The Singapore Free Press, 28 June 1948

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA fdsfsdgsdg SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1948 PRICE H» CEMS
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    RUSSIANS STEP UP RUBBER BUYING
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    Customs see opium film
    44 1 fdsfsdafke0-i;p*****bvc tivities was filmed in China. Egypt and Havana and the Chinese actress. as been endorsed bv the ed Nations Organisation. •wine a special screening to its members and bv the -tarv of the United States Treasury Mr. John Snyder.
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    THERE'S NO FUTURE IN IT
    86 1 V'lli.D Nations mission is to visit the British < ameroons (West Africa) to investigate complaints by a London church group about the family life of Fon. chief of th*> Bikom tribe, who is r-putrd to have 110 wives. Dunns? a long Trusteeship oil debate the
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    FIRST CLASS ARMY
    22 1 BRITAIN'S War Minister, the Emanuel Shinwell. said* yesterday that the British Army was "rapidly developing i into first-class condition."
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    CHINESE FOUND DEAD IN ROAD
    60 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A POLICE Radio patrol car this morning removed the dead body of a Chinese man who had apparently been killed in a road accident in Orchard Road, near the Cathay building. The Singapore Municipal ambulance service at the Central Fire Station.
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    3 U.S. PLANES CRASH
    42 1 Three U.S. national guardsmen were killed and two others parachuted to safety when two army planes and a fighter -bomber collided over a Californian city on Sunday. This is the second crash of three planes in a week.
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    5 1 Paak-shing hords in Chiang's ear.
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    Gun gang attacks township
    351 1 Gun gang attacks township Raiders are beaten off Free Press Reporter Kuala Lumpur, Monday. FORTY armed Chinese last night attacked the police station at Kuala Krau, Mentakab, Pahang. They opened fire with tommy-guns and revolvers. The raiders first cut the telephone wires to prevent the police summoning help, and then
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    Dr.Wu to report on the 'terror'
    216 1 Free Press Staff Reporter rHE Chinese Consul-General in Singapore. Dr. Wu Paak-shing, is leaving by air for Nanking on June 30 to report to the Foreign Ministry on the current emergency situation in Malaya. Dr. Wu cts to be away about six weeks. Mr.
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    ARMS FLOWN INTO HYDERABAD
    150 1 NEW DELHI, Sunday. HYDERABAD, which has consistently refused demands to accede to the Dominion of India, is receiving supplies of arms and ammunition by air, and the Government of India can do nothing to stop it, an Indian Defence Ministry declared today. The spokesman said there
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    C.I.D. SET TRAP EN BETS RAID
    98 1 C.I.D. SET TRAP EN BETS RAID Pre e Press Staff Reporter bets, some of them k^ for 50 wins and 50 places, were telephoned to a detective in the course of a raid by Assistant Superintendent Eu Cheow Eang and detectives of the Gambling Suppression Branch of the C.1.D., on
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    ITALIAN PLEA
    20 1 Return of Italy's former African colonies was demanded yesterday by a newly formed "Association of Italians of Africa."
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    Eagle swooped, boy died
    46 1 AN eagle swooped on the child of a shepherd on a Turkish mountain, seized the boy in its claws and soared away. As his father watched, helpless, the bird dropped the struggling boy, who fell more than 1.000 feet to hif death.
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    46 1 British buses from Berlin are stopped at the Red Army border control point at Helmstcdt on the BerlinCologne autobahn. With the introduction of new currency into the three western zones of Germany the Russians have closed their border to prevent loestern zone currency from flooding in.
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    TODAY'S BUS FALL
    37 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A Chinese. Chin Boon Sat. was hurt in the nose and leg when he fell off a moving bus at the junction of Norfolk Road and Rangoon Road this morning.
