The Singapore Free Press, 8 July 1948

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA LKJLDFKLDF SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1948 PRUT* Hi (IN is
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    Malay Regt reserve called up
    408 1 Malay Regt reserve called up Jungle squads for offensive reservists of the Malay Regiment m the Federation have been called back for service for an indefinite period, under a proclamation issued by the Officer Administering the Government, Sir Alec Newboult. It is expected that some of these trained men well
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    DIES AFTER PARANG FIGHT
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    PROFS' ON STRIKE
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    Rubber industry 'fully revived'
    727 1 LONDON, Wednesday. TWE physical recovery of the rubber industry m 1 Malaya is now virtually complete, "owing largely he fine efforts of the planters and smallholders/ the Under Secretary for the Colonies, Mr. David Ke^s-WiHiams told Parliament today m reply to a question. He said production
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    'PROTECT US', CHINESE CALL
    67 1 IHiE Overseas Chin*->e Affairs Commission of the Executive Yuan has instructed all Chinese consulates m Malaya to ask the Malayan authorities to protect Chinese lives against violence. after receiving reports that the wave of terrorism was mainly aimed at Chinese. The Commission also cabled the families
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    DELAYED FLYING BOAT LEAVES AGAIN
    38 1 DELAYED FLYING BOAT LEAVES AGAIN Frer Press Staff Reporter A BO AC. flying boat which was forced to return to Kallang airport yesterday with engine trouble after taking off for the United Kingdom again left Singapore this morning.
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    26 UNKNOWNS' IN POLICE ROUND UP
    147 1 Free Press Staff Reporter FENTY-SIX Chinese who were unable to establish their identity were detained at Upper Serangoon Road Village (Kampong Rang Khar) after a full-scale raid by 300 armed police under the Singapore Commissioner of Poilce, Mr. R. E. Foulger, and the chief
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    FULL MALARIA CONTROL NOW
    45 1 THE British Empire must have a coordinated malaria control scheme, the director of the Ross Institute of Tropical Hygiene, Professor O. Mac Donald told Royal Empire Society. He said the full control of malaria was now possible under any condition -Reuter.
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    USSR BUYS PLANT
    18 1 The Soviet Union has ordered £1,000.000 of diesel and electrical equipment from a London firm.
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    'Shoot myself-spy's plea
    57 1 'Shoot myself -spy's plea A 42-YEAR-OLD Palestine Jew, formerly a British Army Major, was convicted by the Israeli Army of spying and was permitted to kill himself, according to a Jerusalem report. The Stem Group has announced the trial, conviction and execution of a pretty young Jewess. Rosa Better. accusec
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    P.C.s MOTOR CYCLE ON FIRE
    61 1 Free Press Stac Reporter THE motor cycle of P.C. Rantau bin Matson, attached to the traffic police mobile squad, caught fire at Joo Chiat Place yesterday evening. The constable was chasinß a car for alleged negligent driving when a Chinese pedestrian suddenly crossed the road.
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    COAL FOR MALAYA
    33 1 More than 6,000 tons of Welsh coal is being loaded at Swansea for Malaya for tin ore smelting, reports Reuter. It is the first such cargo since the war. i
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    One citizenship for UK, colonies
    329 1 One citizenship for UK, colon ies LONDON, Wednesday. rill, British Government does not subscribe to the view that it would be a bad thing to give the peoples of the Empire the idea that they are the equal of the people of Britain. Making this statement m Parliament today, during
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    Shopowner shot dead by gang
    75 1 Free Press Staff Reporter rXXJR armed Chinese, two F with Sten guns, entered a shop at Niyor village, which is on the main railway line 30 miles north of Johore Bahru, at 5 p.m. yesterday, and shot dead the proprietor. The shopkeeper, Goh Hal Wan.
