The Singapore Free Press, 17 July 1948

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1948 PRICE 111 CENTS
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  • 441 1 U.S. sends B-29's to Britain Move follows Soviet threat 'LONDON, Saturday. CIX T V Super-Fortresses are winging the Atlantic to Britain, the first of them due to arrive m England this morning. Jet fighters and cargo planes are following. The Super-Forts, will be based m Britain for the time being/
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  • 46 1 1 a B Reporter '•tamed a man after >i the crew of the A.P.C. ib. m connection with the id Chinese bosun of the ni Bangkok to Singapore. said yesterday that the sequel to a quarrel nto Singapore. victim sin kwan
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  • 94 1 APPEAL FOR UNITY IN BURMA RANGOON Friday. THE former Premier of Burma. Dr. Ba Ma*, to- d for unity, calling country "a sick child of threatened with dominaby Anglo-Americans and appeal, backed by ThaBa Sein. leader of the Burma for the Burmese" Party, suggested that the mite to solve Burma's
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  • 48 1 Free Press Staff Reporter At the Muar Assizes yesterday. Mr. Justice Laville sentenced four Malays each to n years' rigorous imprisonment and 10 strokes of the rattan for gang robcry at Segamat last year. A fifth Malay was acquitted on the same charge.
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  • 100 1 Tedder has hurried talk in Berlin BERLIN, Friday MARSHAL" of the Royal Air l Force Lord Tedder held hurried conferences today with General Sir Brian Robertson, British Military Governor m Germany, who flew from Frankfurt to meet him. The conferences and the entire visit were marked by abnormal security measures
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    33 1 hampion keeps his title. "Baby" Maurice Sandeyron, France's European flyweight champion (left) covers up as Dickie O' Sullivan, the London flyweight, puts over a punch. The champion held his challenger to a draw.
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  • 218 1 Free Press Staff Reporter HAILED by two Europeans to attend to a Chinese trisha rider who had been killed last night m a hit-and-run accident, a passing Municipal ambulance collided with an oncoming car as it turned about m Mountbatten Road. It was almost two
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  • 64 1 M ANDREI Gromyko. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister and former delegate to the United Nations, who sailed yesterday for home, tried to evade reporters* questions In New York, savin* several times, "I will not give an interview." Finally, visibly irritated, he said, "Yes, I am glad
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  • 63 1 Free Press Staff Reporter TWO armed daylight robberies were committed m Singapore yesterday. Two Chinese, one with a pistol, robbed a Hokkien m a house m Bukit Timah Road of $1,931 m cash and valuables and seven cheques totalling $1,361. In the Lorong 25 market, off
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  • 26 1 Over 100 rice junks have been sunk by Vietnamese insurgents near Cantho, 100 miles from Saigon, m fighting with the French, report! A.P.
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  • 128 1 Fice Press Staff Reporter MELBOURNE. Fri. F Britain was unable to assert her authority, there should be "an Australian show of force m Malaya." Mr Percy Spender, former Army Minist?r and now a liberal Member of the House ol Re- 1 presentatives. said m
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  • 290 1 Two more held under crisis law Free Press Staff Reporter rO more Chinese have been arrested m Singapore under the Emergency Regulations, the C.I.D. announced this morning, bringing the total now held to 96. Twenty-six have been detained as a result of yesterday morning's comb-out of the Bukit Panjang area.
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  • 21 1 A Chinese Air Force plane yesterday crashed 15 miles west of Peiping, killing all five persons aboard.
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  • 92 1 BRITAIN is expected to buy 22 Canadian four-en-gined air liners to replace English-built Yorks and Lancastrians on 8.0.A.C. routes to Malaya, India and the Middle East. The cost is estimated at about £4,000.000. It means another breach m the Government's declared •'Fly English" policy and
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  • 29 1 Five charred bodies m the wreckage of a converted army training plane, found m Georgia. U.S., include those of a small boy and a baby.
