The Singapore Free Press, 2 July 1948

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
  • 20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA w x SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1948 PRU'F l«» It- IS
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  • 1447 1 Over one thousand detained Enough troops says Listowel LONDON, Thursday. IV^ORE than one thousand arrests have been A made m Malaya under the emergency ordinance, the Minister for Colonial Affairs, Lord Listowel, told the House of Lords today. Lord Listowel spoke for the Government at the end of a debate
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  • Article, Illustration
    32 1 Afts« iZosa Lum, m an unusual shade of scagrecn taffeta evening goicn icith gold shoes and oold necklet and earrings at the Pageant of Beauty and Fashion at Raffles Hotel last nicht.
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  • 10 1 N. BORNEO AIR FIELDS WILL BE ENLARGED rip it TOO
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  • 53 1 |rt«r last used East Coast route to Kuan tan and Kota Bahru there has been a bit? increase m the number of passengers. The afternoon Dakota flight from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur and back, put on to serjre the requirements of businessmen, is now travelling:
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  • 210 1 Free Pres** Staff Reporter ■THE Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, will broadcast from Radio Malaya on Monday nighl at 9.45. He will be speaking after an expected review of Government policy which will be made m the Federal Legislative Council m the morning by the
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  • 31 1 Large portraits of Mahatma Gandhi are to adorn the t-rnment Houses of all provinces, and m New Delhi. Th^ Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, is looking into the details.
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  • 28 1 INDIAN Government will begin trade talks soon with Russia, Yugoslavia and Switzorland. India is also examining draft commercial treaties with the United States and China.
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  • 121 1 Free Press Staff Reporter rENTY-TWO Volunteer Force officers are a t present receiving instruction m the use of sten guns and they will relieve the police of duty m certain sections of Singapore. There will be three sections which will provide seven men for road
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  • 22 1 Bombay police fired on 1,000 sweepers. Including women, who yesterday afternoon demanded the release of sweepers m police custody.
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  • 48 1 FOUR million Filipino children went back to school yesterday m the largest enrollment m the history of the ""Government officials said public schools will have 3 700 000 pupils. Most of the remaining 300.000 attend secondary schools sponsored by churches and private individuals.- A.P.
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    31 1 Mrs. Lynn O'Keefe models a daring navy taffeta and French lace gown. She wore navy anklet shoes, and pearl necklet and earrings, at the Pageant of Fashion and Beauty last night.
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  • 242 1 STERNER CRISIS POWERS Labour to be conscripted Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. NEW emergency powers, including the conscription of labour and the suppression of publications, are being sought by Che Federal Government m an ordinance that will be placed before the Legislative Council meeting here on Monday. The
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  • 65 1 Free Press Staff Reporter IN a raid on the Pasir Panjang area yesterday, the C.I.D. arrested a Malay and a Chinese m possession of secret society documents. Both men are believed to be members of the Kiu Liong Choo secret society of the "108 Group." In
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  • 45 1 MELBOURNE Radio said today that the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. J. B. Chifley, will leave by air for London on Saturday night for discussions with Mr. Attlee and the British Cabinet. Mr. Chifley will be m Singapore on Sunday afternoon. A.P.
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  • 57 1 THE Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Arthur Creech Jones, is expected to make Malaya one of his main subjects when Parliament debates colonial affairs next Thursday. Sir Edward Gent, expected m London this weekend for consultations with the Secretary of State, may be
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  • 137 1 Wu Paak-shing HONG KONG, Friday. rE Communist movement m Malaya is aiming to "disturb peace and security, and to destroy the economic structure of the British government", according to Dr. Wu Paak-shing, Chinese ConsulGeneral m Singapore, who arrived here yesterday en route to Nanking. He
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  • 21 1 The National Broadcasting Company and Columbia Broadcasting are withdrawing from the U.S. State Department's "Voice of America" broadcasts.
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  • 88 1 Free Press Staff Reporter ¥X)UR persons were arrested JT m Singapore yesterday under the Emergency regulations, bringing the total to 35 one Malay, 18 Indians and 16 Chinese. The Malay, the first to be arrested since the emergency was declared on Wednesday June 23, and
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  • 13 1 MOSCOW CEYLON Russia has threatened to veto Ceylon's application for United Nations membership.