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    WRKCKED CAR ABANDONED
    54 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A N abandoned car was dis- covered by a special constable m the early hours of this morning near the 14th mile. Woodlands Road, about a mile from the Woodlands police station. The car was damaged but no persons have been reported as
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    MORE POWERS FOR COURTS
    77 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LI'MPL'R, Thurs. AN amendment to the Essential (Special Emergency) Regulations now enables District Courts m the i Federation to try all offences under the regulations I except those punishable 1 with death. Ip to now these courts had power to prescribe
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    64 Chinese held in Siam police raids
    117 1 ALTHOUGH both National- ists and Communists were among the 64 Chinese taken into custody by the Siamese police m recent surprise raids, Bangkok observers belie v? that the action was taken ii an effort to prevent a Communist outbreak simiUr to that m
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    SOVIET AID TO CHINESE REDS
    160 1 'Take case to U.N.O.' call NANKING, Wednesday. T»HE Chinese Government was today urged by 136 x legislators to enter into "solemn negotiations' with Russia for rectification of Soviet violations of the Sino-Soviet treaty of friendship. If this fails, an appeal should be made to the
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    Rice quota system may end
    214 1 Rice quota system may end BANGKOK. Thursday. •TVD ensure fairness of i 1 tribution, the system ol rice allocation by the International Emergency Food Council will be c tinued for another year. Siamese authorities I but if the production Qontinues to increase at the present rate, the system may oe
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    FIVE HELD IN K.L. RAIDS
    60 1 Free Press Staff Repor*er KUALA LUMPUR. HUUB. FIVE Chinese, including woman, were arrested by the C.I.D. m and around Kuala Lumpur last nigh They were described b police &s being members subversive organisation op ting m the outskirts of town. Mobile police squads ai.so picked
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    7 'CRISIS' ARRESTS
    31 1 CEVEN persons, six Indians I** and one Chinese, w i i rested m Singapore ye^terdav under the Emergem I tions. brinßing the total v i detention to 57.
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  • FEATURES...
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      Sensitive To Wet
      708 2 A MALAYAN BOOKSHELF BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT THE Malays, accord- ing to their own legends, came to thi§ country from Sumatra, and gradually displaced the original inhabitants of the country, pushing them northwards. Thus the oldest of the original rat. woollyhaired Negritos, are row to be found
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      34 2 Dee Turnell, former show- girl m New York, has reason to smile, her performance m a dance number with Fred Astaire m "Easter Parade" has won her a dancing role m "Words and Music."
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      Bridge Problem
      272 2 SOUTH S b:dding undoubtedly «m influenced by the adverse result of the preceding hand, as descr.bed I yesterday. But when you Ret mad at the cards or at your partner, or at your bad lurk you just don't play the way you should I it costs you points
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      RED CAGE FOR EAGLES
      630 2  -  PETER QUENNELL reviews a new book m U.K. 3-4 TWENTY -FIVE A years ago, before the heyday of King Zop: and the Italian annexation, to drive east wards into Albania from the dismal seaport of Durazzo was to leave behind the fling of the Western world
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      344 2 FRED MAjDALANY reviews a General s his tory of the war. HID our bombino; U policy prolong instead of shorten the war? Major-General J. F. C. Fuller, one of the most independent and hardhitting of military cri' < thinks that it did. This is the most controversial issue raised
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      Honest?
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      QUICK LOOKS
      201 2 /^HISA Changed My Mind, by David Moms. (Cassell. Bs. 6d.) The story of a conscientious objector to whom China brought a change of heart. An impressive picture of that vast, distressful country and of 'he stubborn people who inhabit it. The pwan's Delay, by Hugh Kingsmill. (Eyre and
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      13 2 I KiLLY I tfAtfJJ wK /U'A^/! HAGEMEYER TRADING ft' **2 SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPU^^
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      681 2 LUCKY STAR DOKN today, you can hardly mus substantial success provided you utilize the talenks which have been given you by the stars. Your fate is almost entirely m your own hands. If you are a failure, >ou ian only have yourself to blame, for somewhere along UK road you
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      192 2 metrrs. i.M-mtdnight 119 84 metres and 4S.SB metres. nrouDAi 12 00 Station Opening and Programme summary; 12.03 In lighter Vein; 12.30 1.T.M.A.; 1 pjn. World s; 105 Military Band; 1.15 Yours for the Asking; 1 55 Programme b-ummary; 600 Station Opening; 6.02 Thirty to OOp;n p 630 World and Home
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      246 3 Itovs and girls go out to play |\o. piuwng ou, giris) ana me h) arc the most popular pastimes n their leisure hours. f Education's centra! from a questionnaire to ra three protestors, three der there is need for scale" to improve out-of-Their recommendations to Unlstry are based on
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      'Vote or else' says Churchill
      74 3 M CHURCHILL strongly ITI hinted m the House of mons that sluggards who vote at elections may to do .so. under pain of a the T ry Party re the next central :on. "For myself." he saia I a strong view that votuld be compulsory,
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      EXAM DELAYED CORONATION
      46 3 EXAM DELAYED CORONATION CIAM'S King Phumiphon Aduldet will return to Bangkok from Switzerland for his coronation n^xt rch. The cremation of his brother, the late King Ananda Mahidol. will be held the same month. Phumiohon was invited to return for the coronation December 5. his birthday.
