The Singapore Free Press, 26 July 1948

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JULY 26, 1948 PRICiI 10 (JEM*
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    Police beat off bandit attack
    422 1 Police beat off bandit attack R.A.F. aid m jungle hunt Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Monday. CEVEN policemen drove off a gang of bandits who attacked the Kabang police station, between Mersing and Kluang, early this morning. The bandits first asked the police to hand over their arms on
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    'Act against Reds': Fadden
    216 1 BRISBANE, Sunday SPEAKING on Australian aid for Malaya, Mr. Arthur Fadden. Country Party leader, said here today that he would ask for action under the Crimes Act to deal with two "impudent and direct Communist threats." The 'threats" referred to were a statement last week by
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    Cyclist dies after fall under lorry
    92 1 Cyclist dies after fall under lorry Free Press Staff Reporter VFTER a 24-year old Chin cyclist. Ong Tian Hin killed :n a collision with j a civilian lorry at McPherson Road yesterday afternoon, police found no damage either to the cycle or the lorry. Just before the accident, the cyclist
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    C.I.D. HOLD TEN IN DAWN RAID
    109 1 C.I.D. HOLD TEN IN DAWN RAID Free Press Staff Reporter pOMBINED Singapore uniformed police— C.I.D. raided the fishing village of T ta Ikan at dawn on Saturday and arrested 10 Chinese under the Emergency Regulations, including a woman. Thirty-eight persons were originally detained during the raid, but 28 were released
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    NEW FINN PREMIER
    24 1 President Pasikivi of Finland has instructed Karl August Fagerholm. Social Democrat, former speaker of the Diet, to form a now Govvernment.
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    HIGHER CAR PRICES
    24 1 .eral Motors Corporation (Detroit US.i announces a price increase of about eight per cent on all passenger ■ars. effective today.- AP.
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    The arrested Russian
    91 1 THE head of Singapore's C.1.D., Mr. E. V. Fowler, told pressmen this morning that th e arrest of V. P. Jarkoff, a White Russian, aged about 30. had "no political significance whatsoever." Jarkoff was arrested under the Colony's Immigration laws as an illegal immigrant. He not arrested
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    BUS OVER BANK
    26 1 A bus plunged down a 50--1 foot embankment between Miagao and Guimbal m the j Philippines, killing 12 and I injuring 16 people.
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    (ICE FOR AL MEN AVIATION
    20 1 (ICE FOR AL MEN AVIATION IbM Keener h c of _'_r be I ''2. (fc »bo had ■a would, he
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    GREEK CRISIS
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    R.A.F. LEAFLETS TO VILLAGERS
    163 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LtJMPUR, Monday. C KOM an R.A.F. Dakota, flying over villages and r matter areas near Kuala Lumpur today fluttered down the tot batch of a million and a uuartef emergency leaflets which are to be dropped m many parts of the
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    Troops to halt clan bat ie
    98 1 A; 1 MENT of troops nau been dispatched to th< Sanwei district, south oi Kowloon, to halt a full-scale buttle between two clans which was repented m Hong Kon.', yesterday to have clainvd over 100 lives. The battle has been goin^ on for five
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    LA ARGENTINA LEAVES SPORE
    56 1 Free _r_*M Stall Reporter THE 7.600-ton Argentine Republic's light cruiser. La Argentina, left Singapore today for Colombo m the course of a round-the-worl i training cruise. She was four days at this port. L^ na will complete her world trip on N >▼. 0. when she
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    POWER FROM SEA
    28 1 A French mission has arrived m Casablanca, Morocco to do preliminary work on a project to convert the heat of the tropic seas to power.
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    294 WERE SENT BACK TO CHINA
    97 1 NANKING, Sunday. AN Overseas Chinese Commission spokesman said 294 Chinese were expelled from Singapore and Malaya since the end of the war, a Government Information Office announcement said today. The expulsions included 190 from Singapore, and 104 from the Federation of Malaya. The Chinese
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    WHITE ELEPHANT
    30 1 The village of Panomrob, m northern Siam, has reported the capture of a rare white elephant for use m the coronation ceremonies of King Phumiphon Aduldet next March.
