The Singapore Free Press, 28 July 1948

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA ftmfkfI SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1948 PRICE it) CENTS
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    Many die in Hong Kong typhoon
    285 1 Many die in Hong Kong typhoon Tidal wave hits island HONG KONG, Wednesday. WIDESPREAD havoc and destruction were caused m Hong Kong and the vicinity as the result of a storm which reached typhoon strength last night. The death roll is undetermined, but is likely to be large. The typhoon
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    CHINESE AND AID TO GOVT.
    462 1 Xl ALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. pHINBSI members of the Federation Legislative Council yesterday >econded the acting High Commissioner, Sir Alec Xewboult's recent radio appeal more Chinese participation m the special police being raised m Malaya to protect the untrv's estates and mines from the insurgents. But
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    MALAYAN MINERS APPEAL FOR ARMS
    48 1 MALAYAN MINERS APPEAL FOR ARMS rHE f Ifl 6 Chamber of Mines I requested the U.S. irtment m Washproval ot the ise of a quantity of arms, reports Associated rstood that apj likely. rns. to be used to ommunist guerrillas. used by police and "deat the mines. Department.
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    2 policemen injured by police car
    187 1 2 policemen injured by police car Fre e Pre>- S stafr Reporter fWO Malay police con-: bles were knocked do? by a motor car driven by a senior police officer m Orchard Road last night. Both constables were ad- j mitted to the General Hospital. One of them is said
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    BARNATO DEAD
    29 1 Captain Woolf Barnato, wealthy racing motorist and j son of the late Barnato. South African diamond millionaire,! died m a London nursing home yesterday. He was 53.
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    KIDICULOUS'
    37 1 A BRITISH army spokesman m Berlin described us "ridiculous" a report m the Soviet-licensed newspaper Voruaerts. that French Occupation Forces would evacuate Berlin m the near future and the British would take over their sec* Reuter
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    WALLICH ATTACKS COLONIAL OFFICE
    156 1 W ALLICH ATTACKS COLONIAL OFFICE KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. 1„E Commissioner-Goneral, Mr. Malcolm Mac- Donald, and Mrs. Mac Donald, spectators at a Council meeting for the first time, today heard Mr. A W Wallich, European Unofficial, attack the Colonial Office for ignoring: for the past two years "prophecies of planters and
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    12 CRISIS' ARRESTS
    27 1 Eleven Indians and .one Chinese were arrested m Singapore under the Emergency Regulations yesterday. The total under detention this morning under the regulations i»88.
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    Shell get a dose up
    93 1 Al9-VLAK-OLD Siamese f,irl student at hulalongkorn I n -versify, Bangkok, says that Tyrone Power, a Hollywood hero, will visit Bangkok "some time next year. She has been corresponding with the American film star since before the war. i»» In his last letter, Tyrone told his
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    ESTATE MANGER OT DEAD
    6 1 ESTATE MANGER OT DEAD I s_
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    ENOUGH TROOPS, SAYS LISTOWEL
    182 1 LONDON, Tuesday. THE Minister of State for the Colonies, Lord Listowel told the House of Lords today that the British have sufficient military forces m Malaya now but "if we are asked for further reinforcements, the call will be met to the utmost of our resources."
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    INDIA PLEDGES ASIAN DEFENCE
    38 1 PANDIT NEHRU, India's Prime Minister, is reported to have sent his "word of honour" to the Commonwealth Minister In London that the Indian Union would lend troops m connection with South -East Asian defence.
