The Singapore Free Press, 4 June 1948

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFXERMOOH SALE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1948 PRICE 10 CKNIS
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    Gurkhas on patrol in Johore
    251 1 Gurkhas on patrol in Johore Police report 'all quiet 9 Free Press Staff Reporter PURKHA troops under British officers are now helping; the Johore police to keep order m the troubled rubber estate areas. This rooming all was quiet. The Gurkhas are patrolling the 1 main road from Johore Bahru
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    'Blue Lagoon boy's' bicycle is stolen
    95 1 'Blue Lagoon boy's' bicycle is stolen Free Press Staff Reporter The Kandang Kerbau police are looking for an Indian who stole a bicycle from Singapore's 'Blue Lagoon Boy.'i nine-year-old Alastair Ker- j Lindsay, m Caldecot Hill Estate on Wednesday morning. Alastair had dismounted from his bicycle when an Indian approached
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    800 DIE IN CHINA QUAKE
    42 1 800 DIE IN CHINA QUAKE a belated Nationalist govi\ eminent report from Chenistu says more than 800 people were killed m a severe earthquake on May 25 which virtually wiped out the town of Llhua m southern Slkong Province. West China U.P.
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    LALLANG FIRE AT AVER RAJA
    62 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE hillside at Ayer Raja, near R.E.M.E. workshops, was the scene of a big lallang fire about 7 p.m. yesterday. Two engines from the central fire station and one from the 91 Army Fire Service battled for more than an hour
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    NEWSPRINT PLEA
    16 1 Britain has asked that newsprint be included m the E.R.P. allowances for this year.
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    FILIPINO TYPHOON VICTIMS IN S'PORE
    40 1 FILIPINO TYPHOON VICTIMS IN S'PORE M, K. B :ved ■V: Doard C v aroken :p on I W^ xhich El F and ■■ihru X -Huat Daio Roland Br added, who icill preside at this evening's meeting of the Singapore Association.
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    Protection for crown land tenants
    9 1 IK porter a art*
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    JAPS ARE FOXED
    16 1 ml I the Hstnese b* ts. an survey ft n pei A .P.
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    DUTCH DENY BURNING SHIPS
    43 1 IK.- porter tl ned by ws* nesians. past Antara said the Dutch Navy had taken over the vessels; which plied between Kua la Indragiri (Sumatra and Sinwere burned on the island of Lans. m the Rhio archipelago, said Antara.
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    46 1 Raja Matahari," one of the six Lincoln bombers of No. 97 (Straits Settlements) Squadron as it left Tengah airfield with the others this morning on its way back to bast m England. The Squadron has spent a month m Malaya taking part m "Operation Red Lion."
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    PURGE IN U.K.
    31 1 Mr. E. J. Hicks, until last week president of the British Civil Service Association, has been suspended from the Air Ministry on charges that he is a Communist.
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    OVERTAKE ON RIGHT OR LEFT
    184 1 In one-way streets Free Press Staff Reporter MOTORISTS may overtake other vehicles either on the right or on the left when driving m one way streets, said Mr. C. J. R. Bembroke, chief of the Singapore Traffic Police, yesterday. Mr. Bembroke was commenting on the
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    .. and Jean's sarongs
    30 1 and Jean's sarongs SCOTLAND Yard is searching London for a stolen car containing original sketches and sarongs worn by Jean Simmons m her South Sea island film, "The Blue Lagoon.'
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    Two shot at rubber works
    183 1 Free Press Staff Reporter TWO men were seriously injured earlj this morning when shots were fired into a window of the Hokkien labour lines at the Aik Hoe rubber factory m Kirn Chuan Road. How Chin Whatt. 30-year-old mandore, was shot m the back and
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    FOOD CONTROL MAN'S APPEAL DISMISSED
    154 1 FOOD CONTROL MAN'S APPEAL DISMISSED Free Press Staff Reporter MALACCA, Friday. rE appeal of a former Food i Control Inspector, Wee I Swee Slang, who had been j convicted on two charges of j extortion was dismissed by j Mr. Justice G. Callow m the Supreme Court yesterday. Wee had
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    GOODWILL MISSION IN K.L. TODAY
    37 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Australian goodwill Mission, headed by Mr. W. Macmahon Ball. i$ due m Kuala Lumpur by air at noon today. The mission is expected m Singapore tomorrow morning.