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  • 242 1 5,000 'Specials enrolled in Federation Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPIK. SaUird VTEARLY 5,000 special constables have been euraMl lN m the Federation so far. Along he Eas, Ci.a-\ t.ie majority of enrolments are those of Mala* In Penang and Province Wellesley, tliere i oeen 1,622 applications up to July
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  • 29 1 The RCA marine staion m Manila early today intercepted a message to all Hong Kong-bound ships to seep a "sharp lookout for a missing Catalina flying boat."
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  • 26 1 A U.S. military court has sentenced Vice Admiral Masashi Kobayashi, to ten years' imprisonment for responsibility for the torture and death of war prisoners.
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  • 27 1 TAXI HOLD— IP A taxi driver who had just taken some soldiers to Tanglin Barracks early this morning, was attacked by three Europeans and robbed of $7.
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  • 70 1 NEW hor»s wUI be the Sarawak Turf Club's big problem next year when raring is reviv d m Kuching. "Chuck-outs M from Malayan racing stables will not be welcome, says Mr. J. B- Archer, honorary clerk of the course. *'It may be that my experience
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  • 174 1 CHIFLEY SEES THE C.G. I rre Press Staff Reporter BEFORE leaving lor Australia this morning. Australian Prime Mil.. Mr. J. B. Chifley. who arrived m Singapore yesterday evening, had discussions with the Commission r G neral, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. It is understood that Mr. Mac Donald flew from Kuala
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  • FEATURES...
    • 2421 2  -  Gloria Benjamin A SHORT STORY 1 by OUTSIDE, a brass band clashed loudly above hundreds of voices.. A woman fainted and was handed to safety above the heads of the crowds: the radio commentator mobbed his brow under the white glare of the television ligh>s. Inside, as
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    • 296 2 £)lAMONDS arc trumps. South leads North and South are to win six of the eight trick* against any defend. South leads club king. tx-n defense Is to ruff with th»* diamond jack aud return a heart North underrufTs th<- first trw with the six -spot, and plays th<
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    • 161 2 THE WAY OF JESUS INII _jgfl[ ':1 n J.'' I mid -air uc:ml _____Fwl^ SO«OAY JULY 18. :X J __k J x <»r hard Bik I ftear Mu^ura- Smt«pl \> I'M M> M i\\\ 7JI PM HOW VOL \N I tl To Ull thr only bridge rv^r j "'m i
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    • 1126 2 SINPAPOPP rbos His Orch. from Raffles the Paris Conservatorium with SUNDAY giiivjnrwni. Hotel; 10 15 Cabaret with I La Conducting; 4 8 Musi.- on the Air; 8. 30 World From 12-M noon to ZOf p.m. Hobiiis; 10.30 Rhythm on Ke- with liarek Weber and Home News; 8.45 BBC 485 metres
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  • NEWS...
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    • 7 3 NEW SYNTHETIC RUBBER BETTER >- m A .P.
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    • 314 3 Modernise, say miners A USTRALIAN industry is curtailed and rationing of t f f lw tr !«ty and gas applies m several states as a result of the shortage of black coal. wh Re f. entl y the federal president of the Miner's federation Mr.
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    • 68 3 BRITAIN receives aired weather reports from Moscow and the Russian weather service use British weather reports every day, Air Secretary, Mr. Henderson, said at the opening m London of the European Meteorolgical Telecommunications Conference. "Of the forecasts broadcast every day for the past 2\ years before the sir
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    • 26 3 picture. Count Bernadotte (right) of Sweden with one of his assistants, m the mission of mediation between Jews and Arab A. P.
