The Singapore Free Press, 15 April 1948

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    Masthead
    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA HDAHADHDAHHHH SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1948 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    8-POWER PLAN FOR GERMANY
    370 1 8-POWER PLAN FOR GERMANY Dollars for Trizonia FRANKFURT, Wednesday, three military governors of Germany s western zones today hammered out a trizonal programme for German participation m Western Europe's recovery. They agreed on a German programme to be presented at the Paris meeting of the Committee of Economic Co-operation on
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    Commons vote to abolish hanging
    21 1 Commons vote to abolish hanging :nons 2 tofhe :der perbe imcrimes such m, a the th. I i Reuter A. P.
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    UNKNOWN
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    NEW FAO CHIEF
    14 1 Under n or Food and ssr* n m I D Boyd-
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    Price-fixing is sought for tin
    248 1 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. BOTH Malaya and Bolivia have served notice that they wish to bring up the question of tin prices during the sessions of the International Tin Study i.roun. which will meet here from April 19 to April 24. United States officials, however, said they
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    'AMERICA IS PANICKY'
    96 1 LONDON. Wednesday. FRANK Owen, editor of the London Daily Mail, on his return from a tour of the United States, said today The icar scare which is raging there is almost terrifying. I tried to explain to them that we did not share their worst fears about
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    Speeding up tin mine machinery
    75 1 MR. JOHN MORRISON «Cons. > asked m the Commons yesterday what arrangements were bring made to expedite delivery of new mining machinery to dollarearning activities m Malaya and West Africa. The Minister of Supply, Mr. George Strauss, replied: "We are giving all possible assistance to
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    CEYLON JOINS FAO
    15 1 The Food and Agricultural Organisation has elected Ceylon as its 57th member.
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    ROYAL BROADCASTS
    20 1 The Ki.:g and Que.n will each broadcast to the nation on Apr. 26, their silver weddins: anniversary. Reuter
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    1,500,000 MEN FOR 'BARE SECURITY'
    190 1 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. r*EN. Omar Bradley, U.S. Army Chief of Staff, said today that America should raise a standing army of 1,500,000 men if it does not institute universal military training Gen Bradley told the House I Armed Services Committee I that "the alternative to i
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    U.S. REDS MUST REGISTER
    48 1 pEGISTRATION with the It Government of the Communist Party and all its members will be required by a plan approved by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. A previous bill designed to curb Communists provided only for the registration of Communist front organisations.- Reuter
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    ANGRY MOB PARALYSES AFRICAN CITY
    154 1 ANGRY MOB PARALYSES AFRICAN CITY JOHANNESBURG, Wed. BULAWAYO, capital of Southern Rhodesia, is virtually under martial law with the special police called out and troops standing by to help the regular police to cope with a strike of several thousand Africans who are demanding increased wages. Many Europeans have barricaded
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    EACH SOLDIER COSTS £500 A YEAR
    221 1 LONDON Wednesday. At)EBATE on problems connected with the Army was initiated m the House of Lords today by Lord Mancroft who commentirg that every soldier cost the taxpayer £500 yearly, c>imed the taxpayer was entitled to ask whethir h? was getting value for his
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    TERRORISTS SMASH JEW PEACE MOVE
    303 1 TERRORISTS SMASH JEW PEACE MOVE JERUSALEM, Wednesday. pEACE demonstrations by Jerusalem's orthodox Jews were broken up by Haganah rifle butts today, according to a statement issued by the city s orthodox Jewry. A procession of several thousand orthodox Jews, opposing political Zionism, which they say is "leading Jews to great
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    Britain's new $ problem
    238 1 Britain's new problem LONDON, Wednesday. FROM tomorrow Britain will pay m U.S. dollars for the whole of her imports from Canada, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, announced today, because Canadian credits to finance Britain's imports from Canada had been terminated. This will mean an additional drain of
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    POLICE CHECK COMIC BOOKS
    57 1 THE Detroit police have been order to read comic books. Their Commissioner, Harry Toy, called for check on comic books because, "many of them are loaded with Communistic teachings, sex and racial discrimination." He orderrd the police to seize samples ot comic books from magazine stands
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    GERMANS TO STUDY IN U.K.
    55 1 SIX German broadcasters chosen from stations in the British. U.S.. and French occupation zones, will fly to Britain and the United States on Saturday to begin a six months' study of British and American radio. They will spend six w?eks at the British Broadcasting Corporation
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    MRS MASSEY FOR AUSTRALIA
    45 1 MRS. Claude Massey, wile of the Australian Government Commissioner for Malaya, left Singapore by Diane yest?rdav for Australia. She is on a visit to her married daughter Ella, who is ill. Mrs. Massey expects to be away at least four weeks.
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    HEINKEL FINED
    26 1 A German de-Nazification court yesterday classified Dr. Ernst Heinkel a follower of the Nazi regime and fined the renowned Diane designer 2.000 marks. A.P.
