. detained and questioned fcr s vend hoarf by ihe a-jthorities i rip m L r wer Silesia 1h.3 m nth An
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      95 3 ARZAN PurSU** v d&ar Rice Burroughs i 1 f PRESENTS THE HORiBS, WHO HAD CLIMBED THE TREES, '^JJfr"" 2 o*____.*.W^Vh0 ____.*.W^Vh SA\E UP THE SEARCH ANO DROPPED TO THE 6RCUNPJ J^ omJm^ Wmt^Mr'v TO RESUME THE NTESRLPTEO MARCH j* Sjl_-\ jj»- V? 7 -**f -ASA Saw HER COWRANWNS ESCAPE s_VvdEfe
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      Cleaning up the Black Spots'
      378 4 SPEAKING at the first business meeting of the Legislative CouncU. Mr. John Laycock called for a "Clean Up Singapore" campaign and he hf»* subsequently named a number of "black spots" m the Geylang district which undoubtedly deserve greater attention than they have hitherto received. Since
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      Dictator Returns
      202 4 For nearly flv e months mosti governments suspended Judgment on the November! coup m Siam whereby Marshal Phibun, collaborator with the Japanese, seized power again. They were Anally persuaded to recognise the new regime i when it seemed that the '< Marshal really meant what' he said. h
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    TO HANG-OR NOT TO HANG
    898 4 Britain decides this week DRITAIN, which once hanged petty thieves for stealing as little as a sixpence, will decide this week whether to abolish the gallows as punishment for nxurder. The test will come m the House of Commons on a capital punishment abolition bill
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    ITALY'S OPERATIC ELECTION
    836 4 TURIN, ITALY: AMONG the flower- beds of the Piazza outside Turin's railway station they have just finished erecting a vast new four-colour neon sign. A quivering green hand points at the scarlet head of Garibaldi superimposed on a yellow five point star. And pink lettering tells you,
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    Which wav will Islam jump?
    791 4  - Which wav will Islam jump? Lt.-Col J. Cromarty Tulloch, A QUESTION FOR TODAY by DSO TRO-Vi: the Golden Horn eastwards to Kashmir, along 2,000 miles of rugged mountain and burning plain, the under-belly of Russia presses heavily upon a Belt of Islam; the Crescent confronts the Hammer and the Sickle
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    AN EASY' $ LEAK
    151 4 AN EASY' LEAK BRITISH Bond and Guatemala fore the recent closing ul their mutual front the latter country i fusal to issue visa British su: provided m effec apparently Legal n of piercng the sterln "curtain" and changing British pounds Initcd States dolla: full par rates. This is how it
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    Peawe-role in India
    6 4 Peawe-role in India d..- 4_i A.P.
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    MOSQUITO NUISANCE WORST ON RECORD'
    484 5 MOSQUITO NUISANCE WORST ON RECORD' i tsieraay marfc ed 4he 5.050 th Hindu New Year, Sinhalese National Day and the foundation anniversary of the Sikh "Khalsa". Throughout Singapore and the Federation of Malaya Hindus and the Sinhalese celebrated. In Singapore, over 8.000 Sikhs listened to a daylong programme of music
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    TOO MANY NEI TRADE RULES"
    78 5 TOO MANY NEI TRADE RULES" THE Batavia Chinese dairy, 1 Sin Po, reports that Chinese importers m the Indies 'are not too optimistic over future import trade" because under the new N.E.I. Government regulations, hardly any profit can be realised." Already Chinese importers m Batavia. Medan and Sourabaya are experimenting
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    VISITING MACAO
    19 5 A 1.000-ton Portuguese skop. Pedro Nunes, will leave fat Macao tomorrow, after a ir-day stop-over m Singa-
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    Work to begin on Rotary T.B. clinic
    59 5 .porter Lung v *es»n Si** r tuber E»*t»ts m SmgaKftec PWM was Lrfjtstrrdaj ition undue oy the {2p 32,692 Pjje' i m the .k Seng the an exjital. rftoriy Clink be built L ry Club I storey minl- Tock 1 be" 150 k
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    GIRL WINS CONTEST
    12 5 von :he :cal ore ith Lam reh, G.G., ;om-
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    AY OFFICIATE T WEDDINGS
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    BACK PAY CLAIMS
