The Singapore Free Press, 18 June 1948

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALS IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1948 PRICE 10 Cfc> 'S
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    Army reservists called up
    345 1 Army reservists called up Volunteers may be next Free Press Staff Reporter jyj ALAY Regiment reservists are being called to the colours in all states to assist the police and regular troops in their battle against terrorists. A senior police officer in Perak, where most of the reservists will be
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    3 IN 4 DAYS
    34 1 Ui3. Congress made history yesterday by passing major legislation over President Truman's veto for the third time in four days, this time a bill permitting railways to make rate agreements.
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    LANTER SCAPES OHORE MBUSH
    18 1 LANTER SCAPES OHORE MBUSH t 1 '-he r. m th€ icerierawd and m- i mi m o bi
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    OT SEAMAN DIES IN HOSPITAL
    16 1 OT SEAMAN DIES IN HOSPITAL hmiuil RtporWf 8-jar-oki i 4 the i hs« bku vvk been
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    RIDF ARRESTS
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    Compensation' spurned
    42 1 Compensation spurned f iiave not aco pted. Their representatives said: -'W> will consult our men.' labourers, before leaving the factory, had submitted a request to the managem r.t for "a little compensation while not accepting their wage dues of about $10 each.
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    War near over Hyderabad
    166 1 War near over Hyderabad NEW DELHI, Thursday. INDIA and Hyderabad were drifting towards armed conflict tonight as Pandit Nehru declared that "we will not whittle down our terms" and then spoke* openly of war. Tne Nizam of Hyderabad yesterday confirmed that India's terms— fixing the states armed forces and putting
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    MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENTS
    58 1 fwm Press Staff Reporter AT Thomson Road a motor cyclist knocked down a pedestrian just after 9 o'clock last night The victim was taken fro hospital. Two hours later a motor cyclisi. who was involved m an accident with a taxi at the junction of Selegie Road and
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    BUS FALLS: TWO INJURED
    60 1 Free Press Saff Reporter TWO persons fell off moving vehicles m Singapore yesterday. a Chinese woman from a bus m New Bridge Road at about 10.45 am. and a male Chinese from a trolley bus at the junction of South Bridge Road and Hokkien Street at
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    DOCK DISPUTE: 'S.H.B. CAN'T ARBITRATE'
    117 1 DOCK DISPUTE: 'S.H.B. CAN'T ARBITRATE' Free Press Staff Reporter PIE legal representative of Singapore Dockyard contractors, Mr. C. H. Koh. who yesterday suggested direct negotiations with 600 dockyard workers involved m a wage dispute, tojd the Free Pre.sL j this morning that the contractors had "never at any time" requested
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    RICE RETAILERS APPEAL TO GOVT.
    157 1 Free Press Staff Reporter rE Government Licenced Rice Retailers' Association met last night m High Streot to discuss further representations to the Food Controller m connection with its dissatisfaction over the present s>stem of retailing rationed rice. The president of the Association, Mr. Ng Peck
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    EUROPEAN SCALDED
    23 1 A European was scalded but not seriously hurt this morning when a steam jacket of the St. James Power Station burst
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    This Happy Breed.....
    115 1 THE Town Council of High Wycombe (England) voted yesterday to ban the grazing of cows on Keep Hill, local beauty spot, after a plea by an alderman who said m a speech that "for a great many years this spot has been the courting ground for this
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    Malaya: Dr. Evatt changes his tune
    175 1 Free Press Correspondent MELBOURNE, Thursday. IN the House ot Representatives today, the Australian Minister for External Affairs, Dr. Herbert Evatt, said there would not have been so much anii-Aus_ tralian feeling m Malaya recently had the critical comments made by the Opposition m the
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    43 killed in plane crash
    99 1 MOUNT CARMLL. Pennsylvania, Thursday. FORTY-THREE persons were killed today wlien a hugi airliner struck a high tension wire, carrying 6,000 volts, and plugged m flames on to a sparsely- wood :d area five miles from this coalmining town. The d^ad included America's most famous glorifler
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    SATAN SIN AND CHURCHILL
    46 1 MR. Herbert Morrison denied 111 m the Commons yester- day that the Government inj tends to investigate nation- alized industries. Mr. Winston Churchill said that press reports thar Mr. Hugh Dalton would conduct an inquiry reminded him of •Satan investigating sin.- U.P.