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    • 145 3 OHITAIN S mines during 1947. their fust year under i> ownership produced 6,000,000 tons more han m the previous year, but the National Coai d showed a deficit of £23.250,000. Board, m its rer I accounts for the year, has i that
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    • 79 3 CARDAR Valiabhai Patrl. Indian Deputy Prime Minisi m Pariala thk> ..■> offered •ia to Hyderabad state to settle the accession dispute during Earl Mountbatien's v teneralship were user open. The terms offered m talk* which Earl Mountbatten had me Hyderabad Govern"have eon" 1 with him." iared. "Now
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    • 34 3 CHINESE CENSI S China now has a popula- j tion of 463.493.418. according! :\e Uiest census figures; revealed today by the Minister of Interior Of the total 242.273J83 are males and 221 219.525 females
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    • 53 3 A« Australian War Cnmes Commission has sentenced two former Japanese army officers to hang. Former Lieutenant-Colonel Kondo Hideo and Lieutenant iwasaki Yoshido were found murder by a cas bomb of Flight Lieutenant A. D of the R.A.F. and Sergeant F. Engelsman of :he Netherlands East Indie*
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    • 97 3 AS 3 SEE ENGLAND Jamaican BUY haired Mr. Bostamante, Jamaica's oour leader, said the King was a musi charming person, and made him feel ••quite at home" m Buckingham Pal The Under -Secretary for the Colonies talked for one hour with him yesterday about Jamaica's constitution, which Mr. Bustamante wants
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    • 45 3 Mr Churchill received the lieedom of Aldershot at the DorchesUr Hotel, London. "We can never make our way through our troubles m I the future unless we preserve ithat great a^nd glorious idea of England with all her glorious traditions of freedom," he declared
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    • 56 3 When the Chief Rabbi c the British Empire, Dr Israel Brodit was installed, he said: We must not be dejected of indulging In self-pity or bitterness because th^re are elements m Palestine, whose behaviour is repugnant to the Britten tradition of freedom and fair play. Ttaey are not
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    • 87 3 THE Premier of South Australia, Mr. Playford, after inspecting the workings at the East Mount Painter and Radium Hill uranium fields, said that results fully justified further exploration. A shaft and four adits have been driven into the hillside, and a considerable quantity of ore taken
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    • 75 3 DAMAGES amounting to £5,500 were awarded m the King's Bench Division to Mr. Rhys Evans against the Overseas Corporation (Great Britain) Ltd. for wrongful dismissal as managing director and for arrears of salary. Mr. Evans had denied the corporation's allegation that he acted fraudulently m con-•-ction
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      51 3 picture picture. Planet News A. P. A THIS: Pit ponies, on which English mines relied for more than a century, are still used extensively m Australia.- OR THIS: Streamlined, speedy electric mine lo- comotive for hauling coal as used m Europe, and the United States and now being installed m
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    • 272 3 ON behalf of 3,000,000 Uganda Christians an appeal is being made to the Lambeth Conference of Bishops to mediate m a dispute between them and the Bishop of Uganda, the Right Reverend Cyril Stuart. J Mr. Semakula Mulumba, British representative of the Uganda clan chieftains, has
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    • 30 3 Over 50 Jews, including 22 girls, have left Shanghai m i the past two weeks for Pales- tine via Cuba and France to Join the Israeli Army.
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    • 115 3 gRITISH film star James Mason has won a court case m New York freeing him from an agreement which prevented his appearing m U.S. films. A Federal judge held that a j document drawn up m 1946 between Mason and David Rose, former chief of the
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    • 266 3 /CHICAGO speculators, playing the world wheat market, have effectively prevented any agreement ito reduce the present high prices that impor ing countries have to pay for wheat. This was disclosed m a statement by the British Ministry of Food announcing Britain's withdrawal from the
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    • 39 3 EDITOR- NEWSBOYS Editors of the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano sold copies m Saint Peter's Square wh< n the only newstand open m Rome, nine feet outside the Vatican was forced to close down because of the General strike.— U.P.
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    • 30 3 Mr. PbU PiraUn one two Communist m?mb( Parliament, has been narred from the United State* He soueht a visa to attennational convention oi US. Communist Par
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    • 120 3 NATION TO HONOUR PERSHING pEN. John J. ("Black JacfcT Persing. whose death occurred at the age be buried with full n tary honours at Arlin; ionai Cemetery, m c pliance with a wish which had expressed before death. The body v. Sunday and Mond. public to pay v ,)ectg to
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    • 64 3 U.S. AND FRANCE GET MOST TIN •[•HE Combined Tin Committee has allocated 2> long tons of tin for halt tr This represents "a; per cent of the tions thai can be during U I allocation will be mac September, said the Mi: of Sup;;. Tht United States got more than
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  • LEADER...