    17 5 BACK PAY CLAIMS Dy r e or s of be- 1 by §J rnents I that i'heti-
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    S.H.B. MEMBER
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    INCOME TAX REPORTS
    103 5 AN a*inou§acemej_t by the Convptioller of Income Tax says there is no intention j to extend the date by which j those liable to income tax i must have notified him. Any person chargeable with the tax who has not already given notice of his chargeability to
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    RUBBER IMPORT FIGURES
    61 5 OINGAPORE imported 20.652 -J tons of rubber last month, and the Federation 3.106 tons. The biggest quantity came from Sumatra '13.426 tons for Singapore, and 1.778 tons for the Federation). Sarawak supplied Singapore with 2,646 tons, and 2,196 tons came from Dutch Borneo. Total imports for the
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    UNION URGES LABOUR PROBE
    209 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE 800-strong Singapore Traction Company 1 Employees' Union, has submitted a memorandum to the Singapore Legislative Council, urging the appointment of a fact-finding body "to investigate the sufferings of labour** for appropriate action. The memorandum was sent to Mr. S. C. Goho,
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    Egypt pledges aid to Indonesia
    112 5 THE Egyptian Government will do all she can to, give the Republic of Indonesia all the support she needs, announced Dr. Gallal Eddine. Egyptian Government envoy m Jogja, at a goodwill meeting with several Indonesians who had once been to Egypt. The doctor further that,
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    CHINA REMITTANCES
    19 5 Last month, a total of $1,413,886 was remitted to China— sB3o,2o7 from Singapore, $583^679 from the Federation.
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    TO-FT STATUE OF GANDHI
    126 5 TO-FT STATUE OF GANDHI A TEN-FOOT high statute Of n Mahatma Gandfci fa fast nearing completion m the Geylang studio of the Indian sculptor, Jacob Tarecon. Mr. Tarecon said yesterday that Gandhi's statue would j be eventually built of bronze, j The intention, he said, was Ito have the statue
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    YOUTH COUNCIL MEETS TODAY
    80 5 THE first general meeting of the delegates representing youth organisations which j have been initially accepted) for membership of the Singapore Youth Council will be helc m the Juvenile Court Room. Department of Social Welfare, at 5.15 pjn. today. At this meeting, the Council will be
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    SIAM 'PLOT': CHINESE SUSPICIOUS
    211 5 THE Batavia Chinese daily, Sin Po. commenting on the report here that overseas Chinese fn Siam had plotted with disappointed Siamese politicians to s:ize power, dec- lared m an editorial that the report might have been "planted" by the Siam se themselves as an excuse for
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    NEW UNIFORM FOR DIGGERS
    146 5 THE famous Australian dig- ger hat is to be retained under the plan announced by the Australian Minister for the Army, Mr. Chambers, to issue a new type of uniform to members of the permanent and Common wealth militia forces. However, tne general view m army
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    POWER CUTS HIT AIR-CONDITIONING
    207 5 POWER CUTS HIT AIR-CONDITION ING Free Press Staff Reporter CINEMA-HALL managements are not to blame for the absence of air-condemning during the evening performances about which letters of complaint have appeared m the Press. This, they say, is due to restrictions on the use of electricity during 6 and 10
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    39 5 picture. This station wagon has beenacquired for the convenience of blood donors m Singapore, who are fetched and sent home m it. Three school-boys, who answered the urgent appeal for blood, are about to be sent home. Free Press
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    PERCIVAL REPORT
    25 5 Copies of General Perclval's despatch on the Malayan campaign are on sale at the Government Sales Bureau m Fullerton Build-rig a* $1.50 each.
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    BOMB THREAT
    25 5 An anonymous telephone caller yesterday threatened to blow up the House of Parliament. Scotland Yard could not find him or his explosives. U.P.
