The Singapore Free Press, 15 May 1948

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA a SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1948 XXX I* l»«S
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    WAR:ARAB LEAGUE ARMIES INVADE US recognises Israel
    508 1 WAR:ARAB LEAGUE ARMIES INVADE US recognises Israel EGYPTIAN troops were ordered to invade Palestine this morning a few hours after a Jewish state— lsrael— had been proclaimed m Tel Aviv. "A state of war exists," the Arab League has announced. Nokrashy Pasha, Egyptian Premier, speaking over Cairo Radio, said. v
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    China making strong protest
    101 1 SIAM SCHOOLS CLOSURE BANGKOK, Friday. TIIF. Chinese Charge d'AiTaires. Mr. On Yam:, today told the Siamese Foreign Oiliee that the forcible closing of Chinese schools m Siam was a breach of treaty obligations. The Chinese Government would protest strongly, he said. Yang said the restricre unjust.
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    BOOM ON N.Y. EXCHANGE
    97 1 NEW YORK, Friday. CUSTOMERS stormed the buying side ol tlie NewYork stock Exchange today and m one of the fastest sessions of the past eight years. 3.840.000 shares changed hinds the largest turnovi r since May H. 1010 is soaring prices added upwards of I.S. Sl.OOO
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    4 KILLED BY SMUGGLERS
    52 1 IX)UR Chinese Customs offir .re killed and six wounded on Wednesday en more than 100 smugglers a' tacked the Customs station at Shatau Bay, across the border from Kowloon m Chinese territory. A three-hour gun-fight ensued, m which the station partly wrecked by grenades and other
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    UK, COLONIES TO HAVE ONE CITIZENSHIP
    179 1 UK, COLONIES TO HAVE ONE CITIZENSHIP LONDON. Friday. ANY person of British nationality by virtue of citizenship will be known as •'British subject" or a "Commonwealth citizen" when an amendment added today to a Government bill on j British nationality becomes) law. The terms will have the j same meaning.
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    BIG NAVY-AIR OPS SUCCESS
    123 1 BIG NAVY-AIR OPS SUCCESS DUNFERMLINE, Friday. THE bluest combined air and sea manoeuvres by A British forces since 1939 ended today m the North Sea with officers confident that many valuable lessons had been learned. Admiral Sir Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton. joint commander of the defending "Blue air force described the exercise
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    GANDHI: NINE MEN FOR TRIAL NEXT WEEK
    34 1 GANDHI: NINE MEN FOR TRIAL NEXT WEEK eepj v m Ke attar ■aaj Thf are Vtoaj i um K.r.d Hmd" N'araRa ak RamEtoaaj Lai K u; k nkar Gixts* rested ■III xploSbw s a
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    S'pore PoWs to get together
    76 1 LONDON, Friday. BRITISH servicemen, who became prisoners at the surrender of Singapore, meet m London next week at "tenko" Japanese for roll call. They are members of the Far East Prisoners of War Social Club and when they meet on Thursday at the Duke of
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    750,000 QUEUE FOR AUSTRALIA
    42 1 FE Australian Immigration Minister. Mr. Arthur A. Calwell has announced that immigrants awaiting transport would soon number 750.000. "Australia House handled over 100,000 inquiries from prospective British migrants during the first four months ot 1948." he said. Reuter
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    SOVIET CHIEFS BEING PURGED IN GERMANY
    102 1 BERLIN, Friday. I^HE Soviet Military AdL ministration m Germany is being pureed, according to British and American observers. Dozens of high-ranking ttfrave been recalled to Rus they say. The purge is said to have started m March, when the Russian Communist Party chief m
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    KIDNAPPING OF NON-STRIKERS
    45 1 qiWO hundred striking meat 1 workers broke into a packing plant to kidnap 30 nonstrikers m Minnesota. They smashed equipment and windows. Police said atoout 20 kidnapped workers had been found along roads where they ihad apparently been released from cars. Reuter
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    U.S. bill to outlaw Reds
    108 1 WASHINGTON, Friday. DESPITE the almost certain prospect of a Presidential veto, the United States House of Representatives began a debate today on a bill to outlaw the American Communist party. In a special statement from his sickbed, Mr. J. Parnell Thomas. Republican Chairman of the
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    BURNT ALIVE
    24 1 A father and mother and five children were burned to death m their beds on a lonely mountainside near Pontypridd (Glamorgan) yesterday.