    • 608 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, July 17, 1948. Misunderstanding LORD Listowels statement that the Acting High Commissioner was satisfied that the police have adequate forces for the action they are taking against bandits m Malaya has evoked a prompt and satisfactory aial. Sir Alec Newboult -has never expressed any such
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    • 1314 4  -  SIR DUFF COOPER by THE British are not an imaginative people, but one great feat of imagination is required of them if they are going to succeed m understanding the complications that have arisen m foreign affairs. They must try to imagine what it
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      761 4  -  Alex Ander OVER YOUR SHOULDER by TH IS week we've decided to start off by picking on the members of our own sex, for a change. Did you know, girls, that out of every 20 clients of an optician m this fair city one wears a monocle? A
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      15 4 An architect's drawing of th€ proposed Olympic area that Melbourne mil build the 1956 Games.
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    • 473 4  - 1956 Olympiad in Melbourne? JOHN LOUGHLIN By MELBOURNE, Australia, ie preparing to make a strong bid for the 1956 Olympic gam<-s. It bases is claim on the fact tria t the *hree other countries that have taken part, m all the modern Olympiads have each had an award of the
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    • 297 4  -  S.S. MANIAN WHAT PEOPLE SAY THE bulk of the population 1 of the Malayan Federation and Singapore are workers. From the very start after the British re-occupation of Malaya the worker has exhibited a keen political consciousness. As proof ->f this fact irajde unions sprang uo everywhere, but
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    • 8 4 Motoring in Bermuda I I I 1 I
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    • 65 4 FAITH Lo. th«se are paru His ways: hut how li a portion is heard of Him? but the thunder power who can understand* SPECIAL ANNOUNCEM!« COW GATE Th€ first post-war shiptmnt has COW GATE I HIMANISIID IBBtfi Supplemental Malted H"* Brestol is an emulsion **U. and concentrated I* Specially recommended
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
    • 363 5 •prospects not pod, 'he says Frtx> Press Staff Reporter LiUSE the prospects of the rubber industry r Malays do no l°°k good to him, Malaya's JLr Kinu' r Lw Kon g Chian, head of Prjkr To., Ltd., Singapore, has sold two sbber totalling 800 acres, and
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      4 5 MR. TAN AH TAH
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    • 145 5 LOCAL MAN NAMED JUDGE Free Press Staff Reporter MR. Tan Ah Tah, Commissioner of Estate Duties and Stamps m Singapore, and one of the first Chinese to be promoted from the Straits Settlements Legal Service to the Colonial Legal Service last year, will take his seat on Monday as Second
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    • 86 5 Pree Press Chinese Correspondent. THH New China Weekly, 1 published by the Chinese Communist propaganda organ, the New China Agency, has ceased publication owing to the present emergency situation which, it says, "nas rendered continued publication difficult." The weekly wa* first published m Singapore three montns
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      25 5 The Tseng brothers as Gaucho Serenaders m the variety concert held m St. Joseph's Institution hall m aid of the Church of the Sacred Heart.
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    • 221 5 Jtffow 3/ti^ Jambol one of them IIINE road names m the rural areas of Singapore were approved yesterday. There arc three new roads m Sembawanß district, and six m the Pasir Panjang area. The three new roads at Sembawang are Jalan Ulu Seletar at the 10*4 milestone.