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      4 NATIONS
      66 3 G/i2L GUIDES from the Netherlands East Indies, Norway, Germany, and Brazil at the international conference of Catholic Girl Guides, England, looking at a book m the Girl Guide headquarters. Delegates 'TJ™ 07 over the world attended the conference at Foxlease, the Girl Guide Association's training centre m the
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      P.I. MUSLIMS
      18 3 President Quirino has approved the pilgrimage of about 2.000 Moros < Philippine M)hamedan tribes) to Mecca. Reuter
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      Farran knew killer's name
      119 3 FRANCIS REX FARRAN, 25--year-old engineering draughtsman killed last May by a Jewish terrorist bookbomb intended for his bropt Roy Farran, knew the name used by the sender. At the resumed inquest on his d Wolverhampton Bta revealed by Keith s Farran, 18, youngest of the brothers.
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      MORE U.K. WHEAT AND POTATOES
      163 3 A GRICULTURAL acreage m the United Kingdom has i\ increased by between a quarter and half a million acres since last year, said Mr. Tom Williams, Minister of Aprriculture, m the Commons. Pending the results of the June 4 census, which will not become available
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      100 U.K. mines 'doomed to die'
      127 3 MR Arthur Homer. General S» cretan.' of the National Union of Mineworkers, told the miners" annual conferi ence that hundreds of British pits were "m their death throes and due to die." He attributed this to 10 years delayed development and the working of
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      RED FAMILY WRANGLE
      61 3 RED FAMILY WRANGLE rE Soviet Communist Party Central Committee has refused an invitation to the Yugoslav Communist Party's -nnual congress. Moscow radio said this action was taken because "the Central Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party refused to participate m the conference of the Communist Information Bureau and thus placed
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      S'HAI TYPHOON KILLS TEN
      67 3 A VIOLENT typhoon which threatened Shanghai suddenly changed its course on Tuesday and veered towards the mouth of the Yangtse River, but it took a toll of 10 boat-men drowned when their lighters capsized m the Whangpoo River, and property damaged is estimate U5550,000,000. Large parts
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      WORLD WIDE GIRL GUIDES
      37 3 picture. In Prague 80.000 spectators watch a Sokol demonstration. It was at such a gathering this week that a protest was made against the Communist regime when thousands waved U.S. flags.— A. P.
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      Threw aspidistra, end was romance
      107 3 Threw aspidistra, end was romance K don woman has married a man who wrote to r after she had been acquitted of manslaughter. The girl. Elsie White, of Watford, was acquitted 18 months ago. After her acquittal, Elsie received 15 letters proposing marriage. She ignored the proposals, but invited the
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      Chinese Reds' 'crazy' battle
      112 3 SOME 200,000 Nationalist and Communist troops clashed on the Honan plain j southeast of Kaifeng today m what pro-Government described as the "largest scale battle" ever to be fought m Central China. This major engagement, came after days of manoeuvring by both *ides and involved more
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      Delay in Polish war crimes trial: Britain is blamed
      437 3 rE British Government's apparent reluctance to hand over Dr. Wladyslaw Dering to fhe Polish authorities for trial for war crimes alleged to have been committed m the Oswiencim (Auschwitz) concentration camp has aroused bitter reaction, writes Iteuier's Warsaw correspondent. Dering, who
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      GREECE-SOVIET TALKS HINT
      71 3 TALKS between Greece and Russia m Athens m a fortnight's time are "not to be excluded," reliable Greek Government sources said m Athens. M. Constantln Tsaldaris, Greek Foreign Minister, said he had no official knowledge of the arrival m Athens of M. Akxandre Lavrischev, Soviet Ambassador to
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      'BLITZ' TORSO
      18 3 The torso of a 1941 blitz im has just been found m bomb ruins m London.
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      Judge hikes with son of doomed man
      138 3 Judge hikes with son of doomed man THE seven year old son of a 1 convicted murderer and the judge who will soon sentence him to die m the ga-s chamber have planned to take a two week hiking and fishing trip together. Judge James Nolund asked Bobbie Berger if
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      DEATH PENALTY
      37 3 k NEW clause m Britain's Criminal Justice Bill reinstating the death oenahy for vicious forms of murder is expected to be Dubli.shc week. It will be put before the House of Commons within a fortnight.
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      28 3 Picturt Field Marshal Viscoum Montgomery, Lriief o* Imperial General Staff having a closer look a: colours bornr bm F>\ cadets inspected by hivi oJ Wellington Be don.- A.P.
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      Bid to fly U.S. planes to Jews
      56 3 FIVE American their pilots were I the Froncl: air polie; structions from Ameri thcrities. French cfiicia: fused to but unofficial id it was because I i stinely flown to P tine. The planes were motored Stlnson N freighters, which had been' coii. bombers.