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    SIX 'SURE-CURES' FOR MALARIA
    167 1 WASHINGTON. Friday. QIX war-developed drugs are proving almost sure cures for malaria, the fourth International Congress on Malaria was told today. The new drugs some now available to doctors for general use are pentaquine, isopentaquine, pauldrine. chloraquine. sonto- quine and pamaquine. Sir Malcolm Watson, a former
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    Stalin Victim of own terror'
    240 1 LONDON, Friday. OPEAKING m the House of Commons today m a debate on atomic energy control Mr. Raymond Blackburn (Labour) said Marshal Stalin was an isolated man and was "a victim of his own reign of terror/ "I believe he does not get accurate reports
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    U.S. GUIDED MISSILES
    31 1 THE United States Secretary of the Navy, Mr. John Sullivan, has asked to let the Navy speed work on guided missile ships and ant 65.000-ton aircraft r. Reuter.
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    U.S. denounces Russians
    141 1 SEOUL. Friday. T__E American military gov- j eminent m South Korea yesterday denounced "the high-handed action of the Soviet masters of North Korea" for cutting off electric power to the U.S.-occupied south. The power was cut off at noon, ostensibly m a quarrel over payment of the
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    Bigger cut in rice for Malaya
    147 1 Bigger cut in rice for Malaya THE Internal. onal Emergency Food Committee has proposed a rice allocation of 181,000 t< for Malaya lor the nd half of the year, the Associated Press stated tl morning m a VmWSM from Washing. on. ThU s even lower than was generally expected. The
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    HURT WHILE LEARNING
    24 1 H URT WHILE LEARNING to rice a bicycle In I I down 1 driven by a < II Th- ding th H -ring ir on.
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      38 1 rirrllinßftS-GRINBER-. i Wholesale Rei^il Dealers m DIAMONDS JEVELLEfif j New Avail. i hie A New Shipment ot 14 28 Caret Cold Cijarettr D_P_i 67. STAMFORD RD. J Eu Court B'd« Telephone 7923 Singapore c|P J|jgf ____P^^ i_ "f
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    'BOOTED' WOMEN
    518 2  - 'BOOTED' WOMEN DOROTHY ROE Py A.P. Correspondent i4/fer hearing of the latest fashions m hats— and costing about £10 it's rather a change to hear that you can make your own for the vrice of 1/Od. But that is what Mrs. Daniels, of Merton Surrey, has done. Materials; Six strands
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    Fighting hunger
    309 2 By Alton L. Blakeslee A mystery chemical that powerfully affects the growth of animal and perhaps human health now can be made artificially, Dr. Stefan Ansbacher announced. It is apparently a new B-Vitamin. and can be readily produced m large quantities for the first time. The achievement promises
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    BETTER KILLERS
    124 2 A TINY torpedo, no bigger than a child's arm. shot into a 20 -foot long glass lss sided tank at the Naval Ordinance Test Station at Pasadena. U.S.A.. may determine the shape, size and structure of top- secret torpedoes to be used m any future war. In the
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    Paris models mass-made
    95 2 DARIS-INSPIRED dresses with the names of Paris designers on each label will be worn by millions of American women this summer, according to the plans of one manufacturer. Cotton dresses, mass-pro-duced by the firm of Wolfson and Greenbaum, will be distributed through the United States with the
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    CURES BY SEAWEED
    525 2  -  DAVID GUNSTON By THERE are hundreds of different varieties of seaweeds found off the world's coasts, but their true value for medicinal purposes has only recently been discovered. It was widely known that the most favoured types of weeds had a high iodine and mineral content indeed
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    321 2 Fortune forecast for people born tod i> DORK today, you are one of those tactful and diplomatic organizers, -ou make it so pleasant for others to agicv with you that they 11 push each other around to play on your side! You have cons diraltlc intuition and
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    Bridge Problem
    130 2 South s 7 \T 0 Q 4 A J mem son ll A A 11] V 9 7 o*2 fIiERE arg no truni p s south leads. North and South arc to make five of the six tricks against any defence. South makes a spade, forcing East to
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    CHUNKY JEWEI
    164 2 CHUNKY JE WEI PEARLS, pearls ana ill more pea: Everything demands pearls. Blouses, gftoini gowns, smaii day 0 are all being tnmm<a with pearls ia> London these days. Dabs of pearls adorn ha is and pearls can be seen on the backs of gloves, pearls on shoe trimmings. This much
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    Church was 'stolen
    6 2 Church was 'stolen ST. H on
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      64 2 aice v \Qa_22Sl V \~~~^o^^^ DAYS WHEN EVERY BOT GIRL NEEDS EXTRA EXTRA STAMINA NOURISHMENT Ste that \our I nourishment NATURE'S by ■trsi^g da Nature has MM i WONDER FOOD dant quanutu i »ital for tbiUiit i §carhoh\drati x children c_|o\ t whole j-ram t. to gi»e i hem xtr
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      1062 2 dfdfd pm to 815 pm VLC Orchestra; 430 Australian N i World Wews Headlines; 102 Yours from 11.00 noon to 200 n m lJ 59 I 5 3 megacycles: 440 Fire Music- pi bj lor the Asking: 2 World News 5J6 ■nun m the medium wave 10 00 P,n to
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  • CHINA NEWS..