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    Big black-out due on Sunday
    200 1 Free Press Staff Reporter LARGE sections on the eastern side of Singapore city will be without electricity on Sunday evening owing to generator repairs. The power cuts will not be the severest ever experienced m Singapore, said the Municipal Electrical Engineer, Mr. R. A. Waddle,
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    RADIO SILENCED
    26 1 All radio broadcasts m Central and Southern Italy stopped yesterday when two ammonia tanks exploded at the Rome station and forced workers to leave.
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    EXPORTS TO JAPAN
    21 1 The British treasury is studying a sterling credit to finance exports from the sterling area to Japan. A.P.
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    BANISHMENT: GIMSON, C-G IN K.L. TALKS
    360 1 ptcture. Free Pres6 Special Correspondent A special R.A.F. aircraft took the CommissionerGeneral, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, and the Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, to Kuala Lumpur this morning for discussions with the High Commissioner, Sir Edward Gent, concerning the enforcement of emergency powers
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    REPUBLIC'S PASSPORTS NOT VALID
    75 1 Free Press Staff Reporter PASSPORTS issued by the Indonesian Republic are no longer valid for entry into Singapore, according to messages from London this morning. Neither the CommissionerGeneral's Office nor Government officials would comment on this new move. Foreign Office sources m London said it meant
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    STOP PRESS
    74 1 Tension prevails today m Tapah. the centre of large mining and rubber operations m the Kintu District. It is common belief that Communist killers will strike here, and soon. Armed men have been seen m several villages, notably Bikam. Large arms dumps are suspected to be m the
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    WOMEN in MEN'S PLACES
    887 2  -  KATHLEEN LYON By jNCIENT and honourable posts, for hundreds of years occupied by Men Only, were recently conferred upon three women. All three ardent feminists who feel they have struck a blow for their sex by their own personal triumphs. No 1 is Mrs. Florence Paton.
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    PENGUINS
    89 2 PENGUIN Books may eventually be published m Australia. Richard Lane. of the Penguin firm, said on his arrival m Australia recently that he was m the country to give Australia the books thry wanted at the prices they wanted to pay. He would investigate the posslblities of establishing an
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    Bridge Problem
    334 2 i>tipp«d South from v... all the trick* ua.s f East bad been able to ruff an openmi: club lead. South m »-ded on!\ to ruff two d unonda m dummy for he could discard the othi r three on dummy's top heart! EUld cIuDS. As is usually the
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    WHO CARES?
    33 2 To live with women may impair a man's usefulness. To live without them, on the other hand is bound to result m Ml being of no use at all. Marmaduke Dixe\
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    Wardrobe Story
    250 2  -  ELIZABETH TAYLOR By A WARDROBE A filled with the latest styles won't give give you a reputation for being well-dressed. It is what you do with that wardrobe that tells the story. I believe the answer lies m being well-groom-ed at all times, which fortunately is not something
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    Girl's 1,500 miles—on £6
    64 2 Girl's 1,500 miles— on £6 BLONDE 18-year -old Patricia Fricker returned to London airport aft^r a 1,500-mile trip to St< -ckholnv- on £6. Patricia, "fed up" with English farm, work r.towed away on a Swedish ship and had to press Captain clothes for her passage. At Stockholm, she was looked
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    SUPPER SALAD
    74 2  -  Joan J Cooking Column By C>LD meal* U ways popular hot climate and tionally so when hos and cook an one anc same. Here are three gestions which i will like. Shnmp Tomato Aspic SOFTEN two of gelatine In ter cup of cold i to the boil three
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      56 2 I 1,000,000 I SPRING COMFOR' 5 WITHOUT A SING. -CC J c: r/y^ 1 r 4*\ 1 Just imagine ft>e 'u»o a million spungy OWiNiflMI cot'test honeycombed LA ~-*nd you'M beg«n to re«t«s« tKat DUNLOPILLO v SATION «N CO' /S\ OUNLOPILLOt Other CuihiO'^ THE DUNLOP RUBBER CO ptUA* KUALA LUMPUR
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      804 2 MALAY 12 Programme Sum- Singer The Baritone Johi. I SINGAPORE mary; 12.05 Domestic Affair? Fnm. »M r tM P SgJZSj^X&vZJS;. S.E.A.C. the 41 metre band f P Colombo; Often on the fotl>« From fit* nT to 7«. V T in b n 8«• IIM m From 6.00 p.m to 7.45
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    SHOW DOWN' LIKELY AT U.N.O.