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      £5,000 for 12 cats
      84 3 M R^ SA RAH MANf HEST ER who kept 1•! cats, left about *v to Miss Myra Mori c<* l^ds probation oflicer with a request that she take tare of the cats It was a surprise to Miss Morice. who had visited Mrs Manchester only two
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      HIROHITO TO QUIT US REPORT
      253 6 HIROHITO TO QUIT US REPORT *Part of Moscow plan 9 rE abdication of Emperor Hirohito and the eventual switching-over of Japan to Communism are forecast by New York columnist, William Philip Simms. "Today all Asia is aflame", he writes "Red agents or Red Armies are on the march throughout Manchuria,
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      U.K. execution dates fixed
      115 6 execution dato a have been L for two murd' for the first ttnu the I on April 14 kn favour I the death m Itain for a trial period of The murderers, John Ci r, a cook, and lv.. I a domett] :ed to death at
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      P.I. boycott of Jap goods
      47 6 Fwho hi way of life" are among the most .1 m oppi do with J much less trade with ti. again. The Philippine Ex-Poht Pri> started a nationwide campaign to boycott Japa: goods. Circulars were :ie 13,000 members of the organization. Reuter
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      SIAM GOLD WAS FROZEN ASSET
      65 6 SI AM GOLD WAS FROZEN ASSET BANGKOK, police announced yesterday recovery of j $500,000 worth of gold* m DO an air shipment stolen on May 12. The gold, m cases, wa.s found m an ire factory m Prachunb. m southern Slam. Owner of the factory was the niece of a
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      FLOODS AFTER FUKUI QUAKE
      73 6 FLOODS AFTER FUKUI QUAKE HLOODS are now threatening Fukui. the Japanese town 1 by earthquake und Police yesterday said the dykes of the Musuryu River, already overflowing lLs banks, were about to break. The earthquake caused 12.288 casualties m Fukui and 20 adjacent towns of Fukui Prefecture. This does not
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      Princess Kazuko—Domestic.
      34 6 The second daughter of the Emperor of Japan sweeps out the rooms of the Supervisor of the Imperial rhold. This is a part of her training m house.ng m preparation for marriage.
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      U.S.CAR OUTPUT
      35 6 Domestic freight car dclii m the UnlU achieved the 10.000 monthly level for the first time since the our building programme was planned more than a fear ifO, the American RailInstitute reported.- A.P.
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      Divorced despite
      102 6 MR. Commissioner Longland said m the Divorce Court: "Kisses on letters often mean nothing. It is common form for a wife to write to her husband saying she dislikes him intensely and ending ud with a long line of kisses." He granted a decree nisi to Mr. William
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      ANTI-SEMITISM
      26 6 The secretary of the World Jewish Congress, Dr. Nahimi Goldmann, states that hp had received grave news of violent anti-semitic agitation m some German cities.
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      SOVIET-PERSIA BORDER FLARE-UP
      275 6 AS Abdul Hmwil Hazhir, Peraia*f new Prime Minister, WlWtlm with deteriorating internal situaiioii. the dispute with the V.S.S.R. has flared up again. A new incident on the Soviet -Persian border has started a new series of protests and rejections between the two countries. According to the P<t-
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      BURGLARS-AND MR. B
      170 6 Af^EE live visiUs from cat n burglars m tifteen months. Auiitralia's Hi'^h Commissiont i Mr. Tohn Albert Bea.sloy. had three locks put on every door of his Kensington. London house I>spite all this, a burglar has got m aeain this time up a drain pipe to a
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      JAP NURSES TRAVEL
      34 6 Four Japanese Bvraet h i been selected to travel to the United States and Canada extensive study and training under the sponsorship of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation.
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      Truman party lack funds
      278 6 Truman party lack funds ELECTION HANDICAP r)R a man who has handled the biggest budgets m America's peacetime history, President Truman is' having considerable trouble m getting enough nr together to conduct an adequate campaign for his election m November. This financial embarrassment is regarded as a natural by-product of
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      Manila murder: 'Truth tests'
      104 6 DERNADO ANZURES, self confessed slayer of actress Lilian Wlez and her housemaid, may be subjected to a "truth" test at the National Psychopathic Hospital Manila m an effort to establish a :r\otive for the crime Anzures. 21-year-old actor, has said he committed the crimes under a
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      The kiss—matrimonial
      41 6 Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations Mediator m Palestine gets a kiss from his wife on his arrival at Maritsa Airport, 10 miles from Rhodes. The Countess, an American, had arrived by air from Stockholm with her tiro m I
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      2,800 CYCLISTS GO 'HAY-WIRE'
      129 6 2,800 CYCLISTS GO 'HAY- WIRE' RIVERSIDE. California Police I day cleaning up alter two riotous n wtttCh 2.8" orcyc; and pedestrians rampaged through the st this usually quiet city The motorcyclists stacekless impromptu races, set of! fireworks, threw 1 bottles and fought police v*ith their Asf the la* tempted to
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      The kissembryonic
      19 6 of M about to be enterprising y< after being Averse" m a petition for ct the Bo
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      'SANCTIONS' ON HYDERABAD
      39 6 T^HE Imperial Bank 1 yesterday s'~.* immediate arrangements d- rabad State Bank The move is reg.. Hyderabad as a: s of financial sa: against Hyderabad servers feared it v. m serious disl State banks bus Reuter.