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    Hyderabad on verge of war
    199 1 NEW DfcLHl, Minaay. WARNING of military action was given by the Indian Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, today whin Indian troops moving from Madras Province into Muslim-ruled Hyderabad were attacked by Razakars. militant Muslims who oppose the union of Hyderabad with India. In counter-attacks, Indian troops,
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    28 killed in plane crash
    76 1 TWENTY-EIGHT people, including one woman, were killed when an airliner crashed on Gaspe Cape. Quebec, on Saturday night. The airliner was flying from Port Menier, Anticosti Island, m the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and was about 12 miles from Its destination at Gaspe, on the
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    U.S. IS WILLING TONEGOTIA TE, SAYS GEN. CLAY
    237 1 U.S. IS WILLING TONEGOTIA TE, SAYS GEN. CLAY BERLIN, Sunday. THE U.S. Military Governor m Germany, Gen. Lucius D. Clay, said tonight that America was willing to negotiate with Russia on all German proI blems but not under duress. Gen. Clay, who returned today from top-l< "crisis" talks m Washington,
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    28 1 George Bernard S7iaw, stormy petrel of English literature for more than half a century, celebrates his 92nd birthday today. "I want to live to be 100,'' he says.
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    Armed robbers escaped in a taxi
    80 1 Free Press Staff Reporter FOUR Chinese, one armed with a pistol and another with a knife, got away m a taxi, after robbing Chinese occupants of a house m Cecil Street early on Saturday morning. The robbers, who were described as "Cantonese and Hok-kien-speaking"
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    ARMY WORKERS FORM UNION
    70 1 AN Army Ind n Union *-as formed y« day at a meeting m Sin/aoore held under the ausniee.N Army Civil Service Unioi All workers, except month-ly-paid clerical and sfj grades, are eligible for r bership The Union's object is to improve working conditions for its members.
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    RED LITERATURE SEIZED IN RAIDS
    50 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore C.I.D. Chief. Mr. E. V. Fowler, this morning said that the police "may take action" following seizure of a quantity of Communist literature during police raids on five Indian bookshops m Singapore during the weekend. No arrests were made.
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  • FEATURES
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      XIV OLUMPIAD
      1247 2  -  JOHN HALL Page Two is given up today to the full story 0 f I world's greatest sporting event, the Olympic Games Prepared by AT four o'clock next Thursday, Juiy IN, the King will step forward on a ii ibunc m the centre of WemStadium and dee open
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      See how they'll run
      815 2 WHERE and when of the m*Ji i n I events Thursday, July 2t. Wembley Stadium (2.30 p.m.) Inaugural ceremonial with March Past 0/ the nations and lighting of the Olympic torch. Wen.Die.T Pool (7 prr.)— Swimming Friday. July 30. Wembley Stadium (11 a.m A t h
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      Bridge Problem
      213 2 EASTS str..t £y was more than counter d by south s tm ties painful auction. d one nip, a 1 an Inhibiting bid, carda m the majors it NorthSouth got to playing at I Icely lr n his h Without a guide to his op k*d W>:it orxmrd
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      OPERATION ELVIN
      185 2  - OPERATION ELVIN REGINALD POUND By WHEN the Olympic ing-pistol crac Wembley Stadu.. Thursday what will sound like an tit will be heard m chairman's roor the concrete rr, overhead. That will bo Sir Elvin, th t Wembl dium iportg bos.<' £100,000 gu the Games, op. i bottle of chami It
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      282 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DOKN toda>. >ou have a scintillating mind and the capacity for getting a tremendous amount of work done with the minimum of euort. Wit. charm, and even a definite. magnetic personality are evident m your conversation and can "sell" an idea without half trying! Just make sure
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    • Miscellaneous
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      70 2 mdnOrdkC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya J^^^ I OH.MI6OSH.I \TIWS MANDRAKE MEETS U HOLD IT, LOTHAR/ LOOK I RfriHkitun-'fiKiniatn \of *L< cca' _f__-_-_^--_ '.PULL IN/ MERMA AND ONE OF THE fJh WHAT WE'VE CAUGHT Im^«?kf fnFF^^ _J CAREFUL/ S /AAA/68 ADVENTURES HELLO THERE* AS A^A/PHAKt /5 Dtt
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  • NEWS
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      SASTER TO PAUSE TEEL HOW
      7 3 SASTER TO PAUSE TEEL HOW 1 Reuter
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      LLACE WON'T NOUNVE REDS
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      hai organises search for hoarded goods
      96 3 a -old attractive A Greek girl today hurled hand-grenades at her m a fit of She missed and was tak Her lover, a Greek ■landped without injury. It. tl Affairs has decided I rtory and transin the search .nmcdities. according to the: supplies, or
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      INDO-CHINA'S FATE IN BALANCE
      508 3 INDO-CHINA'S FATE IN BALANCE Paris to review Vietnam tact rHE French Parliament vwill shortly be called upon to take a decision which will determine whether ear-torn Indo-China is about to enter upon an era >f peace and prosperity. It will be asked to ratify the Franco-Vietnam igreement, signed on board
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      men of war
      79 3 King Farouk on a visit to the Egyptian Army m the Holy Land is shown a map of the front by one of his field officers. The King inspected advance units m the Isolo region and along the coast northwards from El Arish. Mr. Aneurin Bevan. Minister
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      Communist purge of Czech Army
      316 3 SINCE the Communist*, took over m Cxecho-Sbvakia the Army has been purged of 1.200 officers and II not trusted by the Russians according to General Antonin Hasal, former military adviser to Presilip out of the country. The Czech Air Force has also been "riddled with
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      Last fling
      27 3 Tw;o Sz7t>er Fox cubs, the first to be born at the London Zoo since 1936, make their first public appearance. They are four weeks old.