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    Union leader arrested
    66 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE President of the Singapore Rubber Workers' Union. Mr Koh Swee Guan. was one of two Chinese arrested by the Singapore police yesterday on banishment warrants. (I.I) officials told reporters that th«*y could not furnish further details of the arrests. The Singapore Rubber
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    GURKHA HQ FOR KUALA LUMPUR
    168 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Friday. T*HE military garrison m the Federation is more or 1 less fixed now that the Gurkhas have arrived, declared the G.O.C. Malaya District, Maj.-Gen. D.A.L. Wade, at a conference m Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Gen. WAde is relinquishing his
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    Back the police, public told
    260 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A PUBLIC which through spinelessness allows A itself to be intimated is an unworthy one", says the Singapore Association, m its annual report to be presented to the Association's meeting tonight. Appealing for still more backing for the police, the Association
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    GANG SHOOT, ROB TOWKAY
    72 1 THE towkay of a shop, selling watches m North Bridge Road was shot at by a gang of armed robbers last night when he resisted an attempt to ransack his shop. The shot missed but the robbers took away 15 wrist watches valued at $450. They
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    Died to save jewellery
    88 1 Free Press Stall Rep<>rter ALOR STAR. Thursday. AFTER escaping from her blazing house, a Chinese woman ran back to save some jewellery but was trapped by the flames and burnt to death. The fire, which broke out m Alor Star town, destroyed two shophouThe woman was
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    CENTRALCHINA FATE AT STAKE
    80 1 NANKING, Thursday. CHINA'S new National Defence Minister Gen. Ho Ying Chin, assumed office today as large Government and Communist forces battled m the provinces of Honan and Shantung. In Honan fighting is raging m the Nanyang-Liuho ar-a. where an estimated 100,000 Communists are engaged. The outcome
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    BURMA BROKE BUT BRIGHT
    58 1 I A BURMESE diplomat, U Bahlwin, told delegates to the world assembly of the Moral Rearmament Movement at Los Angeles, U.S. i that "Burma since she gained nor independence has no food i problem, no housing shortage i and no clothing shortage. She is only bankrupt,
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    FIGHTING RAGES IN HOLY LAND
    192 1 FIGHTING RAGES IN HOLY LAND CAIRO, Thursday. FIGHTING raged throughout today on the approaches to Tel Aviv and m the central Palestine Arab "triangle" around Jenin and Nablus, after the Jews had revoked acceptance of the I.N. cease fire order. The Egyptians claimed that, after overcoming i Jewish resistance south
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    THIS HAPPY BREED....
    46 1 THIS HAPPY BREED A 78-YEAR-OLD Romeo stole into the Manila home of a UW-year-old widow, U upuii winning her love. She hit him on the head with a piece of wood, exclaiming: "There! You naughty boy!" He fled straight into the arms of a policeman, A.P.
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    WANTS JAPAN'S EMPEROR PURGED
    56 1 WANTS JAPAN'S EMPEROR PURGED An Osa&a newspap^i called for the p ir^ 1 public hie of Emperor Hiroln n as one of the "privileged cla.sthat cheait-d the peopie and brought the Pacific War The Alhed-sponsor^d Japan ese-op^rai t-d pnry«' projramnie has barred sonit- 200.iK,0 former government and civil leaders frt
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    WIFE SUED DOCTOR
    40 1 In Hem Y<-rk yesterday. Mr.-. Esther Berman sued a d for damage for performing an Ineffective opera: i or. on hehusband. She said tha: friends who knew about the operation m 'hat her n.'W baby was illegitima
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  • FOR WOMEN...
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      289 2  - JOYA BEGG THE success ol her Paris trousseau has delighted Princess Elizabeth who had confessed to her dressdesigner. Norman HartneU. seme nervousness about what to wear m the Uaa'i den of world fashion. She therefore took a keener interest than usual m the design ar.d planning of nc r outfits,
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      Beauty Secrets
      529 2 Lovely teen-aged movie star Elizabeth Taylor has only just reached the age when she can give advice to her peers she is 16. This article is devoted to advice for teen-agers. T WAS surprised that anyone would want an article by me on beauty hints, but I had
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      Karachi's new look
      161 2 THE "New Look' has lilt Karachi fashions or it maybe just a concession to comfort. Standard wear among the Moslem women there from head to foot is a dopatta, a kamis and a shalwar. The dopatta is a gauzy veil, usually white, draped over the head or
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      PUDDING & PIE
      405 2  - PUDDING PIE Joan Castle Cooking Column By THEY say that the temperature m Malaya never varies more than five degrees either side of the norm. I haven't got a thermometer so I can't aj£Tii e that, but I do know that Singapore feels much hotter at certain seasons than it
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      Bridge Problem
      170 2 Jed his slnajieum. nvt of bearta only, of course d* Iflnrer didn't know it ni lcton. And any rogptelOM he may have had on that scorp wencompletely lolled by En.":' play Instead of winning th* ul. v»ith the heart jack, hr twith the are. Naturally, he couli. count
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      CLEANING SUEDE
      298 2 4 CORRESPONA DENT asks how she can renovate an attractive suede hand bag which has become rather shiny with use. Like most of us she has become fond of this particular Iwndbag which she has been usintf for some time and doesn't wan* to have to p^rt w:'!iit.