    423 3 fhonty problems for Paris THE 1948 meeting of the United Nations Assembly 1 is already being labelled a "showdown" session of Big Power politics. The meeting will be under way when the Inited States votes to elect a President. Any new American or Russian diplomatic
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    Till Soviet try to block eylon's entry to UN ?
    33 3 Till Soviet try to block eylon's entry to UN ;>lied for membership rh hopes of becoming Dominion m the world a r the U.N. speculated delayed applying m c that Russia would not
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    'Red plot coup in Italy was foiled'
    101 3 'Red plot coup in Italy was foiled' THE Itahan Premier, Signor Alcide de Gasperi charged tn Rome that the Italian Communists had plotted a post- election coup but were when police seized their hidden arms. The Cathonc Premier, who was defending his Marshal Plan Government and ar-recovery programme threw back
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    'BLACK' CABINS
    37 3 'BLACK CABINS is now a black marnipping space m Briuod back. A New oLick-marketeer adverpremium am I ofI ::>r cabin so-and-so m M on inia. July 16? picture. Wool SecreFlizabeth. Seated on her tin tses for the
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    S'hai sabotage bid alleged
    64 3 NEARLY 120 Communist suspects have been questioned by a special criminal tribunal m a preliminary mii vestigation. according to the 1 Chinese press today. They I accused of trying to destroy public utilities and to seizr municipal records. Two students arrested m connection with the agitation
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    AIR BID NO.3
    68 3 Another attempt will be made to survey the famous Amne Machin range of mount lins, according to a Nanking despatch published m the Tai Kwong Pao. The report stated that the special plane used In the previous attempts will take off from Canton sometime m July for
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    MAY DAY COULD CURB TORY PEERS
    352 3 MA Y DAY COULD CURB TOR Y PEERS rIS Parliament must end on July 31, 1950, said Lord Jowitt, the Lord Chancellor, m the Lords. Tories growled with satisfaction to think it must end some time. But no Government, said Lord Jowilt would risk staying m office until the last
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    London Times warns U.S.
    125 3 ImE TIMES" this week cautioned the United States against "attaching strings" to the Marshall Plan. "The problems of British and American economies at present were poles asunder and the tendency, evident m the present two way discussion of terms which the Americans proposed to lay down
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    STOW AWAYS
    39 3 Two Wt-sL Africans with red tribal marks on their forebeada were found asleep m the baugape hold of a plane from Dakar at London Airport They were wearing white tropical overalls. They will be sent back today.
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    Is religion YES London Bishop
    154 3 Is religion YES L ondon Bishop A greater response to the call of the Church than at any other time m the past 14 years is reported by the Bi- shop of London Dr. J. W C Wand. He told the London Diocesan Conference that he was impressed by the
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    BOLLAERT IS OFF TO PARIS
    51 3 BOLLAERT IS OFF TO PARIS MEMILE BOLLAERT, French High Commissioner *<or Indo-China, will leave Saigon for Paris on Monday. M. Bollaert, who recently signed the agreement recognising Vietnam's independence within the French Union, is expected to meet exEmperor Bao Dai of Annam, one of the Vietnam signatories, m Cannes next
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    CAMEL CORPS TACTICS TO CATCH CROOKS
    158 3 CAMEL CORPS TACTICS TO CATCH CROOKS IN the 1914-18 war Aberdeen's Chief Constable. Mr. James McConnach, was an N.C.O. m the Camel Corps, which, for desert warfare, split into highly mobile teams of four men who fought and camped together. Facing the 1948 problem of policing a growing area with
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    IDNIANS AT OXFORD
    60 3 Mr. V. J. Kripalani of Merton College. Oxford, a keen supporter of the Socialist Party of India, has been elected president of the University Majlis for the new term. The election was strongly contested as the future political policy of the society m view of India's new
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    vital now? NO Aussie cleric
    129 3 vital now? NO A ussie cleric THE great tradition of Christian faith, which had been influencing Western civilisation for nearly 20 centuries, was utterly discarded by many, asserted the president of the South Australian Council of Churches, ttie R >v. B. S. Kick at; Adelaide. "Drinking is a common substitute
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    Japan's imperial chickens come home to roost
    303 3 Japan's imperial chickens come home to roost rE teachings of Japan's empire-builders have returned as a serious handicap to postwar efforts to restore the islands' economy. This is emphasized m a report on food resouiws prepared by Colonel N.H. Tim ling, and R.E. Vi 4 of the Army's Office of
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    Civil war cuts rice production in indo-China
    186 3 FKENCH economic experu estimate that the fields of Southern Indo-c have this year yielded half what they produced before the war. lue principal*! to continuing guerilla wi between the French and namites. Production for iy47-48 m the Cochin area the cou. major granary,
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    £13,485 for young woman
