The Singapore Free Press, 7 May 1948

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA No. 17.157 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1948 PKK fc H» a\.>
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    PULAU BRANI: ANOTHER 20 GO BACK
    57 1 PULAU BRANI: ANOTHER 20 GO BACK t» Frese. Mall Reporter Sits Ti.i~ Qg Company i not ssj when sm^ lting Id t sume on Pulau Brani been taken to .bour. if eCSbc eartf resumption I the original 350 -se leit their ir families on I abou: 100 are 20 striken
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    CYCLIST HURT
    23 1 CYCLIST HU RT motor-cyclist injured m a Lth a motor car at chard Road k 6.30 p.m. The cyclist was General Hospital nee.
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    YODEL FOR QUEEN
    36 1 There will be yodelling at Buckingham Palace on Queen Marys 81st birthday on May 26 Swiss mountaineers who are coming to Britain for a folklore festival are to give a command performance- A.P
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    BRITISH NO' TO U.S. APPEAL
    321 1 BRITISH NO' TO U.S. APPEAL Mandate will end on May 15 LONDON, Thursday. DRITAIN has rejected an American last- minute appeal for a ten-day extension of the Palestine mandate, due to end on May 15, it was disclosed m London tonight. In Palestine, British gunners tonight shelled the Jewish industrial
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    47 1 These defiant Jewish children are being trained m the use of arms for the struggle m Palestine against the Arabs. Of this group m a Jerusalem settlement, a boy and a girl each has a rifle, while another boy has learned to shoot with a Sten gun.
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    Jap island is Red war base
    188 1 Jap island is Red war base TOKIO, Thursday. JU'WESE refugees returning to Hokkaido from ufuto (Sagbatie) claim that Russia is building rmer Japanese island into an offensive miliI n by increasing fortifications, sending m icd troops and tanks, expanding naval md stationing warships and submarines there. These refugees told the
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    HK TROOPS DRIVE AGAINST BANDITS
    137 1 HK TROOPS DRIVE A GAINST BANDITS HONG KONG, Friday. OFFICERS and men of the Inniskillings went into action this morning with trench-mortars m the colony's largest scale pursuit of suspected armed bandits m the new territories, the mainland across Hongkong. Aiding about 200 police, the Inniskillings tired mortars m an
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    Police warning to housewives
    50 1 QINGAPORE'S CJX>. chief Mr. J. C. Barry, this morning advised householders to check all strangers found m their servants' quarters m order to minimise opportunities for housebreaking. He said that this check was m line with the police drive on vagrants, and hangers-on m servants' quarters.
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    CEYLON TO BUY RADIO S.E.A.C.
    71 1 A DRAFT agreement for Ceylon's purchase of Radio SEAC. the British forces broadcasting station m Colombo, has been concluded. Transport and Works Minister, Mr. J. L. Kotelawala. who has Just returned from talks m London, refused to disclose terms but Indicated they were favourable to
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    Running order & scratchings
    100 1 Running order scratchings r\Kl>tK of runnioff aad vl scnttchino for to-morrow's Slm«»pore races are: lUm 1: a 3. D I, 51 I.— GoMen Harvest, Baritone. Baoe I: Cl t. D 1. C f Christmas Kare S: Cl 1. D 2, l i Athlrte. R*r« 4: n J, D 1, f
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    R.A.F. MEN ON THEFT CHARGE
    50 1 Two R-A.F. sergeants, A. G. Forrest and R. Hurst, appeared m the Seventh Police Court yesterday on a charge of stealing an R.A.F. lorry, complete with a Diesel generating set from the R A.F. Station at Pay a Lebar They were remanded until May 13.
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    Billions for US air force
    223 1 WASHINGTON, Thursday. "PHK Senate today approved a U. 5.53,233,200,000 bill to increase the U.S. Air Force combat strength from 55 to 70 groups. The measure will now go back to the House for consideration of several Senate amendments. The chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee,
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    Fruit and meat from Australia
    69 1 A LARGE shipment of Australian apples, grapes and vegetables is expected this afternoon by the Blue Funnel ship Gorgon from Fremantle. There are 4,100 cases of apples and grapes, while the Army and Navy will receive 1.250 cases of fruit. Also arriving are 400 tons
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    STORE TAXI CRASH VICTIM
    66 1 The Chinese driver of a taxi, which was involved m a collision with a lorry near the junction of Fraser Road and Bukit Timah Road at 5.50 this morning, had two ringers of his left hand almost amputated. The engine of the taxi was telescoped through
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    Princess wears New 'Look'
    54 1 Princess wears New 'Loo k' LONDON, Thursday. pRINCESS Elizabeth wore a "New Look" length dress for the first time when she opened a public health exhibition here today. She appealed to the nation to support the new National Health Service providing for free medical care for all, which comes into
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    TALL STORY FROM HIMALAYAS
    176 1 CALCUTTA, Thursday. A 90-foot long and 20-foot high specimen of the long extinct dinotherium an outsize version of an elephant was reported today to be roaming the Himalayas "happily plucking the tops of huge trees.** A report In a Calcuttta newspaper from its correspondent at Chillong
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    SUDAN PLAN
    23 1 Britain has made new proposals to Egypt for constitutional reform m the Sudan but not concerning the territory's final status.- Reuter
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    DUTCH CROWDS MOB CHURCHILL
    173 1 THE HAGUE, Friday. /CROWDS waited for two hours to greet Mr. Winston Churchill when he arrived here for the Congress on Europe, which he will open today, as honorary chairman. Hundreds broke through police cordons when Mr. Churchill and his party— including Mr. Anthony Eden, his
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    22 1 The Acting Singapore Master Attendant has asked the masters of all vessels In harbour to "dress ship" on Ma;, 12, Coronation Day.