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    Yeast biscuits given free
    244 5 picture. Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA Ll MPI'R, Tv sday. rpHE welfare, education, nutrition and medic;'! A departments of the Federation Government a t co-operating m a Malaya- wide campaign to remedy diet deficiencies m children m Kelantan and Last Coast areas. In this campaign, food
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    82 5 These are some of the hundreds of labourers who waited outside the Labour Office yesterday for settlement of their wage dispute with a contractor. For two days the men and women had squatted and waited outside the Labour Office without incident, but yesterday they surrounded the Labour Commissioner, Mr. R.
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    MEAL PRICES UNCHANGED
    171 5 '$2.50 is about right 9 caterer Free Press Staff Reporter HPHE removal of the ceiling on the price of meals m hotels and restaurants has not altered the charges for dinner and lunch, according to a survey carried out yesterday. One restaurar.t mar age r told the
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    ART EXHIBITION
    35 5 Under the sponsorship of the Malay Art Class an Art Exhibition will be held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the V.M.C.A. Hall, Orchard Road. Singapore. It will be free to the public.
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    US OFFICER GETS OBE
    75 5 US OFFICER GETS OBE MAJOR Robert E. Hoey. United States Military Liaison Officer at Singap has been appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. The citation says: "There have been since t*e war a great number of complex problems particularly m the settlement of Lend-Lrase
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    Dulcie in the snow
    704 6 BEHIND THE STUDIO CURTAIN BY OUR LONDON FILM REPORTER HURING her life m Malaya D v 1 c i c Gray must, I imagine, have paid more than one visit to Malaya's hill stations. I wonder whether, during her present v.sit to the Italian Dolomites where
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    Returns home after 14 years
    109 6 MISS Coral Browne. Australian actress who has returned to her home city. Melbourne, after 14 years m England, states that English acton Jack Buchanan may viMt Australia at the end of this year or early m 1949. Mi.ss Browne, who said Buchanan was still "tops"
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    EUREKA IS HELD UP
    128 6 -rvIRECTOR Harry Watt U has been dogged by unsuitable weather m the filming of the outdoor scenes of the film Eureka Stockade at Blind Creek, near Singleton. New South Wales. In aboutr five months, eight weeks have been lost by bad weather. Rain m the first
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    AWARD
    317 6 Margaret It has ju-st been announced m London that Margaret Locknood and John Mills have won the Daily Mail Film Award. TT is common know- ledge that a film star works long hours —when making THK WHITE UNICORN Margaret Lockwood got up at 6.30 each morning, and if work
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    WiNKER Lockwood
    110 6 been to studio she wai) delighted v>. ere. Margaret h smokes a reason for this. r. ♦'d m budf can.a b grey B for most su ounte surp the films m which mother stars. But the vcr\ Mar, present h forti. auite a number of h i tures
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    Bridge Problem
    157 6 r]Ui. d ts.. ;ka> v. d rormally. mcai *b the resui: hand I other East-W^s s :n tl Pair Championship last sumnv? wre making Uirer ck:: thr«e no-trumps di-übiti In ol Norths HI txx-ause m most cases W< op nM the bidding w.th one clut But ».Ui Chaxlcs
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    FILMS IN SINGAPORE Strange WOMEN
    75 6 FILMS IN SINGAPORE Strange WOMEN BY OUR FILM REPORTER QPENING Pavilion it Stranp W..man," which Hedy Lam stars, accompanied George San Louis Havward. In this film Hedy part <>1 a th< bad woman v. an (»ld man i hart) tor pro his money, and mak ward), now bei law, fail
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    RAINER VAN BREUKELEN WASRIGHT
    468 7 Fair Week wins like champion -r-rt-c rress ttacing Reporter \L r HEN Fair Week went past the winning post with 2m J.iiH e^vJr Ck v tW and a half »^^s clear of he field. Trainer Van Breukelen was a happy man. Once again he had been
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    ouis will rain soon
    29 7 ouis will rain soon ■it «eek> brttad _P of -isnip I .1 him I H I I th»«n ne.ir i for ■JJJ m i >vvt fusnd bm ru U.P.