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    WEST STRUGGLES FOR BERLIN
    207 1 LONDON, Sunday. AS Britain, the United States and France are reported to be considering a firm joint protest and possibly economic sanctions to counter the Soviet isolation of Berlin, one of Britain's most in- fluential Sunday newspaper, The Observer, demanded, in an editorial today, that the
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    Chinese floods hit 20 million
    148 1 NANKING, Sunday. AT least, 20,000,000 Chinese were made homeless and more than 2,000,000 acres of farmland were inundated by floods in nine South China provinces, according to reports reaching the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, says A.P. A Ministry spokesman said crop losses alone were
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    Middle East oil 'prodigious'
    110 1 LONDON, Sunday. SHIFTING of the world's oil centre from the United States to the Middle East was forecast by Colonel J. S. M. Auld, past president of the Institute of Petroleum. He said that oil production in the Middle East was becoming prodigious. Three years ago
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    BOYS BOUND, BURNT ALIVE
    92 1 THREE five-year-old boys were bound and burned to death in Bari by 29-year-old Antoni di Donato, who then shot and killed himself. Di Donato bound them in an apartment, placed them on top of furniture and then set fire to it. Their cries attracted a woman
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    RED PLOT FOR POWER REVEALED
    348 1 RED PLOT FOR POWER REVEALED "T HAVE seen documentary proof that the Malayan Communists plan to seize the country by revn tion. They intend to make a second Indonesia in Malaya, employing murder, arson and intimidation to paralyse the country's economy," writes Heater*! correspondent in Singapore. "The current wave of
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    ADMIRAL BOYD DUE THIS WEEK
    90 1 ADMIRAL BOYD DUE THIS WEEK Free Press Staff Reporter THE Commander-in-Chief of the British Pacific Fleet, Admiral Sir Denis Boyd, accompanied by Lady Bcyd and Miss Elizabeth Boyd, will arrive in Singapore on the destroyer Alert on Thursday morning. This is the first visit to be paid to Singapore by
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    KUOMINTANG AID QUERIED
    45 1 KUOMINTANG AID QUERIED THE executive vice-chairman of the New York Institute of Pacific Relations Mr. Edward Carter has told the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs that "the movement launched by Chinese Communists is really a people's movement and cannot be accused of being Russian- inspired
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    OLD MALAYANS
    745 2  -  Hall Romney [LONDON! I LETTER By MEWS of the death at his Somerset ne a few days ago of Mr. J. K. 0, Aidworth, former British >ident, Negri Sembilan, set me speculating as to whether he had been the oldest -MCS officer in retirement He was 81. Up
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    MODEST MAIDNES
    25 2 MO DEST MAIDNES Ti»d«m»rk Rtositrcd I S Patent O*« "You've heard of the gay nineties haven't you? Welt this is one of them, he's ninety-four!"
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    INSIDE SECRET
    26 2  -  MARK TWAIN "Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the lood light it out inside.'
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    IMAGES FOR LUCK
    514 2  -  EDDIE CRIGHTON By A.P Correspondent THE two graven images opposite the lace course in Shanghai certainly Know how to win friends and influence people. When the authorities tried to remove the stone effigies flanking the entrance to the former stables of a British race horse owner, they
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    Bridge Problem
    333 2 QEVEN spades was the MMH< t kind of laydown for. regardless of breaks, South had 12 top card tricks and could win a thirteenth by ruffing just onr diamond in dummy. The players who submitted this deal wanted to know who was at fault for missing the grand
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    PETS AND THE MAN
    184 2 PETS AND THE MAN Bj K. S. HI A U;iIKN 1 dn on a 1 othi should liop up I le but a y It ona CaCM me, in trad in mamx-i A. sum. are coniroir fact. 1 honoured ception I hand to rufflr I Ima the bird bridled lik
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    Hong Kong to raise British film quota
    207 2 THE Hong Kong Government is considering revising its 1947 Ordinance under which British films are allowed a 10 per cent quota of local showing in order o try to the problems facing British film companies in Hong Kong. The step may be taken
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      662 2 SINGAPORE i Sag ?ISU£ a sSS£ j E vS £>^?Sf jsstrsaa S?wlfi3^ &ffi4fii£S3 From 6.00 pm to 1.45 p.m.: Interlude e^Twirld and iSmeVws; 6.4 from 930 p en to 11 (Ml pm.. AUbIKAUA Sports }loundup 7 Five OCloci 485 metres in the medium wave to II IS D m VLA6
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      152 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DottN today, you have dis- criminating and wellbalanced personality with executive power and the ability to understand humanity You are something of a cynic whe n it comes to contemplating the manoeuvres of mankind, but fortunately your sense of humor comes to the rescue in time. lour
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    NEW JAP LEVEL FOR PEOPLE & INCOME