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    350 PHONE MEN BACK ON THE JOB
    280 1 Free Press Staff Reporter ALL 350 linesmen and technicians of the Oriental Telephone Company were back at work this morning, ending their one-month strike. The Company's general manager. Mi. R. W. Stainforth, told the Free Press this morning that all broken lines would
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    3 armed robberies last night
    141 1 Fire Press SUIT Reporter rpHREE armed robaeries ux>k x place m Singapornight involving a total of $1,560 m cash and jeu One man was arrested. The first case took place near the junction of Hokkien Street and South Bridge Road at 10 o'clock when three
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    DEMOCRATS SPLIT WITH K.M.T.
    52 1 A threat to boycott th» Legislative Yuan is contained m a joint st&temt nt is by the Democratic Socialist Party and Young China Party states a Shanghai message. The presidential inauguration will be held before the middle of May, two w> after the conclusion of the
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    STOP PRESS
    71 1 The jump of approximately two cents m the spot price of rubber m Singapore this morning apparnitU m due to the difficulty m shipping rubber from Port Swettenham owing to the strike. Shippers with May commitments being unable to get guaranteed shipment from Port Swettenham have turned to
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    STRONG WOMEN
    673 2  -  ADELAIDE KERR A.r. Lorresponcien TH b Communist party has given three women posts of great political power m Europe but all are outside the U.S.S.R. All were strong faCtJR m spreading and c n g t h en i n g Communism outside Russia. Most famous today is
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    ROYAL BLUES
    217 2 TttUto*, wno caugnt oniy a giimpse of the passing Silver Wedding Anniversary cavalcade, went away talking of the Qucxn, Pr ncess Elizabeth. and Pnncess Margaret all wearing the Identical blue. But these who had a qu.cker eye for detail, or perhaps more time to obaerve closely, came away
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    THRIFTY FARE
    285 2  -  JOAN CASTLE Cooking Column By TTS w»e cook who knows how to make the mo«<t of the cheaper cut* of meat, which contain the same (sometimes more) rwitritive value as the more expensive cut*. Just as important is the knowledge of how to stretch a small amount of
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    SMOKERS HEART
    158 2 AN article m the health magazine Hygeia said that coronary thrombosis has increased sharply among women and that "smoking may have something to do with it. Coronary thrombosis L« a form or heart disease caused by formation of a bkxxi clot In one of the heart arteries Tiiis
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    10 2 •or your son and daughter, two styles for sun romners
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    A wife's value
    364 2  -  RICHARD TOMKINS By A. P. Correspondent BRITISH courts pecenUy have valued the stolen wife at anything from a farthing to £7,500 and the Married Woman's Association ie pressing for the total abolition of damage* from divorce suits. "The principle of a man being able to claim damage*
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    Bridge Problem
    350 2 Bridge Problem gOUTH was u&mg Btackwood. but the bidding is unimportant for the final contract of six no- trump was certainly a reason- able one, however arrived at. Bridge experts, like ball p:.. ers, have their good and bad days. On a good day. the expert will guess the location
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    Mid-calf skirts the latest Look
    261 2 CONFUSION uwi th« sty 13 and "length o: women's clo'hes has end ed m Britain. Foul hundred delegates representing the entire British fashion trade— from Bond street U mass-production firms— unanimously I pproved autumn styles for coats and costume* Next autumn t>he London Lock, a
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      66 2 VICTORS TONIGHT and T<- "BLITHE SPIRIT NOEL C O VJ A >• 2 PROG I AT ROBIN EX. 4 or BUY A AND 'AMATEUR t CONTEST Entrust I v Hf| CLOTHING 'or DKYUt, Cart 1 d- P? I MENDING it D1 UftG SINGAPORE DRYCi 204. Orchard Rd :r opp. to
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      460 2 misdkeljle SINGAPORE Blue Network From 12.00 noon to 2.tt pJB. 526 metre* In the medium wave band and 7 20 megacycle* la the 41 metre band. From 0 tt pan Is 1.4J1 pjn: from 9. 50 p.m. to 1100 p.m.: 526 metres In the medium wave band, and 4.825 megacycle*
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      334 2 AUSTRALIA 4 00 p.m. to 11.15 p.m. YUM 1 19.74 metres 15. tt megacycle*; l.tO p-ja ftr 815 p.m. VLEB i 13.89 metres 21. t0 megacycles; B.N p.m. to 11.15 p.m. VLUI9 25 51 metres 11.78 megacycle* 7 30 p.m. to 8.15 p.m. VLC4 19.59 metres 15 32 megacycle*; 10.00
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      295 2 Star, 9 Over to k'ou*; 9^o Programme Summary; 9.40 Interlude; 9.45 Variety; 10.15 Nary Mixture Melodies**; 10.30 New* and Items from Friday's Papers; 10.45 Forces Educational Broadcast**; 11 Here we are Again*; 11.30 Roundabout; 12 noon The Week's Composer; 12 15 Sentimental Journey*; 12.45 Yankee Quarter; 1 World New* Headlines;
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    77 3 The trailer area above at the U.S. atomic energy plant, Richland, Washington) now has almost 1,000 privately owned trailers Construction workers and their families live here. The trailer space covers nearly 160 acres. Two patrolmen {top) man the gun of an MS scout car at the atomic energy site. The
