The Singapore Free Press, 30 July 1948

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1948 PRIC'I t« CtMS
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  • 272 1 24 insurgents slain near B. Arang 30 prisoners in big attack Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. A STRONG combined Police and Army force began a large scale attack on insurgent areas near the Malayan Collieries coal fields at Batu Arang at dawn today. Preliminary reports from the battle
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  • 110 1 37 killed in two major air disasters THIRTY-SEVEN people were killed yesterday in two major air crashes, one .in Tsingtao, the Chinese naval base. and the other in Buenos Aires. In the Tsingtao disaster, all 19 people aboard a C-46 airliner, belonging to MajorCtenera] Claire Chennault's Civil An Transport Company
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  • 31 1 BRITAIN yesterday gave a terse "No" to King Paul's suggestion that Britain exchange Cyprus, British fortress isle in the MediterraI nean, for Greek military i bases A.P.
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  • 31 1 Free Press Staff Reporter SEVEN Chinese were arrested under the Emergency Regulations yesterday. The total under detention this morning was 98. Several of those detained have been released.
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  • 5 1 2 EUROPEANS SEIZE TAXI I
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  • 258 1 DUTCH BLOCKADE NEW YORK, Thursday. INDONESIA, announcing: that it had withdrawn from the deadlocked Dutch-Indonesian peace talk>>, today ca'leH on the Tinted Nations Security Council to take "strong action*' to abolish Dutch rictions on Indonesian trade. The Indonesian representative. Mr. L. N. Palar, said the
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  • 74 1 pANGOON police yesterday arrested more than 100 members of the Peoples VolOrganisation which Mth Prime Minister rhakin Nu's leftist unity programme ""d supports direct tiations with insurgent leaders. Books, pamphlets and other anti-Government literature were seized One group within the P.V.O. armed militia of the
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  • 91 1 NANKING, Thursday. 1'HE reorganization of the Kuomintang is likely to extend to party leaden abroad who, in many wield greater powers over the Chinese comies than do Foreign Office consuls and other representatives of the Chinese Government. Party sources here tin I Siamese action politi-B cal
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  • 36 1 London, sweltering beneath the hottest July sun for many years, recorded the country's highest temperature today 93 degrees Fahrenheit. At Tiverton (Devon), agricultural show, nearly 200 people and one judge collapsed through heat.
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  • 25 1 •fHREE persons were killed I in Canton and more than 10 were seri'Misly injured when a house, weak- ;by a recent typhoon, A.P.
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  • 82 1 DUST-FED Manila residents, the poor and middle classes, have devised an effective way to get their streets asphalted. The idea is to lure high officials, preferably Cabinet Members to the desired area and if necessary tell them that they can occupy the best and largest houses
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  • 33 1 The 21 000- ton P O lirver, Mooltan. after a year's reconversion as a single-class ship for immigrants, will join the U.K. Australia route It was formerly on the Bombay i
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  • 62 1 IN a serious attempt to tackle corruption in Hone Kong and smooth the way for the punishment of offenders, the Government has introduced in the Legislative Council a bill providing sterner measures against bribery, and corruption in public office. If passed, it will empower the Government
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  • 33 1 The Chinese Ministry of i Justice is circulating a notice j to all local courts urging the immediate release of prison ers eligible for parole. The reason: jail funds are low.
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  • 46 1 Yunnan garrison authorities have sent 307 men ana women college students to military j training camps as "punish- ment for taking D^rt in a recent demonstration" says A.P. from Shanghai. Military control will be enforced during tne eiffb/'Week training i session
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  • 31 1 The Pope arrived last night at his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo after a halfhour car ride from the Vatican. The Pontiff was welcomed by hundreds of villasexi
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  • 135 1 Free Press Staff Reporter iPREIGHT rates for cargoes shipped from Malaya 1 to America are to be increased as from October 1, according to an announcement made thi3 morn'ing. The new rates have announced by the Straits/ New .York Conference, the British Malaya/East Canada Conference
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  • 392 1 LONDON, Thursday. WHILE the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, was warning the House of Commons today that Russian policy in Berlin, if pursued, might lead to war, news was received in London that M. Molo**v was not in Moscow to receive a visit of British.