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    New threats of riots in S. Siam
    197 1 BANGKOK, Tuesday. BECAUSE of the threat of new Muslim outbreaks, Siamese authorities have sent three regiments of special police to Naradhivas province, close to the Malayan border, where 30 persons were killed m disorders last April. Two hundred "fanatics", grouped at Dunsongyaw village,
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    TAKE OVER ARMS SUPPLY, GOVT. TOLD
    85 1 TAKE OVER ARMS SUPPLY, GOVT. TOLD KUALA LUMPUR lues. URGING that the Government take over the full task of supplying arms to private individuals for property protection, a European planting member of the Legislative Council, Mr. E. E. Chamier, said since "private firms and individuals were being encouraged to impor'
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    U.S. CALLING UP 25 GROUP
    56 1 SELECTIVE Service Director Mr. Lewis Hershey told the U.S. Congress yesterday that 25-year-olds will be the first to be drafted After that, he said, draft will work progressively downward until it reaches seventeen-year-olds. Mr Hershey told newsmen that the first draft call is exIpected to
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    BIG SOVIET EXERCISES IN GERMANY
    272 1 BIG SOVIET EXERCISES IN GERMANY RUSSIAN air and ground forces m the Soviet zone of Germany are engaged m the biggest manoeuvres since the war, involving 350,000 men with jet fighters and giant tanks also taking part. Western intelligence sources revealed this today as Britain, the United States and France
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    960 POLIO VICTIMS
    41 1 North Carolina's inlantile paralysis epidemic now claims 960 victims. Thirtythree new cases were rejwrted yesterday bringing the July total to 544. Thirteen counties are involved. Mecklenburg County, the site of the state's biggest city, is the worst affected.
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  • ENTERTAINMENTS...
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      'Variety' says foreign films no menace
      58 2 'Variety' says foreign films no menace 1 l/Ai p .an, a. with distribu r -hat n-made mouoi: petito Hollywood. this Daper. I have gon« into a d- i m! Anie: ported pic* Bui average no prt> uith n oi In cent cornea Xon .ion cent. *.es "On York Qrstm thtii
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      STARS FLOW IN
      531 2 0Y OUR LONDO* FILM REPORTER THE Archers film Red Shoes lias brought together Australian Robert Helpman, Austrian Anton Walbrook, and Russian Leonide Massine, and although the dazzling Moira Shearer is a Scot by birth, she took her first Stepa on the pain to stardom m ballet ia
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      INDIA WILL ARISE
      52 2 AFII.M producer frum Indui cxpres. 1 behat his count] I the world opportunity Erra Mir. producer and direr M going to Hollyuoud t the produf film indu aticplit, but th run the departure m will n to the Ind ho said. hmi could h were m India."—
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      THE WAY THEY DIED
      293 2 By HOWARD HEYN, A.P. Correspondent Sudden death strikei Hottywood's mat m and Btrang* on t; o. The list of its victims extends back to early days of ndis, Lcq Lom•dd and William Desmond Taylor are only a fey. They i nt. suicide or mur The i
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      Bridge Problem
      315 2 WEST opened his fourth best spade Declarer put up dummy's queen, but had utake with his a. n he re< I'd off tbo tihSM of diamonds. North coming down to two clubs an* the opade jack bold onto hfe king go a club. Consequently, when declarer cashed the
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      WILL U. K. LEAD
      118 2 BY OUR FILM REPORTER CVEN Hollywood k can hardly dispute London's m to be becoming the leading internataon film cent* For ihe I J**** there I en a steady flow of film to Britain no; only ii the S ot sturs and lead m current British
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      220 2 y 1 §y Iff Lmm _f "l l 'fi rt SINGAPORE frrom 12.00 wood to t 00 p.m 485 autre* 1a the medium wave band and 7 20 megacycle* ta the 41 metre band rrom bOO p.m to 2.45 p m from 830 p m to 11 00 p m
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      431 2 cal Intertudi Signal; 7.01 Cultural Hour; 7.15 Muaxal Interlude. 7 30 N»ws In Malay; 7.45 J Interlude. AUSTRALIA 4 00 p m to 11.15 p m. VLAO 19 74 metre* II 84) mewacrelea: 404 p m to OIS p.m VL£B II 89 metre* tl M mecarTclea: 000 p m to
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      67 2 <-er's Choice: 1 15 Your* for the mmtmm 155 irogTamm e Summary; 600 Op-ning. 602 Thirty to 6.30 World and Home News; 6 45 BBC Midland Light Orchestra; 7 "JO Paul and Steve'; 800 Wurld and Home News; 8 05 Yours for the Asking 8 4.s Radio Crossword; 930 Radio
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      216 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DORN today, high temper v is perhaps your woist enemy. our mmi *ion> are keen: your derisions almost instantaneous. And if things do not go exactly if you desire them liiunediaU •!>. you are apt to show quick displeasure. This only tends It alienage those who should
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  • NEWS.