    88 3 experu AN attractive 25-year- old secretary, who was expecting to De married, wo* .injured m a car smash on Christmas Eve and almos: completely paralysed She was Miss O i Parr:man who has been awarded £13.485 damages ln;m the motorist.* Her nance awarded €2,626 >I\M \\l>
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    JAP'S SWIMMING RECORD
    50 3 JAP'S SWIMMING RECORD JAPAN'S No. 1 swimmer. 21--year-old Konoshin Furuhashi. a University student, has set a new world record for the 800 metres free style In 9 minutes 46.6 seconds. The previous record was held by an American. William Smith, who covered the distance m 9 minutes 50.9 seconds. Reuter
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    Beer and horses only
    93 3 DR. C. W. Hinkley, of Portland. Oregon, says Australians are interested m "nothing more than horse racing and beer." A sociologist and a doctor of medicine. Dr. Hinkley is In New Zealand after spending two months In Australia studying social conditions. He said m an interview
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, June 19, 1948. The special powers
    681 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, June 19, 1948. The special powers THE e&tdiston of emergency powers to the whole of the Johore and Perak. announced m Kuala Lumpur following another meeting of the Executive Council, rerr.oves most of ihe barriers to effective action against the terrorist and the agitator. But
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    AKIHITO: the young Emperor
    1056 4  -  RAY FALK By AN English Bud- dhist. an American school mistress and a horde of^ Japanese chamberlains are moulding the mind of a 14-year-old boy to be the next Emperor of Japan. The two year old •the tug -of war between the "Western Alliance" and the
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    FAITH
    34 4 No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house. St. Mark: 3. 27. i
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    People in Singapore make News
    758 4 AT lea^t one business m Singapore is looking toward the future. William Jacks Co.. (Malaya) Ltd., has sent one of th» i ir members. Mr. CHAN KIN CHOON, known to his friends as "KC'\ to England for a holiday and to M «ee the other
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    INSIDE BERLIN
    627 4 Thought they don't look enthusiastic about it, there's nothing these circus elephants like better than their morning wash and brush-up, even though the performance calls for brooms and scrubbing brushes. But there's one thing they are very particular about- and that is the girl who does the scrubbing.
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    Saving Eyes
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    HYDERABAD TO PROPOSE
    12 4 HYDERABAD TO PROPOSE I v no iitffldj q rr. t b *"j
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    MALAY REGT RECRUITING
    12 5 MALAY REGT RECRUITING mbiL a to alay r > Re- 1 July 0
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    'Make S'pore what you will'
    14 5 'Make S'pore what you will' I v :ake i :< I l hey I I
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    CORPORATION IS READY TO AID COLONIES
    356 5 PROPOSALS affecting Far Eastern territories an understood t o be among many schemes alreadj submitted to the Colonial Development Corporation which formally started operations this week One of Corporation's main activities will be the development of agricultural production because agriculture is the basis of
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    S.H.B. MEMBERS
    20 5 v t Gllmo and Mr. R. nn.^oi *****1 have t** 11 appointed members of the Singapore Harbour Board
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    10,000 forming new union
    274 5 10,000 forming new union to-m *k *>«« Press Staff Reporter pN thousand industrial workers attached to various Army establishments m Singapore will wVlt~"n*" n 11 tO form the Industrial porkers Union. The meeting will take place at the WD.I premises m North Bridge Road M 7 the first time that
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    Petrol cut in Federation
    174 5 IN line with action taken m Singapore, the Federation of Malaya has announced the reduction of petrol rations for motor-vehicles, effective on July 1. The reductions are: Twenty-five per cent, m the rations of lorries, other than lorries owned by estates and mines and groups of
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    PENANG DOCTORS TO MEET
    62 5 PENANG DOCTORS TO MEET PENANG, Thursday. The Penang Medical Practitioners' Society will be holding its annual general meeting and dinner at the Hotel Metropole on June 26. During the dinner, the pre-sident-elect. Dr. Lee Tiang Kent:, will take office from the retiring president, Dr. Ong Huck Chye. The Resident Commissionei
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    Claims on RAF close Aug. 1
    121 5 IT is anticipated that, within the next few months, work on pre- Japanese occupation claims against the Royal Air Force m Air Command, Far East, will have been completed and that those capable of local settlement and acceptance will have been paid. Some claims
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    EASIER ENTRY INTO INDIA
    186 5 FOREIGNERS are free to enter the Indian Union, and there is also no restriction on the number of persons entering India from any country. During the war, the grant of visas for India to foreigners had to be strictly controlled and, barring a few excepted classes,
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    TAKUAPA TIN
    21 5 During the first half of June, Takuapa Valley Tin Dredging mined a total of 411 piculs of tin ore.