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    GREEK POLICE MASSACRE 25 RED PRISONERS
    154 1 ATHENS, Wednesday. AMOTORISED company of Greek gendarmerie revolted today at Sparta, m the Peleponnese, and m three armoured cars stormed the country jail, killing 25 Communist prisoners and wounding five others, it is officially arnounced here. Another prisoner died of heart failure and the
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    ALLEGED BID TO EXTORT
    50 1 TWO Chinese were arrested by the Singapore C.I D ytsterday afternoon m Dicksor. Road for attempted extortion. The men allegedly tried to extort $108 from a Chinese shopkeeper on Tuesday at the pistol point. Yesterday they returned to the shop unarmed and weie arrested, by detectives.
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  • FEATURES...
    • Article
      THE CHINESE WAY
      803 2 THE CHINESE WAY A Malayan Bookshelf: By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT TN 1920 the Chinese government cancelled the extra territorial rights of some quarter of a million Russians living m Manchuria and assumed jurisdiction over them. In the following yeal a civil case between two Russians resulted m a verdict "not
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      LUCKY STAR
      84 2 Fortune forecast for people born toda>. DORN today, you are one v of those who can be all things to all people. In other words, you take your lead from your associates, for your own personal adaptability is so high that you are able to accommodate yourself to
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      Bridge Problem
      341 2 •THERE were several traps for 1 East m tuV'.y's <Hai and ne eluded th<*n all. W-i>t op-nM the diamond seven. Putting up the king w «"iid have given S.utji thr^e diamond tricks; by duck-ng. bo held declarer to only two. Sulh won with the Jack and .nn-ssrd ihe
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      THE WITTY, CHAUCERIAN EYE
      1165 2  -  Neville Coghill by m a 8.8.C. broadcast MO one ever cried his wisdom aloud so quietly as Geoffrey Chaucer, and few, if any, so amusingly. Of all the writers of the pest, I would sooner have dinner with hira than with any of them, even Shakespeare;
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      Welcome stranger
      432 2  -  PETER QUENNELL reviews new books m U.K. J THE trouble about young writers today is that they are very seldom young enough. They are apt to make their bow m antiquated stage-cos-tumes, the familiar tricks of the trade already quivering at their finger-tips. Yet now and then we
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      Untitled
      34 2 Patricia Sinclair, 17-year-oli, four-time national breast" stroke champion of the Athletic Union of U.S. having stretching exercises assisted by her sister. She is training for the Olympics to be held m London this summer.
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    • Miscellaneous
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      344 2 ■■■BHHHUHMH^BHHMHHHHHy^I^H^ SINGAPORE Blue Network From 12 Of noon to 204 djbl 51a metres In the medium wave band and 7.2t mecacrele* m (be 41 metre hand From tt.oo bjb %b 1 «a pja. frtos 9.14 Bra to lI. M pom.: *X MtMu m the "*i»"ir wave band, and 1825 megacycle*
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    • Miscellaneous
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      306 2 Variety Band Box; 7.30 IncogniU* featuring noted Australian and overseas Artists; 7.50 Talk: 8 Melody on the Move with "Fats" Waller and Joe Loss; 8.15 Sonfts from the Shows: 8 30 News; 8.40 Men and Their Music; 9 Women's Newsletter; 9.10 Wurlitzer Interlude; 9.15 Peter Dawson Slnjrs; 9.30 Australian Artists
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    • Miscellaneous
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      220 2 Opening; 5 32 In Concert Sty If 6 Thirty to One; 630 World and Home News; 6.46 Music for the Connoisseur; 7 March of the Movies'; 7.30 Folk Song; 745 Sports Roundup; 8 World and Home News; 8.05 Heard Melodies are Sweet; 845 Musical Crossword; 930 Radio Now«reel; 945 The
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  • NEWS...
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      AMERICA WAVERED ON P.I. DEFENCE
      344 3 Fought to reassure China, Russia the situation m the Philippines t ht !>oirinnin<r of the Pacific War, Mr. Sti '.Mm. former U.S. Secretary of War, hi* (>n Active Service" that from lie of the Japanese attack on Pearl Secretary of War, thought the ere the
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    • Article
      'Keep experts' in their place'
      102 3 GENERAL SIR WILLIAM U SLIM, deputy chairman of the British Railways executive, said at SheiField that selection boards on Army lines on wrtich there was a psychoanalyst would be useful for industry m the selection of junior leaders. Psychoanalysts are experts, and experts can be
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    • Article
      CZECHS ORDER NEWSMAN OUT
      57 3 THE correspondent of the Paris "Le Monde," Georges Penchoni»r. has been handed an expulsion order by the Czechoslovak Ministry of the Interior. He was the second journalist known to be expelled m three days. Alec Collett. a British correspondent, left Monday for London after having been
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      Jewish 'black' immigrant route blocked
      26 3 Jewish 'black' immigrant route blocked RumBlack :ely :>■. three mtho- aching .v said leave sieved ship Russians d Im- offl- the ship he had g to Reuter
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      U.S.-Australia friendship
      28 3 BEa: MMcrtßi r o! a as d m tarn Govtr: I »i agre* paving portant be ler- c mostly na: s of has h several Reuter
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      RUSSIES FREE U.S. PLANE
      26 3 RUSSIES FREE U.S. PLANE I f i a k i byi m -\iriane Civil beiford inn .ived n for .ncithe v" me C. ■d to A.P.