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      ne smart scoters Bisley
      5 3 ne smart scoters Bisley yt,tfk
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      ABDULLAH CLASH WITH ARAB LEAGUE
      318 3 ABDULLAH CLASH WITH ARAB LEAGUE King wanted to accept UN terms KU.P. Correspondent CYPRUS, ING ABDULLAH of Trans-Jordan whose powerful Arab Legion was the mainstay of Arab forces m the Palestine war wanted to accept -the United Nations peace offer but was forced to continue the war by the Arab
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      STERS 'STOLE Y FROM GOD'
      73 3 outing to the seaside been rejected as their vicar. The Rev. inch, vicar of St. Hugh's. refused to accept he Fourth Com- the eommandmenus ould be failin? m my 0 prepare lor c ,:.v child who is not rake religion serloussirls" md a member of
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      To wed girl in Palace photo
      67 3 LOOKING through a newspaper m Canada for news of his old home m Northern Ireland Robert Glass, 34, was struck by a photograph of ex-ATS Eileen McClelland. 27, of Belfast. The picture was of Eileen at Buckingham Palace when her brother received the D-C.M.
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      OLYMPIC STAMP
      35 3 A Special commemorative •-.■'eilation will posted at Wemduring the Olympic The mark will apto letters deposited m on the Olympic grounds and at the special post to be set ud at the A.P
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      NEW U.K. RADIO "OCTOPUS"
      98 3 BRITAIN'S newest radio invention "the octopus" is a 30c wt. van which cay record eight different commentators speaking simultaneously In eight different languages. At any time during a commentary the speaker can stop and have the record played back to him. Built by 8.8.C. engineers the
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      U.S market Vide open' for U.K. goods
      209 3 U.S market Vide open' for U.K. goods THE American market is wide open to British goods from motor cars to kippers reports Britain I No. 1 salesman, Mr. Neville Blond. Sent over six weeks ago as the United Kingdom trade adviser m th e United States, Mr. Blond said: "My
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      SCHUMAN IN NEW MARIE CABINET
      57 3 SCHUMAN IN NEW MARIE CABINET THE French Radical Pri Mmififf. M. Anure annouii tonight 0* bed formed a C Union to succeed the S^. man Govcrnn M s 48-hour tiaaons with the v today by a last-minute ciaiist relw to j hii ministers, but I sideni had brou b Marie
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      Pone's 'defend church'call
      51 3 Pone's 'defend church'call Pli Faithful must obs« four ar 1950: Sanct ficanon of th< igh pnr i 2» Action for r> *ce anc guar <3> Di fence of tho Chu .nst renewed Ucc through works of a I to the humble and I Th by each Holy Year. Ihe U
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      116 3 TARZAN The Jungle intruder By Edgar Rice Burroughs rVH.„ TA(C;^N HUNTED FOR f RESM 1 f 'mCN DIEU^oASffEP p-ARNQT! 'SCEAT 50)TT<« WAtfglCK exCLAIMFO *AhAT >^J viEAT pAtfNOT ANO WAKkiCK CLEANED /jT__S^. iS iT A GOKiLLA.?'— •THAT.* OARNOT WHISPEKEQ TENSELY >S A SREAT JB TMEig Biries ANO THE 6*«?LS AojgBg~^ APE
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  • LEADER..
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      The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY,July 28,1948 A Goneral on the Crisis
      392 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY,July 28,1948 A Goneral on the Crisis IF i nts hat I hen a reneral ntribution to Ls debate In the 1 ouncil should the complacen their m the i ram.. is by S' .1 time ad for is, until and ti. Ed j ted." In
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      Now is the hour for a Democratic Charter...
      934 4  -  J.F.C. FULLER DEFENCE OF EUROPE by 'Maj.-General MEVER since the A^ invasions uf the T arts) r s in the thirteenth cerrturj lias Europe been faced hy bo grave a peril a^ that facing her today. Few d m A.D 1241 thai
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      TERROR IS ON THE RUN
      687 4 SA )S LACIIIE Mcdonald Daily Mail Special Cor lesjxmdent, uho arr:\ed m Malaya recently to cover the anti- terron*-* campaign. 4LTHOI/GH the map of the Malayan mainlan 1 is ■potted with pins ■lowing here murch has struck m the past mil weeks. Malaya and Singapore
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      THE STAGGERING COST OF WAR
      228 4  -  A. DE MONTMORENCY By •THE cost of World War II is still bfliag re vised— upward. Human loss alone is put at 78,--000,000 lives by the Revue Dv Droit International ol Geneva.. The .staggering total breaks down M follows. 32.000.000 men killed Oil battlefields; 26.000,000
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      THEY GO SHORT THERE TOO
      434 4  - THE Y GO SHOR T THER E TOO Cordon Young Moscow Memo from CIX months ago *he Russians ended rationing, but Stalin'? By trumpeted "no coupon" shopping scheme has met s unexpected snaj a Moscow housewife still has Bhopping problems as tough a British woman's. That is app.. totta from
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      FAITH
      11 4 hav^ M»t tin r thiv d.i\ h; and 4 D
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      To go not to
      14 4  - To go not to RAM SEYANS n I I I f I tj yt.yglg
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  • LOCAL NEWS..