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  • 284 1 GANG RAID VILLAGE, KILL THREE Free Press Staff Reporter AT 6 a.m, this morning a lar^c p:«r;y of amed Chinese carried out a raid on tiie viliane of Km 20 miles north of Johore Bahru, on the main road, killing three Chinese. The gang fired on the police si lUcm
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  • 87 1 PENANG. Fric ONE person described athe highest imp was among seven un Chinese arrested near J (North KedarO. according reports from Alor Star y ester I day. Information that a band of about 100 uniformed men were m the ana retulted m a sweep
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  • 87 1 1 3 DEATHS ON THE ROADS Free Press Staff Reporter INHERE were 13 fatal*' A from 580 road accident.-. Singapore m June incluc. four deaths resulting lrom falls from moving buses. Three motor i and three pedestrians, incluc two children, were among I other deaths A total of 157 person*
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  • 42 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE C.IX). yesterday arr a Chinese, Ng Kau Liok, who is suspected of being connected with the $6 000 payroll robbery from the Hooglandt rubber factory m the Paya Lebar area on June 2
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • FOR WOMEN
    • 501 2  -  JUDY BARDEN By ]\|Y one 4> new look dress, wtiich le me the envy cf lin, made me a strock m \V; would nudge each other, point at me and then go off into gales of mirth. If I stood to look m a shop window, crowds collected
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    • 276 2 CC Parisienm "Gusts "Pirates/ 1 Tia- > as b pai eels. Colours are gay. slick and hv list of Wind" (Coup is a billowing m c a or st. Urn. orn with r.) cf the d tninat,y a bright shirt. •Pirates" are trousers contrived after the style <
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      310 2 NORTH was sissy m thl He was too much concerned with the weakneai of ni.s spade suit rind the fact that thr vulnerable opponents were activ« m the bidding. He completely failed to vLsualt'-e what hlfl r must have to justify his cii.tmoiul bid a free bid and
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    • 458 2  - Cooking column SOMETHING SPECIAL JOAN CASTLE By TO add the cost of two bottles of wine to the cooking budget throws it, I know, temporarily off balance. But the addition of a small glass of wine, red or white as the case may be, to certain dishes lilts them so
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    • 119 2 TPEWARE badly designed '-'New Look styles. Phipps shows some good styles to watch for. Far left: Curved lines emphasised by fagoting and by cap sleeves on an oatmeal rayon dress. Next to it a very wide black skirt, well cut because the fulness springs from
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    • 172 2 HOW wonderful it is to be described sus "Fresh as the flowers m spring" or "The morning dew". Freshness is a v >- man's greatest charm for no matter how beautiful the clothes if freshness is not there, then charm is also lost. Looks are not the
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    • 157 2 HE CREATED ONE-PIECE BATHING SUITS TT a half uume.-is bat I dustry. And w\ half-yard rmn won't be any tops a t all. 'And tl bly," precicls Mr. L< Asch, the man v: tli first m xlen form -fit tint; -uit. Mr. Asch i years ago, U fwim suit two
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    • 94 2 For that NEW LOOE Vfassiamuih LADIES' DRESS MAX Tailoring to Pin-point Predaml 31-33. HIGH ST. SINGAF Ie NYLON STOCKIK Sealed at the mill I In COFFEE BROWN. M 6 mistiqi i TEL: 4».1M SI KM HI S i I Of [SSI London JH H OAT I WAV iS TO London
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 876 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DOR.N today, your am- hitions are ii^h and >our energies nut. You are fond <»i a< tivity and ezcitmenl and rind them ■i iniuli It your work. <»d of travel, you must definitely curb this restless m early life unlw« it era be integrated very definitely into
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  • NEWS
    • 7 3 West Indian star sprinter loses again I
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    • 33 3 A 12-YEAR-OLD boy "stated to Possess miraculous powers" who "produced currency not os from nowhere and gave them to those around him. was the subject of a report m Madras pre&s
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    • Article, Illustration
      20 3 Australian Olympic oarsmen A S. Surrock tleft) and L A. Fenton were among the Olympic athletes to a* m Britain.
