The Singapore Free Press, 3 June 1948

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LABGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA i SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1948 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    Malays plan protest march
    384 1 Malays plan protest march Mission going to K.L. first Free Press Staff Reporter rOURTEEN Malay deportees from Australia will be among the unofficial reception committee to greet the Australian Goodwill Mission when it arrives m Singapore on Saturday. If police permission can be secured, the 14 men will march through
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    BOY SHOT DEAD BY UNCLE'S PISTOL
    15 1 BOY SHOT DEAD BY UNCLE'S PISTOL rter I I I 5 m f i I
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    'STARCH' ON RICE RATION
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    3,169 IN PROTEST
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    MALAY FORCES IN RIOT
    63 1 two Malays of the R.N Police were alleged to have been beaten up. During the fightint? that ensued, a crowd en- tered three shops nearby and did serious damage. At the same time some of the crowd robbed the inmates of one shop of $1,000 m
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    33 CERMANS KILLED
    17 1 c were killed and 150 injured m a petrol works n at Zeitz. Germany.
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    Fading hopes in Holy Land
    152 1 CAIRO, Wednesday. i S the Arabs continued attacks m Palestine today, hopes of a cease fire faded rapidly, with each side accusing the other of violating the agreement announced yesterday. At Lake Success, the Security Council agreed tonight to let the U.N. mediator m Palestine,
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    Bombed sub was American
    78 1 REPRESENTATIVE Hugh D. Scott, Jr., Pennsylvania Republican, told the U.S. House of Representatives that an American Air Force plane recently depth-bombed the American submarine Carp. Fifty sailors were admitted to hospital. "That was one of the incidents of the so-called Russian submarine scare two months ago,"
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    18 WOMEN SMUGGLE GOLD
    41 1 EIGHTEEN Chinese women who smuggled 119 gold bars valued at $195,000 from Macao by concealing them ir.side their bodies were held m Queen Mary hospital at Hong Kong yesterday. Medical assistance was necessary to remove the gold.
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    GUNMEN'S $6,000 FACTORY HAUL
    111 1 Free Press Staff Reporter HHHREE Chinese gunmen yesterday seized the $6,000 payroll of the Paya Lebar Road rubber factory of Hooglandt Co., m a daring daylight raid. The Chinese appeared as the storekeeper of the factory who had just received the money, had begun to pay
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    SAMOA'S OWN FLAG
    45 1 WESTERN Samoa raised its flag at Apia yesterday alongside that of New Zealand and Samoan leaders hailed the event as a step towards self-government. "We feel born again as a nation," j said Tamasese. one of West- crn Samoa's two senior chiefs.
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    175 VICTIMS IN RAIL SMASH
    59 1 DEAD and missing m last Friday's train accident numbered 175, says a Central News Agency dispatch from Taipei, Formosa. The cause of the accident is still a mystery. Passengers heard a deafening explosion. Gasoline, camphor oil, and motion picture film, allegedly caused the fire, but
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    Sacked workers to meet
    65 1 Free Press Staff Reporter EIGHTY Chinese labourers, under notice to quit the Chua Guan Hong rubber factory m Jurong Road will meet today to decide what to do. They have asked 'or three months' wages, three months food money and permission to stay another three months
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    40 1 A house m Ewe Boon Ro ad, Singapore after a tree had crashed on it yesterday. Half the roof was damaged but no one was injured. The tree's fall is believed to have been due to the recent heavy rain.
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    'Get together' traders urged
    208 1 McKERRON ON PRICES Free Press Staff Reporter rTHE Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, said yesterday that if traders made an effort to cut down prices and content themselves with reasonable profits, figures on his graph showing current prices for foodstuffs would be much lower.
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    UNION OF EMPLOYERS FOR STORE
    122 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Federation of Industrialists and Traders m Singapore has now applied food registration as a Trade Union. Its chief objects are: to secure the organisation m Singapore of as many employ trs as possible, and to co-ordinate the attitude of employers
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    UK MAY CUT IMPORTS MORE
    98 1 LONDON, Wednesday. FE Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps, said the British Government might have to cut further its imports of food and raw materials. He frankly conceded that the Government underestimated its trade deilcit for the first six months of 1948 £73 million
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    FLOOD HAS ITS FUN
    32 1 The Portland (U.S.) flood disaster had its lighter side. Army engineers display a photograph as proof that a large salmon was speared with a crowbar between railway tracks.