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      DEATH TAKES NO HOLIDAY
      36 6 DEATH TAKES NO HOLIDAY INDEPENDKN I s the hi total since 1941 It was estir. 30.000.000 move during th< Calif orn. other states m the numbi dead, with a total of 54 eluding 27 traffic c<
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      9 6 tern Mary of th Jvii* Howard Davus who pla
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      18 3 AM) THEN FHERE WERE n IDERPLAY AGATHA CHRISTIE i lub JCTO RIA [THEATRE A "V m m Sapitol
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      84 3 TARZAN The Sceptic Bx F diar Rire Burroughs 1 rjn^Avv>Mf i'-'jjVf ir:i gX" /jV gjUni' iLu\ I 'HAH.'" WOLF SNORTED >J "i£ SOUND. LIKE DISTANT l^U -Js* l k w^. fW# '^SrJk V^«V fAt £?MK\ CCNTEMPTUOUSLY. 'TARZAN /7^r TKUNOER BROUGHT THE CAMP TO NJ. w /^*>~~~3£^ £^f& jJZZf jg*^ RUNS
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY JULY, 8 1948 Assurance and Warning
      594 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY JULY, 8 1948 Assurance and Warning IN his broadcast last night the Commissioner-General, Mr Maico.m Mac Donald, combined warning with assurance m a manner which unfortunately not all Government spokesmen have been able to command. The problem the Government faces m crushing militant Communism is
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      It Seems To Me...
      713 4  -  POLITICO BY THE press seems to have had rather more than its share of the blame m the course of the Federal Council debate on Tuesday. It ifl a little grotesque to accuse the bulk of the press of undue sensationalism, tor recent events themselves are
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      How much thunder in a thunderstorm ?
      338 4  - How much thunder in a th understorm JAMES J. STREBIG IJ > IIOW much thunder li tru-re m a thuiid- rm? A select group of US. braved wind, ram and lightning for two > to ket the answer, there I chart of sai< speeds to thunderstorms lor nine types ol
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      FAITH
      21 4 By much slothfulness the building deeayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through. Ecclesiast s 10. 18.
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    • What People Say
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        TRIBUTE
        239 4 SPHERE is a Chii. 1 ing that if you do good m this world you will instruct down by lightning and that if you are wicked you will be childle.v* c all .small men who se the great. Sir Edward's critics did not •.hey and >.• really the same
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        PORK WITH NEW LOOK
        424 4 Longer, leaner, and Hther THE prize pig, majestic star of a hundred thousand agricultural shows ir Britain, is a changed animal. No longer do breeders dream of these pink-and-black marvels which lurched like omnibuses through English farmyards before the war, tipping the scales at nearly 45st.
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      Jet's Tour
      162 4 THE De Havilland Vampire j 111 jet fighter. now undergoing tropical trials In Singa]X>re, has just completed a tour of the m> important towns of Malaya, giving demonstrations before about 25,000 spectators. Towns visited included Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, Talping, Butterworth, Alor Star and Georgetown. At Taiping, a tin-mining
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      NO MONOPOLY FOR OIL IN PHILIPPINES
      59 4 NO men on menc. Oil Con rino. the i has just re\ The cor phase ploitatior. There is oi] i:: pinThe PI with owned and not technical plo:' As a result. I to be allow* exph There shall be a granted to a: to
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      Britons in Berlin pull in their belts
      491 4  -  JOHN FISHER BY TT ifl a hot sununer'fl evening m Berlin, and at the magnifioi lakeside ho m the British sector the are cocktail partk Qoesta walk through the l^afy gardens und- r tho lime tm tis Uio i^ r h it were
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      BACK ROOM BOYS
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      200 NEW FIRMS REGISTER MONTHLY
      64 5 tyt outlook 'not Mssa rilygood y rv Staff Reporter mo been registered m Singai of nearly 200 a month for ths, while those which have eraged 10 a month over the *\!riod aa-i»rdinj! to figures. the Free Press yesterday that a the number of shops
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      Penang is still not free port
      105 5 D- commercial circles 1 mi that the Government .mplemented its nise to restore Penan? to ore- war free port status. Heah Joo Scan? a :ber of the Penang Trader Nation. Free Press corresponPenang yesterday that 5 per cent, ad valorem exon Penang rubber D
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      3 to be hanged for murder
      258 5 Free Press Staff Correspondent ™n K V ALA LI MPIR, Wednesday. PW O appeals against sentence of death were dis--1 missed by the Federation Court of Appell today One appeal was by an Indian estate clerk Thesaveera Singh, who murdered Mr V S Weath