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      £5 MILLION TO SPONSOR INVENTIONS
      88 3 nal correct." i!! sub- the ievel- acquire private Invention considered important to m nation. It v-ill have the right to push inventions which it thinks are not beins exploited properly and to make sure that products of British research are not patented by r leners.
      A.P.  -  88 words
    • Article
      Rehabilitating Bohemia
      99 3 CHELSEA, the ar-isW quarter of London, is seeking 1 legislation to replace its wardamaged studios and preserve its traditions as an artist community. A committee of the Chelsea Borough Council points out that of the 316 studios m use m 1939. designed and built for th- purpose. 47
      A.P.  -  99 words
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      NEI TUSSLE TO WIN EGYPT'S FAVOUR
      192 3 A TUSSLE between the Republic <>f Indonesia and the Dutch Government of the East Indies for the favour of Egypt appears to be engaging an important share of "the attention of officials on botn sides. Dr. Jalaluddin. representative of the Government of Egypt, arrived
      A.P.  -  192 words
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      THEFT AT PALACE
      25 3 A Buckinffham Palace kltclieni pori':r, Roy Gibson was scn'.-enced to 14 nays' Impriment for steal'ns £3 from v drawer m the Palace.
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      No talks with Communists
      90 3 DR. Carson Chang, head of China's Democratic Socialist Party, said upon his rec:nt return from the United States that this was not the time to resume peace talks with the Chinese CommuniSLv H? contended that China still must make reforms m her politics, economy, culture and
      A.P.  -  90 words
    • Article
      ARAB OIL MEN OUT ON STRIKE
      98 3 A strike of 1,000 Arab workers erdangerevi production m the Britisn-owned Consolidated oil Reflneru s Limited m Haifa on Tuesday. The plant produces about 90 lor cent or the refined produels us d m the eastern Mediterranean ar.a. Workers walked out after, they said,
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      NEW PORTFOLIO
      36 3 Mr. N. V. Gadgil. Minister for Works, Mines and Power m the Indian Cabinet, has additionally taken over the Commerce portfolio, follow--1 g the resignation d the Jommerce Minister. Mr. C H. Bhabha Reuter
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      NO PLACE LIKE HOME
      25 3 World-travelled film star Jean Simmons has- almost lost her Fijian tan and sayj he doesn't want to live anywhere but London.
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      CONGRESS TO MEET IN BOMBAY
      94 3 CONGRESS TO MEET IN BOMBAY THE All India Congress Committee will meet m i he Lloyd's Recreation Club m Bombay on April 24 and 25. All the national leaders, including Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, are expected to attend the meeting. Tickets for the meeting vary between five and five thousand
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      AN OFFERING
      18 3 A turkey laid an egg on the Communion table m the village church at Denston, (Suffolk).
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      SHY GIRLS FATHER USED HORSEWHIP
      269 3 A LONDON father waited for three weeks hor-c whip m hand, to find the man who seduced Hrn 18-year-old daughter. At last he found him. ouk workplace, and gave him "the thrashing of his life The father, Llewellyn Walker, who l\i children, was summoned at
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      Filipinos won't join the army
      104 3 PHILIPPINE Army sources are "disheartened" with the registration of 20-year-olds for compulsory military training last week. Partial reports from all over the Philippines showed total registration of 12.950 youths compared with more than 100,000 last year. Refusal to register was attributed to widespread dissatisfaction over
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    • Article
      NO GRAB, OF JAVA ESTATES
      163 3 NO GRAB, OF JAVA ESTATES THE Netherlands 1. Governments plans lor the liquidation of v estates wi.l invjiVi only Uiolj estates on wnich there is ha Indonesian population. W. H. J. Sonius. president c! the liquidation committee at. up by Dr. 1i... S v<tii m stated m Batavia. Mr. Sonius
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      DUTCH PLANE LOST
      27 3 A Dutch training olan^ crashed m the North Sea b tween the Ha^ue anc Monster on Tuesday afternoon. Dutch lifeboats found no survivors. A.P.
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      RUSSIA'S 'NO' ON TRIESTE
      41 3 THE Moscow Radio said en Tuesday night Ru had rejected as "unacccpable" a proposal of th? Unr States. Britain and Fran* for a four-power confer n t to consider the return of Trieste to Italy A. P.
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      MORE RUSSIANS ENTER GERMANY
      191 6 MORE RUSSIANS ENTER GERMANY Police, Civilians, Troops A LLIED intelligence reports reveal that the Russians have been steadily increasing their strength m Berlin and the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany, mostly with secret police units. An informed United States source said these increases had been "by no means en masse but
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    • Article, Illustration
      Untitled
      52 6 picture I^hio Oda (right), contractor and self-styled campaign m&izger for Gen. MacArthut for President of the United States, adjusts an arm band on Chiaki Matsuda. Waseda University student, one of a group of students canvassing Tokio for signatures endorsing MacArthur. Oda plans to send signatures to MacArthur headquarters in the
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    • Article
      Making a profit with Jap notes
      119 6 MANY Chinese m IndoChina are turning a neat profit by dealing m 100--piastre notes printed during the Japanese occupation and outlawed last year by the French. The Chinese buy the notes for only about 67 Frenchbacked piastres. But m zones controlled by the Viet
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    • Article
      CZECH CHIEFS IN U.S.