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    Results at a Glance
    123 7 RESL LTS of yesterday's Penang races are: RACE 1: KANDY KID sJ3 and $15; Blue Boy $17 RACE 2: TE TAXI $11 and $7; Eastern Gold $8; Alpha $9. RACE 3: DESERT KING *24 and $9: Mamuse $11; Locksmith $13. RACE 4: GLORIFY $11 md $7;
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    JOYFUL JUNIORS WIN 7-1
    120 7 THE Joyful Juniors Sports 1 Club defeated Islay Kerr Co by seven goals to one m a friendly game of soccer played at the Government Printing Office ground yesterday. The Juniors dominated play throughout the game but it was the Company that staged the first attack.
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    INDIANS WIN AT TABLE TENNIS
    117 7 I^HE Singapore Indians trounced the C.V.M.A. (Portuguese ____sion> by five games to two at table tennis at the C.V.M.A. premises Results (Indians first): S. Suppiah beat W Hendrofl 3—l. Sardool Singh beat Cyril Thomas 3 o. D. Suppiah beat M. L. Rodrigues 3—o, p. S.
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    19 7 The Venezuelan Olympic Ass<v ffi has decided not to send m tetutm to the London runes this summer A.P.
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    Penalty Brings Victory
    140 7 A PENALTY scored ln the' very last minute of play gave the Kranji Wireless team victory over the Chinese Athletic II m an evenlycontested game on the Padang yesterday. The matcn was a Second Division League fixture which tne Wireless XI won by onenil. pat Wilkins was
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    lavy all it sea
    14 7 lavy all it sea sea r l I Stai -Ml ll I make rt
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    V. Ill GAMES
    11 7 i Medical ~A F A to a Road
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    R. L. RESULTS
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    U.K. SOCCER
    44 7 BARROW, playing at home, lost one-nil to Rochdale m a third division U.K. soccer league game yesterday. In Scotland, m a second round replay m the Scottish j "B" division supplementary cup Cowdenberth. at home, I lost three-nil to Leith Athhetic. Reuter
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    THIS GOAL WAS NOT ALLOWED
    87 7 The British Army, with a team largely composed of IS-year-old professionals, beat the French Army by one goal to nil at Tottenham on April 7 m the deciding match of the triangular Army tournament. In earlier games, the British Army had beaten the Belgian Army,
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    FOOTBALL FEAST FOR LONDONERS
    230 7 SOCCER fans m London. the younger generation ■I any rate, will get a football feast this weekend. They will see youth football teams representing England, I Wales. Northern Ireland. Eire. I Italy. Austria. Belgium and the Netherlands play out the iuternational youth association hopes will become
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    Tour cancellation is a blessing
    261 7 BADMINTON NOTES By COURTCRAFT HPHE cancellation, due to several reasons, by the Malayan Chinese Organising Committee of the proposed exhibitions by Malayan badminton stars at seventh China national meet m Shanghai is really a blessing m disguise for Malaya. The Malayan Chinese Organising Committee had
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    FINNS TO FIGHT AT ALBERT HALL
    49 7 TWO Finnish boxers will appear ln a boxing programme promoted by Jack Solomons at the Royal Albert Hall on Apr. 26, it was announced yesterday m London. Yajo Puitulainen, welterweight champion of Finland, fights Henry Hall, the contender for the British title. A.P.
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    BADMINTON RESULTS
    329 7 In a friendly badminton match. the Rex B.P. (Kampong Kapor) beat the Bluebird B.P. "B" by five games to two. Results (Rex BJ>. players giver first) Khoo Soo Seng beat j Anthony Gheong 15 7, 15 3;! Lim Pheng Khoon beat Lawrence Pong o—ls. 15—2. 15—4; Mary Goh
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    RETURN TENNIS ENCOUNTER
    138 7 IN a return tennis match played at the Eye Hospital court. Norman Lim's Tennis Party beat Pong Pin Chee's Tennis Party by Aye games to one. Pursuits (Norman Urn's Party ts mentioned first): Singles: A. I. Perelra beat Scow Kirn Sang 6 4". 6 o; L. C.