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      'Reminder' service proves popular
      180 5 Free Press S4aff Reporter SINGAPORE Cold Storage has started a free "Reminder Bureau service. If you supply the Bureau with a list of the important occasions m the year which you don't want |to forget, the bureau wilf phone or write you a reminder when the
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      NEI-MALAYA TRADE IMPROVING
      303 5 NEI-MALAYA TRADE IMPROVING Barter with East Sumatra t#ru M Fr <* Press Staff Reporter JKADE is returning to normal and everybody concerned is co-operating to cement relations between Singapore, the Federation of Malaya and the N E.I/\ said the Dutch Trade Commissioner, (Mr. P. Mijnarends), m an interview yesterday. !^oio
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      'Great interest in Malayan timber'
      81 5 Press Staff Reporter -ingapore. Mr t <» Flemmii h, PIUM that, at the moment, a yen aken m Malayan timber by ni ihe U.K. but *i Of So' v high. pore, a timber grading fee has d by the GovQt. eh said the fees :nely
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      KOH CLAN
      18 5 The Singapore Koh Clan Association of Pasir Panjang Road has been registered under the Societies Ordinance
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      TEACHERS PLAN CULTURE DRIVE
      262 5 Free Tress Stall Reporter THE Singapore Teachers' Union on Friday will start fortnightly professional meetings. This is the! first meeting of a programme designed to encourage cultural activities and to increase teachers" knowledge, especially of local conditions The Union is also arranging to form a Gramophone
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      No unemployed in Federation
      144 5 Free Press Staff Reporter da Lumpur, Tues. AN official reply to a question asked by Mr. M. P i Rajagopal at this mornings meeting of the Federal Counj cil said: "There is no unemployment, either temporary or permanent, m any part of the ieration Mr. Rajagopal
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      Perak Curfew
      88 5 Free Press Correspondent IPOH, Tuesday. fURFEWS have been imposed m areas In Perak which were scenes recently of terrorist activity. The new areas are: Bidor, m South Perak: Sungei Siput South village; Sungei Kuning village m the Telok Anson rt i.- trie t. and the Pahang Road from
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      SALVATION ARMY
      24 5 About $7,750 was raised by the Salvation Army. Singapore from their "Tag Day" drive for funds which was held on July S.
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      BORNEO PETROL YIELD TABLED
      161 5 THE results of British Bor- 1 I neo petrcleum Company I for the two years before, ar.d a similar period after, the war are summarised m a brochure just issued. There has been a substan- tial improvement m royalty payments on oil produced j from Brunei.
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      NEW UNION HAS 300 MEMBERS
      48 5 THE Singapore Harbour Board Workers Union formed on July 17, already has 300 members, the Secretary, Mr. S. Kanapathy, told the" Free Press yesterday. The Union hopes finally to enrol more than 2.000 members. The former Singapore Harbour Labourers Union, had 1,800 members.
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      FOONG KEEPS JUDGE WAITING
      41 5 J oil ORE BHARU, Tuesday. —The first trial listed for the Assiies which began yesterday had to be postponed indefinitely because Foong i Via had escaped from police custody at Kiuang. Foong was charged with armed robbery.