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    • 129 5 OPPOSITION to the military authorities remaining m possession of the Pasir Panjang Park for another 18 months was voiced at the Rural Board meeting yesterday. The Army's application to remain m occupation came up' for consideration. The chairman Mr. C. W. A. Sennett explained
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    • 89 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A GENERAL meeting of workers employed by the Singapore Harbour Board has been called for this afternoon. A spokesman of the Board informed the Free Press this morning that the meeting would £robably decide on a new labour union for the Harbour Board
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    • 429 5 REPLYING to Mr. Kenneth Seth, Mr. A. J. Braga, the Singapore lawyer, said yester- day that he had condoned j several offences by his wife and refrained from taking j action because of his great love for his two children. He was afraid that any
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      34 5 BEN BARNETT, the former Australian Test cricketer, arrived m Singapore yesterday with his family on the Blue Funnel ship Gorgon. He is seen here with Mrs. Barnett and their two children, lan and Ross,
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    • 179 5 RACING AGAIN IN SARAWAK NEXT YEAR RACING will be revived m Kuching next year when th« first post-war meeting of the Sarawak Turf Club will be held on a new track. The racecourse Is now being re-made and only small stretches of the old track are being incorporated with the
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    • 196 5 Free Press Staff Reporter MORE police raids m the Singapore rural districts would be greatly welcomed by the law-abiding residents of these areas, a leading member of the rural community told the Free Press yesterday. He said that increased raids would go a long way toward
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    • 249 5 WHY NOT RECRUIT MALAYANS? AT a meeting of the Rural Board yesterday, Mr. Chin j Chye Fong made a plea for the appointment of a suitablyqualified local candidate to fill the post of assistant Executive Engineer (Rural) m preference to recruiting a man from abroad, to whom expatriation allowance would
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    • 65 5 /COMMISSIONS m the MaVj layan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve have been granted to W. K. Foster, D.S.C., as Lieutenant, V. P. Coughlan as Lieutenant, E. P. C. Blunt as Sub-Lieutenant, and J. Hooper as acting Sub-Lieutenant. The following promotions m the M.R.N.V.R. have been approved: Lieut. A.
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    • 111 5 A STATEMENT issued by the central office the Automobile Association of Malaya records the Council's "deprecation" of the manner with which the military authorities had t^afll applications m respect of cars requisitioned m 1941/1942. Certain shop-keepers m country districts will be asked to allow members of
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    • 314 5 5 woman among bandits killed AFTER withdrawing iwice bec; us 1 were outnumbered, a I man special assault sqiad of the Selan^or C.I.D beat off a large group of insurgents near Kajane; 15 miles from Kuala Lumpur, yesterday, killing 11 bandits, five of them women. Among the killod was Lav
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  • SPORTS...
    • SATURDAY SPORTS PARADE
      • 431 6 Public schools 'hog* the coaches By A Special Correspondent COR a long time it 1 has been evident that there are 'too many lukewarm lilies m British sport. We lack faith, fire and fanaticism. The blimp-brain-ed excuse that "we lose like gentlemen" no longer deceives anyone. The
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      • 134 6 WIMBLEDON CENTRE COURT SNAPS: A new o; the men's doubles (top left) icon by the Australians. John Bromwich and F. Sedgman (further from the camera', who beat the American parr, 7V n Brown (making an overhead and Gardner Mulloy 5-7, 7-5. 9-7. Queen Mary m the Royal box
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      • 46 6 Washbrook has played at and missed a ball ow the off stump from Toshack a faint snick has exultant roars from Tallon and first slip; Washbrook waits for the fateful lifting of the umpire's finger an incident m the second Test at Lords
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      • 226 6 By COUKTCRAFT THE Singapore Badminton Association is out to r<?--1 capture its past glory when the Colony was foremost m Malaya. Plans are m hand to make this year's Singapore badminton championships he greatest m i*s history. In addition to the open cluimpionships, three
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      • 61 6 Bill Edrich, famous England and Middlesex star stntes the right way to hold the bat. The forby the thumb and first finger of V sho dd be m line— as shown— with the of bat Thumb and forefinger of the right hand are way between the offside
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      • 316 6 By SYDNEY WOODIRSON FS world's grea.est sporting festival. Games, is almost upon u<. How 10 h?ar them condemned as bringing bickering and squabbles. Left to the there would be none of this fuss and for from experience when I bat the compe first thoughts are to
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        14 6 and 880 Olympics 1.. vith a broken ar, was beaten Now retired ning. ht
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      • 50 6 pIERRE "MONATANE of Franc* Thorny England I liter's P ligbtwxight championship Whit. udiwr. en The 15-round b and cha:;< the world light Ivaty- Dauthill- m-.: appear m bout a^.^ Promoter Jack Soiomons «alr that all but 142 of the 46,000 seats had been sold A.P.