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    RECORD EQUALLED
    30 7 Claude Harmon, a virtual "unknown." snot a two under par final 70 on Sunday to win tbe Master'? jjolf tournament with a record mg total of 279. A.P.
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    Today's sport
    46 7 ScKck-t: S.A.F.A. League, Diw. 2 Roreni S.C. t. Ist. Devons. Geylang Stadium; ft.lj p.m.; Div. 3 CA. Halkowya, CV MA. ground; St. George's Road; 5 15 p m FKIENDLII.^: Singapore Malaya Cup Veterans S.C.C- padang; 5.15 pjn.. S.R.C. S.H.B. Police. S.R.C. 1. 11 p.m.
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    Uxbridge to be Olympic village
    463 7 SHORT order meals, hometown papers and a cinder practice track will be offered m the biggest of Britain's "Villages" for Olympic athletes. The Royal Air Force showed yesterday the accommodation being prepared for the day the first Olympic athlete arrives on July 8. "We will
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    SOCCER SIDE MAY NOT GO TO SHANGHAI
    497 7 UNLESS the China football selection committee can give a satisfactory reply as to why three Malayan Chinese footballers were selected to represent China m the World Olympics without obtaining the prior consent of the Malayan Chinese Organising Committee or before a team went
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      269 7 F.F. Crossword No. 3J3 I «T »3 S|4 I 15 16 17 I I o j 9 10 ||p |||I 2 T3 J "14 i||§j|lB »I 9 20 rflV~W^" J3| 'V jj w ln W37 "npg W3B UL-R 1 i l 1 I 111 m CLLLS MmwmWm 4. Very hot
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    RED COUP PLOT CHARGES IN ITALY
    543 8 RED COUP PLOT CHARGES IN ITALY Election eve tension ROME, Tuesday. WITH only five days to go before the Italian general elections are held to decide whether Italy will join the Communist bloc or remain m the Democratic anti-Red line-up, disturbing reports are being received of Red agents infiltrating into
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    Muslim sits in Siam Cabinet
    194 8 BANGKOK, Wednesday. \FTEK five days of consultations with political leaders, the Siamese Premier-designate, Marshal Phibun Songgram, at noon today presented his list of an 11-men Cabinet and fourteen deputies and a sist.mts to Siam's supreme council. Among the 14 deputies and assistants is Inche Abdulla
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    Missing plane 'best in world'
    117 8 A.P. London. Wednesday OFFICIAL investigators were told yesterday that a British airliner which vanished on Jan. 30 was "the best m the world" for the long Azores-Bermuda hop. This opinion was expressed by Air Vice Marshal Donald t" T. Bennett, who was chiel executive of
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    SPORE HIGH TIDES
    33 8 Today: 1.52 p.m. Tomorrow 246 p.m. pictures. The State drums, part of the regalia, photographed after the handing -over. "Tepong Tauar" and "Bunga Rampai* were sprinkled on them. Free Press
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    Flare-up soon in Manchuria
    290 8 SHANGHAI, Tuesday DOWESFUL Communist armed forces have broken through Nationalist defences and reached a point within 30 miles north-east of Peiping. This means that Peiping's only land link with non-Communist territory m Manchuria would be severed. Fighting has also flared up m Jehol Province. Military sources
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    58.000 TONS US RICE FOR CUBA
    62 8 THE United States has sent foreign countries all the rice it committed itself to supply from the 1947 crop and still has about 130.000.000 pounds (about 58,000 tons) of milled rice left for export. The U.S. Commerce Department, says the entire 130.000.000 pounds will
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    CZECH POLLING POSTPONED
    61 8 PRAGUE Radio announced I yesterday that the gov- I ernment has decided to post- pone the Cz^rh e!ec f *ons ore' week. The elections were originally scheduled for May 23. and will be held now on May 30. because the balloting would collide with the formal closing
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    UK NAMES ENVOY TO ERP OFFICE