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      FIVE RED COLUMNS MARCH ON MUKDEN
      292 3 FIVE RED COLUMNS MARCH ON MUKDEN NANKING, Friday. A NANKING spokesman said that five Com- munist columns were converging on Mukden in a "prelude to a decisive battle for the city/ 5 Meanwhile, the Nationalists are moving their crack American-trained army from Changchun to the defence of the corridor. The
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      ARMS AID VITAL TO CHINA
      101 3 ARMS AID VITAL TO CHINA rON, Friday. N I'ATIVE H. Judd of said that not be preappeasement" immediate for Chir. arty 800 Metht delagal al General dcaiaai a Euprogramme R ,:i sets China which i I > Russia h*lp effeccannot I I nerican ind economic se Governed. turn a forth
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      ALIENS LIABLE TO SERVICE
      55 3 ALIENS LIABLE TO SERVICE (Friday. residing in object to the it for service ail defence as ris according to t Iman just National i\ foreign viae be defence I hinaYl i aa placed rnand National eadquarters .ered to take all reand i t aa t that uses i while I
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      U.S. now more hopeful
      159 3 NEW YORK Friday THE Herald Tribune, ln an editorial discussing Truman's request that Congress aopropriate $463,000,000 for China, said: 'The chances seem, at least a little better now for wise and useful expenditure of money than did when the omnibus bill was being considered. There Is
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      Minor party asks new elections
      229 3 SHANGHAI. Friday. 1 hang, leader of Chinese Democratic said today he believed that the new »'»nal elections should be called to settle the disthe Kuomintang Party and minority factions. China's two minor parties i the Democratic Socialists and the Young China Party— have 1 boycotted
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      CHINESE COURT TO INVESTIGATE
      16 3 CHINESE COURT TO INVESTIGATE Court in .ved initun the rities criminal Amti have ,'iris81 placed -diction
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      Muslim rules North-West
      504 3 In Chinghai Province, north-west China, personal domain of Muslim Governor, Gen. Ma Pu-fang, everyone works. Here are labourers moving portion of a dam into place as part of the Governor's irrigation programme Gen. Ma has big ideas for the development of his area. In a few years,
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      FACTORY FOR HONG KONG
      126 3 CIGARETTE factories m Shanghai are making preparations to join the southward movement of Industry. The China Press reports that the Foosin Tobacco Company, one of the biggest cigarette factories m Shanghai, has already set up a plant In Hong Kong. Its officials have been quoted as
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      SHIPPERS SEND PETITION
      74 3 CiHINESE shipping comj panics m Shanghai are petitioning the Executive Yuan to seek permission from the United State 6 Government for transporting part of American aid supplies which will be purchased with the recently approved $463,000,000 China aid programme says the China Press. In the petition, it
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      U.S. ADMIRAL'S VISIT
      40 3 U .S. ADMIRAL'S VISIT Vio- Admiral Badger. Com-mander-in-Chief of the US. West Pacific Fleet and Commander of the United States Naval Force at Tsingtao. is to visit Canton around lhe middle of May. according to a Chinese press report.- Reuter
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      POLICE RAID S'HAI SHOPS
      51 3 MEMBERS of the Shanghai Economic Police have raided several more shops and offices suspected of blackmarket dealings m gold and United States currency. Eight arrests have been made, and small sums of United States dollars and a number of account books seized. No foreigners were Involved.
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      NEW SLOGAN FOR ARMY
      88 3 LOVE the People" is the new slogan of the Chinese Army. The Ministry of National Defence announced it was planning to launch a "Love the People" movement m the Army for the purpose of "promoting co-operation between the people and the Army." It said the month
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      SOVIET ENVOY TO NANKING
      47 3 THE Russian new Ambassador to China. Maj. Gen. N. V Roschin. is en route to Nanking, says the Central News Agency. Travelling via Vladivostok. Gen. Roschin. who formerly was Soviet Military Attache to China, is scheduled to arrive m Shanghai May 20.— A.P.
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      SIRANDED CHINESE
      43 3 SIR ANDED CHINESE More than 50.000 overseas Chinese including 25,000 former residents of Burmaare still stranded ln China, prevented. by post-war restrictions, from returning to their former homes, the chairman of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission. Mr. Liv Wel-chih, told the United Press.