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      Observant Children
      256 2  -  N. K. HALDAR By HNE thing that all children to be taught nowadays is the art of being observant. The ti of modern iile tv it essential that children should be ah-r\ quick-witted, an d sharp at Mrtici things. Many road accic happen because chi rush blindly mt
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      132 2 LUCKY STAR DOK.N today. you are v highly idealistic and too apt to be hurt if your pl~ns do not materialize instantly. You become discouraged and turn to something else. If that fails, you shoot ofT m still another direction This makes for coniusion of effort. Much better for you
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      516 2 1 RADIO LISTENING i——— i SINGAPORE From 1246 rood to 2H p.m. 526 metres m the medium wave band and 7.2t megacycles la the 41 metre band. From 6.M p.m. to 7.45 p.m.; from 9.30 p.m. to 11 M p.m.: 526 motres m the medium ware band, and 4.825 megacycles
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      280 2 tlon); 8 Talk— Ba^k^round to Australia; 8.15 Pianist— Vera I Bradford; 8.30 News; 8.40 Music j for Millions; 9 Talk— Economic Rview; 9.10 Famous Ollists--9.15 Hits from the Movi-s, 9.30 Romance m Music w»h Guy Lombardo and his orchestra, 9 45 Talk; 10 News; 10.10 Light' Piano; 10.15 Talk Econom
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  • NEWS...
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      Britain's 'black diamonds'
      34 3 Britain's 'black diamonds' ridra Dock, Cardiff a I it at Britain's ports. Regular Britain's contribution if plan as iccii as to the Argen- the world. Coal is once 'id an important I mic rt-corery.
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      HUNDRED IN SEARCH FOR URANIUM
      356 3 HUNDRED IN SEARCH FOR URANIUM Prospectors comb Canadian deposits HALF a century after the Yukon gold rush, hundreds of prospectors are combing Canada's soil for uranium and several private firms are nearing the production stage. The hunt for this major source of atomic energy gained momentum two months after the
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      29 3 An aerial view of a warship taken off the coast of Scotland during exercises by a Task Force m the North Sea the biggest Naiml exercise since the war.
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      Russia has 175 combat Divs.
      206 3 Russia has 175 combat Divs. What for?' US query H x my Mr. Kenneth C. Koyall H. rezas thai "Russia is spendas mui-h on her military tre." and asked "how can any- that KuN>ia has no aggressi\ v intentions?" In an int- n "I don't think we are mother Pearl
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      20 3 Ben Guriuti. Prime Minister of the new state of Israel signs *he declaration document during a ceremony at Tel Aviv.
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      "DONT BLAME AMERICANS"
      58 3 MR. Pan Kung Chan, chairman of Shanghai's elected City Council, has urg^d the Chinese to cease blaming the United States for China's troubles and asked the Chinese people to unite against Communists m order that the country, when peaceful and united, may take a rightful pace as
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      ATOM BOMB FEAR STAYS
      133 3 riVILIAN defence experts find m the latest sinking of a radio-active ship, a sobering hint of the probems an atomic war would bring. The cruiser Salt Lake City was sunk 22 months after it got its coating of radio-active spray from an atom bomb at Bikini,
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      Indian unions oust Reds
      75 3 THE United Provinces Government has decided to recognise the Congress-spon-sored Indian National Trade Union Congress as the representative labour organisation. It has a membership of 42,000 the largest m the province. The Communist-dominated All-India Trade Union Congress, which formerly held the field, is now losing ground
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      EDUCATION, OFFICER LEAVES SINGAPORE
      48 3 EDUCA TION, OF FICER LEAVES SINGAPORE Chief Education Officer for j Far East Land Forces, Colonol A. L. Cadd. has left by air to attend an annual conference at the War Office. London, at which all Command Education officers will attend to discuss future education m tho Army.
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      WEYGAND CLEARED
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      PIRATE JUNKS SUNK
      36 3 Two pirate junloi were sunk, and another was captured when Chinese naval craft on the West River intercepted five craft. The marauding junks attacked some towboats near Kongmoon wnen the anti-piracy patrols arrived.
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      MASEFIELD, 70
      27 3 Britain's Poet Laureate. John Masefield. now 70. ftnds life "very much like yesterday. There was no party, no cake, no verses to mark his birthday.
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      BEAUTY PARLOUR 'FOR HUSBANDS'
      116 3 MOST clients of the world's fir»t "confidential beauty parlour for men" are afraid they are losing their wives' admiration according to the woman owner Miss Nadine Henry. They call m to get theY looks renovated and brinback lost glamour. Th< park>ur. recently opened m Hollywood, is
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      18 3 ,OJ a market ana is noir perpetuated as a fun fair. Swings and roundabouts pack the High Street^
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      JAP CIVIL SERVICE
      28 3 The first civil service examination m Japan's history will be held on June 27 m seven major Japanese cities to select 370 key Government officials.