    136 3  - NEW JAP LEVEL FOR PEOPLE INCOME DENIS WARNER I five-year plan to restore industry (By Reuter (By Correspondent) REHABILITATION by 1952 of Japan's real national income to 125 per cent of that of the basic 1930--34 period —fixed by the Far Eastern Commission as the maximum standard of living the
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    32 3 A smiling Pr^ident Truman responds to the whisi and cheers of Los Angeles during his campaign hi the weniern states. The opposing Republicans have n viinated Thomas Demey as presidential candidate. A.P
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    SPORT OF KINGS AND GYPSIES
    35 3 SPORT OF KINGS AND GYPSIES pictur Que*. open P.- and <Tup>: Qffptiet, tipsters, and children dancing on Epsom Dotcns before the annual Derby race. turner): The King and I'jd the procession to open Planet yews
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    INDIA ASKS PROBE OF PLANTATIONS
    189 3 THE interna'- tonal Laoour Organisation liad nut in--1 spired confidence among Indian workers because it K| tl ri* it was in different to Asian countries and I its policy was influenced by England, Mr. Harinath Shakri. Indian worker delegate, told the try Marion at San
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    15 3 Queen firing the startptetol at Windsor r the annual rruiraraa to London A. P fsdfsdfsaf
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    Daily Soviet dose in Siam
    201 3 T'HE Rus. iaiLs an spreading their wings in Siam. The Soviet T.»^atif»n in Bangkok has begun publishing a daily four-pat- bulletin averaging 4,500 w<nds an IH her r some Siamese cant tske it anymore. At a recent Siamr^le boxing ma'rh a middleajr^d sped -ntcd after
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    Industry up, but food still short
    253 3 THE plan emphasise that scheduled in. creases in agricultural and fishery products' may not be attained, but that this deficiency may be offset by greater increases from mining and manufacturing. Coal output is set at 44.000.000 tons, about 1.400-0-000 tons over product i last
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    Textile exports
    279 3 "THE textile industry will re- main as th£ mainstay of Japan's export industries."' •.he plan says. Cotton yarn needs are 2.580,000 bal^s. with 60 per cent for export. This means th^ restoration of approximately twice the existink equipment The export percental is 70 per cent for rayon and
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    NKW U.K. ENVOY
    30 3 Sir John Balfnur. Minister at the British Ernba^y at i Washington, will be the new i British Ambassador in Buencxs Aires, the Foreign Office anannounced last week.
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    Jimp warns road users 'Take Care
    116 3 ytf/S is The Jimp— blood brother to the R.A.F.'s famous Gremlin and a relation tc Chad— who will soon be seen all over Britain. He was introduced by Mr. James Call aqham, P arliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport as the irresponsible sprite
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    BOMBAY'S NEW TB SANATORIUM
    77 3 A TUBERCULOSIS sanatorium with up-to-date medical, surgical and radio therapeutic equipment Ls beinii built in Bombay city at an estimated cost of nearly Rs. 2.000.000. An important, feature is the installation of three X-ray units with tomography attachment for imding the depth. degree and location ot
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    NO U.S. SUPERVISION OF CHINESE ARMY PLANS
    202 3 THE Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. Dr. Wellington Koo, has been discussing with the State Departmeikt the procedure under wttich the US $125,--000.000 military grant will be made available to r h»i Chinese Government. Dr. Koo also discussed the provisions of the bilateral
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    Emigration— the modern way
    57 3 ONE thousand men. women ani children have out have on a five-week luxury liner trip with iourcourse rm-als and as much whit*' bread. butter and whisky as they want The cost: £10 each The Australian Government is paying the rest of the fare. For all the
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    MP is tired of gangsters, wants film of real Britatrs
    97 3 "TD like to ne more ii 1 which gemi m our way of life," Harold Wilson in monfl "I think we P"C::i!ly tired Oi iiim^." "I thinjc we arnlms or Way Of Life "I significant parti of oi lil 'I
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    'Mystery' port of S.Austria
    124 3 'Mystery' port of S. Austria EXPERT In int > C'j.pc Jaffa a* a Uk deep-sia port in Soutr:n. South Australia a marine p-/--many y«'ars standir Since Admiral: prepared In tiie i 4 ■5 have been OWV the calm pede Bay. Cajn T.i.*a. the southern tnd ni the No on»- hu^
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    THE DEAD LIMIT
    38 3 U*e of pa.-- Misei o the \j bodies fruin outlying viJ to the Allahabad to oonunorcray. it is iikeiv that in future tx I will b<* carried only on buses the consent of pai> i
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    FLEEING INDO-CHINA
    37 3 At lea^r 12 000 fled from Ind) Ch.na into Siam to escape the civ. t'rrorsm. Bangkok immigra Lion omciaLi nam^ 10.00 the top figure yrhih V n-;ese .^ourrrs my it is moro l:ke 1 00.000
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    PORTUGUESE TRIAL
    29 3 POR TUGUESE TRIAL OfliciaL, set July 6 as the day for the trial of 108 Portugue.sp accused of political crimes against the regime. Nineteen lawyers will defend In em.