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      CANTON SAVED BY RATIONING
      206 3 RICE rationing m Canton city, a month after its inauguration, is claimed as a successful experiment m Kwangtung Province's first effort to ration any commodity. Its success lies m the fact that the scheme has stabilised the price of this vital foodstuff to the city's more-than-million
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      119 3 Chinese and foreign correspondents m a Chinese Air Force plane flew over the famous Amne Machin range m north-west China. The expedition, sponsored by Central Air Transport Corporation, proved there was no mountain m the range as high as 29,000-foot Everest. The American fountain-pen millionaire Mr. Milton Reynolds, recently tried
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      REBELS QUIT ISLAND
      79 3 SHANGHAI, Friday. THE Communist guerrilla band, estimated at 1,000 men, who occupied two small islands m Hangchow Bay, about 85 miles from Shanghai, have •evacuated" the islands, according to the Chinese Police. After indicating that they planned to use the islands as a base of operation, for
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      JAP COLONY IN PEIPING
      400 3 YOU can buy gay silk kimonos at street stall* m PeipinK and you see buildings of unmistakable Japanese design. Otherwise, iwo and a half yearhave wiped out almost every evidence of the eightyear Japanese occupation of this former capital. It is therefore a surprise to come
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      80 SURPLUS SHIPS BOUGHT
      74 3 IjiiGHTY freighter-, tern and oilers purchased b\ the Chinese Government from the Fore.en Liquidation Commission m the Philippin en route- lo Shanghai. The ferrying of thes out of Subic anchorage :n Leyte. is described as th-.' "biggest undertaking ol sort m any uat>Navigational gear aboard the
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      DUD U.S. DOLLARS
      37 3 The' Chinese U^vernmen* if seeking to track dow: sourc. ot expertly made cam terfeit United States bam not<_» m Peiping. The hie-i quality paper and printing ii dicat«d that they were mac,outside China. U.P.
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      61 3 TARZAN IntO the air By Edgar Rice Burroughs SO"?. C* THE AZARIAWS TRiEO TO FACE THE GREAT BEASTS ~3 I S S I FOR A LONS TlM£, THE GREAT MTM THEIR CLUBS THESE THE MASTODONS SEIZED W/\ I C^ky i BEASTS LUMBERED Of* CA~R>;*6 -HER TRUNKS AND THREW *TO THE
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  • LEADER..
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      The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, May 15. 1948. Malayan War Pensions
      611 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, May 15. 1948. Malayan War Pensions IT is nou neatly thre. yean I c the lib ration and it is unatrsiandable that there should be some imCC on the part of members 01 the Volumes r a. d paslve defence forces the failure of the
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      BCOF MAKES THE BEST OF THE WORST
      1025 4  -  DENIS WARNER By Reuter— A.A.P Correspondent TN the bleakest, most dismal occupied area m all Japan is the town of Kure, or what is left of it. Acres of mangled steel line the waterfront and the great docks that once sheltered the Japanese
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      Rotarians meet
      301 4  - Rotarians meet HOYT WARE By A.P. Correspondent MEARLY 4,000 Rotarians will meet m Rio de Janeiro tomorrow from various parts of the world to stress the subject of Solidarity through Friendship." Ths, the largest gathering of its kind ever held m South America, will be the 39th annual Convention of
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      FAITH
      37 4 And he shall set up un ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of J .ludah from the four J corners of the earth. Isaiah 11. 12.
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      50 4 A radio link was used for the first time by London Transport to control the flow of speed buses and passengers between Epsom Town and the Doions for the Spring Meeting. The two-way radio was used by two vans, one stationed m the town and the other on the Down*.
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      ELIZABETH'S VISIT
      828 4  -  IAN FRASER (By Reuters' Correspondent fULTURAL ties between Britain and France through the ages is the keynote of the Exhibition which Princess Elizabeth opened yesterday on her first visit to the French capital. Entitled "Eight Centuries of British Life m Paris'^ the Exhibition Ifl housed m the Galliera
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      47 4 Sir Basil McFarland. BT.. H.M.L., Mayor of Londonderry, 7 the Certificate of the Freedom of Londonderry, and model of "Roaring Meg" (a oannon used during th Field-Marshal Viscount Alexander (Gcrcrnor-General the Government of Northern Ireland, m Regent Street. received the Freedom of the Cdy m October 1
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      HE STUDIES FOOL
      208 4  -  MILT DEAN HILL By A.P. Correspondent MORRIS E. Dodd is starting a new job at an age when most men are thinking of retiring. The new 69-year-old, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture (FAO) Organisation of the United Nations taken over from -Jir John Boyd Orr, the
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      33 4 ~Hote£ de £'£uAot aVjt&£mi&sva£ <&&d 1 S.iHifcrfhifi fse4a\*m Tons i«^ sam.di* soir> mire 11 I Diner Ha~_ien Dans I* Jardin < A 7. OXLEY RISE WL' ___***^*J2 __0* £> V" > nw of W*" tVER/r£ Asbestos-Cement _____________<$
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  • LOCAL NEWS..