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      Malaria cure on new lines
      129 3 A RARE colkc ion of elephant shrews has arrived m the United Sta e.s by air from Africa to play a star role m experiments which medical authorities hope will yi~ld new clue.s m the search for a cuio r malaria. The shrews small, mouselike
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY. June 4, 1948. Danger level
      641 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY. June 4, 1948. Danger level Tli£.RE was a sombre warning 1 m Sir Stafford Cripps' new survey of Britain's trade position. The visible gap m the balance of payments has not been narrowing at the rate it was hoped it would. In meeting the tiade
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      Jock fights onwith the Arabs
      942 4  -  O'DOWD GALLAGHER BY JERUSALEM. AT least nine Bri- tish Army and Palestine Police deserters are fighting on the Arab side m the battle for Jerusalem. They have come out into the open since British authority m Palestine ended. Two of them paid a strictly unofficial
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      236 4  - M. T. LEONG By I EE Fook-yuen of Hainan I Island. China, desired to be invisible. His friend, knowing him to be "ira:y," jokingly advised him to secure the leal on which a dragonfly had stood ichen catching an insect, to worship the leaf and put it m hair, then
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      Germans told Monty
      223 4  - Germans told Monty JOHN PEET By Reuters' Correspondent pERMAN hisrtorians vJ are claiming that Field-Marshal Mon'gcmery m the last month of the war based his pians on suggestions made by the Nazi Kauleiter of Hamburg. Dr. Kurt Detlev Moeller of Hamburg, who has prepared a scientific analysis of the capitulation
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      95 4 Speedway fan Leonard Horton. IS. infantile paralysis patient m an iron lung at Plymouth Isolation Hospital, heard every week the roar of the speedway at Pennycross. half a mile away. H h*" a oreat daw for him when she was taken to the track, iron lung and all, with a
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      PEOPLE IN SINGAPORE MAKE NEWS
      567 4 PEOPLE IN SINGAPORE MAKE NEWS AIR Cadets m Singapore were spoken to la^t week by 24-year-old Flying Officer J. S. S. HAY about "Operation Red Lion", the exercise carried out by the Straits Settlement Lincoln Bomber j. and the Air Training Corps m Britain. F/O Hay b. a navigator attached
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      EAST COAST TRAVELS
      29 4 Tne wide X elan tan River, taken from the wrecked Guillemard Bridge, the larucU bridge m the Malayan railway system. This bridge is now being repaired.
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      A 'Secret' Purge?
      505 4  -  ROMAN JIMENEZ By A. P. Correspondent A POWERFUL of British Trade Union leaders is campaigning to rid the Labour movement of Communist influence. The group, which includes Sir George Chester, T. O'Brien, Andivw Naesmfth and others has the sympathy <>f the Trades Union Council. Its first job
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      Parod Keeps calm
      14 4  - Parod Keeps calm UNKNOWN 1 1 A p Coire^ P man who art* A.P.
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      9 4 P. H. HENORY Jeweller. 78. North Bridge Road, Spore.
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      46 4 Ikinlcof aIUU <:uperlo!i* you know likr richest most kj ...and then youve g Ices! There re va r popular bricks anr to 8 people 51. 50 at any of the th't Wise hostesses know H r sweet? with Magnolia lc< basss. Raffles Place Orchard Road: Phone >
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
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      Around-island road to be completed
      273 5 Around-island road to be completed irisfe Staff Reporter road, which will link Holland Road K«>ad one and three-quarter miles X „ipore a round-t he-island drive for be built as soon as negotiations are ft acquisition of the land from the X Bg road at present stops short the one side
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      SCHOOLS ESSAY CONTEST
      18 5 SCHOOLS ESSAY CONTEST X ment W ■t nducted j be win the j tnea of I X I
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      CIVIL DEFENCE CLAIMS
      9 5 CIVIL DEFENCE CLAIMS A m I i m I
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      GEN. WADE LEAVING
      33 5 Wade is relinquishing his at the end of this month, and will be succeeded by M.t -Gen C H. Boucher who arrived m Singapore m March as GOC Gurkha Division.
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      56 5 picture The Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, pointing to the graph m his office which records the trend of commodity prices m Singapore. At Monday's Legislative Council meeting, Mr. McKerron said that while prices had fallen since 1946. "they have not fallen enough" He appealed to merchants to
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      Hawkers swarm beach at Bedok
      272 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Rural Board will decide at its next 1 monthly meeting whether Bedok beach should be turned info a hawkers' marked where all types of meals will be served. The Commissioner of Lands, Mr. C. W. A. Sennett, told the
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      Voting posters rent-free
      83 5 *TTHE Singapore Municipal X Commissioners propose to amend the Municipal Advertisement by-laws so as to exempt posters exhibited m connection with a Government. Municipal or Rural election from the payment of licence fees. Such exemption will not. however, confer any right to exhibit such posters except with
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      Isobel Baillie may be here next year
      137 5 THE famous British singer. Isobel Baillie, hopes to I visit Singapore again next year. Miss Baillie, after seven recitals m Singapore and Malaya, said she found audiences ■very appreciative." However, if Malaya wanted other first-line artistes to perform In the country, a central
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      GIRL STRANDED —ASKS HELP
      80 5 THE Central Welfare Council at a meeting m Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday decided to refer back to the Federation Government an applica- tion from a Malay woman for funds to enable her to be repatriated to Malaya from the United Kingdom. The woman, whose home is
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      41 5 l s ene from 'Ali The Cobbler: m which a hen-pecked cobbler turns the tables OB his 'shrewish wife The play will be staged by the Straits Chinese Methodist Youth Fellowship tomorrow at 7.30 p.m. at No. 3 Kampong Kapor Road*
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      Army will not recruit labour
      116 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. rE GOC, Malaya Command, Maj. Gen. D. A. L. Wade, answering a question at a Press conference today, said the Army was not contemplating recruiting a Malayan Pioneer Corps as the Ceylonese Corps (now m Malaya) had been engaged by the War
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      147 BANISHED
      36 5 One hundred and fortyseven orders for banishment have been approved m the Federation of Malaya, since the beginning of this year up to May 31. Of these. 114 were for persons with a ccnviction.