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    ESTATE MURDER: NINE IN COURT
    104 1 Free Press Staff Reporter MALACCA, Thursday. NINE Chinese arrested yesterday will appear m court today m connection with alleged murder and assault on the Ong Hin Tiang Estate, 30 miles from Malacca, a fortnight ago. The men were arrested after a nve-hour raid by police
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    TWO DIE IN ROAD SMASH
    62 1 Fre« Press Staff Reporter A 28-year-old Malay motor cyclist, Aliman bin Rahimin, and his pillion passenger, Omar bin All, died a few minutes after a collision with a taxi at 73/ i mile, Bukit Tlmah Road at 10.30 last night. The motor cycle was overtaking
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    'DRESS SHIPS' FOR KING'S BIRTHDAY
    58 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Acting Singapore Master Attendant, Cdr. L. P. Lane, has requested the masters of vessels m the harbour to "dress ship" on the King's Birthday, June 10. The Shipping and Port Clearance Office and the Office of the Registrar of Imports
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    DUTCH HAND 'ULTIMATUM' TO JOGJA
    265 1 DUTCH HAND 'ULTIMATUM' TO JOGJA THE HAGUE, Wednesday. NEGOTIATIONS for a political agreement m 1^ Indonesia are threatened with a breakdown if the Republicans do not give an early and satisfactory reply to two clearcut questions now being asked by the Dutch Government. Further heightening the growing DutchIndonesian tension is
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    U.N. AND KASHMIR
    29 1 The United Nations Security Council will meet today ro put the finishing touches to the Kashmir Commission before its first meeting m Geneva on June 15.
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    'Big Sword' men get year in jail
    125 1 'Big Sword' men get year in jail Free Press Staff Reporter ALOR STAR. Wed. APADI-DEALER. Sf-e Thean Soo, told the District Court yesterday that two men offered him a yellow talisman m April and told him that if he pasted it on his door his life would be spared. They
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    1,400 awaiting repatriation
    75 1 Free Press Staff Reporter ONLY 1,400 displaced Chinese remained to be repatriated from China to Malaya, a representative of the Far East Office of the International Refugee Organisation (Mr. John Fitz Randolph) told the Singapore Rotary Club yesterday. Since 1946 over 14.000 displaced Chinese had been repatriated
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    11 MINERS KILLED
    23 1 Eleven German miners were killed when water suddenly flooded a section of a coal mine at Bochum in the Ruhr.
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  • FEATURES...
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      Huntin', shootin' and fishin'
      686 2 Huntin', shootin' and fishin' A MALAYAN BOOKSHELF by A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Ul/NTIXG, trapping "or tLshing are not to be lightly embarked upon m Malaya. Tn the forests there are spirits th*»t is not wise "to anger,. The Jinggi, for example, can make a hunter look jjuts t like his prey,
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      LAYING DOWN THE LAW
      103 2 THE man with to-day's biggest headache and some A.C.2s may feel that he deserves it— is Mr. E. H. Hooper. C.8.E.. author of the R.A.F. King's Regulations. His is now on the unevi- j able job of re-writing this vast vade mecum, which lays down the
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      Bridge Problem
      201 2 COUTH" S five Heart bid was good. It didn't carry the bidding any higher than five spades would have done and although South himself had a minimum, he realized that two aces were probably all North need m view of his cue bid at the fivelevel. West opened
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      'Breened' films
      486 2  -  CECIL WILSON By ORITISH films are going through a new ordeal. Not only are British censors, watch committee, and chief constables growing tougher, but the American scissors are being more briskly applied than ever. Joseph Breens departr merit m America (still talked of as the Hays Office) is
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      65 2 When she started as the only-girl m Manchester's Boys' Band, Betty Ltngard, 15, was content to play a small instrument like the cornet. But ambition led her to eye the "band's" largest instrument a double bass and now, sitting alongside Charlie Muller, 8, who keeps going manfully on his cornet,
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      20 2 This girl wants to be a mannequin, so she's teaching herself to walk gracefully by balancing books on her head.
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      Blue Print for Black Country
      318 2 ONE day an aesthetic code will banish from •the face of Britain everything that is ugly and offensive to the eye and make thds a land of natural beauty, better heaKh, and more pleasant living. Town and country planning on a national scale for open
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      HONEY CUBE FOR STOMACH ULCER
      67 2 HONEY CUBE FOR STOMACH ULCER UONEY is being used success--11 fully m the Soviet Union m the treatment of stomach ulcers. The newspaper Evening Moscow said about 250 patients have been treated About 250 grammes of honey were given for periods of I*4 to 18 days. In many pains disappeared
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      Rabble-raiser's life and death
      96 2 PETE* Q'JEk book Ili THE finest historian of modern A rica is that remarkbly prolific and energetic phenomenon the modern Amer novelist. Every year Home I and often ex'.romely mid, chapters are added j o record. We read of the racial oroblems of the Deep South;
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      229 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DORN today, you have v an independent minu and a strong will. You are one to see things from your point of view, aiid your sense of justice is a little inclined to stay on jour side of the fence. You and your fiiends —can do no
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      631 2 9IMHAPOPP THIRSDAY A Song tc Renumber: 10.30 nxnunrv/AL 4 Dinner Muse with Andr* New 8 and Items from Thursday From 12,0t noon to 2. 0f p.m. Kostelanu his orchestra: Papers; 10 45 Let's Gc a'Ruam--526 nefrei In the me* lam war* 4 M Australian News; 440 ing; 11 Band of
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      UNSOLVED DEATH OF YOUNG SIAM KING
      469 3 UNSOLVED DEATH OF YOUNG SIAM KING \\[urder trial probes palace intrigue THE mystery of the murder of Siam's young king, Ananda Mah idol, will be unravelled shortly at the court sequel to the tragedy which shocked Siam and tIK world two years ago. Number one accused m the Royal assassination
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      12 3 picture, La'i-ier, Michael Kirbv. m the „ro." They are seen rthears- A.P.