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      Diesel accident: Man fined
      87 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. I COR contravening the Ma r chinery Enactment, Tec Geok Gin was convicted by the District Judge yesterday and fined a total of $225. He was charged with allow- ing an unauthorised person operate a diesel erigine, failure to give notice of the
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      'THE LOWEST PAID CLERKS'
      397 5 'THE LOWEST PAID CLERKS' picture pLERKS of Ihe Singapore Harbour Board are among V, the lowest -paid people m the public aervicei compared with their counterparts m th c Covernmeii* and Municipality. k is estimated that 80 per cent, art drawin E substantive salary below $100 per month, althJ some
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      $4 million extra for Police in Federation
      166 5 $4 million extra for Police in Federation Free Press Mart Report ej KUALA LUMPUR, THE m ,n j .-uppl t aims I ammunition, and lb* ghase of meat I Of I .-at* Additional j prises 35 A I tendents, 38 sub-insp j majors, 38 sergeants, lance corp. les 1,700 e>
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      20 FOR TRIAL
      35 5 SEGAMAT. Monday. The case of the 20 labourers of Chan Ka:.g Swee estate, Jementah, charged with being members of an unlawful assembly, has been fixed for heariiiß- at Muar, beginning August 8.
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      TO ORGANISE OWN CORPS
      47 5 TO ORGANISE OWN CORPS SUNGEI PATANI. T T*HE Kedah Chbft&K Chamber ■R- of Commerce will consider on Sunday a proposal to a Self-Protection Corps during the emergency. All shops and associations have been invited to Sunday's meeting, to be held at the chamber premises m Sungei Patani.
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  • NEWS...
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      SLIGHT DECREASE' SAYS GOC
      619 6 SLIGHT DECREASE' SAYS GOC Terrorist activitie s reviewed Malay Regt. expansion Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. DEPORTING that terrorist activities, parti- cularly m the southern sector of the peninsula, were showing "a slight decrease," the G.0.C., Malaya District, Major Gen. C. H. Boucher, speaking m the Federal Legislative
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      Auxiliary Police Compensation
      312 6 DETAILS of compensation payable m the case of injury or death of unpaid police volunteers m the Federation were announced m Kuala Lumpur yesterday A committee has been appointed to consider the whole question of compensation for workers who may be killed or injured m action against
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      OLYMPIC GYMNASTS IN BRITAIN
      23 6 OLYMPIC GYMNASTS IN BRITAIN A welcoming committee of one policeman greets girl members of the American Olympic team, as they arrive at Southampton.
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      'Ishak pro-Red,' says Govt.
      87 6 t Correspon dint m \i \l l Mii k iWwday. AN otlirial communique issued todaj Rives reatmmm for the detention of the president of th*. Mala] Nition.ihst Party dm he Ishak bin H.iji Mohamed) who wis arrested al Taiptaf recently. The ■tatement aaya; (.i.vernment holds evidence
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      NO TIES WITH COMMUNISTS, SAYS M.N.P.
      235 6 IN a statement issued yes* day. thp Malay Nationalist Party of Malaya says that the M N P. has been no way allied with th*» Malayan CommunParty m the sense of having concluded any poll* pacts. A statement issued under the signature of Inche
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      Illegal entry into S'pore Man jailed
      93 6 LIOW Van Slang, who re with a return passage book--d foi was tound m j> :i of a forged entry permit on July 25. The District Judge fMr. E. P. Shanks) sentenced him yesterday to six weeks' n. •us imprisonment for tr to enter
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      PROBLEM CITY. SAY POLICE
      65 6 SINGAPORE has probably more traffic problems than any other place of a similar size i:. the world said Singapore's Traffic Police chief <Mr. C. J. R. Bemhroke) yesterday. Speaking of the one-way traffic scheme tried out last Saturday, he said It had certain defects. The police,
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      Open fire' orders to Siam patrols
      228 6 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK Tuesday. SIAMESE naval coast guard patrols have been given orders to oearcJi any vessel suspected <>f smuggling anm into (he country and to open fire if any opposition is met. This is the latest move on the part of
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      'The' Voice'
      75 6 Regimental Sgt-Major A. J. Brand, known to students at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst as "The Voice" is decorated by the King with the Insignia of the Royal Victorian Order on his retirement after 33 years m the Arviy. During 11 years at Sandhurst R S. M. Brand
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      GIRL ACCUSED
      26 6 SEGAMAT, Tues. Arrested for illegal tapping on Eldred Estate, Bekok, a 20--year-old girl charged before Inche Bidin bin Login was allowed bail of $100.