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    MUNICIPAL TEA MONEY' INQUIRY
    484 5 Questionnaire to tenants Free Press Staff Reporter QNE of the new questions tenants m Singapore are called upon to answer on a form which is sent out by the Municipal Assessor's Department yearly as a matter of routine, deals with the payment of "tea money." The
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    H.K. buys more from Australia
    104 5 AUSTRALIAN exports to Hong Kong have increased from £400,000 before the war to £6,000,000 this year. This was stated by the Australian Trade Commissioner to Hong Kong on arrival at Darwin. He said the demand for Australian goods could not be satisfied. The quality and
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    ASSAULT CHARGE
    39 5 Abubakar, a lawyer's clerk, was charged m the Sixth Police Court yesterday with having assaulted another lawyer's clerk on June 3 m the land office. He pleaded not guilty and the case was postponed to July 19.
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    POLICE REPORT LESS CRIME
    199 5 Free Press Staff Reporter WITH the exception of the four murders that occurred during: May against one m April, crime figures for May show an all-round decrease compared with those for April, according: to Police records. Of the four murders, three were connected with disagreements between
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    CONSULATE IS CLOSED
    43 5 Exactly eight years tgo General de GauHe broadcast his famous appeal from London urging all the Fre-.cn people. In Franc: and abroad, to continue the struggle. To commemorate thi> emit, the French ConsulateGeneral m Singapore is closed all day today.
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    Heir to throne of Kelantan
    110 5 'TOMORROW, the people of Kota Bharu will witness the colourful ceremony of the installation of Tengku Yahya Petra (Tengku Mahkota) as the rightful successor to the throne of Kelantan. This event will. among others, include the old Istiadat Bersiram (Purification Ceremony) to be performed by
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    MERCHANTS WANT DUTCH BAN LIFTED
    125 5 MERCHANTS WANT DUTCH BAN LIFTED THE Singapore Overseas Chinese Importers and Ex- porters Association has n quested the Government to takt sups to have the ban imposed by the Dutch authorit on trade with the Indonei port of Djambi lifted. The Associate r i the Government says that several thousand
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    JAPS EXECUTED
    29 5 The Dutch news ports that two tx-J...... Kompeitai men, found of war crimes, v at Golotiok Prison. Djak early this w^ek. Tlu were Mincru and Nakajima .ki.