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      For S.E. Asia liaison talks
      127 5 Free Pres* Staff Reporter MR. Gregorio M. Villaseran, Philippines representative on the I.E.F.C. sub-commi I arrived m Singapore by air from Bangkok yesterday to attend the 20th South-East Asia Liaison Officers' conference which opens at the Cathay today. Mr. Villaseran told the Free Press yesterday
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      PAID FINK. RELEASED
      58 5 PAID FINK. RELEASED CW. ROBERTS paid yester- day $250 balance of a $500 fine imposed on him on April 29 for abetting to conceal controlled rice and was released from jail. The District Judge, Mr. Shanks, sent Roberts to 14 days' rigorous imprisonment on July 6 because he had failed
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      FINED FOR S'PORE SWEEP TICKETS
      72 5 PENANG, Wed.— Two Chinese who had 24 Singapore Turf Club swtep tickets In their possession when searched by the police during a road block wire fined $25 each erday. They are Cheong KoK Cho. g and Yong Seng SweeTl. re charged with having tbc sweep
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      SHB AUXILIARY POLICE DANCE
      63 5 FE Singapore Harbour Board Auxiliary Police have organised a dance at the S.V.C Drill Hall on Saturday night at 8.30. to raise U anas tor the dependants oi the late Mr. C. E. Lloyd. Mr. Lloyd a former officer of the S.H.B. Auxiliary Police. I was
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      67 5 Singapore youths are keen on joining the Special Constabulary. These pictures, taken by the Free Press at Police HQ yesterday, show the applicants waiting for their turn to interview the Commandant, Major Wee Kah Kiat (seen m picture on the right, watching a recruit signing a 3V 2 month agreement).
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      VARSITY: JOINT TALKSA WAITED
      163 5 Free Press Staff Reporter IVLTHILE preparations are being made for the esta- blishment of a University of Malaya already accepted m principle by the two Malayan Governments the Select Committees appointed by Singapore and the Federation to deliberate jointly on the Carr Saunders Commission's report have
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      ARRESTED
      24 5 TEE British soldiers, alleged to be deserters, were arrested on Tuesday by Kedah police, while they were strolling m the outskirts of Baling.
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      Provost sign stolen
      67 5 Free Press Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday r r HI EVES have stolen the 1 signboard of the Military Police. The board, bearing the sign '200 G.H.Q., Provost Coy., Pcnany, ivaa at the junction of Light Street and Green Hall to indicate the location of the Provost Headquarters.
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      GOODS THERENOT THE SHIPS
      71 5 MR. Usman Sastroamidjojo, 111 Republican representative at. Melbourne Australia, said that there was a stockpile of goods m the Republic ready for export to Australia, but they cannot be moved from the lack of ships and the Dutch blockade The latest reports indicate there are about
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      WEST BORNEO PADI CROP 85,000 TONS
      106 5 WEST BORNEO PADI CROP 85,000 TONS HARVESTS just gathered from the wet and dry rice fields m West Borneo amounted to 85,000 tons. As a consequence, the price of rice dropped, although it is still quite high m comparison with the rest of Indonesia. According to the latest statistics, rubber
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      KASHMIR C.in.C SERVED HERE
      123 5 BRIGADIER Mohammad Usman, who died m action on the Kashmir front on Sunday, served m Malaya m 1946, before his battalion was transferred to India. The 35-year-old Brigadier had a distinguished record of service m the Indian Army. Hailing from the United Provinces, Brig. Usman was
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      MALAY ART DISPLAY
      52 5 THE Malay Art Class is holding an exhibition on July 15. 16, 17 and 18 at Ayer Molek School m Johore Bahru. The first exhibition was held at the V.M.C.A. Hall m Singapore last April. It is proposed to hold another exhibition m Kuala Lumpur m the
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      SECRETARY FOR SECURITY
      76 5 MR. D. C. Watherston has been appointed Secretary for Internal Security In the Federation of Malaya and will officiate as chairman of a committee set up to deal with all aspects of the internal security. Among the committee's functions is the co-ordina-tion of the resources available to
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      RUBBER EXPORTS DROP 1,000 TONS
      161 5 Free Press Staff Reporter IN June, Singapore and the Federation of Malaya ex- ported a total of 87,368 tons of rubber, bringing the total exports for the first six months of the year to 478,800 tons. June exports drooped by 1,000 tons compared with May's.