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY. June 28. 1948. Critical weeks
    723 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY. June 28. 1948. Critical weeks CURRENCY reform in Germany has precipitated a new crisis in Anglo-Ameri-can relations with R This second battle ol B nay be decisive, at tea the* German capitals late, and it cannot fail to influence profoundly Loth the prospects of European
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    FROM CELL TO PREMIER
    882 4  - FROM CELL TO PREMIER Stan Swinton by A.r. torresponaeni D I B U L Songgram has gone from prison cell to Prime* Minister's Palace in 1 1 little more than two years. He's the only enemy dictator tc resume his strongI man role. The dapper little Field f Marshal says
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    U.S.prepares bases in Japan
    380 4  - U.S. prepares bases in Japan RAY FALK By INSTALLATIONS of the American 11th Air-borne Division and the sth Air Force in northern Japan, facing Siberia, give the impression that iho United States has built a series of permanent camps. Moreover, these units arc in a constant state of. watchfulness. The
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    81 4 For three years, Mrs. Nora Oxley, of Southgate, London, toured Britam's war prisoner camps searching for someojie able to tell her whether her little German grand-daughter, Anneliese Fahrman. was still olive Mrs. Oxley left England 35 years ago and married a German. She returned before the war. The story ended
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    New Charter For The 7 Seas
    872 4  - New Charter For The 7 Seas JOHN HALL By V/TEN of the sea from 33 nations met in London at the beginning of this month to sign a new charter of the Seven Seas. Britain called the conference and, on a score of details sounder ship construction, more radar and
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    'DEATH SEAT' in cars
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    New Johore water works will cost $3 million
    13 5 New Johore water works will cost $3 million :fdsfsfsdfsf LiUthe I i i
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    TO ARRANGE ROYAL TOUR
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    GIRLS AMONG NEW DOCTORES
    12 5 GIRLS AMONG NEW DOCTORES l;kjoiui ][tolmo;iunmkljby nhiogr nm iluio hn ljkflkjs iofjjkqs
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    FILM SHOW IN CHANGI PRISON
    144 5 FILM SHOW IN CHANGI PRISON CWICTS in the Cha. Prison will be given a show by the Public Ret m Unit today. forma part of the n reform scheme which at reforming the charr of the prisoners through d rather than pu.ment. The films to be shown will spe illy
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    NEW MUNICIPAL COMMISSIONERS
    41 5 NEW MUNICIPAL COMMISSIONERS PENANG. Sun. Two new Municipal Commissioners Penanf have been apby the High Commls- They are Mr. N. Ponnuduthe president of the rlcal and Admini.ive Staffs Union, and Ong Joo Sun. a commitnber of the Straits Chinese British Association.
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    Fishing in a creek
    75 5 Fishing in a creek •r-duty hours, and certainly most iveek-ends, are svent by Indians em- d by the Public Works Department, looking for food. These Indians spent their time in blocking up a stretch of creek off Jurong Road, emptying it of water and helping themselves to about ISO medium-sized
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    PENSIONED P. C.s WORK AS JAGAS
    171 5 Free Press Staff Reporter P) assist business firms requiring the Mffrices of {■CM, the Singapore Police maintain a list of police pcwkmen and other reliable men who are available employment, the Deputy Commissioner of Police, (Mr. J. C. Barry), told the Free Press, Mr.