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    REDS SEEK SOFT SPOTS IN SE ASIA
    335 3 REDS SEEK SOFT SPOTS IN SE ASIA Soviet expansion halted m Europe TNCREASED Communist activity m British Dominions, colonies and dependent territories is being viewed seriously by Commonwealth Relations officials who have long forecast such activity as a direct result of the curtailment of Soviet expansion m western Europe. Information
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    46 3 picture. ted swords and a gold-mounted at between jQOO and £10,000, were 'ia and Albert Museum. London. vn >• nted to the Duke of Wellington by I and the othe r ?>y Britons m Bengal. hed even suits of armour and Elizabethan the 145 exhibition rooms. Mirror
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    Song of Russia is out of tune
    185 3 Song of Russia is out of tune Moscow Nens ha*» criticb>ed Yehudi Menuhin, the violinist, for his altitude towards the recent of the Central Committee of the Communist n .»n Soviet music. .rus SiUzberjrer. of the New York Times, was v taak for an article written from Paris 4 the
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    Imber to be rocket target
    114 3 'PWO Ministries, it i 6 now A announced. hay«» designs on the Wiltshire village of Imber from which the inhabitants have been evicted. The Defence Minister, Mr. A. V. Alexander, said m the Commons that it was the intention that Imber and the training area
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    On the inside looking out
    100 3 SENATOR Glen Taylor of Idaho said Birmingham. Alebano. police took him for a ride on dark deserted roads before charging him with disorderly conduct. The third party vlce-presl-denUal candidate displayed a torn suit and scratcned hand to the Senate. He add* d he was "not
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    AIR FARES CUT
    21 3 AIR FARES CU T P All I Dt has announced cent reduction m to Hong irom M if 31 respec- A.P
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    Rice and carp in same Held
    63 3 SOVIET collective jarmers are harvesting fish and rice from the same fields m the Nikolaei region, where farmers had released young carp m the waters covering the rice fields. These farmers now discover that these fields yield as much as 30 per cent more
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    US RAIL STRIKE MAY BE AVERTED
    55 3 US RAI L STRIKE MAY BE AVERTED WHITE House spokesman said yesterday that PreI si dent Truman still hopes for 1 a settlement to avert the threatened railway strike due lor May 11. The rail unions are seeking 30 per cent waste increases with a minimum increase of three US
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    Parklike capital for N. Guinea
    105 3 t&] oi New 1 to be rebuilt as tovnv >t the Australian r: Works Deire pegging out the n the Markham Butibum road. The tovkii ha^j been planned on "park access" linos This will ensure maximum circulation of air, maximum privacy, and few accidents be-
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    U.S. told: 'Don't disregard former allies'
    161 3 U.S. told: 'Don't disregard former allies THE Ui>. (jrovernmtfiH should explain m good time what measures It proposed to take to ensure that Japans re\ivf d economic power will not develop into "a dangerous new war-making capacity." The Economist, one of the leading British periodicals, said. D. daring that American
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    TWO TONS OF OPIUM SEIZED
    55 3 OVER two tons of opium valued at Rs 600.000 (about £45.000) was seized by the Calcutta dock police from a sailing craft in what was described as the biggest stngle haul in Calcutta for many years. The boatmen fled from the ship, which was believed
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    MONKS PLEAD FOR U SAW
    62 3 BUDDHIST monks In Rangoon have decided on Thursday to ask the Burmese President, Shao Shwe Thaike. "for the gift of U Saw's life. During British rule requests by monks lor lives of condemned men were sometimes given consideration by British Governors. U Saw's wife today
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    YOU'REREDS VICAR TELLS HIS CHOIR
    198 3 YOU'REREDS VICAR TELLS HIS CHOIR ALL BUT one of the choir of All Saints* Chun Highgaie, (North London) have come out strike following a remark alleged to have been mace to a widow by the vicar, the Rev. F. Murray Tapph about her son, a member of the choir. As
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    US plan to end Indies deadlock
    311 3 rllE American delegation to the United Nations Good Offices Committee has a compromise plan aimed at breaking the Dutch Indonesian deadlock m negotiations for bringing the Republic into the projected United States of Indonesia, reports A.P. The talks have bogged down over the issue
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    Woman's exile in waterless Indian desert
    84 3 •THE wife of a Hur tribes man, who has been detained under the Hur regulations, has voluntarily exiled herself to a thatched hut m a waterless desert where she has vowed to live m solitude unt 1 her husband is released, tt was reporter
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    SHAHRIR STRUCK OFF PARTY LIST
    57 3 SUTAN Shahrir. who some months ago quit the Republican Socialist Party and formed a new party of his own, has been removed from the list of the original party. The Congress of the Part a i Sozialis decided to remove his name because of his