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      Bound-over decision worries judge
      332 5 Bound-over decision worries judge CAR THEFT CASE OINDING over a 20-year-old Chinese who had pleaded guilty to the theft of a ear from Borneo Motors, Mr. Justice Thorogood, m the Singapore Assize Court yesterday, remarked: 'I am not at all happy what the effect of this will he on the
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      BOYS' BRIGADE
      50 5 THE Singapore battalion of the Boys' Brigade hold a church parade at Geylang Methodist Church m Aljunied Road on Sunday. The battalion will parade with the Battalion Band on the Municipal football ground off Lorong 12. Geylang at 8.15 a.m., and march to the church to attend service.
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      Malacca port suggestion
      90 5 From Our Staff Corn 4 GOOD solutit A harbour would b^ the an arched c; angles to the land, from a point a I from the mouth of the M ca River where th Iron pier was beyond of Pulau Jawa shaped wharf I could be built
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      INDIES SHIPS MAY CALL AT PENANG
      86 5 INDIES SHIPS MAY CALL AT PENANG frevs Prtss StwfT i'orr^ponu- ni PLNANU THE harbour au nor.: agreed to allow I Sian vessels to call .a Peaa&£. provK I th^ port reeulat: These mo or I between Penu&ff Sumatran po 1 ly banned from Pena I ground that they adequately equipped.
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      50 5 RADIO TALK The Secretary of StaU 1 for the Colonies Mr. Arthur Creech-Jones, will broadcast a talk on colonial affairs from the BBC. on Saturday at 15 p.m. (Malayan time). His talk will be recorded by Radio Malaya, and re-broad-cast over the Blue Network the same night at 9 .45.
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      82 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya 1 3 YACH.' VfM AFRAID\ BUT WHEReSS/sTiCK EM UP!- I WANT vn,.^ ViLn TrwAc r -I m o L H NE HMPTY/f WE'RE Too) FORELOCK?- T SOME COPPERS FROM >rt>u' 4J "S K^%^Ain vfi>n f^V BX A, JA LATE V^^ 4
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      GAMEBOROUGH FASTEST ON TRACK
      613 7  - GAMEBOROUGH FASTEST ON TRACK CALL BOY Final spurts for Saturday By QAMEBOROUGH, ridden by Teddy Dawson, did the best gallop at Bukit Timah this morning when clocking 37 1/5 sec. for three furlongs. His gallop, timed by three stop watches, was all the more remarkable because it was done on
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      NO SOCCER TODAY
      15 7 NO league soccer matches will be played today owing: to the rain.
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      'MAIDEN' CENTURY, NOW A 'HAT TRICK'
      313 7 T*HE Worcestershire all-rounder, R. Jenkins is x having a successful week for, after hitting his maiden century for his county against Nottinghamshire on Tuesday, he performed the "hat trick" with his slow right-arm spin bowling against Surrey at the Oval yesterday. He dismissed Constable,
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      OLYMPIC FLAG RIPPED
      98 7 THE Olympic flag got caught 1 m the rigging: and was torn to shreds when being unfurled at the official openin* yesterday of the Olympic camps at Uxbridge and West Drayton by Mr. Geoffrey De ls. Under Secretary for Air. Athletes and officials of 20 nations will
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      28 7 S. C. Misra, of India, entered the semi-finals of the Irish open lawn tennis championship m Dublin yesterday, defeating C. M Jones. Britain. 6 2. 6 2- Reuter
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      Sayajirao left in for the Eclipse
      73 7 The Gaekwar of Bdtroda's Sayajirao and the A°:a Khan's Noor. Somali and Migoli are among: the 14 final acceptances for the Eclipse Stakes to be run at Sandown Park on Friday. July 16. over one mile and a quarter. The acceptors are: Sayajirao Count
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      THE END BROUGHT RELIEF TO CHINA
      493 7  -  CRUSADER By /^HINA beat Singapore four- three at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday to avenge their earlier one-nil defeat, but the tourists must have been a very relieved team when the final whistle came. An experimental Singapore side, m which Aitken, Lowther, Shariff Madon, Boon
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      Australia may win one Olympic title
      375 7 By GORDON TAIT, A.P. Correspondent AUSTRALIAN Olympic sprinters and jumpers have, at least, good place prospects at the London games. They are a bright squad, and misht even win 1 If' they do it will be the iirst track or field Olympic event won
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      BRADMAN OUT AT LORD'S
      38 7 These pictures of the second Test at Lord's between England and Australia show (top): Bradman out caught by Button (not m picture) off Bedser. and Hassett bmoled first ball by Norman Yardley, England's captain.