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    NAVY GIVES 'GO AHEAD SIGNAL
    667 5 Malayan R.NV.R. re-organisation Jap minelayer as H. Q. ship Free Press Staff Reporter THE reorganisation of the Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve is going ahead rapidly and training is being carried on temporarily at tlie Headquarters of the S.S.V.F. (Volunteer, Forces). In an interview with
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    57 5 picture, An elderly Chinese woman prays before one of the two images opposite the race course in Shanghai, while a policeman stands guard. The case was taken to court after the city authorities ordered the removal of the statues. Since then a policeman has been on duty to stop worshippers
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    Advertising liable to assessment
    333 5 Free Pres^ Staff Reporter BI'ILDINGS and property in Singapore which exhibit advertisements or hoardings will, from January next year, have their assessment increased by the annual value of such advertisements. This is the first time that advertisements and hoardings on buildings and property have conv in
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    SMC SECURITY MEASURES
    189 5 Free Press Staff Reporter OIMULTANEOI'SLY with a iecMoa u> In SOT cipal oflicers, who cany cash in the MMU i duty, against the risk of death or permanent In Singapore Municipal Comissioners have agreement with the Police Force for the SU| police guards at the Man! 'al
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    PATROL FINDS RED CAMP
    57 5 PATROL FINDS RED CAMP F r,-e Pi v i «,..inc»'i»t KUALA LJMPo*i A co built 1 and militarv i The camp a hill m U K- Lumpur. Tr paths, whi c 1 1 intruders to be noticed from the summ Th WBM BO Oth f proach to I p ual
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    MEETING OFF
    21 5 The Army Civil Service Union postponed a meeting yrsterdav which was to bav« inaugurated the n< Industrial Workers' Union.
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    UNION WILL LAY OFF POLITICS
    165 5 IN view of present emer- K^ncy regulations in Singapore the 400-strong Air Ministry Local Staff Union at its first annual general m< ing yesterday declared its :.on- political status. The meeting said that the union's objects were confined to promoting of members' welfare. The Union
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    Utusan reply to Dato Onn
    103 5 THE Utusun Melayu, commenting on Da to' Onn's recent statement that the paper was Critical of his warnings, says tlrat it drew attention to the subject of violence as long ago as 1946. The Utusan Melayu says that it stressed at that time j the
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    SERVICE FOR CHILDREN
    53 5 SERVICE FOR CHILDREN MORE than 200 children irom six Anglican churches ati tended yesterday's Combined 1 ChurcheV Children Service at the St. Andrew's Cathedral. This was the first combined children's service held since i the Liberation. Rev. K. Nicholson and Rev. R. W. Eales of St. Christopher Church. Johore Bahru.
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    15 5 'I H€ Izngku Mahkota i Kelantan, who has been installed as heir to the Throne.
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    ONLY BUDGET SUMMARIES IN FUTURE
    147 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A STEP to cut unnecessary I expenditure on the pubI lication of the Municipal budget has been approved by the Municipal Commission- ers. The practice in the past was to publish ia the G,v- ernment Gazette the draft j estimates and
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    Freedom of London for Duke of Edinburgh
    64 6 Freedom of London for Duke of Edinburgh The impressive scene at the Guildhall, when the Duke of Edinburgh received the m of the City of Lori' don. Princess Elizabeth, herij a Freeman, watched the ceremony. She can be back to camera, leeond from the right in the front row. The
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    U.S. PRICE SOAR FEARED: TYRES UP
    417 6 U.S. PRICE SOAR FEARED: TYRES UP Record high for consumer goods U.S. prices of many key industrial products including tyres, are likely to increase. If these go j up, then the prices of almost everything else, except food, tUready high are expected to soar. Steel and coal operators are expecting
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    RUBBER PROCESS IS 'BEST-EVER'
    234 6 Anew synthetic rubber process was described by Dr. S. M. Cadwcll, research and development director of the U.S. Rubber Company as "Che most important development "since the original general purpose synthetic was put into production". The rubber is claimed to the bi'st tyre tread performance yet
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    40 6 Hungarian v^-"* who W need in -i charges of^ inciting v. '.lagers to murdcr'a policeman, here under cross ciamination during his trial, policeman, iocs killed during rbancet wh< n F>. Asztelas protested against the proposed nationalisation o/ church- sponsored schools.