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    FOOD FOR BRITAIN IS SAFE DESPITE FLOOD
    214 3 PLOODS m the Northern Territory, which recently T made a vast lake of about 30,000 square mile> <•! Australia's north-western coastal plains, will not affect exports to Britain, because nothing from that part of the continent is exported to the United Kingdom as
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    SUBSIDIES ATTACKED
    52 3 IN his presidential address at the annual conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Australia, Mr. J. Gross decknvd that the Commonwealth Government should abolish all subs dies The policy of increasing sub--9 die s in an endless endeavour to mipim'so ncrenso.l prices to thr consumer miiit
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    Is A DAY IN "GLASSHOUSE"
    77 3 •THE "glasshouse* 1 where sold ers are pdi<i to do detention is a success. Ttiis fim post-war d^ten- I tion canvp, opened at Berecliurch Hall, (Colchester, aus an exporment by the War Office, 'is to be th>? pattern for all fu/lure glu&ihouses.'' The old "glassV>ou.sp
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    He gets medal for bravest act of year
    129 3 THOMAS Arthur Beall of Thornton Heath (Surrey, has ben awarded the 0 Binney Memorial Medal the bravest act of the ytar m support of law and ord r. The medal was presented t<> Mr Btall at the London County Hall on Tuesday
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    New set up for Vietnam
    76 3 GEN Nguyen Van Xuan. South Vietnam Pnmu:. announced today that a ce. tral provisional government for Vietnam, Indoch). autonomous stat would *>• formed within a few c Emile BoQaeit Frtnoh High Commissioner, and Fx V peror Bao Dai of An. am will confer shortly to
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    Man who killed 10,000
    43 3 (IENERAL BLOBEL Npnti-ncrd to death at Nurembrrc W for helping to murder 60.000 Jews m Eastern Europe, has appealed against his sentence. He asked for mercy on one ground alone he had. he maintained help to kill only 10.000
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    JEWS BUY NAZI COLONY
    70 3 THE Jewish National I completed its b. real estate deal on Tuesday, paying £3.034,000 sterling for the former German colony d! Sarona near Tel A\ Sarona was founded 80 years a£o by the Gtrman n ligious organization, the Tern plars, and became a N hat-bed under
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    ORCHIDS IN SURREY
    23 3 ORCHIDS IN SUR REY Despite cut> ordered t>y London County Council. "No Orchids For Miss Blandish has been banned from all Surrey cinemas.
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      83 3 4 HIS MASTER S VOICE Rectrdt. HOCKIN IN RHYTHM CRAZY RHYTHM Harry Hayes Band B SCUTTLEBUTT OL* MAN REBOP Harry Hayes Band B 9»5» NO VARIETY BLUES WHATTA YA GONNA DO Louis Armstrong O a B 9531 SWAMP FIRE JUST SQUEEZE ME Duke Ellington Or.hefrt. B 9536 GET THE MOP
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      33 3 TARZAN Solid ground «v Ediar Rice Burroughs l^' iW '^C* *C ATTENTION TQ MArf Twt KCil»ULiL»*wm -sT^t^^-k I rr Lvw»rt T**t inn maCTTWIm jrvWSLV SW«AYTN« 7^l*l^^ 1"" 'Mr^T) AHO ►^JR^'ED TO SOUO 6BOUND
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY. May 7. 1948. Russia And War
    637 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY. May 7. 1948. Russia And War IF war does come it will be because someone chanced his arm too far, said the Prime Minister. Mr. Clement Atttee, m the course of the two day debate m Parliament on British foreign policy. The phrase is scarcely
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    It Isn't All Over In Italy Yet
    863 4  -  ALEXANDER CLIFFORD By THE limelight has faded on Italy. Her brief performance as the most important nation m the world was brilliantly concluded. From Rome one seems to hear the waning echoes of the Western World's applause, the dying sigrhs of relief. But
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    No frontiers for art
    348 4  -  PIERRE JEANNERAT IN inter naiional art sightseeing it ia nowadays a case of the mountain coining to Mohamed because Mohamed cannot go to the mountain. A multiplicity of difficulties obstruct the roads which art lovers used to take up and down Europe. But, thanks to one
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    A VISIT TO COCOS ISLANDS
    752 4 B? Capt. D. Snowden m a Radio Malaya broadcast. He accompanied Sir Franklin (iintson as ADC. WE sighted Cocoa Islands at six m the morning a small boat came out to guide us into the lagoon, as the channel is narow and tricky. The group
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    Stir Up In Ceylon
    281 4  -  ALAN HUMPHREYS NUWARA ELIYA B> Ceylon, Monday. THERE wa^ an anxious look on the faceoi the Scottish planter a* he walked among the tea bushes on his estate high up m the mountain* oi Ceylon. Suddenly, Deneath his trope tan, ho went the same colour as
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    FAITH
    13 4 Behold now I >' ordered m> cause: I that I shall be Justified
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    People in S'pore make news
    692 4 People in S 'pore make news ONE man m Singapore who knows more about dock labourers than most people is 54-year-old Personnel and Welfare Manager of the S.H.B. MR. THOMAS HEPPELL, who was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne and went to sea at the age of 16. He came East at the
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      9 4 P. H. HENDRT Jeicellers 78, North Bridge Road, Spore.