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    • 244 3 10,000 OLYMPIC TICKETS RETURNED Eleventh hour blow to Games RfORE than 10,000 additional Olympic Games IVI tickets have suddenly become available to the British public. Owing to difficulties m obtaining sterling several European countries have had to return the bulk of Uie tickets allotted to them. A record entry of
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    • 90 3 A PASSENGER on a Bournemouth Corporation bus was charged twopence tor a penny fare. He called at the transport offices and complained Next day a big saloon car drew up at his house, two mUes from the transport offices. An official stepped out. am instructed by
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    • 156 3 A-BOMB HORRORS FORECAST DHYSICIANS at the American Medical Association convention were told by Stafford L. Warren of the Atomic Energy Commission, that cities hit by atom bombs woulri be unfit for occupation "for years afterwards." Dr. Warren, who visited Hiroshima. forecast that i American doctors might some day treat 100.000
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    • 83 3 A POLISH ex-Commando, rt found guilty of murder, pleaded m vain at Milford Havvn, Wales, for the privilege of dying the same way as his victim. Jan Stokowskl, aged 22, shot and kitted Henryk Bojko. another Pole, with four pistol shots last April 30. 'Can
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      29 3 Miss Muriel Scott, personal driver to the Chief Constable of Liverpool, who is training for the Games, has the assistance of Detective Constable Kenneth Anderson, Northern Counties champion sprinter.
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    • 189 3 .s production lines is being Departmental stores. One day and is booked for two O: have so speeded up the an turn oiif a married couple t s up L T.oves f EJJ* ore C*- md its r— »av s^i- oeautv. W mon R2J2* a:
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    • 43 3 Smoking is Increasing m Siam, it was officially reported here. In May, the population of Siam (estimated at; 18.000.000) smoked about 300.--000.000 cgarettes, 2,000 lb of Imported tobacco. 625 boxes of cigars and an unknown quantity of smuggled tobacco and cigarettes.
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    • 252 3 MR. Butlin. the holiday camp millionaire, has just flown to the Bahamas Ito take another look at his ever-growing "empire." When he arrives at the Bahamas, he is likely to do some talking about his latest idea j—a holiday camp for millionaires. There, at Grand Bahama.
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    • 49 3 Hundreds of children at Burnley, Lancashire, aged three to 14 nave started saving to buy a home of their own ready for them when they grow up. At Burnley Building Society offices special counters deal with the young savers. Women assistants handle their cash and answer queries.
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    • Article, Illustration
      33 3 E. W. Sturgess, the South African tennis star jumps to a high one m beating E. Morea (Argentine) at Wimbledon. He vms eventually knocked out of the competition by Josef Asboth, the Hungarian.
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    • 51 3 SHIP'S Captain Lachlan McNeill was at Cork, Eire fined £102 for making an omelet out of six dozen eggs. Customs officers said he made the omelet by jumping on the eggs on the dockslde when advised that Eire regulations prohibited hLs taking them back to Scotland with
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    • 231 3 Chinese protests ignored DESPITE wails of protest from certain f the Chinese business community over Japanese "dumping", Hong Kong has no m tv imposing restrictions on trade with Japan, it closed m authoritative quarters here. Trade officials point out that dumping m» porting goods
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    • 163 3 THE replacement ol Ho Sz n Yuan as Mayor oi Peiping by the Nankin Government is attributed to differences between him ani General Fu Tso-yi Sze-Yuan, who to be deeply upset by the decision, was a popular man As Governor of Shantung he had a brilliant
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    • 70 3 HUKBALAHAP squads assembled m prearranged camps all over Central and Southern Luzon preparatory to registering with the authorities and returning to their homes. Associated Press's Central Luzon correspondent said Huk Colonel Jose Taffuiam, overall peasant commander of Nueva Ecija province, had notified the government that
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous

  • LEADERS
    • 561 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, July 2, 1948. Parliament and Malaya OTAI 3 on Malayan j5 ra made m the Hou mmons at Question Time on Wtdn^ emphasized the necessity of a nd full survey of policy by the Federal Governmeir -he LegislaCouncil meets on Monv. In the case of
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    • 985 4  - NEW CHAPTER FOR M.E.? OLOF HADDAD By A NEW chapter, un- predictable and heavy with destiny, is beginning for the Middle East. The future of both panArabism and Zionism is deeply involved. So are Arab relations with Britain, the United Slates *nd the rest of the United Nations. Prospect! of