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      • 11 6 Scramble is on for Louis tittle ■I 1 I 1 A.P.
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    • 603 7 BETING WILL BE EVEN IN BIG RACE off best again A_ By CALL BOY A \u seven horses well fancied m one of Uie most open Cup races m Singapore, and betUnff is certain to be evenly spread out m the Si quarter Singapore Cup race at Bukit Timah today,
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    • 79 7 The learn to represent the Kadayanallur Muslim Leapue Youngsters against the RAF. Stletar second team at Sole tar today w.ll bo selected from th«> foilowing players: S A Hu.ssain, S.S. Ibrahim M.N. Syed. S.A. Kader Oil, V.O. X J. Samat, M.N. KnlanUry, S A. Ibrahim. S.M. Shaik Mohamed,
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    • 56 7 THE following will paty for the Oriental B.P. against the HappUadl B.P. m a return rr.at^h of svven singles and two doubles at the latter's court today at 4 p.m. sharp. Tan Quan Hong. Peck Seek Ben* I.im Ong Huat, Teo Kok Ong Bong Soo. Koh Beug Loh
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    • 37 7 Petition wins the Eclipse jpu'.vear-old L- W m 0* F .4-- I ft and I <r r. this >:rei The Indian hammer thrower. eh. arrived m London yesterday by air to compete m the Olympic Games.— Reuter
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    • 670 7 IT is now almost certain that the England selectors, when they meet tomorrow, will bring back Len Hutton to open England's innings with Cyril Washbrook m the fourth Test which starts on Hutton s home ground at Leeds next Thursday Any doubts they might have
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    • 188 7 GUIDO Ft rrucini of Italy successfully defended his I European bantamweight title I at Belle Vue. Manchester, last i night against Peter Kane of England. Kane, retired at the end or the nfth round. Kane who had trouble I making the weight, was bleeding from a cut
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    • 205 7 CALL BOY TRESPASSER EPSOM JEEP POINTER ,Vl V O N FLAREPATH FIREMASTER OKLAHOMA FIREMASTER RACE 1 Firemaster Flarepath Firemaster Flarepath KIRKMASTLR Demaratus Oklahoma Flarepath Demaratus FLYING BOOTS DECEMBER 2«TH DECEMBER 26TH B!( KSMEAD RACE December 26th Ricksmead Power Chief December 26th DECEMBER 2fiTH M—c Comet Plain
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    • 1026 7 BELOW are the acceptances for today's Bukit Timah races. The Double Tote will be on races five and eight. The Big Sweep will be drawn on race eight. Race 1—2.00: Horses Class 3, Div. 1 Mile --0 Empire Rose J. Donnelly 9.00 M/s A. C. Simmons R. A.
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    • 228 7 Winning goal came on time THE Rovers Sports Club, the league leaders, had to battle their way against stiff opposition unen they met the G.H.Q. Signals m an exciting S.A.F.A. first division league match played at Jalan Bfs.ir stadium yesterday. The Rovers won two-one. Right from the kick off,, the-
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    • 22 6 Ought To See This ure, It's Different 'i A Trrrific Ending" Sunday Express) xS phone: bqO3 Today Four Shows 2_415 6.30—9.30 p.m.