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    COUNCIL TO DISCUSS PUBLIC SERVICES
    534 5 COUNCIL TO DISCUSS PUBLIC SERVICES Motions for May 18 Free Press Staff Reporter MOTIONS relating to the future of the Government public services m Singapore will be introduced by two Unofficial members, Mr. C. C. Tan and Mr. N. A. Mallal, both representing the South- West constituency, at the next
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    New Municipal Constitution PROGRESSIVES TO PRESS FOR ACTION
    262 5 New Municipal Constitution PROGRESSIVES TO PRESS FOR ACTION Free Press Staff Reporter l A MOTION that the Goy- I eminent be requested to implement the recommenda- I tions of the Municipal Con- J stitution Committee for a new '> Municipal constitution, will 1 be moved by Mr. John Lay- cock,
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    98 5 »Unt of Muller and Phipps (Malaya) Ltd., Mr. H. H. Herts, who visited uas entertained to a Chinese dinner at Tai Tong Restaurant on About 55 Chinese dealers of the firm attended, facing camera with Chinese writing behind him) are (from Mr. I 'he table): Mr. Chua Peng Chua of
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    Caimpaign against rice smuggling
    109 5 r MMM Hm*} *>U speed up switi-sanuggling ion? the Peninsula's seaboard, it is turned m Bangkok, says Renter. ..npaign, ft is understood, will be muggling gangs operating bell Malayan ports on both sides of the per T of rice sm Sum to 2. last 12 v
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    BANK GIVES $25,000 TO COMBAT TB
    120 5 BANK GIVES $25,000 TO COMBAT TB A SUM of $40,629.66 wsu donated to the Singapore Ai*ti-Tubarcu*w s Association, last month, bring he total to the end (A April t» $164,335 25. The ApnJ list of donations :s headed by the Chartered Ban* with $25,000 OthtT donations daring Apn from Proceeds
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    Great Eastern Life to pay 10 per cent
    648 5 Great Eastern Life to pay 1 0 per cent Free Press Financial Correspondent QHAREHOLDERS m Great Eastern Life Assuranc* )J Co. Ltd., are to receive a dividend of 10 per cent for the year ended December 1947. The chairman, Mr. F. M. Edmonds, says m 8 statement accompanying the report
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    MISS BAILLIE TO SING HERE
    56 5 RADIO Malaya and the British Council announce that the celebrated British Soprano. Miss Isobel Baillie, fulfilling the promise she made while m Singapore m February, will give public recital at the Memorial Hall m Singapore on May 25 and 27 and at the Town Hall
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    New methods for clearing estates
    216 5 I I I i i I THE necessity for devising 1 new methods for estate clearing as a preliminary to I re-planting, because of the great Increase m labour costs m Malaya, was referred to by Sir John Barlow, chairman of Klabang Rubber Co., m
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    RUBBER CROPS
    64 5 Turquand. Youngs. McAuliffe Co., reports the following rubber j crops for April: Alor Ga.iarl Rubber Estate 27,700 1 lb.. Ayer Panas Rubber Est»te 88,000 lb.. Glenealy Plantations 68,000 lb., Kluang Rubber Com- pany 64.000 lb., Pajam Limited. f 198 000 lb., Tambalak Rubber f Estate 29.535 lb.. Teluk
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    Good conduct awards to policemen
    177 5 THE Singapore's Police good conduct badges and allowances regulations, whicto hitherto have applied only to tihe Police constables, will soon be brought into line with those of the Federation of Malaya to include all junior members of the Police Faroe v© to the rank of
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    US OPPOSED TO FREEING TIN
    111 5 RE-ESTABLISHMENT now of a free market on tin is certain to be opposed by I American consumers, says i the trade publication, American Metal Markets. Even among dealers and importers, it is recognized that tin must remain under allocation controls until the supply-demand position is
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    Payments to war victims' families
    265 5 Payments to war victims families tree rress dum iveponer EX-GRATIA payments will be granted by the Singapore Municipal Commissioners to dependants of Municipal labourers who died as a result of enemy action during the Malayan campaign, although at the time of their death they were off duty and had served
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    Dutch fire on S'pore ship
    104 5 Dutch fire on S'pore ship a uiiuiitu aispaicn irom Tembilahan. Riau (Sinatra*, disclosed that on \pril 23. a freighter, carryne: petrol and solar oil f roi 1 Singapore, went up m flames vhen a Dutch patrol bc\i ired upon it. The oil was reported to d? the property of an
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    INDIAN GIFT TO INDONESIA
    56 5 l^uuk wagon-ioaas oi goods. JT comprising 25 cases of agricultural maehinen eases of medical supplies and 25 cases of textiles, are on their way to Jogjakarta, capital of Republican Indon The goods are the gift of the Indian Government to the Republican. They wcr. hlblted m
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    23 5 ptcture. Mr. z. A. Mohamed AH, who has been named a Singapore Municipal Commissioner, taking the place of Mr. R. Jumabhoy.- Free Press
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    86 5 P Lanes of ihe Straits Settlements Squadron of the RAF, which are on a demonstration flight to show the world the striking range of the Royal Air Force. The squadron is fully selfcontained. Ground crews and stores flying m four York air transports are accompanying the Lincoln bombers. Exercises are
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    TAKUAPA TIN
    31 5 T AKUAPA TIN laKuapa vaiiey wo. 1 dredge during April won 185 piculs of tan ore. and No 2 dredge 672 picuLs The estimated Taiue of the 857 piculs is $114,000.
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    78 6 picture Prisoner of war Eberhard Sturm must leave his British mother and return to Germany where he has no relatives unless the Home Office overrules a War Office decision. His mother, Mrs. Hill, became a British subject 17 years ago, when she married an English man. who is now a
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    145 6 Brigadier B. C. S. Clarke. D.5.0., Colonel of the Worcestershire Regt., presenting three silver cups and a claret jug to Brig. J. B. Churcher, Hon. Col. of the Hereford Liaht Infantry (T.A.). The presentation was made on behalf of the 2nd. Bn. Worcester Regt. The .silver ua.> previously part of
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    BREAK UP OF W.F.T.U. AVERTED
    383 6 BREAK UP OF W.F.T.U. AVERTED Compromise between East and West THE World Federation of Trade Unions, as a result of its Rome conference, has announced a series of compromises which assure, at least temporarily, its continuation as the only international labour organisation bridging the East and West. Most of the
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    THE ANTS WEREN'T POLITICIANS
    54 6 ANTS, crowd ng into a d<6* n at ti: c ICI tofftces m. Wclwvn <Hertlt gorged all iurht on red ir.k stamp pads c* loft bl£ck ink pads alone. Jokes about doI tical colours ended with th* technical explanation: There is glycerin^ m the red *nk.