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    • 323 4 Racketeer 's Paradise HONG KONG today is probably the world'? greatest paradise fo* racketeers, confidence men, black marketeers, slick salesmen and assorted petty thiei They perm at? level of Chr. nomy, from cheating on tram fa res to bigiime piracy and smuggle You want a fla., a driving licence, a
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    • Article, Illustration
      18 4 East cua*i uai%,ti; 7ha Tic 7Jana UShermc •■rne~&iiiur,t *,*> i/ie open China Sesu Uny te a;fe< Wian giia t;i
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    • 691 4  - WHEN LOOTING WAS LEGAL ERIC DUNSTER IF fate had put you m the Army a couple* of centuries ago, your reward for active service would have been the spoils of war. For whatever a soldier picked up after the battle was his. Plundering was legal once the battle was over.
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    • Letter to the editor
      • 194 4 8-AUDAGAR" is still lost m the days of Adam Smith political economy l have not made a market but bought a couple of tins of crab at 80 cents, for ano: visit to the same three s> revealed crab still being ov. Ed at the same pi visit
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    • 199 4 fHAIiM: gramme to I xt Wedn b sponsored women* Methodi Mala; V E LEST E TUTZ, wife of well-known leader, Dr. H. B. TUTZ. Many will her lor her ab. guiding of Singaj, Malaya. When the ol the Pr of Sen will return to re.
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 6 5 ONE DIED OF DOG BITE I
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    • 525 5 Free Press Staff Reporter VIIEME for the provision of new classrooms for the Singapore Anglo-Chinese School, on a nITO.OOO site m Barker Road, will enable the school to enrol an additional 860 pupils next year for the primary to the senior classes, and mark the
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    • 306 5 Exchange finds work for 428 Free Press Staff Reporter A T indication that jobs m Singapore are becoming more scarce is given m the June report of the Labour Department's employment exchange. Of the 1,396 who registered for work, the Exchange could place only 428,
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    • Article, Illustration
      89 5 Blonde Mannequin, Rona Brotchie, featuring a pur-ple-coloured goi.ni m gleaming pure-silk satin at the beauty and fashion Pageant at Raffles Hotel la^t night. Most the many imported model gowns displayed were of the neiv three-quarter length. Raffles ball-room was crowded with an appreciative audience of about 500 people. The pageant
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    • 27 5 Revised parcel post rates to a number of overseas countries will come into force on July 12. Details may be obtained from any Post Office.
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    • 147 5 I EGISLATION designed to speed the surrender of false ration cards as well as to prevent future misuse of ration cards, comes Into force m Singapore today. It is now compulsory to notiiy tht- Food Control Authorities by July 16 of any present misuse of
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    • 191 5 rVIN with petrol rationing, Malaya's requirements this year will be about one-third more than prewar, says a statement by the Standard Vacuum Oil Company. The job of meeting these demands has been hampered by the shortage of steel needed to increase refinery capacity and to build
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    • 75 5 sdfhjsdhs The Commander -m Chief, Air Command, Far East, Air Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd, (extreme left), is seen talking to Mrs. L. Cresson, wife of the Singapore Rotary Club's new President at the Club's installatioji dinner at Raffles Hotel on Wednesday night. Sir Hugh was the principal
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    • 128 5 SINGAPORE has now fallen •5 into line with the Federation Government and is insisting on a minimum amount of money to be taken to Mecca by each pilgrim. This money is known as non -tariff expenditure and La taken m a draft on a bank m
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    • 49 5 A sling burst and 10 bags ol pearl sago weighing 1.860, lb. fell on the had of a Singapore Harbour Board labourer 30 feet below, killing him irstanatanrcusly. A misadventure verdict was yesterday returned on the labour r, 60-year-old Lim Ah Kow oi Huvelock RoacL
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    • 234 5 Free Press Staff Reporter rE Special Constabulary is set-king 4he Government's permission to increase its strength immediately from 444 to 644 men. The Attain Commander of the force, Capt. J. P. Tham, said recruitment would begin as soon as approval had been given. A bigger
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    • 137 5 Entered Kedah illegally, sent to jail SUNGEI PATANI, Thurs. TWENTY Chinese, who landed m Kedah from a sailing boat, were today sent to prison by the Sungei Patani magistrate, Inche Azmi Mohamed. One of the men, Teoh Lip Hoi, described as the leader, was, m addition, fined $500 for aiding
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    • 15 5 Musa bin Dikin has been appointed to be a Kathi lor Christmas Island.