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      THE COLD WAR
      35 3 Colonel B. Balchen, famed Arctic rlyer, has been recalled from Oslo to service with the American Air Force. Although an American citizen, he has be<n managing director ol Norwecian Airlines. U.P. Reuter
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      SHOWDOWN OVER LEOPOLD SOON
      65 3 THE Social Christian (Catholic) group of the Bei Chamber of Deputies will 1 an early solution to Belgium s three-year-old "Royal quesii The announcement i-ug-eest_ an impending showdown between the Catholic— King Leopold's supporters- and the Socialists who are strongly opposed to the King's return. A
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      Alaska fears great new Soviet empire
      254 3 DELEGATE Edward L. Bartlett of Alaska says that Russia is building a ''great industrial empire" m Soviet Siberia across the Bering Strait from Alaska. In a speech prepared for the U.S. House of Representatives, he said that while Russia is making "great advarces", the
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      French Govt, chances 'good'
      68 3 ANDRE Marie, premierdesignate who has accepted the task of forming a new Government. will present himself and his programme to the National Assembly today His chances of getting a constitutional majority of at least 311 votes were considered reasonably good. M. Marie is believed to be
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      CHINESE BAN NEWS SERVICES
      82 3 rE British-owned North China Daily News has announced its rejection of sn i order from the Shanghai Newspaper Guild a Chinesesponsored organization m which all Shanghai newspapers are members to cease taking Reuter and Associated Press news. The decision to ask members of the guild to
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      21 3 An army court martial m i Tokio has sentenced an Ame- rican to life imprisonment for raping an American 1 woman.
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      Gag wartime secrets—UK
      75 3 Gag wartime secrets— UK THE British Embassy Washington has ed to the U.S. State Department "that the best interests ot all concerned" would be served by not publishing now certain documents on the wartime Teheran and \*Ua conierences The action was based o.; .al publication i tier's magazine ot paper-
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      men i destine
      118 3 men i destine Men of peace— UNITED States Navy Commander Carson Hawkins of Nevada, one of the United Nations truce observers for Palestine, bids farewell to Max Shalkita, Israeli liaison officer. Truce observers left Tel Aviv on July 8 before the fighting was resumed. The United Nations Mediator Count Folke
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      108 3 TAiIZAN Wolf gains a point Uy Edgar Rice Burroughs I -B»____iPg^___r v ___IT^^l LOOK HERE TARZAN WOLF SAID I _>/_j^ |\*s '^SSv Pfio.OER WHERE LARSON 15?' .> 2_flE_______\ *JF^ "TMESE PEOPLE NEEO YOUR AOVKTE /.^IAGf 1 >_l_fc£ vi^R.CK AS<EO 'I TOLO HIM TO Ifi. i| ILL GO LOOK FOX LARSON
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  • LEADER
    • The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. July 24. 1948.