      39 6 Mr Josef Lettrick. former Prttident of the Slovak National Council, and Mr. Jan Ambrus. former Chief of the Csech Air Force, and Dr Julius Lettrick. arrived m Washington, on Monday by plane from London. U.P.
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    • Article, Illustration
      Untitled
      74 6 BFNXNV picture. jjdjkdj A.P. Hundreds of refugees are living m refugee cents organised m the Tel Aviv area since fierce fighting began m Palestine. Here, the family of Marko Anino. Egyj construction worker, eat their meagre meal m one o' camps. The food is cooked m the family kitchen-laundry a
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    • Article
      Central Bank won't pay up
      257 6 HEPRESENTATIVES of American and British firms 1\ m Shanghai charge that they have been unahle to regain roughly (US) $1,000,000 of their funds frozen some two years ago by the Central Hank of China. Ttc million dollars comprise the accumulated balances on letters of credit
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    • Article
      WHEAT LOAN
      27 6 France has asked for a loan of wheat from Britain until this years French crop Is harvested. Britain has agre:ci to supply about 34,000 l>>ns.
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      AMERICANS CAN VISIT P.I.
      69 6 AMERICANS CAN VISIT P.I. THE U.S. State Dcpartimnt. 1 is ready to ksue passport to Amer.eaas to vi^it Lh( Philippines as tourists—provided they arc able to guarantee they possess th^ means of supporting themsflvcs whil m the Islands. The annou.nceman: said thp Philippine Govomnvnt had advi.scd that it w Icomo.s
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    • Article
      Democracy 'a thing of the past'
      166 6 Democracy 'a thing of the past' MR. Oswald Pirow. leader of the South African "New Order" movement and a former Union Defence Ministor, said at a joint press conference with Sir Oswald Mos!ev m London that he considered "democracy, like fascism and national socialism, a thing of the past." Mr.
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      His lordship's Homburg
      77 6 A BLACK Homburg hat belonging to Lord Heneaße, of Hainton. Lincoln, was one of the clues which led to the capture of five prisoners who escaped from Lincoln Prison. Police searching for them were told that three of Lord Heneage's overcoats were missing— and also a black
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    • Article
      NEW HK RAMP-'KEY MONEY TO HEAVEN'
      160 6 NEW HK RAMP-'KEY MONEY TO HEAVEN' OWNERS of unused burial plots m Hong Kong* Chinese Christian cemetery are attempting lo resell at rates that are regarded as being the equivalent of "key money to heaven.** I The sites were bought before the war for $300. For some reason they have
      Reuter  -  160 words
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      SHANGHAI BAN ON MEETINGS
      43 6 BENT on stumping out unrest among workers. Shanghai authorities have ordered a ban against unauthorized meetings of more than live workers at a timo. Authorities linkcrf- up tile en -"reoncv measure with the ant: -Communist camoaiizn m Shanghai A.P
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    • Article
      INDIAN ENVOY
      33 6 Sardar K. M. Panikkar, i until recently Prime Minister of the State of Bikaner, has loft Calcutta fur Nanking to replace Mr. K. P. S. Menon as India's Ambassador there. J
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      DISINFECT IT
      33 6 British Post Oflic- authorities have warned that gifts of warm clothing intended for the Soviet Union must be accompanied by modical distal ction certiflcaU\s when posted, otherwise they will be returned.
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      MINISTER TO SIAM
      40 6 T is rel eportec Mr Bcrnabe Af r -pines Under of Foreign Affairs mt! named Mi:. Mr Africa, wlio headDepartment of Science. Un:\ pines, prior to kx der-Secretarv. the Philippines rec< nf the CVylon Indt tival.- U.P.
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      Dagoes, Pommies& the Australians
      204 6 Dagoes, Pommies- the Australians MR. 11. R. MITCHELL, the vice president, claimed at a recent meeting of the Legion of Ex-Servu» men m Sydney that the average Australian still ngards migrants as "pommies' or 4 dagoe>." Mr. Mitchell said Austra- r Italia mast become more tolerant of migrants. Austra- lians
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      JAI-ALAI IS BACK
      52 6 JAI-ALAI ViU b. Manila by week, by vhirh time th. rehabilitation ol pambler's paradise v completed. Dunn? recent week from Spain have Di In? full loads of B players of "pelota basca' The game originated Basque mountain where children played between the buttresses o' church walls. Brought
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      Kidnapping is Berlin traced to Soviet zone
      10 6 Kidnapping is Berlin traced to Soviet zone T I U.P.