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    BRADMAN'S GIFT
    31 6 Don Bradman has presented to the Lord Mayor of London Sir Frederick Wells, 17,000 gift T) a reels brought over by the Australian Test team for distribution m Britain.
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    'Priests' held as spies in P.I.
    92 6 rpwo Americans, who desA cribed themselves sus visiting Jesuit priests. are under investigation by the Philippine Constabulary for making sketches of the Philippine Government radio transmitting station at Baguio. A Baguio detective reported that a notebook In possession of one of the men contained
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    Gets his plane trip —eleven years late
    204 6 Gets his plane trip eleven years late ELEVEN years ago G. J. Janssen won a prize on a Batavia quiz programme a free trip to Holland by KLM plane. Because of his work, Ja nssea could not vat: h's (prize at that time and asked th^ he be permitted to
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    Japan complies with world labour laws
    120 6 NEW labour itundards law designed to bring Japanese working conditions up to the level of recommended international standards is now completely In effect, a labour expert of Gen. MacArthur's headquarters stated m Tokio. With the law fully m effect the Central Labour Standards Bureau
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    LATHER BOYS MUST BE 15
    63 6 WILTSHIRE <Ei ;sland> Education Comm/tte* has passed by-laws banning any child unckr 15 frt m lather ng m a berbei's shop or working m a friPd-flsh shop, billiard saV:on, marine stores, laigrouiid. »ai:;/-er hoiirr. racing course or track, or petrol station. Otlier banned occupat on*
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    H.K. to have giant new airport
    147 6 H.K. to have giant new airport rJ*S are underway to replace Kai Tak, Hong Kong's airport, with a large, modern air field capable of handling the world's largest planes with case. The new airport will be Class A, according to international air standards. Details art' still confidential. It is known,
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    Royal garden parties in July
    98 6 KING George VI has tentatively chosen two July dates the eighth and the twenty -second for this summers big garden parties at Buckingham Palace. A member of the Palace staff said between 5,000 and 6.000 invitations would be sent out for each. The garden parties
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    LADY MOUNTBATTEN GOING TO KASHMIR
    52 6 lADY Mountbatten will visit j Kashmir for three days beginning May 9. She is going there to visit hospital, refugee and Red Cross centres and to discuss questions concerning the recovery of abducted women. She is the chairman of the United Council of Relief and
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    Elephants don't like wings
    101 6 DON'T scare the elephants' 1 is a message which has gone out to all member comp.inies of the International' A-.r Transport Association It comes from former Civil Servant Sir William Hildred. I Director- General of I. AT A m Montreal, The appeal is to pilots 02
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    UK to get rid of 'Schools Cert.'
    185 6 UK to get rid of 'Schools Cert. THE present Schools Certificate exam. Ls to be 1 abolished m Britain m 1951. This is announced by the MiniMry of Education. A new and easierexam. wiU then take iU place. This will be good news for half a million boy* and girls,
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    Sumatransare a good side
    715 7 I By Our Soccer Reporter sweeping the Malays off their feet m the tiiM \~> minutes, the Sumatra soccer team, the iir>t game of their three-match tour at Besai Ne>ttrday, were held to a two-all draw x 60 minutes of lively, exciting football that was N
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    ST ANDREW'S XI BEAT STAFF
    119 7 ST ANDREW'S XI BEAT STAFF blhi oimr ft ni&tcb A at rday, tbe afl by an T and tett 4S mns. Th« th 112 for JU out for 46 jS n»: Wong Boon D. Ponruah Ml b X VV! 3 ng B Ker b Keyt 4: ni i rfr i
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    34 7 JUN-DtNUtKS A! for tin Cluh ver SC R C n oa Sunday T. J B N ub Wong > w m J* 1 o r Ci E Bo^iars. 3 71 Liar. He«; seeder—
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    Davis Cup results: Denmark win
    109 7 J)ENMARK defeated Egypt by j three rubbers to one m tbete I first rouiid European zone Davis Cud tie at Copenhagen. Each country won one of tn« remaining singles yesterday, the I results being: Kurt Nielsen (Denmark) beat, Adly Shaffei (Egypt) 6—3; 6—l: B—6. Marcel
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    CHANGI S.C. WIN
    52 7 PLAYING better 'ootball In the second half, the Changi Sports Club defeated the Haikowyu XI by one goal to nil m aS. A P. A third division league match Dlayed at the C.V.M.A. ground vesterda\ The goal was rcored by Awang m the tenth minute of the
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    30 7 James V. Rank's three-year-old colt. Jock Scot, 10, to one third favourite for the Derby on June 5, was beaten a head m Chester yp-stprdav m a three-horse rac* A.P
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    LUCKY ESCAPE FOR HASSETT
    29 7 incteay Hassett snicks a ball past Yarnold. the Worcester )icket-keeper, on the third dap of the Australian's openina aame which they won by an inninas.