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        The War Claims Scheme
        592 4 MALAYA'S S-T75 million war damage compensation scheme has been drafted at last. It is to come before the two Legislative Councils at their next meetings, m the case of Singapore on August 17. and a few days later m the case of the Federation. It has
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      HE TOOK OVER
      1025 4  -  ROY FERROA Today's Profile by UERY much m the news today is the Malay Nationalist Party whose President, well-built, bespectacled Ishak bin Haji Muhammad, a former newsman, was arrested by the Police m Taiping a fortnight ago. The reins of the MNP are now held by the
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      83 4 Germany, optimistically decreed the 191S diplomats of war must never again endanger world peace. Hitler and his deadly armoured toys, fat Goerinu with his Guns before Butter" helped enthusiastic Nazi youth to prove them false proph> To-day, Hitler's shade must be enjoying its great' est joke. As the German people
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      INDIANS GET TOGETHER
      527 4 By K. K. Ramanath. A. P. Correspondent. MAY 28, 1948, was a red letter day m the history of Central India. It marked the beginning of Madhya Bharat (Central India), a union of 22 states, big and small, which merged for their "common good, for the welfare
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      52 4 Left to right. Zoc Ann Olson. Mrs. Victoria Drt and Pat Elsener- all Californians pictured after theu .'"d iron place* m the American Olympic team for the springboard events, at Detroit. Michigan, U.S.A. The aquatic events of the London Olympics take plac? at Wemblcv Empire I from July 29 to
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      A MOST DELICATE ART
      606 4  -  COULTER WALKER By MARQUETRY, the IVI delicate craft of inlaying intricate designs into panels of <1, is somewhat akin to parquetry, m which farger pieces are fitted together to form a flooring. Both are ancient era but marquetry, mi n its limited field, has loped into
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      Malaya's nee Air O.C
      102 4  -  Geoffrey Geldard A 'R OOLIW by MALAYA'S 1U Direct o Aviation (Air Marshal E was a private ii Army when th* Flying Co announced. He tran air branch and wl Royal Air Fon formed was first airmen. His 35 yoars In were varied— :n the r
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      FAITH
      19 4 He .hat halt J Ml his m I nt> that i> total and wi.hott fife. I Pro\trL» fl
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      COLONIES SHORT OF STAFF
      497 5 I U.K. committee reports 'Equal terms' for local men [)ISCUSSING the shortage of staff m the Colonies, a Select Committee on the Colonial Estimates recommends that fuller opportunities should be given to suitably qualified colonial personnel to be made aware of vacancies and to apply on
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      MR.S.C.GOHO DIES IN CALCUTTA
      62 5 MR.S.C.GOHO DIES IN CALCUTTA oromm- i ll Slngaal .Vest ltta r on As a he had ibsence Mr. 30 to take n 1935. lent of I oiaI deI d to ir< rs m j toI I the Pr- ition 194a I an m I c occu- some mber of r.dence
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      Dr. Evatt and Free Press
      137 5 DR. H. V. Evatt- Australian Minister for External Affairs, on his arrival at Singapore was handed a copy of the Singapore Free Press by a reporter. Handing the copy of the paper to Dr. Evatt, who has characterised it as "extremist-" the reporter said This
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      Tiong Bahru social centre is planned
      134 5 Tiong Bahru social centre is planned Free Press Staff Reporter rpiONG Bahru residents held their first communal meeting yesterday at the Outran. Road Church hall. The resolution, that "a community centre is most j desirable to further the moral, cultural, physical and social advancement of the re- sidents of Tiong
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      SPLIT OVER WAR DAMAGE
      63 5 IN reply to many enquiries the Council of the Malayan Chamber of Mines. London, states that it disagrees ith the statement published by the Joint Committee of Malayan Interests, m London, m June 1. following the announcement made by :he Government on war damage compensation for
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      Call for better rice distribution
      192 5 Free Press Chinese Co-respondent rE Chinese Rice Retailers' Association, the Fooehow Commercial Guild, the Sundry Goods Dealers* Association and the Grocery Merchants' Guild aie sending four representatives to discuss with the food control authorities ways and means of improving the oresent distribution procedure of rationed
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      SNAKE BITE
      29 5 A Chinese man was admitted to the General Hospital last night suffering from snake bite on the ankle. The ambulance call came from Thomson Road police station.
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      MALAYA'S RICE IMPORTS
      244 5 MALAYA received nearly 47 000 ions ol rice valued at about $19» 2 million m April according to the latest official returns. Imports of nee and j other foodstuffs, totalling 1 $66 802.696, formed one of the biggest items m Malaya's pur- chases during that month. Singapore
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      Bound for Philippines
      68 5 Officer! and ratings of the Philippines naval patrol vessel, LST 842. which has arrived m Singapore from Karachi, with a shipment of cattle for the Philippines. Free Press picture. Twenty -year -old student, Tong Teck Siang, of Joo Chiat Road, one of the four to be baptised
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      DOCTORS ARE URGED TO REGISTER
      166 5 A WARNING has been Issued to all medical practitioners m Malaya of the necessity for seeing that their names appear m the Register. The Director of Medical Services m Singapore. Dr. W. J. Vickers. told the Free Press that if a doctor's name did not
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      'Chinese only'store for Singapore
      127 5 'Chinese only' store for Singapore PLANS for a large Singapore departmental store exclusively for Chinese goods and financed by Chinese manufacturers m Hong Kong and Shanghai, are now stated to be well advanced. The project was first suggested when the Chinese manufacturers' mission 'from Hong Kong was m -Singapore last