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    • 199 6 WORLD CUSS WRESTLING TO-NIGHT At 9p w fk HAPPY WORLD COVERED STACiUM B INTRODI (ING THE WORLD FAMOUS TIN JAB TK.I WHO HAS JCST COMPLETED A SCCCESSFLX TOIR \I-I OVER INDIA A WHO IS ON HIS WAY TO AfSTRALI ZEALAND A AMFRUA. HE HAS FOUGHT OVER 710 CONTESTS— WON CTB
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 54 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya yes. you've set youra t( well, that letsN /they're so exciTed\l you always V^^ I NAMES ON THE SCROLL I t^^ ME OUT.' 21 I ABOUT THEIR JOINT f COME FIRST VOF FAME. MY LAOS. 1 2 utot*^ DISCOVERY THAT Tmcv'\/c
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    • 14 7 RA CES. SURE WINNERS TUBORG BEER AND HENNESSY'S BRANDY N SALE AT THE BAR
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    • 100 7 I TRUCK AND BUS TYRES >^Jl' Extra Experience -^Ct^^ makes them extra tough >k ust w^tch the way Dunlop Tnt and Bus Tyres >-tano up to wo Conditions The^r extra performa r j^ > is proof of the value of extra V experience' the unique D. >w factor which results
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    • 206 7 Sports diary SOCCER: Malaya Cup: Armjuid Navy Johore JaUn B«sor SUdium; S.A FA. Dlt. IU: I njcorns v. Ist. Malay Coast Bat.ery— McNair Rd.; R^Vs.C. Training School t. Spore Dlst. (W> RIML- US C. fTOund (All ram«s wiU start at SIS ATHLETICS: Singapore A.AA. championship— SßC, 4.3* p m FRIENDLY
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  • 423 8 CEASE FIRE BEGINS IN JERUSALEM Arabs, Jews heed UNO THE Israel Government and the seven-nation Arab League have agreed to an immediate "cease fire" m Jerusalem m compliance with the United Nations order threatening sanctions. The Jews have also agreed to the second part of the UNO order for a
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  • 106 8 U.K. secret weapon is missing LONDON. Friday. COMEWHERE m a British railways good** siding lies a truck containing what is believed W> be one of Britain's most revolutionary secrets a jet ensine for tanksFor 54 days this engine has been lost and th. War Office, Air Ministry. Ministry of >upply
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  • 7 8 t md e!pht •mManila, A.P.
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  • 34 8 A daughter. Annette, to Mr Mrs Van Der Linden, at mpur. on July Isih. ISHERWOOD —At Kand a n Krrbau. on Jv.lv 16th to Bixabetn r wife of R J Isherwood. a daughter.
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  • 44 8 TANG On Thursday 8 p m. Mrs. Tang Hon of 26 Jalan Jail Kuala Lumpur. Bht leaves behind her husband. six son*, one daughter and eight srandrhildrrn Tb« cortege will leave the house for the Cantonese Cemet'rv at 2 p m on Saturday.
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  • 55 8 '■'me central committ' the Gret'k Communist Party declared jretterdaj that the Communist -lod gutrrllias killed and wounded more than 1,000 Greek Army forces m northern Greece. The Communist radio said that the Gr vernment "has again rejected" proposals of ffuerrilla General Markoe Vnftades to end
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  • 189 8 TOKIO, Friday. OEFORE Tojo tried to commit suicide m 1945, he a final message urging the Japanese people to await patiently for the chance to rise again. He also accused the Allies of betraying their own ideals by using atomic bombs which, he said,
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  • 270 8 T»HE Israeli army, which before the truce had been reeling back before the Arab armies, had by yesterday completely reversed the military position with sweeping successes, including t«<» capture of V:iTf»r^fh :inrf Tireh h Greatly strengthened dur- j ing thf recent lour week i truce, the
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  • 147 8 Indians kill 50 in Kashmir NEW DELHI, Friday. TNDIAN Army troops fighting 1 m Kashmir counted at least 50 enemy dead after a battle south of Tithwal, 60 miles north-west of Srinagar, last Wednesday, an Indian Defence Ministry communique said tonight The Indian troops captured a hill and took five
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  • 37 8 Seven United Stale, soldiers and six Japanese have I arrested In Tokio following a large-scale robbery of United States Army clothing and a battle m Kobe In which vii American counter-intelli-gence agent was wounded.