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    H.K. VIEW ON WARTIME RENT
    100 6 BELIEF that it would be against the inter* st ol the j community to collect wartime rentals was expressed at Hong Kong by Mr. Ko Cheuk-hung. rumoured as likely new chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce's general com- mitt The subject of rent payments
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    TERROR COLONEL TO HANG
    42 6 TERROR COLONEL TO HANG IMKY Midusy, Xormer nuli- tary commandt roi Budapest, was s« utenced to death. A bath attendant who betame a Colonel in the Hungarian army was found responsible for the killing of thousands durine a Nazi terror wave. A.P
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    A future star?
    40 6 Ixick of pitches map be one reason for England's present cricket a lump but 'hesc youngster* are making the most of what they can find in this ca±e a natch of (jra<* in front of igham Palace.
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    Town fights for 8 old men
    100 6 UTESTMINSTER may shortly hear about the eight old men of Barnet. Herts. For years they have been doing odd jobs at Weilhouse Hospital and have partially tarned their keep there. Now under the National Health Service Act, the eight old men are earmarked for
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    92 6 Queen Mary, who recently celebrated her 76th birthday, still makes many public appearances and her interest in the theatre— she often goes once a week is unflagging. Here she is seen at two outdoor events: at the Royal Tournament (above) with the Duke of Gloucester, Major-General J. V O. Marriott,
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    TROOPS REFUSED
    67 6 FINAL Dl IV EIGHT British ioldlerj n;ust serve lentenoei ranging vuude to six months' d( for mutiny in the Swez Canal zone on lh< ex tht-ir release M« mben I f thr B<v*on<l Battalion of the Roy\;l Fusilier* they fao^d a coui t martial for rrfaisjng to muuDt
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    RESCUE AT SEA
    23 6 The erew oi 44 oi a Hai. pt Norwegian t:mker fa 1 picked up 649 rniht northwest of Brest. i-Yance
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    Lost £60.000. gave life for invention
    128 6 FUND dyi:.. I I capital, flnanc.. 1 i which he ciait: I T a friend flat broke. I b sell )e*ti and ir.y I ha was a bad daj I when I hear I I I went again* m. It I too old to
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    3 MORE 'FREE PORTS' FOR U.S.
    41 6 3 MORE 'FREE PORTS' FOR U.S. rE United Scab i have thr The U.S. S« m nv, Mr. Charles E from L San Fraticisro t .tabl lor. Ifn trado z n«. B t'd ai:d New Or i T;» rlearing Ui». custom*;
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    CHINA GIVE ALL-MALAYA A LESSON
    421 7 Tourists give rb display -'led the ball out. Angullia next N*ve<J from Yuig Pan. A Godwin -Thomson move reed in Chye H»e making a weak r.pt which was easily saved by Pong Lun. A minute before half-time. Malaya could have equalised Thomson drove the ball
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    4 more world records broken
    308 7 AS the Olympic gamete which >tart in London on July 29, draw nearer, more world record marks are being improved and the latest batch of them tour in all comes from the United States. In Alhambra, California, on Saturday Lloyd Labeach established a new world
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    My Love achieves a great double
    234 7 PHE Aga Khans My Love, winner of the Epsom Derby, won the French Grand Prix at Longchamps over one mile and seven furlongs at Paris yesterday the most important event in the French racing calendar and became the first horse to complete the Derby
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    19 7 rnoto fry Abdul Rahman beats Wing-keung to a header in yesterday's game between ?hina and Malaya- Y. C. Lee
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    BRITAIN WIN
    51 7 BRITAIN, with 2M points, won the first quadrangular international athletic contest among the military cadet schools of France, Belgium and the Netherlands and the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst on Saturday. Prance was second with 67 points, Belgium, third with 43. and the Netherlands frnirth with 23. A.