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    • 94 5 SIX Singapore and Federation pineapple packersrepresenting the entire industry—have secured a contract to export up to 150.000 cases of j Malayan cannrcl pineapple to the United Kingdom. The contract covers two pineapple harvesting seasons from this month until February next year. It was made between
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    • 230 5 Car owners rush for petrol Coupons m the post Free Press Stall Kep< 'THERE has t> A delay m the Usu the Jul' mber ply of pelrol coupons the Petrol Ratio: Officer, Singapore, says that coupons will n rists through the post m a few d;. Hundrt Petro terday t
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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    • 58 5 Special Offers! Pla«tic Suit Cases 24" $50.00 Fibre 24' $29.50 Leather Week-end Cases 20" $39.50 n 18" $35.00 16" $29.50 Rubberised Week-end Cases 20" $19.50 M 17" $15.50 14" $11.50 Fibre Attache Cases 18" 8.75 16" 7.50 Canvas Holdalls 21" $30.00 Leather Holdalls Golden No. 2 9.50 Hat Box 16"
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  • NEWS
    • 282 6 All Fukui flattened PARLY reports of the damage to Fukui and neighL. Jxmring Japanese towns were not exaggerated. All Fukui's buildings, except the prefectural Government offices have been flattened by the earthquake shock, states Reuter's special correspondent, who walked for eight hours through miles of
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    • 94 6 Young Chinese protest at bombs on cities A MOVEMENT against bombing of cities m the Chinese civil war has been started by Peiping professors students The movement arose out of the Nationalist air attack on feng, m Honan. during the Red occupation, m which ma: were reported kill. One hundred
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    • 19 6 TbQ Australian Prime Mm Mr. J. B Chiney. Pivth.\t the ieaaon'B oductii tlmat d 000,000 above average.
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    • 54 6 SHROPSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY Ist and 2nd battalions have been amalgamated. Above, Major General Grover, Colonel of the Regiment is saluting the colours of the 2nd battalion at the final inspection. At left. Private A. A. Carter, has 47 years' service, chats with the Earl of Powis
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    • 67 6 THE Siamese Government has launched a vigorous .paign to ensure that the •itrys r rts are of the highest possible quality. Commerce, Sawan marice millers and exporters that th ;1 if sh i to conform to qua! reI penalty of n up •hey had paid.
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    • 68 6 SINGAPORE MUNICIPAL 5% DEBENTURE STOCK 1918 (1948-68). NOTICE is hereby Riven that the of the above k will be closed from 6th to 20th July 1948. both days mcluror tin preparation of interest Warrant* m respect of lab due on the above Stock for the half-y<ar ending 20th July 1948.
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    • 155 6 rE 104 active yean <>f Mise Youfee Alley, of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, Britain's oldest woman has ended. Shr died m her Irutle home two months after the doath also at 104, of Mrs. Louifl Randall, with whom began a Kfekmg friendship at the age
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    • 72 6 \NEW TYPE two colour radar ijrstem, listed tren advance m the Lai i has loped by t: I TeleP'nc: v USA. h accurately of an X U II m fh-c:: ape measure which mdi« tance of an airpl a tenth of a mile from od point.