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      Armed guard at first Assembly
      73 3 loreas hew government B|\DKH>- nu d police on Monday were on I i Korea's new Assembly met for I j. it> leader urge quick action U» f olice arrested 21 persons I 1 or carrying banners mbly. Hundreds of blackt d with American carbines I
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      MISSION WAGE CRITICISED AS SUB-CHRISTIAN
      85 3 THE salaries paid to your workers are sub-Christ-ian, the Dean of Norwich told the audience at the annual meeting of Norwich City on. The Dean (the Right Rev. Herbert St. Barbe Holland) who is the mission's new president added It is not worthy of any
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      School holidays may be oftener, shorter
      197 3 School holidays may be often er, shorter ENGLISH school-children, especially those under 1 1 may soon have shorter holidays— but more of them A redistribution of their holidays is expected as a result of a 12-month scientiiic investigation. The investigation was carried out by a committee of education officers and
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      A handful
      80 3 AN artificial haJid which, it is said, astonished members of Royal College of Surgeons is being tested by the Ministry of Pensions. One of claims made for it is that its use brings about "mental rehabilitation by helping people forget that they have artificial limb. With it a
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      DYNASTY FATED
      104 3 The trasie death of Kiaff An and a m Jane 1946 was the latest m a quarter century of misfortunes for the rulers of Slam's royal bouse of Chakri. K|n* Vmjsravudh (B*ma VI) poet, scholar and philosopher, died JOWIf reportedly doe to faoai* failure. Suicide «m widely nusjowed,
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      23 3 picture. Nai Pridi Panomyung, former Siamese Prime Minister now m Singapore, who is expected to be cited m the assassination trial. Free Press
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      British Warship sales queried
      109 3 SALE cf British warships should be restricted to members of the Commonwealth, it was suggested m the House of Lords. Lord Teynham said: "It might be politics to restrict the sale of cruisers to Commonwealth countries rather than dispose of them to countries which had done
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      HK DOLLAR LEAK
      52 3 HK DOLLAR LEA K Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said this week that Hong Kong was excluded from the agreement by which trade between Britain and the British colonies and Japan is to be conducted m sterling because of "leakages of sterling which are taking place from Hong
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      Luxury hotel for diplomats
      310 3 AT No. 2, Park-Street, m London's Mayfair. one of the world's most luxurious hotels is being secretly fitted out m 20 days. Sir Stafford Cripps has ordered The reason behind this modern miracle it would have taken any ordinary concern six months under the most favourable
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      22 U.S. NAVAL VIEN DROWNED
      43 3 TWENTY -TWO U.S. navy men perished m Hampton Road, Virginia, on Monday night when a launch was swamped. The open launch was swamped m a wind and rain storm when only 200 yards from an aircraft carrier. A.P.
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      RUSSIA MOVES EAST
      74 3 THE Russian Government newspaper Izvestia reports that entire collective iarms are being moved from centrol districts m European Russia to Southern Sakhalin and the Kuril* Islands. A dispatch from Southern Sakhalin said, the population there and In the Kurile Islands was increasing daily with the arrivals including
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      OIL REFINERIES IN GERMANY
      28 3 TWO German hydrogenetic refineries m the British aone, kept idle under the i Potsdam agreement, will be I reopened to save dollar cxi penditure.
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      SCHLMAN WINS
      31 3 The French National Assembly on Tuesday night gave M. Robert Schuman's Government a vote of confidence by 402 votes to 183 the seventh such vote m six months. picture.
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      45 3 The Rev. Richard Camenisch, assistant priest at Stavely, Derbyshire, works on a foundry night shift "to bridge the gap between priest ami people. The Church is out of touch with the ordinary man,' he explained. "I roant to get to know the people better." Mirror
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      Irregu larities in English police being investigated
      172 3 Irregu larities in English police being in vestiga ted CUPERINTENDENT Harold Hawkyard, one of Scot»3 land Yard's Big Five, has set up his headquarters m a hotel at New cast leon-Tyne, where he hopes to end his investigations into alleged irregularities m police forces m several parts of the country.
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      TOLD HIMMLER: 'DEPOSE DUCE'
      106 3 A FORMER German officer who helped to free Mussolini from his Italian jailors after the Duce's overthrow In 1943. said at his war crimes trial In Rome yesterday that he did his best to keep his Nazi masters from giving the Duce new power. Lieut. -Colonel
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      31 3 The British Amba^ador. Sir Ralph Stevenson, had made another appeal to the Chinese Government to open the Yangtse River to foreign shipping as the best step of promoting China's external trade.