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      S.I. T. flats: 'Means Test' is criticised
      417 5 S.I. T. flats 'Means Test is criticised fc FAVOURS THE RICK MR. Lim Yew Hock, a nominated Inofficial nun of the Legislative Council, laid the Free P that many complaints ot difficult In m resting Sii pore Improvement Trust flats, particularly m n,> Tkmg Bahru estate, have been made by
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      Time saves man from gallcws
      147 5 Time saves man from gallcws MAH Kuv\. a farmer member of the MP.A.J.A. Corps was senten<ars' rigorous imp. .on oi .....munition m the Court at Ipoh last Friri He escaped death for the oflence. ai which he was four days prior to the from which the ami Emergency Reg-, regard
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  • NEWS
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      CHINAS WAR EFFORT DECRIED
      551 6 CHINAS WAR EFFORT DECRIED U.S. relief envoy speaks bluntly rS Chinese Government is not putting everything into its war effort, especially m the cities. This was bluntly stated by the China ECA Administrator, Mr. Roger Lapham, over the radio last week m one of the strongest utterances ever made by
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      95 6 tmwmt, WAITER! The drinks came m a hurry whet* 40 Toruuary m.>. wait erg dashed thromoh the town ea h carrying a tray, two full olasses and a hotttv. They were taking part 'm the fir it waiters' nice m Britain. Thousands t he competitors as thei m and uiit
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      FILM ACTRESS' WAS A MAN
      175 6 A MAN from Britain has been working as a woman film extra, m Stockholm studios, it is disclosed today. No one suspected him. He had official papers issued to him m a woman's name. Dr. Erik Goldkuhl, leading psychiatrist, says the documents were issued at
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      Lords accept Citizen bill
      144 6 THE H >vie of Lords has ended one of its battles with the Government by accepting the House of Commons rejection of their amendments to the British Nationality Bill. This creates a United Kingdom and colonial citizenship. Among the Lords' objection U the use of the
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      Red drive on railway fails
      85 6 RATIONALISTS have shattered the Red "dream" to destroy Peiping-Tientsin railroad and t: the security of the two centres. Genera fig headquarters claimed. The spokesman, Maj.-Ge-neral Yen Yuen, said the Reds mustered 35.000 men for this purpose and threw one-third of them into the action. They
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      38 6 Sir Malcolm Campbell standing I sC aie jnodel of his speed boat ''Blue Bird" which has been ntted with a fet-propulsion unit for attempts on the world water need record of 141.7 m.p.h. which h< >«■: up m 1939
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      Modern fishing fleet for HK
      106 6 UONG KONG will have its first modern trawler fleet of 30 vessels within IS months if present plans mate: The Government hope^ to In additional boat? from Japan and Korea as well as from Australia. fishing is one of the colony's principal industries and the
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      DANCED TO THE LAWS TINE
      50 6 SIXTY -GNE Shanghai taxidancers and ballroom cmi ployees were given prison terms ranging from months to four years for participation m the riot when the offices of the Social Affairs Bureau were wrecked during a demonstration against the Government ban I on public dancing.- Reuter
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      Tobacco, drink -canceragents
      121 6 Tobacco, drink -cancer agents ABUSE of tobacco and alcon hoi have been recognised by Scandinavian doctors as factors leading to cancer of the mouth, said Prof •Berven, a Swedish radiologist addressing a meeting ol the American Radium Society But first among conditions tending to produce jral cancer wore bad mouth
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      LET OUT FOR MR. BEVAN
      79 6 THE Minister of Health, Mr. 1 Aneurin Bevan. was again challenged la the House of Commons to substantiate his charge that the British r>ress was "the most prostituted press m the world." The Home Secretary, Mr. Chut-r Ede. replied that the Prime Minister had decided
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      'Fib letters' by request
      109 6 THE Paria fib let vice 1 has resumed operation after a wartime eclipse, reports the Stockholm n paper Aftonbladet. It is a procedure whereby Pi can send friends postcards letters or telegrams from such faraway places as Shanghai, Buenos Aires, and Miami Beach. Tlie service costs
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      Peace talks with Reds in China not likely
      262 6 r«HINA'S Vice-President Mr. Li Tsung-jen, interviewed by Associated Press, had this to say about recurrent rumour of secret peace talks m Peiping with the Communists: "Western and Eastern phy.siology are different. In the West they like to deny a false rumour; In
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      Armed force U.S. in Europe
      273 6 cur Rf VmiAT military informal, on J If taking to Washington from F L *u.. J Berlin for United States poii« N ma i* ss *M_i2 It probably deals with can forces and a last-minuu reports on Russian troop d s U.S. ground forces m
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      Rain menaces Bizonia crops
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      VATICAN ATTACKED
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      Speed King in the dark
      61 6 SIR Malcolm Campbell, former land and I king, will know toda% whether he ha* blindness that threatened nim fron "bluebird" to new speed The 63-year-old driver v itn open I month aro A surgeon will tell him mti si&ht has improved enough to i« him
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      SOUTH CAN FIELD STRONG TEAM
      554 7 SOUTH CAN FIELD STRONG TEAM Selection to be made today Sr_wTm» R y CRUSADER OUTH selectors, who meet this evening to select the side to meet North m the annual cricket match to be played m Singapore over the August Bank holidays, have had their task simplified following the weekend's
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      22 7 Freddie Mills does some roadwork accompanied by Nat Sellars m preparation for his fight with American Gus Lesnevich which takes place tonight.