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      Surcharge on rates may continue
      135 5 _rt c Press Staff Reporter n of the requirements of the 1949 Singapore Municipal Commissioners will i. rnmcnt for an ordinance to continue, if a rate surcharge not exceeding 25 per cent. tiers* powers to levy a surcharge at the end of this year and,
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      Chinese to celebrate on May 20
      111 5 II nee t hine>e .<rx»ndent p lONS for .ns'.allaChiang Kaifirst const it v- .»f China been comn Chinese as:id public i pore a eongrat Jent l ime of the i the to be held I r Chinese i will be peeches by Chinese i
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      British Council scholarships for 4 Malayans
      141 5 British Council scholarships for 4 Malayans •THE British Council have awarded scholarships ♦o the United Kingdom for the 1948-49 term to the following: SINGAPORE l>r. Too Tung Yin < Lady Health Officer for Schools. Singapor- Course Child at the Hospital for Sick Children. Great Ormond Street. London. Mr. Abu Bakar
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      Professors to discuss Varsity
      287 5 Professors to discuss Varsity Free Press Staff Reporter DR. R. G. Scott-MacGregor, Professor of Physiology at Mie College of .Medicine, and Dr. T. H. Silcock, Professor of Economics at Raffles College, will be among the 12 speakers who will address a meeting lo discuss the Carr-Saunders Commission's report at the
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      $7000 robbery from estate
      99 5 Free Press Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Friday. ACCORDING to a report aA made to the Police, armed bandits got away with a paymil amounting to $7,000 from Leong Bee Estate near Geylang Patah. m South Johore. Last Thursday was pay day on the estate, and after a
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      26 5 The President and Vice-President of China under the new constitution, Gen. Chiang Kai-shek (right) and Lieut. Gen. Li Tsung-jcn are photographed together m Nanking.—Chinese official picture.
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      CROWNING
      37 5 pictures More pictures taken at the procession held on Thursday after the coronation of the statue of Our Lady of Fatimah Fr. Teixiera. the Vicar-General of the Portuguese Mission, is seen crowning the statue. Free Press
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      COUNCILLOR WANTS MORE SCHOOLS
      307 5 Adult class experiments Free Press Staff Reporter AN experiment m adult education which, if successful, will provide the nucleus for a series of similar schools m Singapore's suburban and rural areas, has been started with the opening of an adult school m Siglap. Inche Sardon bin
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      TRIAD SOCIETY MEN CONVICTED
      114 5 EIGHTY- EIGHT Chinese charged with attending the initiation ceremony of a triad society were convicted by the First District Judge. Mr Shanks, yesterday. Most of them were dock labourers, boat-builders, sampan men and petty businessmen. Mr. N. N. Leicester appear;ed for 18 of the men, Mr.
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      Govt outdoor clinics 'inadequate'
      357 5 Govt outdoor clinics 'inadequate Free Press Staff Reporter THE attention of the Singapore Government ha>- been 1 drawn by Mr. Thio (nan Bee, an I iicfficiai ineiober of the Legislative Council, to the __H_h__ip CSV I I to the poorer classes because there are nol eno- i outdoor clinics. Mr.
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      42 5 ■picture. This is the vital Kallang Road intersection near the gasworks, which ii th€ centre of a new traffic control system. Within a* few days of its tnfi the new system has proved effective, and no accidents have been reported.- Free Press
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      37 TB deaths in a week
      61 5 HEALTH statistics for the week ended May 8 show that there had been 37 deaths from 82 cases of tuberculosis, and three deaths from 17 cases of polio There was one death from tuo cases of leprosy and one death from enteric fever. Total
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      INDONESIANSTO STUDY IN INDIA
      43 5 THE Indian Consul-General m Djakarta. Mr. N. Raghavan has announced that the Indian Government has granted scholarships to seren Indonesians to further their education m India. The Republican Government has also gran'ed five more scholarshiDS to Indian students. Antara
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      7 years and rattan for extortioner
      345 5 MR. JUSTICE Brown m the Singapore Assize Court yesterday, before passing the maximum sentence of seven years' rigorous imprisonment and 12 strokes of the rattan on an extortioner Lim Ah Lek. said: "This is a crime against which the public must receive every protection
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      AUSTRALIAN GOVT TO RUN SHIPS
      148 5 I EGISLATION to empower the Australian Government to operate a fleet Of overseas and inter-State ships will probably be brought before the Federal Parliament early next year. The Prime Minister. Mr. J. B. Chifley said that the scheme had already been approved In principle by
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  • NEWS...
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      ARAB WAR TO DEATH' IS UNLIKELY
      394 6 ARAB WAR TO DEATH' IS UNLIKELY Zionist State a reality WHATEVER U.N.O. or the Arab may decide to do about it, the Jewish state m Palestine is a reality and the much-boosted war to the last man between Arabs and Jews is an exploded propaganda balloon. This is the considered
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      DIVERS BID FOR SHIP'S TREASURE
      154 6 OFF the Uruguayan coast near the shattered remains of the scuttled of the Nazi pocket battleship, Graf Spec, is a Spanish galleon with coffers loaded h gold and silver ingots, doubloons and pieces of _i_*ht valued— ill 1792— at £2.000,000. The galleon, the El Preciado.