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  • 97 8 SHANGHAI, Friday. AT least two people were killed and n serlou&iy Injured m a itrect battle her? tonight between police and rioting soldier*. Thi* is the mast serious m a week of disturbances. Many more were feared trampled to death m the confusion as sirens
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  • 78 8 PHILIP PIRATIN (Communist) told the Commons yesterday tha r Britons could still be out m the stocks for Sabbath under the Sunday Observance Act of 1625. "Th< re Us hardly one of us who does not on some Sunday or another profane that law he said.
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    23 8 picture. Major-Gen. C. H. Boucher who is G.O.C. Malaya, cam* to Singapore to meet Mrs. Boucher, who has just arrived from England Orient
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  • 46 8 \MR. Winston Churchill's ITI ever present cigar won fJSL ciose action from policemen yesterday He walked towards his plane mouth, flouting the strict PoUce edged up, craned thtir necks, and finally decided everything was all right— the cigar was out A. P.
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  • 51 8 Jamaican Labour leader, William A. 3ustamante yesterday distributed over 200 bananas, half a dozen botof rum and 10 lbs. of coffee to working class people In London's East End. Bu^tamante stopped his powerful American car m Commercial road and stopped traffic while distributing his gifts.
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  • 32 8 Six RAP. Jets, the first to cross the Atlantic, have arrived at Mont Joli airport. 35 miles from Montreal. The Dlanes will make a ujodwil! tour of Canada and the United States.
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  • 459 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Friday. ASIIAKP fall on Wall Street, as revealed by overnight advices, combined with the Berlin crisis, caused a setback m the London Stock Exchange today, says Reuter's financial correspondent. Prices m all sections were marked lower, but there was no pressure
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  • 128 8 A SPECIAL Mark* LiunpinifiH girtt the prices of rmafcer at 11 aja. today m tmUmwu: per m. Mib. Oto O* N«. 1 188 Bpmi N«. 1 ft. 8. 8. ia bmim Ao«. 4l\ 4T\ N«. t K.B 8 toft im bate* Am« *«S 4«S M« S 8.5.8 CM
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  • 122 8 aiahila, Friday. THE Commission struggling to revise the Republic's civil code Rot along fine until it came to the questions of divorce and women's rights. Then, a group of women lawyers and social leaders began Hocking to lb« hear- ings with so Mnct ideas of their
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  • 106 8 THE radio operator or L*>ard the William Carson, i on Monday flashed a is mutinous" signal. was cancelled sh i wards. Is now reporter: i hare fallen aboard N I radio signal has since I received from the Cars- mystery surrounds event--1 board The Dutch &U-.
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  • 223 8 TOGLIATTI IN GRAVE STA TE AS Italy's Communists returned to work yesterday under the Government's threat to employ armed force, the situation remained tense with fre^h disorders reported m various cities and the conditions of the wounded Communist leader, BflfKT Falmiro Togliatti, said to be becoming worse. It is now
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  • 168 8 China asks for Manchu ports DEMAND ON NEGOTIATIONS for UieH?^ 1^ 11 Soviet-occupied Port \rthur u<2 continuing:, the Chinese PnmJT v* nd D *ife Wen-hao said. He deni«^ SK 1 I*.1 i* 1 of the Legislative Yuan 'that ftH***Sl blockaded the sea along u>* -Ji **N^ adding that China would
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  • 44 8 BATAVIA Friday HOLLAND is moving the .^quarters of the D Navy m the Indies from Bata--1 via to Sourabaya "a5 soon as possible," it is announced Before the war. Sour:* kl the larp st na m the Indies. I U.P.
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  • 9 8 US Negroes win court injunction I I- m Reuter
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  • 5 8 HENRY WALLACE IS CONVENTIONAL I
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