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    Rent receipts in English
    90 5 RENT receipts given by landlords must be written m English, or the landlord is liable to a fine or imprisonment. This provision m law— not generally appreciated by tenants will soon be brought to the attention of all landlords. The rule says: "Every landlord or his
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    War dance by New Zealand's Olympic team
    43 6 The Sew Zealand Olympic athletic team, comprising six men and two women, arrived at Tilbury Docks doing the Maori War Haka. They arc the first overseas' Olympic team to arrive m Britain for this year's gan
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    No Australian 'super' weapon Tax concubines
    177 6 No Australian 'super' weapon Tax concubines THL Australia*: Defence Mi- nister. Mr. John Dedman. said that an Australian news paper report that Australia dcv loping a new supt'r ;xj.. was new- to him Sydney Surcav Sun had. said the new veap n was a quid.d missile designed to c. rrv
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    U.K. govt. reviled on 'Red' Burma
    222 6 TORY PRESS FURY rE Conservative "Daily Mail" today adding its voice to recent warnings by the 'Times" and "Manchester Guardian" that Communism baulked m the Wctft -is turning East, writes "Burma has been dragged into the Russian orbit. This event is grave for the
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    FREE CARS' SCHEME FOR War Cripples
    375 6 FREE CARS' SCHEME FOR War Cripples Minister outlines Govt. plan pfcIPPLED British Ex-soldiers may get free cars v^ from the Government. Mr. George Buchanan, Minister of Pensions, is working on a scheme mentioned m a Commons Budget debate. Mr. Glenvil Hall, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, made the announcement m
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    U.K. PLANE ORDERED OUT
    52 6 U.K. PLANE ORDERED OUT I^HE crew and plane assigned to the British Air Attache m Belgrade were ordered to leave Yugoslavia. No official reasons are known for this order, but the YtKoslav Foreign Office If reported to have told the British Embassy that adequate air travel facilities already exist m
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    CHINA'S PREMIER FACING CRISIS.
    263 6 CHINA 'S PREMIER FACING CRISIS. /^HINA'S first Constitutional Cabinet under the Prey- miership of Wong Hen Hao is likely to lxvr>me a victim al clique politics Inside^Koumintans writes i! c I .P. correspondent m Nanking EX-SWEEP IS 103 Joseph Lawrence, one of the last of Britain's chimney sweep boys, who
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    SWEDEN ALL-OUT V-WEAPON BID
    289 6 PWEDEN hopes to maintain her neutrality through J World War 111. by meant of an array of V-wesV pona located on her Baltic coast and aimod at Lningrad and other vital Soviet centres. The military correspondent of the French Academy or ■n the important Stockholm Sciences
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    Officer 'orderd out of Africa'
    298 6 Officer orderd out of Africa' A FORMER RAF Fh,n P A he has been ordered SJVSfcJ plane at a few hours lU)Uve l)f Afrj* of the Gold Coast („n mil) on O -too friendly" with the- nu'iv«s h arrested by the police, released* 0 "grilled" for ten hours before hi
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    'Jews violated cease fire', says Egypt
    6 6 'Jews violated cease fire', says Egypt
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    P.I. ALIENS DEPORTED
    75 6 THREE hundred and eic 1 alliens have been ported frc/n Philtpp] the Commissioner of m. gration said m a report t< the S^cr tary of Justice. Of il 322 are Chinese, 24 Br: Indiana, 20 Okinaua:;>. a!:d 14 b longed to differed n a nali ties. mbers
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    COMPTON SCORES ANOTHER CENTURY
    374 7 COMPTON SCORES ANOTHER CENTURY Reaches his 1,000 runs for season IJENIS Compton followed up his magnificent Test innings by coming to the rescue of Middlesex at Lord's yesterday with a great knock of 145 after the Kent fast bowlers Martin and Ridgway had sent back Jack Robertson, S. Brown and
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    Ban bumpers says Sydney newspaper
    131 7 Ban bumpers says Sydney newspaper TIE bumper controversy is not of earth shattering importance, but it has its place m that important section of human relationships which involves oar friendship with the British people/* says a leading article m the "Sydney Daily Telegraph" when commenting on Keith Miller's bowling m
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    CLIFF CURVIS BEATS ANDRE FAMECHON
    57 7 Cliff Cunris, 135 lb. 20z., the 21 -year-old Swansea lightweight, gave a classical display of boxine: m outpointing Andre Famechon U37U Tfe.) of France, over eight rounds at Leyton Orient Football ground, London, last night A.P The main body of Argentina's Olympic delegation sailed for
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    Von Nida in another incident
    105 7 NORMAN von Nida, Australian professional golfer, apologised yesterday to the Committee of the Manchester Evening Chronicle golf tourney for knocking off the rim of a bunker m Wednesday's play at Mere Cheshire. Playing out of a trap, Von Nida's ball hit the overhanging edge which
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    Olympic soccer draw: China meets Turkey
    150 7 Olympic soccer draw: China meets Turkey THE draw for the Olympic soccer tournament was made m Zurich yesterday by the International Football Federation. Twenty-three nations entered. There are nine byes and seven eliminatory matches to determine tfie 16 teams to ro forward to the first round proper. The draw for
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    FIGHT POSTPONED
    29 7 \7ESTFJU3AY'S world wt-lter-I weight championship bovrt between champion Supar Ray Robinson and challeneer Bernard Docusson has beon postponed be- cause of rain until next Monday night. A.P.