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      Politics split Chinese students
      136 3 THINESE university students are working hard on a course not listed m the curriculum*—practical politics. It all began m the day when China was struggling to create a Republic from the ashes of Its toppled monarchy Students at that time and since hare played important parts
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      N.E.I. improves civil service
      96 3 PROVISIONS to improve the workig conditions ol NEI civil servants havv announced by the Social Affairs Department oi far Federal Government at Buuvia. A personnel council woilg. De formed lor prelimmarv treatment of important .iueslions. It would be n:ade u c for temporary personnel c enter
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      SOPHIE TUCKER IN LONDON
      53 3 COPHIE Tucker kept I sentiu mental date with her British public and her reward was one of the most smashing personal triumph.s known to the theatre's oid timers m London. Two jammed houses at the London Casino welcomed the 64-year-old trouper Dack to after a 12
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. June 3, 1948. Ecafe meets at Ootacamund
      466 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. June 3, 1948. Ecafe meets at Ootacamund AT Ootacamund the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East is holding its third conference. The first was at Shanghai and the second at Baguio, and at neither conference did the delegates Ret down to a practical
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      Australian Mission
      257 4 IF the creation of goodwill is the mission of a goodwill mission, Mr. Macmahon Ball and his fellow travellers ought to lose no time getting here. A job awaits them. It may have been tactless of the Australian Department of External Affairs to have sponsored this mission quite
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      Labour's plans for better days
      1362 4  -  EMMANUEL SHINWELL I By m his opening speech at the Labour Party's Scarborough Conference. IN the period since our last annual conference the strength of the Labour Government has remained unimpaired. No party is better served by its supporters than the Labour Party. The persistent
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      Canada's 'King' Retiring
      464 4  - Canada' s 'King Retiring CHARLES LYNCH By Reuters' Correspondent MR. William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada for nearly 21 years, not including a short period out of office m the thirties, will resign from the post this year, but it is believed unlikely that his successor will call
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      EAST COAST TRAVELS
      29 4 One 0/ the enumerable fishing villages that are to be seen along the e« t coast ol Malaya. This one is part of Kuala Trengganu itself,
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      It seems to me...
      829 4  -  POLITICO by DEPEND upon it, sir, said I>r. Johnson, when a man knows he is to be hanged m a fortnight's time, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. That, however, doesn't make the dearth penalty necessarily a deterrent, for the wonderful concentration of mind comes only after
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      FAITH
      10 4 He giveth power to thr faint. LsalaH 40. 29.
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      Gen. L is not afraid
      10 4  - Gen. L is not afraid JOHN RODERICK Jiy \.l ORLV
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
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      Sex ratio is nearly equal in Singapore
      112 5 Sex ratio is nearly equal in Singapore ic Press Staff Reporter nearly as many females as males »re last year, the ratio being 876 males. Ed alteration m the ratio between males -ccurring among the Chinese, who >*ent. of the population, says Dr. al Health Officer, m his annual L
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      INDIAN ACQUITTED
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      98 5 Last Saturday, Mr. C. C. Tan, a member of the Leywlative Council, formally declared open the new boys' club m Prince Edward Road. Upper picture shows Mr. Tan extreme left) talking to Lady Gimson, and Mr. T. Eames Hughes, deputy Secretary for Social Welfare. In the background of picture is
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      MAHA HOLDING EXHIBITION
      32 5 T*HE Malayan Agri-Horticul-X tural Association Is holdißf tta 1948 exhibition from July 31 to August 2. The exhibition will again be held at the Coronation Park m Kuala Lumpur.
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      Councillor wants houses in suburbs
      302 5 TIjR. Tan Chin Tuan, a representative of the LTI Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce m the Legislative Council, will ask the Council to adopt a policy of decentralised housing by building houses for the public m the suburbs. His proposals for spreading out future housing
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      Shipowner to pay $2,100
      109 5 A collision m the Straits of Malacca between a Straits Steamship Company's ship and a former Japanese vessel led to an action m the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday. The Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Murray Aynsley, entered judgment for the Straits Steamship Company for $2,123 and costs
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      R.A.F. QUITS PAYA LEBAR
      128 5 THE No. 2 RAF Base Repair Radio Depot m Paya Lebar, has now moved to RAF Base, Seletar, and the whole of the Paya Lebar site, including 60 dwelling houses and the Paya Lebar airstrip, has been derequisitioned and handed back to the owners. Apart from
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      CANE GROWERS
      51 5 MORE than 400 Indian sujjar cane plantation labourers from Fiji were on board the 8.1. ship Talma which arrived In Singapore from Australian ports yesterday. The Indians, a number of whom are accompanied by their families, are going to India on holiday. The Talma sails for Calcutta this
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      LINCOLNS RETURN TOUKTOMORROW
      228 5 THE six Lincoln bombers of No. 97 Straits Settlements Squadron, which have been m Singapore m the course of 'Operation Red Lion' designed to test the feasibility of reinforcing one part of the Empire with heavy bombers from another, will start their five-day 7,300-mile return flight to
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      SECOND HIGHEST IN WORLD
      558 5 1947 TB death rate m Colony Free Press Staff Reporter CINGAPORE had the highest tuberculosis death rate— 235 last year compared with most European and American cities of about the same size. It was second only to Lisbon which had a death rate of 367 m
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      71 DEATHS
      41 5 AMONG the 71 deaths reported to the Coroner m Singapore m May, 11 were from the Mental Hospital and two from the leper settlement. The others included two judicial hangings, one snakebite, one aircraft accident and 21 natural deaths.