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      UK OLYMPIC TEAM NAMED
      414 7 UK OL YMPIC TEAM NAMED DRITAIN announced v Track and Field v the Olympic game, and Jack Crump, ihe ma: ger. said: "It will be one jf the best trained and a teams that has represei Britain. Actually the team U of stars of inter:. calibre. The streru'r. is among
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      Loxton, Harvey may play today
      385 7 AUSTRALIA'S team for the third Test against England, beginning at Manchester today, will be chosen from the following 12: Bradman (capt), Barnes, Morris, Hassett, Miller, lan Johnson. Tallon, Lindwall, Bill Johnson, Toshack, Harvey and Loxion. Brown, who recently injured a finger but is understood to
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      EGYPTIANS MAY WITHDRAW
      55 7 EGYPT might withdraw the Olympic Game* if a report that Israel will b. presented is confirmed, according to a spokesman of the Egyptian Olympic Feder:. The move follows rumours here that Israel athletes i participate m the Games and that the Zionist flag would be ■d among
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      WAR IS DECLARED ON BANDITS
      1079 8 WAR IS DECLARED ON BANDITS 4 We will not hesitate 9 -C. G OQI ADS of jungle fighters arc to carry the war the gangster and the guerrilla into their own hide-outs, said the Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, m a broadcast from Singapore last night. There were adequate regular
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      Tension in Berlin growing
      118 8 Tension in Berlin growing •TENSION between the Allied Powers m Berlin and the Russians rose today with attempts by Russian fighter c to interfere with Allied transport aircraft carrying food and coal to blockaded tii Berlin. This Soviet interference is seen as an indication of the Ru^ian reaction to the
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      BIRTHS
      48 8 BURLOCK —to Christian and Birlock at JriMir Bahru al on July 3rd a daughter. TODD— At h on •:h. to Sophia, wife of Roy. .^B Ocil S B July 4. 1948. at 7 15 arr to Low Geok-Choo. wife of V P. Sim. a son Men Wee
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      MARRIAGES
      43 8 LTHWOOD DRYDEN At vi to Er.a Marion Dn >48 BT :AYES. On 22 6 48. at B I Church. Potkestane, C A Buxi n of Hot.i Rhod' stone (formerly of Malaya vs Hay- ol I C m R C H.\-».^ R N
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      DEATH
      16 8 FRANKLIN Bud I J .n^ 43. Sidney R >f oiO I R Southai B i-39.
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      Arabs' 'no' to truce extension
      229 8 CAIRO, Wednesday. AS the United Nations Security Council today called upon the Arab and Jewish armies m Palestine to extend the four-week truce which ends on Friday, the Arab League Secretary-Gen-eral, Azzam Pasha, announced here: ♦'There shall be no extension of the truce." This decision
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      Reds losing in Dutch election
      78 8 AMSTERDAM, WedlMft WITH nearly 200.000 votea counted, out of an estiI 5,000.000 total, the Catholic Peoples Party was leudinn tonight m the Dutch general election which won 42.5 per cent of the ballots. The Labour Party. Government coalition partner I the Catholics, had won about
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      32 8 picture. Mr. B. H. Kemp. 22-year-old South African university student, photographed m Singapore yesterday. Mr. Kemp was a delegate to the International Students' Service Conference which has now been cancelled. Free Press
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      JAP CANNIBALISM TRIAL ENDS
      111 8 TOKIO. Wednesday. THE prosecution today con- eluded its case m the Kyushu Imperial University war crimes trial, m which 30 Japanese are being tried on murder and cannibalism charges. The accused who ranged from the Lieutenant General who commanded the Japanese ground forces m Kyushu m
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      BACK TO JOGJA
      28 8 President Soekarno flew back to Jogja from Bukit Tinggi, yesterday, after a month's tour of Sumatra. Ministers of his cabinet met him at Maguwo airfield.
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      PEIPING RIOT: 11 KILLED
      71 8 THE shooting of more than a score of students m Peiping yesterday was the climax to a long series of student outbursts m open defiance of the mobilization act. The act expressly bans unauthorized puolic demonstrations. The latest count showed that ei^ht students and one 10-year-old
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      Nanking saved: Red push broken
      123 8 Nanking saved: Red push broken NANKING, Wednesday. /GOVERNMENT trx>ps VJ operating on the Honan plains scored a decisive victory by wiping out the main strength of the Communist forces in* a six-day battle, thereby frustrating the Red march on Nanking. More than 80,000 casualties have been inflicted on the Red
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      RUBBERS IN NEW GAINS
      438 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Wednesday. THE Berlin situation continues to be a dominating influence on the London stock markets but, although caution remains, the nervousness of market operators is no longer quite so apparent, sa>s Reuter's financial correspondent. A factor of interest was the strength of
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      Rubber prices
      128 8 SPECIAL Mart« nnnri|iin<— rtvea the price* ol rabbet at 11 am today as follows: SINGAPORE CHAMBEB Ol COMMERf'I The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Robber Asaoriation's noon prices yesierday were ia cents per Ib Buyers. Setter.. Cta. Cta Ne. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose nominal 4: No. 1 R.S.S. f.o.b.
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