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    WIMBLEDON: PACE GROWS HOTTER
    593 7 WIMBLEDON PACE GROWS HOTTER T»HE pace wttl jrow hotter a* Wimbledon today as r eight players battle for the men's singles title and the right to fill big Jack Kramer's shoes as recognised world tennis champion. Four Americans, one Austrian, a Swede, a Hungarian and an Englishman— the first since
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    British open starts today
    106 7 1 FOURTEEN American golfers. i 1 seven professionals and seven amateurs, will spearhead the overseas attack on the British Open Golf Championship starting at Muirfield Scotlajid, todav. The British Open is regarded as the "Blue Ribbon' of world golf, but the pinzes are not rich. The
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    Stable jockeys contest objection
    568 7 Free Press Racing Reporter r2 popular belief that a stable "fixes" a race if it has more than one runner can hardly hold water after Saturday's incident at Kuala Lumpur in which a jockey lodged an objection against his stable mate. I have seen stable jockeys
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    USEFUL B.P.
    52 7 Tht 101l i i i t th? Useful Badminton Party in a friendly match wi'h B.P at the Clerical Union I Thursday —I c m <il nr. Oi-orgc Chen Goh Tian C! Anuar and Mis Rose Soci H Kit Kh<<; Peng Koji. O: Seng. Abdul Malik Arshad and
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    Olympic preparations completed
    312 7 yHE Olympic Games of 1948 are fast becoming a reality a* more and more teams reach Britain's shores from the far-flung outposts of the world and the camps begin to hum with activity. With 61 nations finally entered there are 12 more nations taking j part than
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    CHINA TEAM
    42 7 Photo by The China team photographed before their game yesterday back row, I to r: Hau Yung-san, P. L. Chong, Kam-hung; Chang Kam-hoi, Soon ling-sing, Lau Chungson: Ho Ying-fan, Chau Man-chi, Chew Wing-keung, Chia Boon-leong, reap Cheng-ensj.- Y. C. Lee
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    England face mighty task
    568 7  -  Bill Bowes From A MIGHTY task lies ahead of England today, fourCi IX day of the second Test at Lord's with AuUala 478 runs ahead with six 01 second innings still in hand. It was a mighty task even before Au embarked on their second innings.
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    LIVERPOOL JOINS DOCK STRIKE
    495 8 15,000 troops standing by LONDON, Sunday. THE fortnight-long London dock strike, affecting 20,000 men and now tying up 154 ships, has spread to Liverpool, where dockers have voted to walk out tomorrow in support of the London strikers. Efforts of union officials today to get the
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    'HOOEY' SAYS MR. ATTLEE
    72 8 SKEGy£6S i Lines.), Sun. "J UTON HOOEY" was how the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee. described Mr, Winstoji Churchill's speech to a Conservative rally at Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire, yesterday, attacking the Government. Mr. Attlee declared, "There is the same demand for a general election; the same
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    BURMESE PLEA FOR AMNESTY
    68 8 1 TWENTY-NINE newspapers appealed to the Burmese Government yesterday to grant an amnesty to insurgents similar to that given recently in the Philippines. The appeal also asked the Anti-Fascist Peoples Freedom League to postpone a decision on the plan, proposed bv Premier Thakin Nu for left-v.ing
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    SOVIET HARVEST
    28 8 SOVIET HAR VEST The harvest is in full swing in the south of the Soviet Union with many collective farms yielding twice as much grain as last year.
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    REBELS SLASH AT GREEK ARMY
    174 8 ATHENS, Sunday. i^OMMUNIST guerrillas slashed at communication lines this week-end in a savage attempt to cripple the all-out offensive under way by six Greek Army divisions in the primitive mountain country along the Albanian frontier. The Free Greece radio station reported today that after heavy
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    Indians revert to old names
    80 8 MADRAS, Monday. T*HE Government of Madras has altered certain place names to make them accord with their nomenclature in the regional language. They had been anglicised. Thus, Trichinopoly has been changed to Tamil Truchirapalli, Klstna into Krishna, Tanjore into Tanjavur, Negapatam into Negappattnam, Coconada into
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    CHILE AND REDS
    18 8 The Chilean Senate has approved the Chamber of Deputies' proposal to outlaw the Communist Party.
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    FORD LEFT $500.000.000
    68 8 A PARTIAL inventory of motor-millionaire Henry Ford's estate, filed in the Detroit probate court, included $26,500,000 in personal bank accounts and an item of $20 "irom the sale of hay" from one of his farms. The estate, estimated at about $500,000,000. was left chiefly to his four
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    INDIA-CHINA ROAD PROJECT
    64 8 THE Chinese Foreign Office is considering a British project to build a highway from India across the border into China's Sikang Province. Foreign Office sources disclosing this gave no indication if the project was considered an infringement of Chinese territorial integrity. The boundary in that area is
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    EGYPT ANXIOUS
    24 8 The Egyptian Foreign Ministry last night cancelled all leave of the Egyptian Diplomatic Corps abroad "on account of the present international situation".