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      Three times the Big Three
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      CHILEAN ANTRACT
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      IMBER: WE HAD PLEDGE
      81 6 PKMUI inhabitants of Imber. Wiltshire, the village of the War Offii i keeping as a battle training area, have denied the War Office statement that no pledge wai given that lhe\ could return. Viscount Lone, on vfcMt estate the village stands stated: "Imber rttUcc has been
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      44 3 EXCEPT*© style n 1 I Neat popular to s rt shades I 1 PorkP i e n Sey c'e Lond n I 1 r Wn s Z es 6! to 71 5.95 1 E UIHITEHUIHVS w ..< 5436 (WHITEAWAV. LAIDLAW CO., LTDJ coe 5437 SINGAPORE
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      87 3 *^ZAN Rescue Wait By Edtar Itkx Bummtlis J r mm S.lS)*> >^^ 1 fOUT Of- ThE« RESPECTIVE TREES. k t^^ P^K fIxXJ T^sZ<f/f^^^^m THE TWC DROPPED TO THE 6ROUND. *VV 1 /%T/ -JW^ ?H U <*. ftCWP*ff THE TRAIL A LW»B B€MT. NA^B^'li^ljLr.^^r V^T'l TROTTEO SWIPTLV IH THE WAKE OF
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press More "Black Spots"
      598 4 The Singapore Free Press More "Black Spots" RSDAY April 15. 1948. SAPORES low malaria ur is. like tlv 1 ■alth figures, was to b <d and it mast, m part at least, be attributed to the dom by the Municipal Health Department m res:oring control measures h sutlered sorely from
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      BOTH SIDES OF THE IRON CURTAIN
      1256 4 BOTH SIDES OF THE IRON CURTAIN After an independent tour of Central Europe. Tom pribcrg, JVI.P., summed up m a recent BBC broadcast the contrasts he found to the east and west of the so-called iron-curtain. Despite the ideological conflict, he says "the only commonsense hope seems to be a
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    • LETTER TO THE EDITOR
      • Letter
        Wrong identity
        229 4 IN your leading article last Monday you mentioned something alxjut former guerrillas m connection with tht bandits m North Malaya As a member of the former Malayan People's AntlJapanese Army and on behalf of the Ex-service Comrades Association of the MPAJA I wish to point out the following
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    • Article, Illustration
      Untitled
      17 4 Dr. C. M G. Lattes <\eit> and Dr. F. cyclotone (atom-splitting apparai ment of atom to ma
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      It Seems To Me...
      890 4  -  Politico By DOLICE operations against the bandits of Upper Perak do not seem to have been quite as successful as the first reports implied. A total haul of 17 prisoners, whose prosecution is stated to depend on the result of the translation of a number of
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      Paper from Batavia
      110 4 Paper fro m Ba tavia By MARC PURDUE A. P. Correspondent AN ambitious project of the Netherlands East Indies Government to exploit the forests of Dutch Borneo depends for its success on the possibility of developing, along with the primary lumber industry, subsidiary indus- tries such as j»;. and rayon
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      Aden, hot and bothered
      498 4 ADEN, hot spot n near the Red Sea, has been a Crown Colony for ten years. It is facing its most critical period now. The latest Colonial Office Report reveals thLe astern Gibraltar as a Colony lUllggling hares to survive m a tou^h post-war world after
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
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      To study in UK
      110 5 Mr. R. C Hoffman, acting Collector of Land Revenue and Requisitioning Officer, u'io has been awarded a Colonial Welfare and Development Fund scholarship to stud* for the Bar m the United Kingdom. After leaving Raffles College m 1937. he first joined the Government as a Straits
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      UNKNOWN
      8 5 Khay, C $300. lc en- i i
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      BONUS SCHEME FOR ESTATES
      121 5 BONUS SCHEME FOR ESTATES [abort on de- I has of I the P Q- c every proF* Q vs yearI pro- vides for a minimum salary of $60 and a maximum of $150 for conductors P er month has been drawn up by Uhe Association. Under tfee scheme, clerks' salaries
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      COMMISSIONERS ASK CHIEF TO STAY ON
      519 5 COMMISSIONERS ASK CHIEF TO STAY ON Request before Governor Ac *v Free Press Staff Reporter AS the Singapore Municipal President, Mr. L. k Rayman, left by plane for the U.K. this morning on long leave, the Government is considering a special request by the Municipal Commissioners that his term of
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      Untitled
      80 5 Work has begun for the construction of more flats for the Singapore Improvement Trust at Tiong Bahru. Picture shows foundation piling m progress. The Trust announced last month that its building programme at Tiong Bahru included the construction of 12 blocks comprising 296 flats which are expected to be completed
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      GOVT SEEKS $3,000,000
      57 5 GOVT SEEKS $3 ,000,000 THE Singapore Government 1 will invite tenders for an issue 01 $3,000,000 l>y Treasury Bills on April 25, subject to the general conditions governing the issue and repayment of these Bills. Tenderers will be able to quote for Treasury Bills maturing m one two. three or
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      MORE JAP GOODS ARRIVING
      184 5 MORE JAP GOODS ARRIVING Free Pi OURTHIi signmerus v, goods are due m 6 pore this month. Part of them ha ady b; landed, while the muinder is due within the next few da] Expect* d Japan worsted fabr. \s. sen machines. enam>H<d s and a large q ol lishing
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      MR LOW KOK PHENG
      17 5 Mr. Low Kok Pheng ha* been appointed an assisant Controller of Foreign Exchange
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      LCC EXAMINATION
      34 5 The London Chamber of Oommerce (Spring) examinations will begin on Apr I 19. The City Guild of L« Ir. c-toi t\i ke Ex aim i r b Uont be"g:n on April 24.