    167 8 LONDON, Wednesday. THE British Foreign Office announced tonight that Sir Edmund Hall Patch, deputy Under-Secretary of State m the Foreign Office, has been appointed United Kingdom representative with the rank of ambassador on the ERP organisation. Mr. Harold MacMillan (Cons., Bromley) told the House
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    US coal miners back at work
    87 8 PITTSBURGH. Wednesday. THOUSANDS of United States soft coal miners returned to work m Pittsburgh yesterday, on instructions from President of their Union. John L. Lewis, to end their month-long strike. Many remained away from the pits, however, apparently awaiting the outcome of Mr. Lewis's
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    GREEK REBELS RAID U.S. STORE
    217 8 ATHENS. Wednesday. OEBEL forces, it was reported today, broke into an American engineering equipment store 10 miles north of Larissa, on the main Athens-Salonika road, on Sunday night and blew up brand new heavy roadbuilding machinery, including a rock crusher, a compressor and a road
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    PALESTINE
    144 8 Continued from Page 1 and it would appear that the constant movement of small detachments through the danger points is little more than camouflage to conceal dwindling numbers. British civilians have been told that after May 1. they remain at their own risk. The exodus of Americans has already
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    MORE HELP URGED FOR EX-PRISONERS
    170 8 AN appeal for increased mmbership and funds for the Singapore After-Care Association was mad? by the retiring chairman Mr. T. H. S f one. m his annual report, read at t meeting held m the Council Chamber y.sterasy. The Associations executive committee had been looking
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    NEW CAPITAL FOR ORISSA
    67 8 THE Indian Prime Minister. Pandit Nehru of India laid th? foundation stone of Bhubaneswar. the new oapital India's east cost province of Orrissa. The present capital is Cuttack. A spokesman added that the ancient and historic Bhubaneswar will take five years to complete at a cost
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    TIN SURPLUS IN 194 UNLIKELY
    207 8 Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Tu. POSSIBILITY of any surplus supplies of tin 0 the current year seems remote m the opinion ol the Metal Bulletin. It expects that wh.. production should show further useful ex this is likely to be absorbed without much difficulty
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    CEYLONESE HELD
    40 8 Discovered taking 15 lead ngots from the Ordnance Depot m AI xandra Road at j I a.m. on April 11. a corporal' 3f the C:ylonese Corps oi Military Police was arrested t>y det olives of the Singapore CI.D
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    PRICE FALL ON SELLING
    206 8 PRICE FALL ON SELLING London Stcck E::.: ::^H QNCE again the volume al Mine n ,?W w stock markets toda* u.,v heavv L following the downward lead of Gill h ties, savs Keuter Bnan edpeds lost fractions (if up lo and Tins also declined. Losses of ls spread in the
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    Rubber pric
    36 8 11 d :<-._.<« M Mm H XI i N \pr •TE' i Commerce pnre> ai not mmrm* V I X* v v kK'NC No K>> »lr- IP N I '<* I \pr 1 ..ne ol TIM"
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      235 8 mmm LOST LOST on Saturday. 10th April a pair of spectacles m brown metal case. Possibly left ln taxi from Town to Grange Road about 1 30 d m Please return to Box No. S 137. F P. ACCOMMODATION VACANT EASTBOURNE "Langton Convalescent and Rest Home. Now open for reservations.
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      181 8 v.m;lo-ih nin vvl Free Press Staff Corre*pond»!'. jfl LONDON. 1 _fl British eompai V ing m Indonesia, such I the big tea and rubb« i ;S will not receive WM media te benefit under jfl agreement for a\ <fl double taxation read jfl tween Britain and TM says the Daily
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      31 8 WE A TIIER— ■7 rair report for the nest 24 hours compiled by the B VF: lair. Scattered thundery showers m afternoon and early eveninr. Wind: South -we-jterly. 10 I m.p.h.
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