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      39 5 picture Mr. Kenneth. Tuh, leader of the newly- opened Boys' Club m Prince Edward Road. The club ivas opened formally by Mr. C. C. Tan last Saturday m the presence of Gowrnment officials and social welfare workers. Public Relations
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      Man fined for false report
      103 5 SAKANDAR Khan, 26 years old, living at 287. Race Course Road, was yesterday sentenced to one month's I rigorous imprisonment and fined $100. m default a further one month's imprisonment, m tht Second Police Court for giving false information to the police. Khan is alleged
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      MALAYAN BODY TO COMBAT TB
      146 5 Free Press Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. THE formation of a Malayan Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis will be considered at a public meeting to be held at the Chinese Assembly Hall on June 27. This was. announced at a meeting of the Central Welfare
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      S'PORE MAY BE ANTI-TB HQ
      373 5 S'PORE MAY BE ANTI-TB HQ Health problems for world talks Free Press Staff Reporter UIGH in the priority grade of subjects to be discussed at the World Health Assembly to be held in Geneva on June 24, is a tuberculosis policy for the Far East. Also to be established are
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      MUNICIPAL PAYMENTS INCREASE
      231 5 THE Singapore Municipality has spent roughly $16 )j. million for the first quarter of this year compared with over $15^ million for the corresponding period latt year, a statement of cash payments shows. Big items on account of the public services are for the period Jan 1
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      FEDERAL COUNCIL
      20 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thursday.—The Federal Legislative Council will meet m the Council Chamber, Kuala Lumpur, on Monday. July 5.
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      STOLEN GOODS
      40 5 A woman's wrist watch ai.d a gold ring, recovered from three Chinese arrested by the police from the Kandang Kerbau division, on May 19 are waiting to be claimed at the K&i.dang Kerbau Police Station Inspection is invited.
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      Johore Bahru TB clinic
      114 5 A TUBERCULOSIS advi- sory clinic has been opened m Johore Bahru to give advice and recommendations for treatment to T.B. sufferers. The clinic is situated at 361 Jalan Tangga Duke, (Ist floor), Johore Bahru. and, for a start, is open daily from 2 p.m. to 4
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      TAKUAPA TIN
      43 5 Takuapa Valley Tin Dredging report the following outputs during May 1948: Dredge No. 1. 151 piculs of tin ore. and No. 2, 604 piculs. The total value of the ore was $101,000 against an estimated working cost of dredging of $58,500.
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      Helmore-lnglis wedding
      112 5 A SON of an Air Commodore and a daughter of an Air Vice Marshal are to marry. They are Squadron Leader Peter Helmore, DP.C, elder son of Air Commodore W. W. Helmore (retired) and Mrs.i Helmore. of Kingston, Surr and Zendy. elder daughter Air Vice Marshal F. F.
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      FIGHT TO SAVE TUDOR AIRLINERS
      344 6 FIGHT TO SAVE TUDOR AIRLINERS SIR ROY DOBSON, managing director of A.V. Roe and Co., builders of tl*e Tudor airliners, is trying to settle the future of the fleet of four-motored 60-pas-senger Tudor 11 machines upon which thousands of his employees are working. Because of delays m their production, the
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      Private lines BEA lost to fly where
      138 6 Private lines BEA lost to fly where THE air ferry service across the Bristol Channel between Weston-super-Mare and Cardiff, abandoned by British European Airways last October because they could not make it pay. has been resumed by independent cornpan ie> It will be operated jointly by Western Airways, the ston-super-Mare
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      Bus Conductor was thrown
      102 6 DOUBLE-DECKER bus with 13 passengers went down a hill at Petersfield, Hunts, at 40 to 50 m.p.h., hit the kerb, and threw out the conductor. Passengers said that they crouched on the floor In case the bus overturned, and the conductor came from hospital to tjive
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      T.B. TOLL IN ENGLAND
      87 6 fl/BERCt'LOSIS accounts for half the deaths due to all classes of young people m England and Wales, between 15 and 24. In 193* tht Royal College of Physicians received a legacy U> be devoted to research on T. 8.. In a preface to the report of
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      NOT ENOUGH RICE FOR P.I.