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    • 93 6 WALLACE RAPS KUOMINTANG ATTACKING the Kuomin- tang Party, the third party PresidenUal aspirant Mr. Henry Wallace, charge <iav that "the arms we are M-nding to China are finding their way to the Communists m the North through the KuomintanK." Addressing a Bowdoin College political forum, Mr. Wallace said of the
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    • 85 6 SINGAPORE MUNICIPAL 5% DEBENTURE STOCK 1928 (1948-69) NOTICE is hertbv Kiven that the Transfer Books of the above i Stock will be finally closed at I noon on Tuesday, thp 6th July 1948, and no transfer of the Stock wOl be accepted thereafter Interest due on the above Stock for
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    • 64 6 BENGAL REDS CAUSE PANIC OOLICE patrolled parts of Dacca, East Bengal, yesterday after several people had been injured m a disturbance at a Communist Party meeting when some of the speakers criticised the East Bengal Ministry. Supporters of the Ministry protested and this led to a clash. Stray assaults on
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    • 367 6 AFTER an uncomfortable, vacillating three months m office the Government led by Dr. Hitoshi Ashia is nearing the end of its' regime, most informed political observers believe m Tokio. When Dr. Ashida was elected Prime Minister m March, it was generally predicted that the
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    • 62 6 'Your obedient servant dies 'THE Government of India, has decided to end the practice of ending all official correspondence with the words "I have the honour to be, Sir, pour most obedient servant". All letters addressed wither to officials or to members of the public will now end with the
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    • 104 6 THi di mand i: an early conclusion f a to X\ .rol n. Chinas highest super?ned by r Th .ution. insligai by veteran Kuomir. ader E. How Lv, urged the Government to take steps immediately to bring ab.ut an early end to the uncertain situation on
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    • 182 6 I rjN the surface i \J the same boat. I *>iM by contention among th, X Underneath, h<v which make Ko:« I one thing, the Rl I against each other ii I presence of the Fren 1 Another thing ki I that satellite evoiir farther along m X Ru^ia
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    • 7 6 £1 8,000,00 coal plan 1 I Reuter
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 83 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya W^^T PYOU VILI BE QUITE SAFE^^lfl I^BUT— YOURE THE SPY^N I^NONSEMSE'-| WAS /N Tmf 1 W.TH ME 7 FRAULEtN.'- YOU [PROFESSOR MUTTER'— /REs£lANa MOVyMrXr I I LET ME OUT MAY BE A SPY BUT I MS& YOU MUST BE'- YOU'RE DURIMG
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  • SPORTS
    • 478 7 THREE HORSES TO WIN AGAIN AT K.L. Airport, Oregon and Distinction Free Press Racing Reporter \|AJOK D. M Patrickson, the S.R.A. handicapper, has assessed the form of horses so well during past few months that doubles have been few and ir between, but on last Saturday's form I cannot see
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    • 10 7 Bradman and Hassett in 231 stand 0 P.r- ,< with ,-> for
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    • 104 7 By CALL BOY Owing to the heavy rain early this morning only a few of the horses entered for the Singapore Summer meeting were out for slow work on land track and the third fc of the course at Bukit Timah this morning. Among griffins
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    • 54 7 rllowing have been invited play cricket for the NonCricket Club versus the rration Club on the C padang at 11 a.m. on -r.our t Captain V T. I>eijsH B Noon. Evan Wonj. A R Bromley Davenport. A Eoker S dhetchct, R II Hax worth- H V. Thome. PS.
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    • Article, Illustration
      29 7 Ellis Robinson drops for a ball from Hamence off t Coxan's bowling during the second game between Yorkshire and the Australians at Sheffield which ended in 'a dra w.
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    • 107 7 THE fallowing will rtpr—flK Uie Singapore Cricket Club athe dports Club at cricket en thf Padaner at 2 pm tomorrow: P W H<»lt A. R. BromleyDavenport. J C. Smith, X Gouldi K. C Graham. Maj. D. B. Haig. J W Annesley. K. I. G Stewart. C Milton.