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      TO STUDY "ATS WORK IN UK
      54 6 MRS. YUSAF HARUN, commander of the Pakistan Women's National Guard, arrived m London on Wednesday to study British women's organisations, including the Auxiliary Territorial Service shortly to be renamed the Women's Royal Army Corps. Mrs. Harun is one of the leaders of the Muslim
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      43 6 One thousand pieces of pottery a fortnight is the average output of 72-year-old Edward femes Baker and his son. James of Upchurch, Kent. One third of this output goes to all parts of the world the rest is soon m the British market.
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      34 6 Six elephants from Bertram Mills circus took part m the ll ford, Essex, savings drive. Three of them are seen m front of the Town Hall steps facing the Mayor, macebearer and Town Councillor.
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      SULPHA DRUGS FOR PLAGUE
      87 6 TWO Internationally known plague experts from India disclosed that two sulpha drugs and streptomycin had proved effective m treating human bubonic plague victims. In a paper before the Fourth International Congress on Tropical Medicine. Dr. S. S. Sokney and Dr. P. M. Waglc of the Haffikine
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      SAMPLE NURSES
      26 6 SAMPLE NUR SES Visitors to thi.s year's Paris Fair, arc ottered free wine samples. A special corps of nurses will take care of any who over-sample.
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      THIRD LARGEST
      45 6 An official Washington report yesterday Indicated the United States will produce its j third largest wheat crop m > history. Prospects on May 1 were for a total of 1,117.000.--000 bushels of bread grain. I The largest crop was 1.364--000.000 bushek last year. A.P.
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      NEWSMEN GET EXEMPTION
      48 6 NEWSMEN GET EXEMPTION FE U.S. House of Representatives has voted to exempt journalists from penalties of the so-called "secrets" bill. The bill provides for fines I and imprisonment for making j public information given to a 1 Congressional committee and marked "confidential" t>y the j commit* ee. A.P
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      Baby given new blood supply
      168 6 A BABY girl whose life was saved by surgeons who j drained It at birth of its own dangerous blood and substituted a fresh, healthy supply. now weighs six pounds. The baby was delivered by a caesarian operation m the maternity section of Bloemfontein hospital
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      BRITAIN'SBIRTH RATE RISES
      66 6 BIRTH rate m England and Wales last year was the highest for 26 years and infant mortality and still-births reached new low records. For the quarter end Dec. 31. the infant mortality rate was 41 per 1.000; the birthrate was 20.5 and the highest since 1921; the
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      WEMBLEY HAS A WASH & BRUSH UP
      156 6 WEMBLEY HAS A WASH BRUSH UP WEMBLEY'S biggest ever spring clean has begun and every citizen from Mayor to housewife is helping to make the borough the brightest and most friendly spot m Greater London. The reason for such widespread enthusiasm Is to prepare m good time for a hearty
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      Australia plans medical service
      59 6 LEGISLATION to provide free medical treatment for every person m Australia will probably be introduced during the September session of the Commonwealth Parliament. A scheme for the provision of free medicine will come into operation on June 1. The Commonwealth Government plans the operation of the
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      £3 MILLION ORDER FOR UK LOCOS
      225 6 £3 MILLION ORDER FOR UK LOCOS BRITISH locomotive builders under with record orders, h.. have got an order for another _»<• £3,000,000. Buyers are the Argentine An< first placed since President I the lines from the British Most of the locos President Peron now has are British made The loco
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      Truman against Red ban bill
      74 6 PRESIDENT Truman on Thursday announced opposition to a bill before Congress which would impose drastic restrictions on Communism m the Ur. States. He said that if any organisation m the United States was aiming to overthrow the Government, there were laws on the statute books
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      'DIXIECRATS' PLAN BREAK
      71 6 'DIXIECRATS' PLAN BREAK THE Southern Democrats who are bitterly err of President Truman* civil rights programme, aimed at abolishing the "colour bar.' are all ready with a potential candidate and a madorder name for a possible break -away from the re_ party. The prospective candidate If Senator Walter F. George,
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      THE COLD SHOULDER
      30 6 VT < aa Aivoi j ded for l I)ulj« v "blighted lou> the Arm, s pett> ol)i Na\ Her < court read epuah-ttpN .1 fac-p. sayii wanted i< oflficrr
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      P.I. wants more U.S. loans
      27 6 PHILIP: impiidoes D Stat* obii*:.. American others v. What now Ii left for I World Bai 000 ment explain amounts Won A.P.