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      Employers are being; watched
      127 6 SINGAPORE'S Deputy Commissioner cf Labour (Mr O. W. Dav.s) Is watching unscrupulous employers I I might be taking at: of j the emergency to cut wages j and dismiss staff. "There nave been sever plaints about employers j jin this respect" said Mr. i I I
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      CLERK JAILED FOR FRAUD
      54 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. A Kuala Lumpur postal clerk, T. P. Kuppusamy. was today sentence/! to four and a half years' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice Russell m the Selangor Assizes, for fraudulently inducing the Postal Savings Bank to pay $3,500 to him between June 19 and
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      ROBBERS NOT SO BRAVE'
      58 6 COMMENEUNG members of the publ.c for defying rob- bers and raising alarms m I several recent attempts at armed robbery. Singap ,C.I.D. chief (Mr. E V Fowler) said "Robbers are not so brave or courageous." He stated that on three occasions recently, armed robbers had run
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      DECREE NISI
      35 6 A decree risi to be made absolute m six months was granted by Mr. Justice T A Brown m the Singapore Supreme Cour; yesterday to Inspector C. W. Such, of the Singapore police.
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      THRILLING RACE FOR RUNS SUCCEEDS
      841 7 THRILLING RACE FOR RUNS SUCCEEDS 4 ustralians score 70 runs per hour From Bill Bowes C E^T.i R i ES b V D n Bradman and Arthur Morris c Australia a great seven-wicket victory m the fourth Test match at Leeds yesterday Don Bradman, m what was likely to be
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      Scoreboard
      30 7 w n -45S 66 18 i: r> M K. W. 2 1 4 •i I -Mt- halts n i: 16 4*4 m w 56 t 5 i •*»■*>•■ 1 Reuter
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      Valberg easily clears 6ft 3in
      9 7 I rda7 I Reuter
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      ROVERS, INDIANS SHARE POINTS
      90 7 r THE second division S A FA. league match between the Rorerx Sports CU;b and the Indian Association played on the Padan* ended m a two-all draw the aco-Tln* for th» Indians ten minutes before th* interval when h e had Teow Seng beaten with a
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      Yardley jnr.
      80 7 JUST before midnight on Monday night Mrs. Norman Yardley. roife of England s Test Captain, gave to a son at a maternity hospital m B^dlington. Yorkshire. The baby weighed 8 lb*. 8 ozs. Mother and son we r e re-ported to be well. Mrs. Yardley came to Bridlington
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      Indians repeat first round win
      258 7 Indians 2 GHQ Signals 1 THE Indian Association repeated their first round success when they met the G.H.Q. Signals m a S.A.F.A. first division league game played at Jalan Besar stadium, yesterday. The Indians won by the odd goal m three. Being far superior In
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      Freddie Milk who next?
      703 7 By CRUSADER MONDAY, July 26, 1948, will go down on the records as a Red Letter day m the history of Briiish sport, for on this day Freddie Mills, by outpointing American Gils Lesnevich over 15 rounds, became the first British boxer since 1903 fo win
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      PENANG CHINESE WIN AT RAUB
      22 7 PENANG Chinese beat Pahang Chinese two-nil In a M.C.F.A. Cup soccer fixture played at Raub on Sunday.
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      CUSTOMS WIN 2-1
      26 7 iTHE Custom* S.C. beat the Mental Hospital by two-one m a B.A.F.A. third division league [game played at St. G«org«a Road Sports Letter
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      De Souza gave the wrong impression
      130 7 Sir— Mr de Souza m I interview with Reuters p lished on your first page > terday may uninte: giving a wrong imr' which scarcely the Singapore Sports Council of de Souza makes no ir. yet without whose In neither of the Mai., tories
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      CZECHS IEA9 SWEDEN 2-0
      40 7 CZECHOSLOVAKIA v. first ..-igles rr European zon I Davis Cup m Prag.<- against Sweden when mir Cernlk boat 1 Joh; 4. 4-6. 6-3 Czec v up when Drobr. by 6-0 6-3 "-5 m the second Reuter
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      MILLS GETS £12,000 OFFER
      134 7 MILLS GETS £12,000 OFFER CXI IM)IK MILIS, world light heavyweight champion, received an offer of 12,000 yesterday to fight Johnny Ralph, South Africa heavyweight champion. Mills is still hoping, hewever, to get a crack at Joe Louts' title first. Meanwhile, it was understood that his contract with Jack Solomons calls
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      Belgian stops Paterson in round 4
      111 7 B elgian stops Paterson in round 4 QUICKER to the punch and the more workmanlike boxer. Jan Machtelinn. Belgian C< atherwelght champion, knocked out Jackie Paterson. the British and Empire bantam weight champion, m the fourth round of a ten roimd fight m Birmineham last n*"ht The Belgian was too
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      HARBOUR POLICE WIN
      182 7 rE Harbour Board Auxi. Police beat the Pulau Bukom Sports Club by two goals to one m a S-A~ -A. second division League »occer game at the Oeylang Stadium, yesterday. Bukom virtually lost the ?ame within eight minutes trt when Harbour Board scored their two goals m
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      Tallon to McCool
      38 7 Mann snicks a ball from Lindwall. Tallon fails to uold it but knocks it to McCool who eventually caught Mann out an incident m the game between Australia and Middlesex at Lord's, which Australia won.