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      KL girl gets architecture scholarship
      154 5 KL girl gets architecture scholarship f)NE of the 1948 Colonial v Development and Welfare Scholarships for Federation residents has been awarded to Miss Esther Yo Mow Yuen of Public Works Department, The scholarship is for two and a half years as from April 1, to enable Miss Yuen to complete
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      ART EXHIBITION AT ROBINSON'S
      111 5 •EIGHTEEN Months m Singa- pore' is the title given to an exhibition of paintings and drawings by two widely travelled artists, Nuala Brain and Frieda Scott Fladgate. at Robinsons <2nd Floor > from April 19 to April 24. The exhibition contains oil paintings, water colours and
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      Hospitals need more nurses
      91 5 Hospitals need more nurses DURING May, courses will open at the perlimlnary nursing training school of tine General Hospital. Girls of 17 Or over, who wish to become trained nurses and have reached ttoe seventh or eighth standard m education are invited to take ttoe course. Their applications should be
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      SHORT STORY ON THE AIR
      219 5 THIS evening at 10.15, the first of a series of short stories written m or around Malaya will be broadcast. The story is entitled "The Edge of a Knife" written by S. Q. M. S. Coventry of the Royal Corps of Signals stationed m Singapore.
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      MISADVENTURE VERDICT
      59 5 Verdict of death by misadventure was returned yesterday by a jury of four men at tne inquest on 20-year-old Abdul Latif bin Hamid. former traffic constable, found shot In the police barracks In Maxwell Road on April 5. The jury were unanimous In their finding and added that
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      PLAN TO END MISUSE OF CENOTAPH
      138 5 THE Ex-Services Association of Malaya will be submitting "constructive proposals" to the Singapore Municipal Commissioners to prevent the desecration of the Cenotaph. Mr. W. G. Smith, chairman of the Association, told the Fress Press yesterday. Mr. T. H. Stone, president of the Friends of
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      ENGINEERS SEE 'PLANE FILMS
      85 5 MEMBERS of the Singapore branch of the Society of Licensed Aircraft Engineers were given an instructive and entertaining film show by Uhe Slhell Connpany on Tuesday evening. The films shown were "How an Aeroplane Flies'' ami "The Mosquito", and the. show book place m the premises
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      FILIPINOS BACK INDONESIANS
      218 5 4 FILIPINO educator, who has just arrived m A Singapore, told the Indonesian news agency that, like all other freedom loving people, the Filipinos are reacting to Indonesia's cry and struggle for independence. Students of universities, he said, have openly advocated the Indonesian cause. Their leaders are
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      War on crime 'nearly won'
      273 5 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. FARING the two-and-a-half years since the Japanese surrender, the Police m the Federation and Singapore had smashed many ruthless gangs of criminals who lived by the gun until the law caught up with them, the Officer Commanding, Selangor
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      COCONUT OIL OUTPUT
      110 5 CTATLSTICS released yesterday show that, m February, Malaya produced 8,427 tons of coconut o:l 5,203 tons m Singapore. 3,224 tons m the Federation > The output of copra cake was 6,045 tons (3.613 tons ln Singapore, 2,432 tons m the Federation.) A total of 15,481 tons of
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      BIG TURNOUT FOR Ist DAY'S TRAINING
      707 7 BIG TURNOUT FOR Ist DAY'S TRAINING Several good gallops noted mutDr By CALL BOY FHLRE was an unusually large turnout on the first day of official track work at Bukit Timah this morning when horses from all the Singapore stables wer J ffiven pace works on the second and third
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      Newcastle, Q.P.R. get Full points
      60 7 Newcastle, Q.P.R. get Full points L«a < v had X- 1 Of M and r.ad a proel m beat Queens > won :'.iern and M\iouth eeuin .tcked mds could .r.nine ;ame -ward tWO four B umemore R 2 3 -r-OUg-h 1 0 2 1 0 MVI i n%) P. I
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      TENNIS FIXTURE
      70 7 'THE following players will reI present the Malay Sports Association m a friendly tennis fixture against Dr. Chan Ah Kow's party at the latter's court on Sunday at 8 a.xn.: Singles: H Kamis, K. Yadi and Bostam B. Kurshi. IVmbles: Ahmad b Kassim and Mahmood H. Yusof, Baslr
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      EVANG OLYMPIC PLAYER ARRIVES
      10 7 EVANG OLYMPIC PLAYER ARRIVES :n nted ~cer w!ng \oril and
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      GLISH LEAGUE WIN EASILY
      6 7 GLISH LEAGUE WIN EASILY of rday
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      FAREWELL PARTY
      9 7 has ber of side. Sport* at >'.•' -irant
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      VON NIDA FAILS TO QUALIFY
      103 7 THE Australian golfer, Nor--1 man Von Nida, who won over £3,000 m British tournaments last season, failed to qualify m the Silver Kh\g pro•essionai golf tournament at Moor Park, Richmansworth yesterday. Von Nida, who has never previously failed to qualify m a major eve.-t in
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      COLOUR BAR GONE FROM BOXING
      507 7 rpHE colour bar which figured m British boxing until quite recently may be said to be dead and buried now following the latest decision of the British Boxing Board of Control. Until the bar was lifted partially no coloured man. however British born he may
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      No extra rations for Aussies
      87 7 ALTHOUGH Olympic Garros competitors are to get extra rations m Britain this summer, the Australian cricket team, headed by Don Bradman, will not get them. In the House of Commons, yesterday, Dr. Edith Summerskill. Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food, said the position of
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      NO GOALS AT GEYLANG
      213 7 Rovers 0; Devons 0. A GAME of missed chances for both teams was seen yesterday at Geylang Stadium whe<n the Rivers Sports Club and the Ist Devons piayed a scoreless draw m an S.A.F.A. Div. 2 League soccer game. The forwards of both teams were lamentably
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      LOUIS AND WALCOTT SIGN FOR FIGHT
      45 7 JOE LOUIS and Jersey Jo? J Walcott signed contracts on Wednesday for a return World Heavyweight Title flght at the Yankee Stadium, New York on June 23. Win or lose Louis says this will be his last fight. A.P.