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      PINE PACKING MEN DEMAND DISMISSAL PAY
      158 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent MALAYAN pineapple packing workers, who have been thrown out of job by the Introduction of mechanical packing recently, have demanded from their employers disbandment allowances equivalent to three months' pay at the rate of $5 a day. Mr. Yap Pheng
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      Equality For All, Says Chinese Consul
      149 5 Equality For All, Says Chinese Consul Free Press Chinese Correspondent THE Chinese Consul-General m Singapore, Dr. Wu Paak-shing. m a formal reply to the Chinese Journalists' Association, assures Chinese newspapermen that no discrimination will be made against reporters gathering news from the Chinese Coni sulate-General. He "deeply regrets" the incident
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      $BO FOR WIFE BEATING
      84 5 Free Press Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. MR. Justice Laville yesterday dismissed the appeal of Phee Thaim Hock, who was fined $30 and ordered to pay $50 compensation at Scgamat for assaulting a woman. Phee Thaim Hock told Mr. Justice Laville that it was his wife whom
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      MALACCA ART DISPLAY
      64 5 A PUBLIC exhibition of 70 paintings by Van Kee Leong, well-known Malayan artist, will be held m Malacca for three days from Saturday. Mr. Leong's works include an interpretation of historical events m Malaya, and Chinese style paintings m colour and m black and white. The paintings
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      27 5 picture. Pictured shaking hands with the band leader of the Prince's Tibor Kunstler is the famed British soprano. Miss Isobel Baillie. She left for London yesterday. Orient
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      State lotteries 'wrong, unwise'
      435 5 State lotteries 'wrong, unwise' ONE of the greatest arguments against State lotteries, is that such a method of raising public revenue clearly violates the principle of the strong helping the weak and the rich helping the poor, says a statement issued by the Malayan Christian Council. At a meeting last
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      KOREAN CIVIL WAR FEAR INCREASES
      491 6 KOREAN CIVIL WAR FEAR INCREASES 'Peoples army 9 ready to attack CIVIL war m Korea is considered almost inevitable by both American and Koreans. The question is not whether, but wben, k will come. North of the 38th parallel, the street© of every town carry posters with life size portraits
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      66 6 Wembley Stadium, famous sporting centre of the British Empire, will be the scene of the 1948 Olympiad. A new road (above), probably to be known as the •Olympic Way," has been built leading to the Stadium. The Olympic flame, which, will burn night and day during the Olympic Games, will
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      Russia asked about Trieste
      86 6 PE United States, British, and French GJoyemmenta are asking Russia again for a reply on their proposal to return the free territory of Trieste to Italy It was stated that the problem requires "very earW resolution. Czechoslovakia has called for a short term United Nations trusteeship.
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      Village "plagued" by whispers
      212 6 l OOISON pen letters have stopped but now there is I* "Ji whispering campaign" m the Yorkshire village of Hood's Bay. Record**** to the vicar, the Rev. A***un Patrick, and the villagers, plagued for two 1 years by a flood of scandal notes, are asking why
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      SIAM CUTS LIVING COSTS
      82 6 THE Siamese State Railways have enforced a 10 per 'cent all-round reduction In j passenger lares. Freight rates have also been reduced between 10 and 25 percent. The Siamese Government has also ordered all -round reductions m water and power rates m Bangkok and other centres,
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      ENGLAND WAS 'TOO WARM'
      71 6 i England was too warm for Rebecca, 15-year-old Eskimo from Baffin Land, who has b en living at Pellzstowe, Suffolk since December. Because she finds English weather "stifling" Rebecca Is sailing for Canada with English missionaries on June 18. Rebecca was the adopted daughter of Canon
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      Plain living, high thinking
      46 6 NAWAZ BAda Saeedullah. Khan, Commissioner of Rawalpindi, has decided to cut his salary by two-thirds because be "deeply touched by the financial difficulties fednt Pakistan Te balance his budget he will "take only a outcome meal for the next Reuter three yem."-
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      48 6 A STEEFLEJILL:—Mrs. GiseeUe Leopold. 30. of Henley-on-Thames. is becoming a Steeple jUI" to pap for the education of her eight -year -old son. She U a native of Poland and during the war was m a Polish gliding squadron and explains. "So I am not afraid of heights."