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    Aussies win in exciting finish
    170 7 Aussies win in exciting finish A USTRALIA beat Yorkshire by four wickets on a spin bowler's paradise at Bradford yesterday m >ne of the most exciting games of cricket m history. Two newcomers to English wickets, 19-year-old *eil Harvey and Don Tallon, the Australian wicket;ee|>er, won the match after Australian
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    77 7 N< OREBOARD Yorkshire: 71 and 89. Australia Ist Inns.: 101. AISTRALIA— 2nd Inns Morris c Ilutton b Smailea 3 Brown Ibw Smailes 2 Miller c Halliday b Wardle 2 Ilavtrtt c Sellers b Smailes 12 Hameno run out 1 Harvey not out 18 MKool c and b Wardle 5 Taik>n
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    INDIANS AND SIGNALS DRAW
    143 7 THE Indian Association and the Singapore District Signal played a one-all draw m yesterday's S.A.F.A. second division league fixture at St. George's Roads. Play was fairly even and was contested at a fast pace. A penalty awarded the Signals m the flfth minute of the game
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    ECLIPTIC TO BEAT GAME LAW IN CUP
    1914 7  - ECLIPTIC TO BEAT GAME LAW IN CUP CALL BOY jroing zvill be chief factor y i r againsi me opinion neia Dy me majority 01 trainers, owners and punters I have selected Tiga Lima Kongsi's" Ecliptic to beat the hot favourite, Game Law, m the Governor's Cup race >ver a
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    Olympic XI win 6-0
    84 7 Olympic XI win 6-0 PLAYING their Cmrewe'l game in the M .Memorial Fooioail .'...ida.,:!. the Chinese Olvmpu m team whipped Lite team six-nil before fans in Manila yesterds It was Use fiftn stra victory for the < him team who dominated I game irom start to hi; J he winners
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    DRAW AT GEYLANG
    76 7 PULAU Bukom Sports Club drew one-all with tne B O.D. m the second dlvi*if>n S.A.F A. match p:ayed at Geylang Stadium yesterday. Though the BOD had the better of the exchanges Pulau Bukom showed more dangerous m their occasional raids. The goal* were scored m the second
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    Compton hits East century
    109 7 Compton hits East century DENIS 'ompton, playing for the MCC against Surrey at Lords, ran into his t>est form yesterday, scoring 123, including one six and 14 fours, m two hours. He figured m a third wicket stand of 182 with Jack Robertson, who also scored a century. In a
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    Malayans win at basketball
    106 7 strong basketball team won an easy victory over T.siangtao's cage stars yesterday with a final tally of 40 to 28. Malaya's Chinese group, m their first appearance m China's seventh national meet, proved far superior to their opponents. They took things easy all the way. once
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    CRISPIAN WINDS UP TRAINING
    84 7 GOVERNORS Cup runner U Crispian completed his preparation for tomorrow's race with a three-furlong spurt to Wally Bagby at Bukit Timah this morning. The going was good. Crispian looked eager to run but was kept on tight reiru, doing the distance m 40 sec. Kashmiri Song
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    I.A. TABLE TENNIS
    44 7 THE following will play for Indian Association against C.V.M.A. (Lady of Lourdcs) at table tennis at LA. premises tonight at 7 o'clock: M. Sivam. S.R.S. Naidu. P. V. Lingam, P. S. Maniam. G. K. Gosain, C. Arumugam. Cyril Thomas, S. Somasundaram.
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    ISLAND CLUB
    17 7 ENTRIES for the Island Clubs open invitation golf championship close today, and not May 17.
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    Malaya v Nanking in NAM soccer tie today
    225 7 FOOTBALL and basketball. China's two most popular sports, will hold the spotliKht today at the National Athletic Meet In Shanghai with capacity crowds expected to turn up for the matches between Hongkong's crack football eleven and the Chinese Navy, and between Malaya
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    47 8 A Guard of Honour of the Ist Battalion Devonshire Regiment brings m the roast beef and Yorkshire pudding at the dinner of the Singapore Branch of the Royal Society of St. George at Raffles Hotel last night. Over 200 members of the Society and their guests attended.
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    'Kidnapped' Russian to live in U.K.