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    • 81 7 S.R.C. cricket teams for the <end are: A«ainst Hospital Assistants Union on the padane at 2 p.m. tomorrow: R. H. Bain (capt > E. Barker. A. B. C Uick r 'V Silva. W. Galisuui. R. Minjeet, F. ;iha, B. Pinto, A. 'A'iLsiun; C Warbrtck and K>ut Against
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    • 236 7  -  CRUSADER By SOtTIIERN finalisits m the Malaya Cup IOCCCI competition C4>uid be decided today that is if 4he Royal Air Force are beaten or held to a draw by Johore m the <ie at the Istana padang. If the Airmen win. however, and the
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    • 460 7 M' sex regain best form MIDDLESEX, after their shaky start to the season, i?1 are rapidly coming back to form and a victory yesterday after two days play against Nottinghamshire has enabled them to close the gap between their total and that of the championship leaders, Glamorganshire, who have been
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    • 225 7 King Kong and Riza Bey to fight non-stop INTEREST m this WNKt pro--1 gramme at tht Gre-.it World will be divided between the challenge contest which brings together King Kong and All Riza Bey. and the- initial appearance Id Singapore of Arjun Dass. who comes to Singapore after a tour
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    • 167 7 THE brothers. Yadi and Kamis. won the Singapore Lawn Tennis Associations doubles title for the fifth time when they beet C. K. Pang and On* Chew Bee m straight sets at 7 5, 6 l m the final matrh m the championships on the S.C.C. courts
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    • 232 7 TWO new course records were set up yesterday when the Royal R'gat'a was continued at Henl.'y-on-Thames under much more favourable conditions. The Belgian pair of Collet and Piessens clipped 11 stcondo off the previous best m the double Eculte and Bedford School improved their
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    • 33 7 THE annual general meeting of the Haikowyu Sports Club will be held on Sunday at th-j residence of Mr. Chandra No. 40<J, Race Course Road. 6 lifiapcsre, at 10 am. sharp.
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    • 273 7 BRITISH golf came right inio its own m the open golf championship at Muirfield yesterday when Henry Cotton, by breaking the course record with a brilliant round of 66 for an aggregate of 137, led the field by four strokes with two rounds to play.
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    • 500 7 Hart, Brough in final VjISS LOUSE Brough and Miss L>* m the all-American final for t.;e «> women's singles title to yesterday m the semi-finals of t Margaret Osbornr I)u Pont by Patricia Canning Todd by Miss Bronyh. Miss Hart, who irom her youth tv from a leg disability, avenged
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    • 238 7 F.P. Crossword No. 4£5 ii c 13 Wi. W\ 18 19 W>. O j^ I A,/ 21 22 7F W> F^ r r 7^ vJ24 S^ 26 27 28*" i# 29" 50 "7 J^ 31 CLUSI vc H 2. Reproof (9». 7. Rubber <4). 9. Proper <3". 10 <6). 12.
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    • 309 8 'New Govt. is not enough' GtkMANS COMPLAIN FKANKFI RT, Thursday. AS Britain, France and the United States today formally authorized the formation of a separate German Government for their occupation zones, German leaders complained that the new government offered them would not give them "enough Independence." The Germans have asked
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    • 22 8 >N —At Kandang Kerbau ual on Wednesday June 30 wife of J. Lyon a O3LEY— -At Mir.ehead Hoepl30th to inee S
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    • 26 8 •p* announced I la. Paul Hon Sn;n of Kuala Lumpur, and third daughter of Mr a:.d r.R Chong Woor ompur T'he marriage take place shortly.
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    • 49 8 Cho Kirn Choon aged 58 parsed *t his residence 335 Rahan« Road, Seremban on Ist July. 1948 at 4 ajn He leaves behind* him two sons, (Jolly and Cho Sen* Yew) two daughters three sons-in-law and many grandchildren. Funeral on Saturday the 3rd July. 1948 at 10.00 am.