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      DAVID & GOLIATH
      37 7 DAVID GOLIATH Mai. Ravsey, burly S.C.C. centre-half, looks like Goliath, next to David m a tussle for the ball with Khoon Onn m yesterday's game against the Malaya Cup Veterans, on the padang. The Veterans won five-one.
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      G.H.Q. Signals unlucky
      250 7 Indian Association 1, G.H.Q. Signals 0. DOOR finishing and bad luck, caused the G.H.Q. Signals to go down before an unimpressive Indian Association team by the solitary goal scored m the match when they- met m the First Division of the S.A.F.A. League at Jalan Besar stadium
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      ALL BOLONEY RETAINING HIS FORM
      144 7 Free Press Racing Reporter A LTHOUGH conditions were xTL ideal this morning there was no fast work done on the Penang track. Most of the horses were confined to slow work round the inner track and sand ring. All Boloney showed brilliance m a sprint
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      City & suburban Acceptors
      115 7 City suburban Acceptors ITINAL acceptors. with weights, for the City and Suburban Handicap, to be run over one mil* and a quarter at Epsom next Wednesday. Apr. 21, were announced yesterday as follows: After Midnight, 9 st Woodruffe, 9 st.; Joan's Star. 9 St.; Fast Soap. 9 st.; Avignon 8
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      WALKS OFF FIELD
      60 7 rLLOWING a collision with an opposing player, trie Halkowyu centre-half, Zam Zam, walked off the ftelo m the Division 111 B.A. F.A. League soccer game played at the C.V.M.A. ground yesterday. The Haikowyu and the Chinese Athletes drew oneall Halkowyu scored In the flrst half through Lopez.
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      Gup Veterans made scoring look easy
      625 7 By Our Soccer Reporter npHE Singapore Malaya Cup Veterans taking: the field for the first of what they hope will be a series of games during this season beat a Singapore Cricket Club non-benders' team by five goal> to one m an interesting game
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      HAWTHORNE HELD
      21 7 AN Italian fighter. Fernando lanille, fought an eightround draw with Britain's Stan Hawthrone at Paisley, Scotland, last night.- A.P.
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      82 7 Carry yo«r bwtten s?'- X no more li itc with a load or suffering You can be rid of v down— rid of that torturing Bronchitis 'a<iy to your hand m DR. HAIR'S ASTHMA nu <iq<u<? remedy which has released thousand* misery you are suffering aom. Why delay >Qce to
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      426 7 SINGAPORE SOCCER TABLES LATEST positions m the Sm-,Kota Raja 2 2 0 0 6 1 4 I S.H.B Boys' gapore Amateur Football Police 2 2 0 0 9 7 4 j Club 3 2 0 15 5 4 Assn. league are: S.C. Engrs. ;R.E.M.E. I'IRST DIVISION Assc. 3 2 0
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      260 7 F.P. Crossword t*v. 3f 9 1 x uf Uvi r Ft sf J I I iTI3 "w*! 15 15 IB I^ B^B CLUES ACROSS J, Circumspect (8). 7, Sarcasm <6>. 9, Dwarf <6>. 11, Hum:.» being <3;. 12, Remind ol a fault (4>. 14, Blithe (s>. 16, Drive hard down
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      BIG ARMS CACHES FOUND IN ITALY
      452 8 BIG ARMS CACHES FOUND IN ITALY Soviet refusal angers nation ROME, Wednesday. WITH only three days to go before Italy's first general election for 25 years on the vital issue of whether Italy is to align herself with the Russian bloc or the Democracies the Italian police, who today unearthed
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      22 8 a r*K,*URE FOR CASADIA XS Winnipeg. Manitoba, home of some 315.000 Canadians and hub of a huge business, cultural and agricultural wheel.
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      S'PORE HIGH TIDES
      11 8 Today: 2 4« pm. Friday: 3 59 p.m.