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      S.C.C. LOSE AT JOHORE BAHRU
      74 7 S.C.C. LOSE AT JOHORE BAHRU „fr.-S* ,nd rday by con- ms five m* i N ms putting r* they c match 1 r West :e from Tee rtTey was m I mgs I Lxvwiing I costing I xho I I of ft Start but who 2 two fell was j
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      BRITISH WIN
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      Lesnevich: I can do it again
      376 7 4 SELL-OUT crowd of 45.000 will watch Gus Lesnevich make his bid for a chance at the world heavyweight title, when he meets rugged Freddie Mills at White City Stadium tonight. Jack Solomons announced yesterday that every seat had been sold and he appealed
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      Ceylon boxer may win bantam title
      89 7 Ceylon boxer may win bantam title (From NOEL BUCKLEY) A DMIRING athletes from _rY Jamaica. Bermuda. India and Korea halted their own ning for a few minutes In the gymnasium of Wembley County school on Saturday to oh Ceylon's batam-weight hope. Albert Perera, work out on a punch bag. They
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      S.C.C. SOCCER XI
      44 7 CC C soccer team to play the RAP. <Seletar) m a first .on game at Jalan Betar to-day is: V Margrave: D Hamilton V Burton; W. Bain-M.-Culloch. G Vfrrall. B Clifton, R. Fletcher A. r.cll. T. Mathot. H GuldeLinesmar.: J. Reeves.
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      BRITAIN TO HOLD GRAND PRIX
      47 7 j'J'HE first International Grand Prix Automobile Race m j England since the war will be neid at Ihe I ne Mrfield near iTowcester on Oct. 2. the Royal ""lub announced j Saturday. It will be limited to 25 racing 1 cars A.P.
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      OLYMPIC DRAW
      52 7 'pHE first round of the Olymp.c football tournament waa re,drawn m London yesterday. The revised first round is: pt vs. Denmark. <■■ Britain vs. Eire or Holland. Afghanistan vs. Czecrioslavia I France vs. India. Luxembourg or j China vs. Turkey. Sweden vs. Austria Koria vs. Mexico. Italy vs.
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      AUSTRALIANS WIN
      43 7 BY winning the doubles today, Australia gained a decisive 3 o lead over Cuba m their American zone- Davl*-, Cud tie on Sunday. Bill Sidwell and Colin Long j (Australia) beat Jose Aguero I and Rocardo Morales 7—5. 6-2. 6-3.- Reuter
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      'Neil Harvey you beaut'
      93 7 TV IN ETEEN -year-old Neil Harvey who scored a century for Australia on Saturday against England m the Fourth Test at Leeds, has been cabled by his brother Ray as follows: "You beaut stop congratulations stop we played every shot with you stop tremendously proud of
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      86-year-old widow meets torch-bearers
      233 7 r THJ3 Olympic torch being carried by relays of runners of seven nations from Mount Olympus m Greece to Wembley Stadium. whene <_he main events of t!he Games will take place, is on its way across France. During Saturuay Swiss runners carrying the Olympic flame paused
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      TODAY'S TANGLIN TENNIS TIES
      93 7 Today's ties m the Tanglii. Club tennis tournament are: Men's Singles (Quarter-finals) M. W. Biggs v R. Macartney; B. C. Fay v J. L. Clarke. Women's Handicap doubles Quarter- finals Miss L. Massey and Mrs. L. Levien v Mrs. C. D. Yarrow and Miss M. Elder.
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      STARTERS HAVE TOUGHEST JOB IN OLYMPICS
      417 7  - STARTERS HAVE TOUGHEST JOB IN OLYMPICS Vernon Morgen Hy officials m the track and events m the Olympic Games j with the exception of the walking events are to be British The men who will matter most i are the starters and the judges, j The event likely to cause
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      Opening batsmen
      29 7 C. Thuraisingham 'left) ana Ben Barnett go out to open the Civilian second innings against the Services on the padang yesterday. The game ended m a daaw.
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      MCC policy defended; 'wis? move'
      354 7 MCC policy defended; 'wis? move' MOST people will consider that the M.C.C. have adopted a wise policy m deciding to curtail future tours abroad. Since the last war ended It has become obvious that it will take time for England to recapture her cricket skill while other countries particularly on
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      41 7 A Dutch team yesterday at Hague set a new unofficial world record of 47 seconds for the women's 440 yards sprint relay. The present world record of 46.6 seconds was set by a Dutch team at Amsterdam m 1944.- A .P.