      165 6 TXXDD production m the, r Philippines will continue j *to be deficient by about 15 iper cent, for the next years despite increase production of Tlce, corn and vegetables, according to Dr. J. J. Efferson,' of the U.S. Department of i Agriculture, who is making
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      MYSTERY OF THE FIVE PEANUTS
      219 6 No food 9 girl again. By TOM MASTERSON A.P. Correspondent THE young Chinese peasant girl who says she has had no food for nine years is providing pyschologists at Chunking with another problem— the problem of the five peanuts. She baa now left hospital after
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      Smuggler hunt in Queen liner
      80 6 CPECIALLY chosen Customs officers co-operated with dock police m an attemp to capture a suspected smuggler bolived to be on board the Quo-en Elizabeth. From th< time the ship docked until the last of tth-e passengers had boon cleared baggage ard parcels carried by the
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      Kidnapping rase retrial
      84 6 A CHINESE, who was convicted m the District Court of implication m the kidnapping of a wealthy Manila resident. has been granted a re-trial by the Shanghai High Court. The accused. Su Wan Lee, of Fatten, was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment recently after a trial lasting
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      'FITTING MEMORIAL' TO GANDHI
      73 6 "The most fitting memorial we can erect to the memory of Gandhiji is to establish a free India wher£ men can live m peace and uphold a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi m Georgetown police court. More than anything else communal concord, so dear to Mahatmaji, would
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      RICE RATIONING
      45 6 The first shipment of 1,700 tons of rice is being taken from Canton to Swatow to extend the rationing system which has btvn m force m China's five big cities. Rationing is expected to begin m this Kwangtung seaport m a few weeks.
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      EDITOR 'ADVISED' WOMEN—FINED
      53 6 EDITOR 'ADVISED' WOMEN— FINED J. J. Scorey, editor-pro-prieor was at Valletta. Ifa lined £50 and forbidden to publish fo r two months for instigating disobedience of th»e census law. He was said 'o have advised women not to admit census officers unless the head of the household wa present. He
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      Schoolboys refused to sing hymns
      149 6 W EARLY 500 boys of Purley (Surrey) Gram m a r School refused to sing the hymn chosen at morning pruytrs m protest against losing part of their Whitsun holiday. Dr. H. Birchall, the Head, made them come to school as punishment because someone who
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      Canada wants more workers
      147 6 BRITISH emigrants to Canada are helping the Dominion to develop her natural wealth, but the country needs more workers from abroad if she is to succeed says Mr. C. D. Howe, Minister of Trade and Commerce. "With our vast areas and our wealth of natural resour-
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      RICH WOMAN'S BODY IN TRUNK
      73 6 POLICE found the trussed body of wealthy Mrs Freeman Lee. 89 -year -old recluse, in a small trunk standing in the front hall of her 18-room home at Maiden- head Berkshire She had been slain, police said, before her bodv was put into the trunk.
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      Smile restored after 10,000 mile journey
      177 6 QEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD auburn-haired Golda Mur»J ray came 10.000 miles from Fremantle to get a iljondon surgeon to restore her smile. Three years ago Golda began to wilt She had difficulty m eating. She could no longer smile. A rare gland disease was diagnosed In time
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      Indonesian talks reach agreement on some points
      233 6 Indonesian talks reach agreement on some points THE second repor r from tin mittee of Good OfTV the settlement of the dispu: Republic and the Netherla: to be proceeding comp;:: military and economic quest i In the political spher is now agreement between the Dutch and the Indonesian' three points:
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      DETECTIVE SAT WITH BURGLAR
      60 6 MV Wfiti has gone v pictures, and I C c the baby. said a I York man v.:.- n two de ectives arrived to arrest him 1 for buclary Bo while on. -year-^jld I >t. th? de ectivea sat up with him listening to h radio
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      DANCE REPRIEV'E
      42 6 Canton's 500-odd dancing g'.rls are once more in happy mood. It si tendr-d to put an end to al! i public dancing by thr end May. but. the Mayor has now decreed that they must practice their profession September Reuter
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      Legion Ange at Gold Coast killing
      20 6 Legion Ange at Gold Coast killing 11 i c c i I i I 1 f I J r I
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      MORE FOOD FOR GERMAN
      15 6 MORE FOOD FOR GERMAN G i I r i c I I c t I
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      71 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya pDINNERS SFRVLD/y WHY, WHERE\PwORKING LIKE MAd\ koOODNKSS?- f SEE>I\ THINK TMfVLL^TI^»i MISS!— YouYl Bl JARI All IMI YIN UU LAB V MISS ITo HAVT SIT 7mi f SOLVE THIS fRI Wt I ALONE IONIGHT •'/OI.NTIIMIN, I BUN I AKINO 'l MH\
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      KING MIDAS TO WIN IPOH TROPHY RACE
      456 7 KING MIDAS TO WIN IPOH TROPHY RACE Silver Spear will be chief rival Free Press Racing Reporter AN easy winner m the Governor's Cup race at BukiA Timah over a mile and a quarter, King Midas is fancied to win the trophy race for top class stayers at Ipoh tomorrow,
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      KEY CUP TIE TOMORROW
      508 7  -  Crusader By THE southern section of the Malaya Cup com petition mill be advanced a step further tomorrow, and one of the two games that will be decided is the key Singapore Civilians v Royal Air Force tie at Jalan Besar Stadium. Singapore Civilians come into
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      AMDGW were a 1-man team
      134 7 I pkndid play of centro half Tof;. AMDGW. Chang i S.C. went down to the A by a solitary gcxil scored n the first few m;nutes m yes.y's third division S A F.A. •<*a«fue soccer match at St. G-^orge's Road. Toft was the brains behind
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      WINS WOMEN'S GOLF
      28 7 Lou«se Sugge. of Atlanta. US won the British women's ir gall championship at on sea m a driving beat Jean Donald of >ne up. A.P.