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      50 SUDANESE INJURED IN WAGES RIOT
      142 8 KHARTOUM, Wednesday. MORE than 50 Sudanese were hurt today when police used tear gas bombs and truncheons to break up a large crowd of demonstrators outside the governors building The men were protesting against the sentence of 15 days' jail and £5 fine on
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      Marshall aid: Truman asks prompt action
      128 8 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. 1 nRESIDENT Truman sent to I the House of Representatives today a formal request for $4,245,000,000 to be provided promptly to finance the I Marshall Plan during the fin- ancial year, beginning on I July 1. The appropriation he requested included the
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      US DESTROYERS VISIT GREECE
      58 8 THERE United Slats des- troyers Larson (3.000 tons'. Goodrich (2.400 tons* and Hanson »2,400 tons) yesterday beean a month's visit to Greece, and the i Aegean and lonian Islands. At th" beginning of April. Greek Government sources stated that three Russian naval auxiliaries had passed I
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      REDS REACH RAIL CITY IN HONAN
      179 8 SHANGHAI, Wednesday. AN all-out Communist assault against the strategic North Honan rail Junction city of Chengehow is imminent with one Red column, advancing from the West, reaching a point only five miles distant from the city today. The Nationalists massed at Chengchow is expected
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      Dutch may recall Jogja delegates
      281 8 Dutch may recall Jog ja delegates THE HAGUE, Wednesday. HOLLAND is consulting with the Netherlands East Indies Government on whether to recall the Dutch delegation which met with "hostile and insulting demonstrations and assaults" on arrival at Jogjakarta, the Indonesian capital, on Monday. The Netherlands Government, it was officially stated
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      TOO COLD TO DIE
      41 8 riE London Police reported yesterday that a man jumped from Waterloo Bridge on Tuesday night, then swam ashore, explaining to the waiting constable that he had intended to commit suicide, but the water wax too cold. U.P.
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      Tojo wants to make his own final plea
      158 8 Tojo wants to make his own final plea THE War Crimes Tribunal may consider a motion to ask the Allied judges to give Htdeki Tojo and each of his 24 co-defendants a last chance to address the Tribunal individually. Such a motion was granted at the Nuremberg trial. The defence
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      GERMANY
      121 8 Continued from Pace 1 the three zones have stressed the nerd especially for food i»nii fertilisers. According to political observers, a new German "National Party" m the Soviet zone appealing to "small Nazis" und using Nazi-like slogans attacking "Western monopoly capitalism." may be licensed by the Soviet authorities. An
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      GIRL TELLS OF NAZI GAS CHAMBER HORRORS
      234 8 HAMBURG, Wednesday. WITNESSES m an all-women war crimes trial m Hamburg today told of how thousands of Allied women were brutally hustl:d off to di? m gas chambers. CM. trial on capital charges are five former German women guards of the notorious Ravtnsbruck
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      PETROL PIONEER DIES IN UK
      51 8 IjiIGHTY SEVEN YEAR !i Old. Mr. Charles H. Leonard, pioneer of petrol, died m England yesterday. Over a glass of port m 1892. Mr. Leonard, who had extracted spirit from petroleum, said: "Let's call it petrol", and petrol at least to the British -it became.
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      Stassen leads in Nebraska poll
      132 8 OMAHA. Nebraska, Wed. QCORING a second clear-cut d victory over Mr. Thomas Dewey, Governor of New (York, Mr. Harold Stassen to- day consolidated his lead for I nomination as Republican (Party candidate for the presidency of the United States. By tonight, 1.780 out of 2,024
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      COSTA RICA 'CEASE FIRE'
      121 8 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. BOTH sides m the sfx-week-old civil war m Costa Rica issued a "cease fire" order, m an effort to arrange an armistice, and it appeared from reports received here last night that the order was effective, the U.S. Acting Secretary of State, Mr. Robert
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      PRICE LEVELS IMPROVING
      429 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, \\ednesda>. f\ESPITE the better price levels, the London siU markets were rather sensitive and uncertain today, says Reuter's financial correspondent. Tiny and Rubbers were unchanged to lover. Although slight improvements were recorded m the Gilt-edged section, confidence does not appear to have been
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      Rubber prices
      157 8 .V. Y. rubber \^UW YORK crud- r_bt> Md five to 2o P 1 '-rday. Off«rs were 22 10 cents (V S bid J.. S^pt 20 sn bio No rtl 1 sheets 23 1 fl non 4 SPf-t 1AL Market eorres pondr m fl+ees the price* of rubber at
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      Phibure 'I do not seek revenge'
      8 8 Phibure 'I do not seek revenge' 0 THE
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      351 8 DEATHS ME-\THEREL. Annie Wtlheldearlv beloved of hy Wheeler and Rodway nerel passed away on Wed14th. of April. 1948 (Ftmenri at Bidadar: Cemetery at 43C pm. today). The funeral of the late Low Thian Kirn will take place from M-ih Guan Terrare at 4 p.m. today for interment at Wh'.tley Road
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      125 8 OVLRSF.A-CHINLSE Bid CORP'- :fM P\RCLL> TENDEi N sale of on man T^nnern are stuffs LOT. NO ITKM. SP 50 590 litf MILK Markec D Earr»'. M SF b 6 l»r GRAM Marked T lectj Earner: Money 5 SP 59 37 100 Lte EGG Marked I Far: I. NO TENDERS V
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      41 8 WEATHERBright \y LATHER report for the next 24 hours compiled by the RAF: Bright. with suO/ered thunderstorms especially over *«>ut h**rn Malaya, this afternoon. Wind: Northerly. light, hnt variable and rather squally near thunderstorms. Temperatures: Max. 90.5 dryt; mm. 73.9 degs.
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