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      Australians gays crowd a treat
      872 7 From Bill Bowes 'JHE wickets of Hassett and Bradrnan m Pollard's first over of the day; hurricane hitting by Miller, a maiden century by 19-year-old Neil Harvey; bis hitting 93 by Loxton, which included Ive sixes aw] a fine 76 not out by fast bowler
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      Scoreboard at Olympics is 100-ft high
      147 7 BRITiSi. men ha\t u< dt tailed to operat the p Olympic sc reboard at Wembley i. A naval party of 32 and four petty officers, commar. by an ofiiccr. will go to V. thr i Games, for a full dres. reh Towering 100 fet
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      ISRSEL CANNOT COMPETE
      66 7 •The EM rr..- mittee ruled Saturdaj London that the Isra'l cannot compete m Olympic Gan. The decision reduced the number of compem.^ nations to 61 for games starting July 29 An informed source said I Executive Committee rei-cted a.i appeal of the Israeli sports or. nizations which
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      G.E.C. SPORTS CLUB
      96 7 __\J a reoem faaaral me. the G.E.C. Sports Cm. re-formed and the following elected office bear err for t: President. Mr. P. H vice-president. Mr. 3 Ma hon. secretary. Mr. m \>w fi; hon. treasurer, Mr. Khiam Teck: hon. auditor Mr. Loh Kum Wah; Mr* Lim Peng
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      166 7 Sports diary MOOHTfc S.A.I A. Dit. I: I.C.C. LAJ. Seleiar— J_J.-n Bes-t- Stadium; Div. 11: I_n«-neering Assn. t. Raton* Eurasian S.C.— S.R.C. froand. TENNIS Tang-in Ctmh championships. EP» Crossword No. 446 j__ii ■i 3 H 4 l I 5 I 6 I 7 I i" —^wW 9wr~~ rFn^irir 34 1
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      16 NATIONS URGED TO CO-OPERATEP
      353 8 E.C.A. chiefs blunt speech PARIS, Sunday. SIX Foreign Ministers and 10 other ministers met here today for a conference called by the organisation for European Economic Co-operation, the body formed to organise Marshall aid when it reaches Europe. Addressing the delegates, the Economic Cooperation Administrator,
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      BIRTH
      10 8 ORTH At Kandar.r I n JS B .:h a
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      34 8 enga? ment is announced Tan Soon L :i Ol IfaJOf .1 P and Mrs. CI Chee Pen Chee Era' Chiang I is anA. H. J and V L) A. D I *c S::
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      U.S. Congress meets today
      146 8 WASHINGTON, Sunday. fHK United States Congl is holding a special session tomorrow m an atmosphere of extreme patrisan bitterness, but the sombre background of the Berlin crisis and the continued Inflationary trend at home may lead to more sober deliberations. Republican Congress almost unanimously helieve Truman
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      6 IK. JETS IN U.S.
      21 8 Six British jet tighten 0 to Canada and the United States arrived at Washington yesterday. A.P.
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      Sharir backs Dutch talks suspension
      113 8 BATAVIA, Sunday. THE suspension by the Indonesians of political talks with the Dutch should actually have taken place a month ago, Sutan Sharir, former Indonesian Premier, told the Republican news agency Antara yesterday. Shahrir said the action, taken by the Republicans on grounds that the
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      8 8 MR. PAUL G. HOFFMAN is blunt to Europeans.
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      Demilitarising Jerusalem
      165 8 HAIFA, Sunday. THE United Nations mediator. Count Folke Berna--1 dotte, arrived by air this evening from Beirutwhere he discussed with Arab leaders the demilitarisation of Jerusalem and the problem of refugees who fled from Arab villages and towns taken by the Jewish forces. At Amman, the TTanfcjordan Foreign
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      Jet airliner sets London-Paris record
      152 8 Jet airliner sets LondonParis record LONDON. Monday. VICKERS Viking > I .irliner day flew from Paris to L">.rion m 36^ minutes tl for the 14' 2 minul it was officially annoui. The plane is the world's I airliner. In November 1946 a Nene Lancastrian plane flew from Paris to London
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      OLYMPIC CAMP STRIKE THREAT
      88 8 THE Richmond Camp m London where more than 1.000 South American and Scandinavian Olympic delegations are quartered, was threatened by a strike of 200 student waiters, house-clean-and administrative assistants yesterday over alleged inefficiency of camp manr. m< nt When five student leaders told the Commandant, Group
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      MYSTERY SEA EXPLOSION
      42 8 A pilot reported to Je: Cltjf _4ay that he a "tremendous explosion" aboard a 100-foot longboat In Raritan Bay. near New i and when the smoke cleared the boat had dl r ed Boats are searching the ar. a
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      30 8 Sales of Japanese otton textiles to sterling area purchasers are to be changed to a 100 per cent, sterling basis Previously half the payment had to be m dollars.- A.P.