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      Dramatic wins Stewards Cup
      129 7 [TNDER a cloudless sky and a blazing hot sun, thousands of racegoers yesterday invaded Goodwood, the famous Sussex racecourse, to see the Stewards Cup the bis: six-furlong handicap won oy Mr. A. E. Saunders' three-year-old colt. Dramatic, ridden by E. Smith This son of Fair Trial,
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      SINGAPORE GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
      26 7 fFHE Singapore island open A golf championship will be played on the Royal Singapore Golf Club course this Saturday afternoon and all Sunday.
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      Three leading Counties win
      604 7 Three leading Counties win THE struggle at the top of the County cric'.tct championship table continues because the three leading clubs, Derbyshire, Glamorgan and Yorkshire, all won their matches yesterday. Derbyshire recorded their 10th. win of the season when they easily beat Nottinghamshire and tl remained at the head of
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      'Evaded Berlin issue'
      286 8 MR* TRUMAN I ACCUSED Mr WASHINGTON, Tues. 44 pRESIDENT Truman has ignored the real issue confronting not jonly the United States ibut all mankind namely, the Berlin situation, which symbolises a world struggle between enslavement and freedom." With these words, the chairman of the House of Representatives
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      TOGLIATTI BETTER
      11 8 Togliatti. who wa by a younu hosplt m H'»:
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      BIRTHS
      35 8 To June, wife of D. R-dman, at Kandang Kerbau. on 25th :er. KERR— On 26th July. at re Bahru Hospital, a bonny son to Elizabeth Mary, wife of John W. G Kerr. Both well.
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      ENGAGEMENT
      38 8 The engagement Is announced between Mr. See Pee Wan only son of the late Mr. See Tiong Quee and Madam Lee En* Neo and Miss Npr Choo Loo. eldest .-titer of Mr. and Mrs. Ng Kirn Sene
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      'SCAR-FACE' ESCAPES
      85 8 FRANKFURT, Tuesday. "CCAR-FACED" Otto Skor•3 zeny, wartime "kidnapper" of Benito Mussolini, escaped from a German prison camp on Sunday night, Radio Frankfurt reported tonight. The former Nazi Lieutenant Colonel was being held at the camp at Darmstadt for trial by a Denazification Court. Freed by an American War
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      FRENCH CHAMBER APPROVES MARIE
      166 8 I ARIS, Wednesday 'VHh: nt a French Premier, M. Andre Marie, yes day won parliamentary approval for his new cabinet by 357 votes to 197 The vo^e ua^ nut a formal confidence vote, but simply the defeat of a Communist motion to debate immediately the composition
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      INDIANS ADVANCE IN HYDERABAD
      372 8 Delhi ignores Nizam's protest NEW DELHI, Tuesday. CHARGING that 29 lorryloads of Indian Army troops invading Hyderabad State on orders of the Government of India, had attacked and occupied the village of Nanaj, the Hyderabad Government has demanded immediate withdrawal of the Indian force. The Indian
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      CHINA MONEY LAWS REVISED
      104 8 IVvV'O major changes are be- ing made m China's lorelgn exchange laws, authoritative sources m Nankins lay Firstly, importers will be allowed to bring m productive tools and materials, with their own foreign excha: Secondly, overseas remittances to China may be m the form of goods
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      B.B.C.MUSIC BAN LIFTED
      71 8 B.B.C. MUSIC BAN LIFTED THE Musicians Union last night withdrew its ban on ual studio broadcasts by its members which threatened to curtail BBC. programmes at the end of this month This followed a promise bj the Minister of Labour. Mr. George Isaacs, to appoint an independent committee to make
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      Overseas Indians in protest
      106 8 Overseas Indians in protest LONDON, Tuesday. THE President of the Indian Congress, Mr. P. D. Sasai. said here today that thrre were 4.000.000 Indians overseas, of whom 78 per cent, were living m the Commonwealth. Some were being denied social justice, he said. Indians should be allowed m the colonies