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    Athletes score fine victory
    403 7 C.A 3, Navy 1. THE Chinese Athletes scored one of their finest victories when they beat the Navy three one m a first division league soccer match at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Centre half Cushley. of whom much was expected, was not impressive but rightwinger Sparrow
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    Australians set for win
    122 7 Australians set for win Wf.j. .niglehold ■»rdaY, I v .i< XOTbooked o the 4 119. I b the sewho r a eood slow I I 50 far l^a —Ist Inns 119 jpido-iUrke I*^ 11 18? p." it P-i**^*:::: i 1^ EMrw Taul wkl B W r H s 5: 5
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    35 7 l> set i I -da the neer- j F.A. XI B r:ed shot -d fromi :*rqu- i and I sund j ihot red m ime i kd taken. Front '.arlng a
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    Ecliptic to win Summer Cup
    602 7 Free Press Racing Reporter ECLIPTIC has a bright chance of winning the 52,500 Summer Cup over a mile and a quarter at Penang tomorrow, the last day of the Penang Turf Club's Summer meeting. The Felstead gelding was pot disgraced when he ran third behind
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    Singapore cycling Entries invited
    71 7 J£NTKIES are imiud for the Singapore Cycling championship meet to be held on July 3 and July 4. The meet will open with a quarter-mile hill climb at 5 pm on July 3 at Bukit Batote. at the Bth mile Baku Ttmah Road. The 150 mile
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    China cagers to play four games in S'pore
    306 7 rZ China basketball team for the Wcrld Olympics will play four games m Singapore before proceeding to London. The team will arrive 5y air from Manila on July 5. On July 7 the team wiL play against th* Selangor Chinese, July tt
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    H.K. TEAM ARRIVE
    37 7 The Hong Kong cricket team photographed on arrival at Seletar yesterday. The visitors, who were at the S.C.C. nets at 10.30 this morning, meet the Singapore Civilians on the padang on Saturday and Sunday.
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    Arbarwins gold cup
    105 7 FRANCE took Ascot's most coveted and valuable prize, the £500 Gold Cup and stake money of £10,000, for the third successive year when M. Marcel Boussuc's Arbar scored an easy victory In this year's race at Ascot yesterday. The King, Queen and Princesses saw the French four-year-old
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    PETRA BEATS FRED PERRY
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    'Safety-first will not pay Jersey Joe'
    550 7 'Safety-first will not pay Jersey Joe From Joe Louis. Special to the Free Press THERE is junl less than a week to and fight bHH 1 m New York are now due for the ballyhoo wimh will precede my title defence against Jersey Joe Walcott on June 23. I know
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    24 7 Alan Pmlcrson. Britain's Oivmpic hope for the high lump o j cleared 6ft. 2ir. at an amateir ternational sports meet :n B< Wednesday. A.P.