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      Old masters are cracking
      366 6 Paintings m 'hospital' /\NE of the world's greatest paintings, "The Nativity" by Piero della Prancesca, valued at £250,000, has been transferred to the National Gallery "hospital"— three rooms m the main building—suffering a series of vertical cracks caused last winter by the absence of airconditionlng. Also
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      Airman on run may shoot
      66 6 Warning to look out for a Flying Officer aged 23 who ha« threatened to "shoot it out" if cornered, has been sent to police throughout Southern England. Tfoe man. who has a alight limp, escaped from close arrest at an RAF station at Mount Batten.,
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      ACCORD OVER RUHR
      35 6 The Six-Power conference on Germany which has ended m London has agreed on recommendations for an international Ruhr authority and on steps toward forming a Western German Government, probably early next year.
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      MADE IN GERMANY
      50 6 One of the many interesting exhibits at Germany's Hanover Fair i?a* this mid— act all mains radio. That it really is "midget" can be seen by comparing it with the sice of the girl's hand. The designer estimates that 50,000 sveh sets icill be produced next year
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      'Troops stole my gems' —duchess
      199 6 'Troops stole my gems' —duchess 'J'HE British are to reopen Duchess of Mecklenburg troops robbed her of gems wort last month of the war. The Grand Duchess Im sought the aid of Queen Mar 5? v Mother or Denmark, and of the She alkces that In May r--1945, a British
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      BRITISH MIGRANTS
      33 6 More than 4,800 people will leave Britain In June and July to migrate to Australia. Three chartered ships will 1 take 3350 and another 1.460 will sail m seven other ships
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      U.K. 'No to loans for food
      54 6 U.K. 'No to loans for food B A f Oll he («3 pet; a quar> i rnaj rernaaSl! ■BRti work out i T **Vr- to bott 2 •rttlrt ofllcuig hT 2*5 ttoa joc,o«, cent was speciftctLtl ■SJ; Thes* .mm it m k stood i b«f 'tCIT.v postwar A cent to
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      VALBERG FOR BRITISH AAA MEETING
      340 7  - VALBERG FOR BRITISH AAA MEETING KEN JALLEH To leave by air on June 24 By yi RASIAN high-jumper Lloyd Valberg, Singapore's only representative to the World Olympics m London next month, has received the biggest break of his career he will fly to London on June 24 m order to
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      Probable Oaks field today
      17 7 Probable Oaks field today I a run\irr; jaoo; Ring a i I J. j X D. L.
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      AUSTRALIANS LOSE 2 WICKETS FOR 54
      345 7 IJAMPSHIRE were all out for 195 runs against the Australians at Southampton yesterday, the opening day of the game, and at close the tourists had lost Bro Wn and Barnes with 54 runs on the board. All the Australians wore sweaters m chilly conditions.
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      Scoreboard
      158 7 HAMPSHIRE— Ist INNS. Arnold b Loxton 4g Rogers c Barnes b BiU Johnston 19 Dawscu c Barnes b I. Johnson 11 Paris c I. Johnson bB. Johnston I Baik-y lbw B. Johnston 25 Ea^ar lbw I. Johnson 15 Hill c Miller b B. Johnstc»i 33 Andrews b B. Johnston
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      Hamid's goals gave Pulau Bukom victory
      222 7 Hamid's goals gave Pulau Bukom victory J^ FAST and thrilling game of socct r was sevn yesterday at the Geylang S'.adium when the Pulau Bukom S C. beat the Katong Euras ans by two goals to one m a second division SAFA league fixture Bukom fielded a superior attack and
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      Deciding goal disallowed
      356 7 R.A.F. (S) 1 I.A 1 SELETAR Airmen had the ball m the net a minute before the end for what would have been their winning goal against the Indians m a first division soccer match at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday, but the referee disallowed a score following
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      COLONIALS' TEAMS
      106 7 T«HE foliowmg will represent the Colonials C.C. against the Singapore Cricket Club on the Padang on Saturday at 2 p.m.: E. J. de Kretser (Capt.), T. A. Dole. A. Perera, P. de Kretser. W. Ratnayake, L. O. Ebert, B. Dias D. Miller. A. Fernando, E. Wolfle, V. Brohier.
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      GAME POSTPONED
      31 7 rS second division S.A.F.A. league game between Base Group, R.E., and 223 8.0.D.. which was to have been played at Alexandra yesterday, has been postponed to a later date.