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    PLOT TO KILL ABDULLAH
    85 8 PLOT TO KILL ABDULLAH JERUSALEM, Sunday. DETAILS of an*alleged plot by the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem to assassiiKte King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan were broadcast on Saturday by the Jewish radio station, quoting a "usually reliable source." The radio said: "The Mufti instructed General Mohammed El Kindi to carry out the
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    Red 'war' on Marshall aid
    214 8 LONDON, Sunday. /COMMUNISTS in France and Italy wUI wage an all-out fight against the Marshall plan for European recovery. This was announced by the Secretary of the French Communist Party, M. Jacques Duclos, and the Italian Communist leader, Palmiro Togliatti. At a meeting to observe
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    Pope's bid to win workers from Reds
    88 8 Pope's bid to win workers from Reds ROME, Sunday. ¥>OPE Pius XII on Sunday 1 told 500 workmen of the Communist stronghold of Sesto San Giovanni Italy's "little Stalingrad"— to be "front line soldiers of Christ." He received the men from the industrial saburb of Milan in a special audience
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    'Thief of 100 keys' arrested
    78 8 NANKING. Saturday. fTTHE "thiel of a hundred A k^ys" Is under arrest. The prisoner is a 21-year-old Hunan man called Yoh Wan-haw who specialised in legation and embassy burglaru s. Before Chiang Kai-shek personally ordered the police to end the one-man crime wavo within a
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    CHICAGO GUNMEN ELUDE POLICE
    147 8 CHICAGO, Sunday HPHE police today believed that the armed gangsters who took refuge in a quarry on the outskirts of Chicago last night, had escaped in the dark and boarded a goods train. More than 200 police guarded the quarry throughout the night, but most of
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    Prodigies meet
    28 8 Yehudi Menuhin, 32, playing his £5,000 Stradivarius for the 11-year-old conductor, Pierino Gaviba, during an interval at a London Music Festival programme at Harringay Arena, London.
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    ARABS DEMAND BRITONS STAY
    296 8 CAIRO. Sunday A RAB officials are understood to have told Bntai they would regard the withdrawal of Britii forces from Haifa before Aug. 1 as a breach of U "cease fire" agreement in Palestine. The last I forces are due to leave Palestine by that da'<
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    JEWS SAY U.K. IS CAUSING HATRED
    160 8 MONTREUX. Switzerland, Sunday riR Stephen Wise, opening the second Jewish Congress here today, said that "Great Britain which, through Lord Balfour won for itself one of the foremost places in our roll of honour, is rapidly losing that position as a result of its
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    Rubber prices
    61 8 A SPECIAL Market Mrreapondesn ffirss the prices off rabbet at 11 a. st. today as follows: Borers. Sellers Ota. cts B«r It. per ft. No. 1 RSS. .Spot 4»-j, 45*. Kb. 1 B.S.8. rot jBly 45S Ko. S B.S.S. fob In bales July 44V 44-,. Kb. S B.S.S.
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    New Red push into N. China
    106 8 qOME 100,000 Commi I O down the Peiping-MuKdei, B the Great Wall and entered r I 30,000 Reds have fought !r i of the port of (hinuamt hi y %JM 30 miles from Tientsin e ai Whf/5B This new Red pi I developments in
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    CAIRO SPLIT
    49 8 THE Egyptian t ter. 87-year-old a Khashaba Pasha, has r He was believer: posed the Prime Min stand in reject in? Br proposals on *he fui Sudan.— Reuter A pair of Chine.,. shoes which 10 days ae CN$7, 000.000 wselling at CK$50 000 000 flatlon -ridden Shan*
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    Portuguese atom claim
    64 8 LISBON Sunday PORTVGVESF Pro]. Artw querque, claims thai > > vented the atom bomb passed the secret to United States Go-r--in 1941 He said that the practical experimen carried out in the F lihcrc a tiny bomb i ploded and pr earth t r cmor. Prof. d'Albuqii
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