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      Archbishop or 4 freedoms
      20 6 w Gar: York told H put ol righ* u be Fi. indi\ third. fr< mur.; relic
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      LION ESCAAPES
      24 6 A c rrua area when it> buMock cart. of the bull T maati Uv Una back fore inj could b. d Reuter
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      'The angel and Gabriel
      60 6 AUGUSTINE Aco. lea-year-old Satan laM police in Riaal city she had aaan miI>»» advances by 70-year-old Mariano Gaariri Gabriel had to be treated for eealp Mrs. Aco whacked him on the head with and sent her daughter for the law No charges were pressed and (iabnel
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      94 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Ualava jf eiN tAl' I V°° F AH Wti -L. -A VEKY PLEASANT* FV7MIN_\K>OODNIOkT BOYS' Ywh AT AftOuT A DA#4C£ T <»* A -2 A C *_tf l^ui** 4 IHY I TMIMK IT. TIME WEIL, WHAT SHA_I/*>TmIMG lIHE EXERCISE I s vot'
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      CORONATION LADY STRONG K.L. TIP
      855 7 CORONATION LADY STRONG K.L. TIP Going improved I ROM EPSOM JEEP STRONGEST tip on the course this morning was for Coronation Lady m the sixth race at Kua f a Lumpur today, the opening: day of the Selangor Turf Hubs four-day May meeting. The going has improved ai\d is likely
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      R.A.F. SHOULD WIN TODAY
      43 7 R.A .F. SHOULD WIN TODAY \pected to team i: ,-.ime at f__rtl displayed Chinese KA P will be :..-f rivals IV NAVY XVragg (A) Kli;h» N VXhiddett (M] (.ill V u-hlv N Wtlkins iN) Payne _d (A) >:^»n (f] Vtoodgatc (N) Jordan (A)
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      LATEST DAVIS CUP RESULTS
      20 7 v.ikia and Brazil ernstrn and I m their b Cup European i began yesterday one singles
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      CLARKE CUP CRICKET STARTS AT 2 P.M.
      37 7 THE annual Clarke Cup Cricket match between the Europeans and the Rest will commence at 2 pm. today on the SCC. padang. Play will start a; 11 a.m. tomorrow Monday.
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      Olympic team leave for Saigon
      78 7 Olympic team leave for Saigon Pre* Press Correspondent FIE China Olympic soccer team left Bangkok by Air for Saigon yesterday after completing all fixtures m Bangkok. In their last game on Thursday afternoon, the Chinese blanked out, the Bangkok XI five -nil. Outside right Ho Ying Fan and Lee Tai
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      NORMAN VON NIDA WINS
      153 7 THE Australian, Norman Von Nida. with consistent golf won the Daily Mail £2,500 professional tournament at the Sunningdale course m Berkshire yesterday, with an aggregate of 270 for 72 holes, the lowest total ever for the tournament which began m 1919. His rounds were 66. 70.
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      B.O.D. WIN 5-4
      62 7 I_DC 223 BOD. p:.i;.«d lent football m the second bali to beat r.a.f. Tencah. who were two goals ahead of th< m _t Urn IntervaL by ft\- gooJa to four m .id division S.A.F.A. match play.d at Alexandra Barracks lay. ifRANJi w.t. trounced R.A.F. Tencah by five
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      Big programme for China soccer team
      252 7 PLANS to entertain the Chinese Olympic football team when they arrive m Singapore from Saigon by air on May 19, were discussed at a committee meeting of the Malayan Chinese Football Association last evening. The M.C.F.A. have arranged accommodation for the Chinese Olympic team
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      W.I. PLANS FOR INDO-CEYLON TOUR
      286 7 THE following 24 players have been invited to hold themselves available to tour India and Ceylon if selected for the West Indies cricket team during the winter 1948--49: D. Atkinson (Trinidad). H. P. Bay ley (British Guiana). F. J. Cameron (Jamaica). R. Christiani (British Guiana*.
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      Gates crashed
      37 7 Late -comers at the opening on May 5 of the China National Athletic Meet m Shanghai trying to push their way into the stadium after crashing the gate. Police and boy scouts soon restored order.