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      ATTLEE TO SEE DERBY
      248 7 THE Prime Minister, Mr. Clement AttJee. who has never previously attended a race meeting or backed a horse, will watch this yours EXrby on Saturday but will not bet. The last Prime Minister to visit Epsom when m office was Lord Rosebcry m 1894. who had
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      C.S.C. CRICKET TEAMS FOR WEEKEND
      117 7 (JEYLON Sports Club cricket teams for the week-end are: Against the V.M.C.A. on the CSC ground at 2 p.m. on Saturday: E. Doraisamy (Capt.), T.E K. Retnam. N. Balasingham. Mayo Perera, L.P.S. Rajasooria, V. Ramalingam. G. Krishnan. V.R. Fernando T. E. N. Rassip, A.C. Shegaran.
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      VIC PATRICK WINS ON POINTS
      31 7 AUSTRALIAN lightweight champion Vie Patrick (133 lb.) outpointed the coloured American, Tommy Stenhouse (134 lb.) In a 12-round contest at the Sydney stadium yesterday.— A. P.
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      'Well bowled' said Don
      63 7 "Well bowled," said Don Bradman, immediately after 19-year-old Malcolm Hilton had shattered the great Don's stumps in the Australian first innings against Lancashire at Old Trafford last week. Hilton, who also claimed Bradman's wicket in the second inni?igs, said: "When Bradman's stumps rattled it was the
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      NO REGRETS BEST EVER THREE-Y-0
      673 7 Free Press Racing Reporter IJAPPIEST man on the Ipoh race course 11 yesterday, second day of the Perak Turf Ciub meeting, was Lt.-Col. R. F. H. Drake Brockman, who received a pleasant present on the eve of Home leave, when his brilliant three-year-old No Regrets
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      Morro fights Bhu Pinder On Saturday
      148 7 THE Australian wrestler, Jon j Morro, has a tough job on his hands at this Saturday's wrestling at the Great World when he faces up to Bhu Pinder, of India. Morro has so far dealt decisively with the opposition that has been put up
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      No team tops 200 runs
      281 7 COUNTY CRICKET TJARELY does a day's County cricket go by without at least one side reaching 200, but it occun 'd yesterday and while rain, which prevented nlay i»i two games and restricted it m others was ian, responsible, there were other cases where it
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      Rest 36 for 2
      32 7 THE Test cricket trial between England and The Rest at Edffbaston yesterday was restricted to a brief period before lunch when the Rest scored 36 for two. Reuter.
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      PENALTY SAVED ATHLETIC PARTY
      123 7 T/HE Social A.j the R. A.S.C. TraiMit.to a two-all draw m the third diviion S.A.F.A. match piu\ed at the St George's Road urouvid j terdav The R. A.S.C. were the teams. They scored thrvu.li Marks, the centre-forward. who netted on both ocru.sioni 'torn point -blank range
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      A.C.S.U. TABLE TENNIS
      85 7 A.C.S. U. TABLE TENNIS yilE Tiong Bahru Blanch t€ the Army Civil S will be repress iiU-d by the iellewing m a friendly game of ti tenn;s apainst the Foochc* thodist Youth Fellowship at ;ne lattt-r's prtm sos at 4 p.m tomorrow Lim Ping Qiu-t <Captain>. Koh Peng Hen?. Goh
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      246 7 F.P. Crossword No. 401 i I 12 j |T~] R~[ ITT IT"] ZiHE l 4 H l5 ZiiZLZILZ?"" Z 1 111. 25 26 27 j§2B 29 j| 3o 3i ps M J3 M —m CLLLS ACROSS 1, Cheek (12). 7. Soundness of judgment (5). 9 Remained undecided (6). 13. Fluids
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    C'WEALTH TALKS NOW FOR IN JULY
    496 8 C'WEALTH TALKS NOW FOR IN JULY Nehru to be at parley LONDON, Wednesday. A COMMONWEALTH conference to discuss diplomatic relations, security, defence and economic ties will be convened m London next month, it was learned today. A tentative date has been set for July 8. The Prime Minister of India,
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    U.K. SELLS WARSHIPS TO CHINA
    137 8 U.K. SELLS WARSHIPS TO CHINA LONDON. Wednesday. 11/ HEN the Financial Secreff tary to the British Adm.ralty. Mr. John Dugdale, r^p irced today m the House of Commons that China had bought a cruiser and eight launches from Britain, a member ask^d if cash had I paid, 'm view of
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    13 8 The Yugoslav Government has recalled its ambassadors from I ondon and Ankara (Turkey).