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      SENT OFF FOR ROUGH PLAY
      65 7 TWO players, one from each side, were sent off the field for rough- play at Thomson Road yesterday when the Police beat the Indians twoone m a Second Division fixture After a scoreless first half. Indians scored through Salaudeen and Low equalised for the Police.
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      TIGERS WIN 2-NIL
      64 7 UNLEASHING a furious at- m the v.'c.)iid half thr Tip'rs s.C. secured a two-nil rktorj t>fw the Sinprnpore District Siqrials m yL'sterdaj' r s second division sorcef at 81. s Road. Cheng M*n£ opened the scoie for th- Tiprrs midway througli the second half, and towards the
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      Double for Derby day
      94 7 'THE Derby, Blue Riband of the English turf, will be run at Epsom tomorrow and for those who want a good-priced double at Ipoh, couple Ecliptic and High Street. Both are sired by Derby winners, Ecliptic by Felstead, winner of the bio race m 1928, and
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      Australians looked like schoolboys
      210 7 AT Southampton yesterday, Hampshire struck a timely I blow for English Test cricket hopes when they caught the J Australians on a drying j wicket and dismissed them for 117. The spin bowiers had the tourists groping and feeling for the ball with the uncer- tainty
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      The Princess grimaced in disappointment
      210 7 AGA Khan's filly, Masaka. starting at 7 l, romped away with the Oaks, run over one-and-a-half miles at Epsom yesterday, winning by six lengths from the King's filly Angelola which started at 20 1. The French filly, Folie. w!iich started at 33— was three lengths
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      Home cricket averages
      49 7 Home cricket averages j Lsh and tart ng 1.;.'.. Averages Inns) E> 44 45 I P? IE P 1 ■T Pa Pi K. M "3 He Australians B\l v Ec |C 74U 1j rw s::h :m ti m B 3 5- 69 12 B t ■Ll X 13 90
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      BILLIARDS FINAL
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      21 7 and Sabapathy < Rogers > arc seen heading the ball away from an ard m yt first division league oame at the Stadium.
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      THE GYPSIES ARE READY AT EPSOM
      183 7 /GYPSIES have arrived on |VJ the Epsom Downs and are i ready for the great crowd expected to exceed a million when the Derby— the Turf's greatest race is run there I jmorrow. Hammers echoed across the course over the weekend and refreshment marquees
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      EQUALISER AT STADIUM
      36 7 %Sth hJl' h^L A h Wh t msu f e about t0 deflect the ball Irnr* J" i^ the Rovers goalkeeper, Eng Hoe. to score his side's only goal m yesterday's Stadium game
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      RESHUFFLE GAVE ROVERS VICTORY
      305 7 Rovers 3 A.A.A. 1 A SECOND half reshuffle of forward and middle lines, caused by an injury to inside right Len^ Hoo, turned up trumps for Rovers S.C. m their first division S.A.F.A. league game against A.A.A, at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. After being outplayed m
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      Wright, Bedser in best form
      390 7 Wright, Bedser in best form /CRICKET between the showers m the Test trial at Birmingham yesterday told the England selectors little that they did not already know. They saw some excellent bowling by Alec Bedser and Douglas Wright and more sound if slow batting by Surrey's leftj hander Laurie Fishlock.
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      HARBOUR POLICE WIN THREE-TWO
      28 7 HARBOUR POLICE WIN THREE -TWO gINGAPORE Harbour h Auxiliary "Polirr* beat X WT. three-two m &f >nd Div:fixture at Thomson Rf-nd yesterday. A? the score sul hard-eaxned victory
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      87 7 ■J. Crossword No. 402 ■Tj~ jiF|i7 18 19 I n «4). 3. 12. Beat 3 >. 13. Prejudice iisappruval »8»- 20. Lsj>u- 28. Ma'rrial (3>. 29 S3 Again <4> 34. < 1 1 m !mhv\ S. ii i j 4 Disloyally ■D- 9. Ed^e «3i 19 C'-h; iy. Imixrisons m».
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      U.K.AID FOR ASIAN INDUSTRY
      402 8 U.K.AID FOR ASIAN INDUSTRY Offer made at Ecafe talks OOTACAMUND (Madras), Thurs. BRITAIN today promised all possible assistance to Asia and the Far East to promote industrial progress but stressed the importance of developing small industries. The offer was made at today's meeting of the United Nations Commission on Asia
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      U.K'S WORK FOR PEACE
      107 8 WASHINGTON, Thurs. r>RESIDENT Truman today 1 expressed confidence m British assistance m helping the United States bring recovery, reconstruction and peace to the world, and sent a message of "friendly feelings" to the King. He was receiving the newly -appointed British Ambassador to the United States,
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      Partial selfrule plan for Germany
      184 8 WASHINGTON. Thursday. THE U.S. Under -Secretary of State. Mr Robert Lovett, today gave Senators details of the plan for a limited selfgovernment m Western Germany. But he asked for no action by Congress. The Russians will proclaim a Communist-dominated government which they will claim to
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      U.S. EXTENDS TIN CONTROLS
      49 8 A US. Senate House Con- ference Commit tee has agreed on legislation to extend controls over tin and some other scarce commodities, including; antimony fats, oil and rict products. The bill revives and extends controls, which lapsed on Sunday until June 30. 1949 A .P.