    150 8 LONDON. Thursday. A FOREIGN OFFICE spokesman today confirmed that a former chief of the Russian repatriation mission m Bremen. Col. J D. Tassoyev. had •voluntarily defected" and had now arrived m Britain and is being allowed to live In this country as a private
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    Ruhr poser for Western Union
    111 8 LONDON Thursday. REPRESENTATIVES of the Big Three powers and the Benelux countries met In London yesterday to consider the future set-up of Western Germany. The conference had before it reports of its committees, which m the past fortnight have examined the prospects of a German
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    BID TO AVERT US RAIL STRIKE
    106 8 PRESIDENT Truman yesk terday said the full strength of the U.S. Government and all available legal resources were being used to avert a threatened nationwide rail strike. Mr. John R. Steelman, the President's assistant on labour matters earlier had discussion' at the White House
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    25 8 Mr. George Marshall. U.S. Secretary of St?te urged Congress yesterday t« continue the reciprocal trade programme ao th^ "kry stone of our foreign pcltv."- A.P
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    India rejects U.N. proposal
    165 8 ON KASHMIR ISSUE NEW YORK, Thursday. FHE Indian Government today rejected the Security Council's plan for supervision of a plebiscite m Kashmir to determine whether tJiat state should accede to India or Pakistan. However, India "would be glad to confer with" the 5-member commission set up
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    FIGHTING ON WIDE FRONT IN HONAN
    157 8 SHANGHAI, Thursday. T'HE Nationalist Command threw numerous warA planes into the West Honan battle today m a desperate effort to check Communist armies advancing along a 150-mile front. Most of the planes were rushed from Hankow to provide sorely-needed support for the hard-pressed ground
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    80,000 STRIKING IN BIZONIA
    60 8 DECAUSE of a national holiday In Hanover and Bavaria yesterday, all labour took the day off both from work and from food protest strikes. About 80,000 m Bizonia are on strikes which may become State-wide. The Military Government remains adamant that it will not alter current
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    ATTACK ON ARSENAL
    17 8 An armed band attacked an arsenal north of Rome yesterday but was repulsed. U.P
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    SYSTEM TO ROMANISE CHINESE
    147 8 BERKELEY (Cal). Thurs. AN alphabet for the Chinese language has been devised by the University of California's Department of Oriental Languages. The alphabet would enable translators to change Chinese into other languages without having to learn the symbolic characters at present used m Chinese writing. The
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    PRINCESS' MESSAGE ON TRIP TO PARIS
    454 8 Friendship to be reaffirmed PARIS, Thursday. OKINCESS Elizabeth wUI deliver a message from Britain to the French people and so mark over a century of friendship when she opens a British exhibition m Paris a week from Friday, British officials disclosed tonight She will
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    22 8 HOME PICTURE FOR SINGAPOREANS The Supreme Court building seen from beneath a shady tree on the Connaught Drive side of the Padang.
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    Free speech but ban on processions
    84 8 Free speech but ban on processions LONDON, Thursday. IAM not prepared to introduce legislation banning or making more difficult free speech m this country," declared the Home Secretary, Mr. Chuter Ede, m the Commons announcing a threemonths' ban on political processions m London. He rejected a suggestion that Fascist activity
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    French India out of Union
    58 8 TOULOUSE Friday. BY 34 votes to three, the Representative Assembly of French India voted to remain outside the Indian Union. The French Minister of Overseas Territories, M. Paul Florot announced that this could be the basis for negotiations on the future of the five towns
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    US calls off Austrian peace talks
    164 8 US calls off Austrian peace talks LONDON, Thursday. THE United States today suspended the Four Power talks on an Austrian peace treaty after Russia refused to yield to the Western Powers' insistence that the frontiers of Austria In January, 1938, be preserved and that she escape all reparation*. The scheduled
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    16 Labour MPs say 'Don't ally with U.S.'
    133 8 16 Labour MPs say 'Don't ally with U.S.' LONDON. Thui^ay. SIXTEEN Left-Wing Labour MP.'s today demanded that Britain must at once break off all military cooperation with the United States. The 16 MP.s inducted reven. whom the Labour Party 'eaders threatened wi^ exclusion for signing the goodwill telegram to the
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    At the theatre BLITHE SPIRIT
    139 8 At the theatre BLITHE SPIRIT THE Stage Club produced Noel Cowards "Blithe Spirit" last night at the Victoria Theatre, admission being by voluntary purchase of a $2 programme. This morning, producer Vernon Margrave, reported that this novel scheme was a success. Most people bought a programme and many gave more
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      399 8 LONDON, Thursday. A NTICIPATED reinvestment of money, which was made available by the Argentine railway pay-out made for quietly firm conditions m London's stockmarkets today, says Renter's financial correspondent. Rubbers advanced while Tin's were irregular to higher. Small Investment buying of British Government securities imparted gains of
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      45 8 QN the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, stocks recovered briskly, with rails and oils particularly active. Gains ranged up to more than two points. Shares traded totalled 1.300.000. The Dow Jones Averages were: Stocks 67.43; Industrials 181.65: Rails 58 95; Utilities 34.35- A.P
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      LOSS OF COAL
      31 8 The Minister of Fuel and Power, Mr. Hugh Gaitskell, told the House of Commons iresteTday that 1,*****0 tons 3f coal were lost through lniustrial disputes last year.— U.P
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      100 8 A^ SPEOLa*. Market ■HManEHl I*"" *W »r4e*i «f robber at H soon; M follow* Cat. OU 1 8 8 So**** laTlJJLII 1111 in bales Mar Uk No. J ESS. fob to bales May $t^ Tone of market Firm SfNGAPOEE CBAMBBE OP COMMEEC8 TW Stooporc Chamber Commerce Bobber Assoc
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      59 8 Headed by the Royal family, a distinguish d audience last night welcomed Laurence Olivier* long-awaited screen play of Haml t it was the most brilliant film premiere m London's history. The premiere b ing a benefit for King George's Pension Fund for aotors and actresses, no s
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    228 8 Hundreds of Gred rebels to die ATIU THE(,: 1 Ju>\ tine Rene I night thai more Grm: rsu are liable I f any time, fate of a: still mo Gr< i executed f Icta an l women. i They I *.u?nc«l b> I gUPfTlll;v i senu»nc»*d bj I also ex<*cr
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    24 8 Postage th of ten cent> v n memorato the 6 of the Kine and Q on sale m Singaj I the yoar
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    PEACE AGAIN IN STH. SIAN
    71 8 BANGKOK, Thursday THE situation m Siams southern districts adjacent to Malaya, where an an ti -Government uprising was reported a week ago, Is now "perfectly normal," according to Colonel Bhao Sryanond Deputy Director-General of the Siamese He said one leaders of the ci been captured
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