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    Peers reject hanging ban
    290 8 LONDON, Wednesday. T»HE House of Lords tonight by a vote of 181 to 28 threw out from the Criminal Justice Bill the clause suspending the death penalty for a trial period of five years, and sent the Bill back to the House of Commons. The Bill,
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    CHINA DENIES MONEY REFORM
    53 8 THE Chu.tse Government Information spokesman. Dr. Hollingtou Tong. yesterday dismissed as "prema- ture" reports of an imminent > currency reform m China. 1 declaring that apart from the Ch: a aid programme, the' Chins se Government bus made no further request for United States assistance to'
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    CHINESE TO AID ARABS
    80 8 PEIPING, Wednesday. /CHINESE Muslims here V announced today that they will send volunteers to Palestine to fight m the Holy War. The Chinese Muslim League for assisting the Holy War m Palestine has railed for nationwide reenrtment of Muslim troops for a unit to fight the
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    Honduras will stay British
    63 8 THE Foreign Secretary. Mr. Ernest Bevin. told Parliament yesterday that as British Honduras was British territory inhabited by British subje«ts. the Government could not consider its surrender on any other basis than that they had no legal right to it. The elected representatives and public meetings
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    NEW RED GAINS IN SHANTUNG
    189 8 NANKING, Wednesday. THE Communist offensive along the southern part of the Tientsin-Pukow railway spread today to the outskirts of Hsuchowfu, strategic Government base m North Kiangsu at the junction of the Lunghai and Tientsin-Pukow lines and 150 miles North of Nanking. Curfew has been clamped
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    Tsar's sister an emigrant
    108 8 LIVERPOOL, Wednesday. THE Grand-Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, last surviving member of the Russian Royal family and younger sister of Tsar Nicholas 11, sailed tonight as an ordinary emigrant to Canada. Described on the passenger list as a "housewife and an artist," she is going to look for
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    U.S. FLOOD WATERS ARE RECEDING
    174 8 U.S. FLOOD WATERS ARE RECEDING PORTLAND (Ore.) Wed THE upper reaches of the Columbia River began falling slowly today, and the flood crisis appeared to be waning after a fortnight of extensive devastation. Approximately 100.000 persons have been driven from their homes. Damage inflicted on crops, property and river-front industries
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    DOLLAR VOICE
    30 8 The National Broadcasting Company has offered to step out of the "Voice of America" programmes and lease its international radio station to the Government for $1 a year.
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    Record U.S. sum for armed forces
    344 8 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. A RECORD peacetime Army Air Force appropriation bill amounting to $10,196,672,250(U.5.) was recommended to Congress today by the Hous« of Representatives after General Omar Bradley. Army thief of Staff, had warned that Russian military strength was "an alarming menace" to the I
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    DIGGERS NOT IN JAP BLACK MARKET
    207 8 CANBERRA Wednesday 1 A report by Major-General n Charles Lloyd and Mr. Massey Stanley, a journalist, who, with two Chaplains i General investigated alle- gations of vice and black market deals among Austra- lian troops m Japan, absolved the troops of these operations J
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    Republican as next U.S. President
    179 8 Republican as next U.S. President WASHINGTON, Wed. THE magazine Newsweek today reported that the nations leading political writers unanimously predict the election of a Republican President m November, and the majority expect it will be Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Fifty top Washington political reporters agreed that the Republican victory will be
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    Vietnam threat to Gen. Xuan
    106 8 PARIS, Wednesday. THE Vietminh (Annamite nationalist) radio announces that the Nationalist Government will bring Gen. Nguyen Van Xuan. head of the provisional central Vietnam government m Indo-China, before a Vietminh court majtial on a charge of high treason. The Vietminh radio added: "The central government
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    GILT-EDGEDS IN DEMAND
    474 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Wednesday. VOLUNTARY dividend limitation is causing a flow of large sums into the reserves of many industrial companies and brokers on the London Stock Exchange believe that these reserves are being invested m Gilt-edged securities, says Reuters financial correspondent. Short-dated Gilt- edged stocks
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    Rubber prices
    180 8 A SPtCIAL Market conrespondtui five* the prtces «f rubber 11 a.m. today a* foflow* N. Y. stocks ON the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, oil stock* apa'.n uere a hea>T lave While most stocks plodded along a narrow price road, some oils reached new higlis for the with
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    PLAN TO KEE ARMY IN RUHR
    50 8 lon: WESTERN troops will si.. arsenal m two world wwu general occupation, to ens.;: and armament works will i peace of Europe, if recomi. conference on Germany are mad addh m consut-e: t ""LJM Unltrd f Belfturr. bourp an.- T w frjsrl nw mm
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    French face new crisis
    110 8 WITHIN 24 hours, oi r« ing a vote of confidence from the National Ass«>n the French Cabinet is fa a crisis over the dismissal t civil servants. The Assembly gave M. Schuman their support for the measure by 402 votes to 183 but the Assembly's Interior
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    Nanking may seiz holdings abroad
    8 8 Nanking may seiz holdings abroad t r Reuter
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    Allies fired own planes
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      18 8 STORE HIGH TIDES HIGH LOW Today 7.15 am.; 7.55 p m. Fridiv 8 21 am; 8.31 p m.
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      37 8 —WEATHER— Showers I WEATHER report for the next 24 hoars compiled by Ihe RAF: Scattered showers this afternoon. Fair tonight and tomorrow morning. Temperature: Max. 89.8 deg. mln. 76.6 deg. Wind: Southerly, 5. 1t knot*. Rainfall: Nil.
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