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      BID TO SWIM CHANNEL AND BACK NONSTOP
      132 8 LONDON. Bur. day. TOM BLOWER, 252 lb. Nottingham engineer, is trying to get a ruling on how lony: he can stay on the beach m France and still claim that he swam the English Channel both ways no::stop. Thirty four rear old Blow-r
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      44 8 The French Socialist leader, M. Leon Blum (left), and the U.S. Ambassador m London. Mr. Leuis Douglas, are here seen on their way to a ceremony at Oxford University, at which the University conferred upon them the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law.
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      Hungry Europe until 1951
      76 8 COOD rationing will I to continpe m European countriea for two more years, according to a report pub I 1 and Agriculture Orgaion (FAO). Under I conditions. age. I production will be almost bar- war standards by But as the result i 1 lncr resumption will
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      AURIOL SOS' TO PREMIER
      64 8 AU RIOL SOS' TO PREMIER FRENCH President Vincent Auriol last night I phoned from his country home to Monsieur Andre Marie, the new Premier, stressing the "imperative Imp Knee" of providing France with a Government without further delay He was understood to have referred particularly to the new note to
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      'PLOT TO KIDNAP MILLION AWES'
      178 8 MACAO, Sunday. THE Police Commissioner of tiie Portuguese colony of Macao, Mr. A. If. Pah-tli, working on the theory that a kidnap ransom plot was behind the Cathay Pacific Airlines flyingboat crash on July 16. disclosed today that four millionaires were aboard the plane. He
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      2nd MAYFLOWER REACHES U.S.
      202 8 i'kuvinu__tuwn, Massachusetts. Sunday. TWENTY-NINE Baltic-born men, women and children haw readied this old colonial port after a 43--day voyage to seek freedom. They were headed for Boston, but turned m here when they ran out of fuel and found themselves nearly without food. Captain John Ro_ent>
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      FLOOD THREAT TO NANKING
      40 8 FLOOD THREAT TO NANKING municipal officials In Nan- king have ordered emergency measures to battle the l of Yangtze River flood,! s expected to strike' Hood squads have sed sandbags, hundreds' bikers and special tools l po strengthen the dykes.
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      DECOYS TRAP SAILORS
      33 8 ECONOMIC police m Sha hai no v. waterfron* bars to see tl American and other seal do not pt B. curre: *c agents often bas merrymakers. i _H 1 U.P.
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      FUKUI FLOODED
      34 8 rUKUI, the Japanese silk city wrecked by earthquake and fire last month, was flooded yesterday when the swollen Kuzuryu River burst its banks m i 3 places aftei three days rain.- Reuter
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      FATAL COLLISION
      31 8 At least Aye men were killed and 14 others injured yesterday m a collision between a baseball club bus and a large truck near Saint Paul. Minnesota, U.S.A. A.P
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      RED THREAT TO CAPITALS NOW LIFTED
      79 8 RED THREAT TO CAPITALS NOW LIFTED Chiangs socce THE military situation 1 Government over the week end lav< J tionalists retaking the ini^*>l of Loyans, hurling back f„ Ur X] the Shansi eit> capital. Taiwan 2, 1 vancing to the aid of the II p, a n J *fc J
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      LIGHTNING KILLS 4
      12 8 Lightning yest^rda. four people m Baitama fecture (Japan A.P.
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      British oppose new Red move
      373 8 BERLIN FOOD RATIONING BERLIN, Sund.i o\G queues of Berliners were turned aua> from Soviet sector exchange booths this evening, having failed to change their money at the end of the first day's change-over to the new Russian issued Deutsche mark. The Soviet-controlled German economic commission
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      AIR RATTLE' OVER MOSCOW
      70 8 HUNDREDS of fighters ened a huge bomber force m a mock air battle over Moscow yesterday, according to Moscow Radio. Jet planes, said by the announcer to "approach the speed of sound" (700 miles an hour), also performed "the first" acrobatic feats. Five women with war
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      GRLKk SHIP ADRIFT
      33 8 THE Greek steamer PapaChrUUoo Va.isil.o_ (7.132 tons) was yesterday reported to be drifting helplessly 600 miles north-west of Fremantle. Western Australia It was not m immediate danger. the report added.
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      Rubber prices
      60 8 J^ SPLCIAI Market fnn uponini f4-es th* prices «f rubber *i 11 am today a* filmi; par ft. per tto Bmymr% Setter* cv ou No. 1 ISi Spot loaae i%K No. 1 a.S.S rot .a twin Aug 4*% No. s ass tot m bales Aug 47K No s
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