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    203 8 Continued from Page 1 Two more incidents involving European planters wrre reported from the Sungei Siput area of Perak, where a state of emergency has been declared. On Klabang Esiale, less than five miles from the scenes of Wednesday*! murders, labourers reported that a Chinese carrying a pistol went
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    NEW FLARE-UP IN N.E.I. FEARED
    457 8 NEW FLARE-UP IN N.E.I. FEARED Tension over deadlock NEW YORK, Thursday. COME high United Nations authorities fear that a breakdown of the Dutch -Indonesian peace negotiations is imminent and that the fighting may be resumed m Indonesia. The new crisis follows the Dutch rejection of a compromise proposal submitted by
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    Father of 12 admits bigamy
    62 8 LIVERPOOL. Thursday. ALFRED JACKSON (35), carpenter, was accused at the preliminary hearing today of bigamy, which resulted m his becoming the father of 12 children by six different women. Replying to the charge, Jackson said. Yes. I think it is twelve— but there was only
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    CALL TO STRIKE IN FRANCE
    139 8 CALL TO STRIKE IN FRANCE PARIS, Thursday. THE Communist-dominated C.O.T. (General Confederation of Labour) tonight called a one-hour strike of all workers, civil servants, railway and public services employees for Saturday m sympathy with the striking tyre factory workers at Clermont Ferrand, where 200 were yesterday injured m clashes with
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    U.K. 'NO' TO IRISH TALKS
    79 8 THE British government today rejected a proposal that it call a conference between Eire and Northern Ireland on Irish unity. The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr. Herbert Morrison) said the policy of the government was to maintain and develop close relations between Great Britain and both
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    Attlee studies Europe plan
    237 8 LONDON, Thursday. A PROMISE to examine a proposal for calling a European assembly to work out Continental unity to cope with the threat of Communism was made tonight by the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, and the Foreign Minister, Mr. Ernest Bevin. This decision was made
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    Cotton earns more dollars
    83 8 LONDON. Thursday. LANCASHIRE has achieved a record postwar production of 266.000,000 square yards of cotton and rayon cloth during the second quarter of 1948. Dollar-earning markets will take 24 percent of the total, exceeding the target of 20 percent to hard currency outlots. The Conservative M.P..
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    France joins in setting up new Germany
    129 8 PARIS Thursday. THE French National Assembiy today approved the six-power agreement to set up a semi -independent government m Western Germany. The plan envisages the election of a constituent assembly m the French, American and British occupation zones of Germany to set up
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    13,000 LONDON DOCKERS OUT
    77 8 A MEETING of London dockers last night decided to continue the strike which for four days has tied up more than 100 ships and now involves 13.000 men. This decision is .subject to confirmation today by meetings of the dockers. An appeal ■tribunal has announced reductions
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    INDIAN CITIZENS
    35 8 IN CEYLON \N Indian Agency report says that th<> Ceylon Cabinet has approved the Indian Citizenship Bill which is to come before the Ceylon Parliament. The draft bill will be Dublished shortly. A.P.
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    DIPLOMATIC HELP FOR INDIA, CEYLON
    146 8 LONDON, Thursday. A NSWERJNG a question m the House of Commons r\ today, the Under Secretary for Commonwealth Relations, Mr. Patrick Gordon Walker said that Britain was giving every assistance to India and Pakistan m establishing their diplomatic ports m foreign countries. Mr Walker went
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    POLICE SKIN DEAD HAND
    68 8 CCOTLAND YARD finger- print cxp rts skinned a dead mans hand on Thursday and dried and mounted the skin m an effort to identify a body found chopped up and thrown into a pond en a North London golf course. Markings on the dead ma. s
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    'MASARYK KILLED DEFENDING SELF'
    269 8 WASHINGTON, Thursday. MR. Jan Masaryk died defending himself and "it is probably true that he was killed on orders from Moscow," said Mr. Juraj Slavik, ex-Czechoslovak Ambassador here who resigned m protest against the Communist seizure of power m his country. Information from Czechs who had
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    MALAYA CRIME HITS MARKETS
    457 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Thursday. THE strike of London dock workers coupled with some uneasiness regarding the troubled Malayan situation brought renewed dullness to the London stock markets today, says Reuter's financial correspondent. Rubbers and Tins were lower. Selling of Industrials was on a small scale
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    UK EAGER TO HELP BURMA
    160 8 UK EAGER TO HELP BURMA K>M>O\ Th COMMENTING m Parliament I v^ statement by the Burmese p r j v* If Thakin Nu, which appeared to heral I policy m Burma and the abandon* principles of democratic locialisn, 1 Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, said i F *<s was most anxious
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    76 8 June 16 Ju: (a> Indus. Ords. ***** ***** <b> Oovt. Sects. 112.36 ***** icj Gold Mines 116 12 115 16 N. Y. stocks ON the New York Stoc* Exchange yesterday. rails received the lton's share of attention and several hit new highs tor thf year. They barely oflset
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    165 8 A SPECIAL Market corrwpo—oßi gtoea the price* of rabb* 11 am totoy m fellow*: Borers S«Uer» Ctt. CU per Ib per Ib No. 1 I.SB Spot km* 45', No. 1 R.S.S. toll m bale* July 4SV. No. I R.S.S. rot) m bales July 44 S 44', No. 3
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