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      'WHY I RAN' -PRINCESS ANN
      76 8 DKINCESS Ann said yester- day "I am here at Brcedrehoej (Copenhagen) and absolutely not m Athens. I was out m the garden and just came m when the telej phone rang. And that is all I have to say. qoodbyv' explaining her hunUfi departure from
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      UK asked to recognise N. China Govt
      127 8 UK asked to recognise N. China Govt LONDON, Thursday. rnHE British "China CamJ. paign Committee" tonight asked the British Government to establish economic and cultural relations with the Communist-sponsored "North China regime." Such relations, the Committee said m a statement after Its annual meeting, "would do much to restore British
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      SOVIET CUTS DEBT
      15 8 The Soviet Union will reduce Finland's remaining war reparation payments by half.
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      Anti-Red army plan alleged
      178 8 Anti-Red army plan alleged SALZBURG, Austria, Thurs. THE weekly review "Berichte und Informationen" said today that talks were under way between Eastern European exile leaders and "Western quarters" to recruit an anti-Communist refugee army of 500,000. The statement was made m an article entitled "Plans for Coming War." written by
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      Death threat in mid-air
      59 8 THE pilot of a plane flying from Belgrade to Serajevo with 22 passengers was forced at pistol point, to divert his course to Bari. Italy. The plane belonged to the Yugoslav airline and, according to the pilot, the radio operator and one passenger forced him to
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      CYCLE RACE DEATHS
      32 8 The second death m practices for the international T. T. motor cycle races m the Isle of Man occurred when T. Bryant, an English rider, died after a crash.
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      Cabinet faces vital decision
      290 8 'NO HANGING' BILL CRISIS LONDON, Thursday. THE British Cabinet today discussed the most delicate decision of its life whether to throw its weight on the side of, or against, the proposed fiveyear suspension of execution for convicted murderers. It seems that, whatever the decision, constitution and
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      30 8 picture. Some of the striking labourers, and their families, at Klapa Bali estate, Slim River, who were evicted yesterday, clamber into a lorry while Sikh policemen stand by Free Press
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      ACTIVITY IN GILT-EDGEDS
      516 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Thursday. ACTIVE interest on the London Stock Exchange rL was today again concentrated only on shortdated stocks of the Gilt-edged market. Large investment buying resulted m ail-round gains of 3 16. Rubbers were irregular to lower and Tins declined. Industrial shares were on
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      KASHMIR: UNO SENDS MISSION
      147 8 KASHMIR: UNO SENDS MISSION NEW YORK, Thursday. THE Security Council today directed its special India-Pakistan Commission to give top priority to the dispute over Kashmir. The Council has instructed the Plebiscite Commission to go without delay "to the areas of the dispute." The Commission leaves tomorrow tor Geneva, where it
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      GIRL: 'CHINESE OUT TO KILL ME'
      179 8 MEXICO, Thursday. A 24-YEAR-OLD American, j Deejean Jan? Bacon, who says she is the estranged wife of .Madame Chiang Kaishek's former personal pilot, Cornell Newton S*ielt.on said that she had been threatened with demtn by :i Chinese if she returned to the United States
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      U.S. KEEPS NAVY ON WAR FOOTING
      114 8 WASHINGTON, Thursday DLANS of the U.S. Navy for the fiscal year, starting July 1, call for an active Pacific striking force of 111 ships deployed on what the Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Louis Denfeld, described as "something approximating war footing." Admiral Denfold told
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      BOATSRIVAL VOTES
      30 8 Samoa yesterday opened Its i new Legislative Assembly j with a native majority, but j thousands of islanders preferred to watch the races of 40-man longboats, A.P. reports.
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      Rubber prices
      164 8 _V si'KiM Market correspondent eH« the prices of robber 11 am. today aa follows: Buyers Seller* ct> cv. per Ib pftlh No. 1 8.5.1 Spot loosr 43*. 44 No. 1 R.S.S rot) m tuilr* June 44 44*, No 2 R.S.S. fob m »»aliv June 43 43>, No 3
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      'RUSSIA CAN BOMB U.S.'
      142 8 'RUSSIA CAN BOMB U.S.' WASHINGTON Th UNITED States military intelhgenr Sb knowledge" that a potential I long-range bombers, similar to the B^L 1^ striking cities m America, the Hou* tives appropriations Committet as Zjr^S The U.S. Air Force L. C. Craigie. m making thia referring to Russia. He add* ri
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      16 8 SPORE HIGH TIDES HIGH LOW Toda> 8 21a.m: 8 31 p.m. N^t 9 .'oam. 9.05 p.m.
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      36 8 —WEATHER— Bright WtATlihtt report fur the next 24 hours compiled by the RAF.: Bright period*. Occasional showers of short duration. Wind: Southerly. sto 10 knots. Temperature: Max. s*o drg. mm. 76 deg. Rainfall: 0 66 in.v
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