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    • Article, Illustration
      45 8 photo, Despite employment of Servicemen to unload perishable foods from the ships tied up by the fortnight -long London dock strike, losses due to deterioration are estimated at nearly £2,000,000. Picture shows troops unloading cases of tomatoes at the West India Dock m London.- Pix
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    • 156 8 SLIGHT FALL IN OUTPUT OF TIN WORLD mined tin producD m April was 11.700 long tons compared with 13.200 tons m March -according to the statistical bulletin of the International Tin Study Group issued today at The Hat: Production m Malaya and the N.E.I. talned at much the sarm. 1
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    • 66 8 NEW DELHI. Friday. THE Government of India 1 claims to have "evidence that all available resources ot the Hyderabad Government are being utilized for the turchase of warlike materials." It added: "This must inevitably lead to a conflict." The Government has restricted the transfer of about
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    • 27 8 Britons will have to get along on 6d worth of fresh I meat each next w ek because j of the recent dock strike.
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    • 154 8 NEW YORK. Thursday. EDUCATED Chinese fear 1 Hit hat Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek will inevitably fall and that the United States will then control a sphere coning of Japan, the port 1 cities of China and Indonesia. 1 declared the third party; aspirant. Mr. Henry Wallace,
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    • 198 8 BAGHDAD, Thursday. T^HE Arabs possess an assembled force which, if the x Palestine war is resumed, will bring forth its fruit, said King Abdullah m a press statement today. King Abdullah's warning followed repv)rts that a subcommittee of the Arab League m Cairo had decided to
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    • 208 8 SAW BOMB THROWN AT GANDHI NEW DELHI, Thursday. SULOCHANA DEVI, an Indian taxidriver's wife, told the court here today she saw the abortive bomb attempt on Mahatma Gandhi from aboit "15 paces distance." She was giving evidence at the trial of nine Indians, one of whom Is charged with the
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    • 128 8 LONDON. Thursday. nELGRADE Radio said toD night that m the past few days Albania has been the scene of "organised incidents which are insults to the Yugoslav peoples." The "organised incident." the broadcast said, "arc insults to the Yugoslav peoples and the Yugoslav Sate, and are aimed
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    • 101 8 NEW YORK. Thursday. RUSSIA has developed a type of plane that puts practi- cally every industrial area of consequence m the United States within range of a oneway no-return miSvSion from Soviet soil, declared Gen Cari i Spaatz. former commander of the U.S. Air Forces,
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    • 431 8 PRICEDOWN IN ALL SECTIONS London Stock Exchange LONDON, Thursday ORICES m all sections of the London Stork 1 change were down today, out there w*to no marked attempt at selling, writes Reuters finan< correspondent. Rubbers and Tins were irregular It higher. Thte decline followed the "no-surrender" speech of the British
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    • 105 8 ISTANBULL, Thursday. BULGARIAN anti-Commun-ist passengers today seized control of a twin-engined plane, shot dead the pilot m a mid-air gun battle, and then forced the surviving members of the crew to fly them on to Turkey. Three of the passengers were wounded, two of«th(m
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    • 17 8 The United Stat s iCompany has r. and tube prices fi 7.5 per cent
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    • 118 8 A SFtCIAL N*rt« eorretpondrn girt* the price, at nbbet 11 am today M foO»» t SINGAPORE (H AMBLE Ofr OMMEBO per Ik. pet lb Bnyen ScUm H.. lowk 46 S, No. 1 B.S.S. CM m bales July 4fc> N*. 2 8.8.8. faft m bilr> Julr 45 >- 4:
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    • 67 8 ON the New York Stock Exchange yesterday prices declined fractionally m one of the slowest days m three months Late selling, centred on the Oils, erased or cut earlier modest advances. A liberal spatterin* of modest gains showed at the close A total of 800,000 shares exchanged
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    • 81 8 INDONESIAN WARNING TO U.N.O. x\ v tx iVkX JsQ l]M deadlock ITNLESS the Sccurit> i. i^ U free hand to its Indonesia, the present d< nesian dispute will not h i, r Ik JJ l representative. Mr. L. N. as the Council met t M. Dmitri Manuilsk <i Mr. Parlar
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    • 213 8 TAKE NOTICE that I Rubber Plants 1 I Owners intend to app Federation of Malaya for a r^ author* Rpoods vehicle ck* for J m connection wr.th I Owner* earned on at Orisrk ■Any per*» objecting days
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