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      ROVERS SAVE POINT IN LAST 10 MINS
      522 7 ROVERS SAVE POINT IN LAST 1 0 MINS Singapore Rovers 2 G.H.Q. Signals 2 IF the Singapore Rovers played any football at all, they did it m the nick of time. In the last ten minutes, after being outplayed and outclassed, they managed to force a two all draw with
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      AUSSIES WIN BY INNS
      143 7 IN three-quarters of an hour the Australians finished their match with Cambridge University to win by an innings and 51 runs yesterday. This is the Australians' fifth successive victory and their fourth with an innings to spare. CAMBRIDGE— Ist. Inns.— l 67 CAMBRIDGE— 2nd Inns Pepper
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      Hutton scores dashing 100
      157 7 Hutton scores dashing 100 I EN Hutton returned to his best form yesterday J with his first century of the season. He reached his 100 when scoring the winning hit for Yorkshire In this match against Northampton. In dashing mood he hit one six and 13 foura on the easy
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      Revival of Free Handicap will be popular
      729 7 Revival of Free Handicap will be popular Arena ...By Crusoti er U ANY racing mer are keen to see the revival 01 the three-year old Free Handicap which xx.. regular feature of the Singapore Turf Club's Autumn meeting before the war. lhe race was introduced m 1934 m order io
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      ISRAEL STATE FORMS CABINET
      444 8 ISRAEL STATE FORMS CABINET Ben Gurion is Premier TEL AVIV, Friday. rS new Jewish State of Israel, bom eight hours before the 25-year-old British mandate over Palestine was due to end, tonight formed its first administration with 62-year-old Polish-born Mr. David Ben Gurion as Prime Minister. Mr. Gurion, who first
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      MALAYAN MINES HIT Compensation plan attacked
      263 8 MALAYAN MINES HIT Compensation plan attacked Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Friday. the publication of the austerity plan for Malayan war damage compensation, tin shares have been difficult to market, writes the columnist Lex m the Financial Times. Prices had been rising steadily for some months before this, but the
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      CBS: 'Force will ruin Stalin'
      88 8 i^EORGE Bernard Shaw. icriting m the Daily Herald yesterday attacking the British Government's anti c nmunist policy, praised Generalissimo Josef Stalin as being "by far the •wst sensible and practical representative m European statesmanship of socialism m a single country as against the catastrophic world
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      'Varsity motion for Council
      117 8 THE Singapore Colonial Sec- retary (Mr. P. A. B. j McKerrom on Tuesday will move that thr Legislative Council "welcomes the Rt port of the Commission on Univer- j sity Education m Malaya." Upon accepting m principle! the recommendation for the creation of a University of
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      Biggest loan for Britain
      73 8 WASHINGTON. Fr.day. BRITAIN received th? biggest share of grants and loans allocated by the Economic Co-operation Administration here today to 11 European countries for the first quarter April to June —of the Marshall Plan She will receive $300,000,000 m grants and $100,000,000 ln loans of the
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      CZECH HERO IS SENT TO JAIL
      69 8 All official Prague commur > nique said yesterday that General Staff Major Josef Kosik. war-time hero of the Red Legion m Russia, was sentenced to death for attempting to flee the country "to work against his own nation m foreign service." The Supreme Military
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      STERLING TALKS
      41 8 THE British. Indian and Pakistan Governments have agreed to discuss the sterlnvr balances next month. The United Kingdom will be represented by the Chancellor of tho Exchequer. Sir Stafford Cripps, and India and Pakistan by their Finance Ministers. Reuter
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      REDS INTENSIFY JEHOL BATTLE
      146 8 SHANGHAI. Friday. MARTIAL LAW was declared m the Southern Jehol cities of Chengteh, Pingchuan and Lunghua today as Communists increased their attacks against Government outposts In that Inner Mongolian Province. Fighting is also reported near Kupeikou. an Important pass. 75 mil's north-east of Peiping on the
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      47 8 Mr Winston Churchill is seen here talking to rnnoess Juliana and her three c hildr en m the grounds of Soestijk Palace during his visit to Holland yesterday Princess Juliana became Regent of the Netherlands because her mother. Queen Wilhelmina, has relinquished her duties for health reasons.
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      HE HAD TO READ HER TO SLEEP
      162 8 LONDON, Friday. A BRITISH Army officer was granted a decree nisi m the Divorce Court of Appeal here today because his wife expected him to read her to sleep at night. She banged on doors, pulled off the bed clothes, and kept him
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      MARTS QUIET
      473 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Friday. A HOLIDAY atmosphere pervaded all sections of the London Stock Exchange today, the coming break for Whitsun coupled with the fact that the present trading period is nearing a close making for restriction of business, says Reuter financial correspondent. Transactions were mainly for
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      Rubber prices
      118 8 A SPECIAL Market i__l firm the prices of robber _J 11 am today as follows Bayers. SeflersCta. CU per Mb. per lb No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose 414* 43K No. 1 R.S.S. rot m hates -one 4is» II No. 2 R.S.S. rob m balm June.. 42»* No. S
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      ELECTRICITY RATIONFROM TOMORROW
      310 8 ELECTRICITY RATIONFROM TOMORROW THE rationing of electricity vfH m Singapore from tomorrow, an of draft regulations released yester clauses states: "At any time ai authorities may fix the maximum am.j_: tricity which a person shall be perm An official statement stated the refusal of the people of Ettnga] Toluntarily m
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      16 DEAD IN FIVE AIR CRASHES
      27 8 16 DEAD IN FIVE AIR CRASHES CLXTLhN report <_ part, i through the li' crash Mr Job crn r Prim D flames at N o_. I er of
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