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      THE TREND IS DOWNWARD
      387 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Til •T4IE general trend of prices on the London Mock Exchange w;is lower today, resulting from the slight underlying uneasiness and the continued of active interest, says Reuter's financial correspondent. Only minor alteration* took place and the turnover of business was again
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      Dutch blockade rapped at UNO
      251 8 NEW YORK, Tuesday. 'THE Security Council today postponed considera- tion of the Indonesian question until Thursday after hearing: the United Nations Good OMices Committee criticise Dutch polity. The Dutch naval blockade is preventing economic rehabilitation of Republican Indonesia, the report said. The Committee cabled a
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      MONEY FOR ARABS
      42 8 Britain has now decided to hand over to Transjordan the quarterly instalment of £500,--000 of the subsidy which fell due on July 12. but was withheld because the Palestine truce was then still before the Security Council, says Reuter
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      NOT MESSERVY
      27 8 Lieutenant General Sir Frank Messervy, former Com-mander-in-Chief, Pakistan Army, has denied reports that he would succeed the late Sir Edward Gent as Mrlayan High Commissioner.
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      Rebellion threat by Libyans
      157 8 Rebellion threat by Libyans U >SDOS n lay. I^HE United S Britain claim that some oi the inhabitants of Tni; Lania have threatened "to resort to arms" if I •fie admin istrai of their country But Russia d<the threat seriously, according to a report by a Big-Four inquiry' team which
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      LEAVING in THE ORANJE
      76 8 THE Regi>trar of Imports and Exports. Mr. D. Sturrock, and Mrs. Stun I were among the 99 passengers I to leave Singapore today by j the Nederland Line ship iOranje for Southampton. Other passengers included Mr. W. H. Lait, Traffic Manager, Singapore Harbour i Board, Netherlands
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      TWO BELGRADE 'SPIES' TO DIE
      41 8 THE Belgrade lewspaper Borsi' yesterday published a notice of the sentencing i to death by a Belgrade Court of two "spies who worked for a foreign imperialist service." Eleven others, the notice said, received prison terms.
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      SHOOTING DRAMA IN AIRLINER?
      138 8 MACAO, Tuesday. A DISCHARGED pistol shell was found today m the jagged wreckage of the Cathay Pacific Airlinre which had exploded and crashed into the sea on July 16, killing all but one of 26 aboard. The wr was h from the bottom ol the ...a
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      'Shrieking Russians'
      62 8 GENEVA, 7 fHE British Minster of 1 State, Mr. Hector Neil, today attacked sian "shrieking, shouting campaigns of propaganda" against the European Recovery Programme, when he addressed the Economic and Social Council h( Earlier, the Soviet delegate, Mr. Amazask Ariutiunian, had accused the United States of deliberately creating
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      JAPANESE DEFY STRIKE BAN
      41 8 JAPANESE Government communications Tokio yesterday defier recent strike ban im; by General Mac Arthur The central com:: their union "advised 000 members to com. efforts "to force a of the Diet IGen MacAr.hu: should be ignored Reuter
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      Rubber prices
      123 8 SPM 1 \I. Market rorrespeaeent girm the price* of rubber »i 11 aj_ taeay m follow*: per Ib per tk Buyer* Seller* Ota No. 1 111 Spot leeee 4> Mo 1 R.S.S. toe m bale* Au«. >o r tt s s ror ia bales Aim: M No i
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      Gas turbine gunboat
      36 8 LONEK THE British Admira announced that I Gunboat 20W to put to sea with propulsir:the T: from Gosrx I demonstration runs With entzines "superior t^ jet marine purpose I 116- :gf,ygk,mgf U P
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      6,000 0 LONDON OLYMPICS PARADE
      19 8 6,000 0 LONDON OLYMPICS PARADE THr I I I I I I I I P^P* l pom A P
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