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  • 50 1 THE Israeli Government last night called for a revision of the United Nations' decision on Palestine and rejected proposals for the demilitarisation of Jerusalem Despite the truce, fighting between the Jews and Egyptians was reported to be in its third day in the southern desert area.
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  • 263 1 THE acting president of the United Planting Amwcvation of Malaya, Mr. H. H. Facer, told the Singapore correspondent of the Financial Times thm trm Association had not given a "no protection, no production" uWimation Co the Colonial Office on behalf of planters in Malaya.
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  • 105 1 NANKING. Thursday. THE Secretary-General of the Kuomintan^ Mr Wu Teh-chen. in un mierview with United Press today, called upon all coiomal powers to grant self- govern iv.ent immediately to subjec South-East Asia vo check the expansion of Communism. He warned thai Communist influence, which h£
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  • 64 1 US. Secretary of Stales. Mr. George Marshall, has started an inquiry to find out whether Communist at or other aliens daiigen American security are entering the United States thi the United Nations Organization. This follows charges and denials made to the Senate Judiciary Sub comm
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  • FOR WOMEN
    • 1069 2  - Their loveliness made history Betty Hand by <4 ]X the litter sat Anne Bole>n.She aa surcoat of white tissue and a' ntle of the same material. Her £own, coat, was of cloth of gpld tissi raised with is of Bilver damask, and large o tin with chequered tissue •A- and
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    • 206 2 ILOUB ui\t- ir holding up rtcruitin^ for the Territorial \rmv, it uaN reported ai nutting: ol the Suffolk Territorial and A u v i l i a I The tisHi decided to consider u.i\s .uul mojh of plaeatiaji mv.-s who resent th« t that
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    • 32 2 The above sketch gives some idea of different ways in which a fashionable three piece sun-suit skirt, bodice and sun-top can be combined or worn separately.
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    • 326 2 WEST opened trump. d< I'lurt r put in dum- I Bust torped noe by covering with th»> jack. South w< D and t<")k a hoart fli which last to East's king. Back came a second trump but now declarer couldn't be Stopped. He won in his hand, ruffed
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    • 224 2 nEAUTY is oik Of the most D elastic words In the English language Everyone sees beanty in something although two people seldom beauty in the same objects, or other people in the a same light. ;ral creation in its first stages, unhampered by hand of man, is
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    • 168 2  - Rooting out bad habits in R ussia GORDON YOUNG By CTALINhi ed a nationdrive to an family life in I Sonet arriving in show that thl paign now in full to root it "bad ha which some Required during I tra'^d and R. men, fighting th into Europe, bcca: taminated
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    • 231 2 asf SIWGAPORt From 1240 aoon to 2 00 p.m. 485 metres in the medium wave band and 7.20 m*-prjrl<-i to the 41 metre band. From 600 p.m to 7.45 p.m.: from 930 p m to 11 00 p.m.: 485 metres In the medium wave band and 4 825 megacycle* in
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    • 118 2 LUCKY STAR DOKN today, courage and u p«r^«\»ranc* are two t h.uacteri.sti<s which will get you far on the road to sut revs. Vou have a k<*en sense of humour This, Uh), i s a blessing for life may not be too < and >ou will need the ability to
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    • 77 3 Good .tlornintftt' begin Kith GiUeile because GILLETTE STEEL is made to the T^TL most exacting specification. /s"''"* iff EVERY BLADE is subjected J/fftM' M to the most ruthless Inspection /M msMfW •t every stage of manufacture n^Sltfl j m GILLETTE BLADES have L^&^jll ft long lasting 3-facet edges sharper than
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    • 48 3 TARZAN Power V Skill By Edgar Rice Burroughs "PRC/W THE EDGE OP THE CLEARING TARZAN SCREAMED US WA«NiN<3 \\JV^| P^^SS t R^S?^it?»^k^^LFr^^ THE APE VAN OOUNON6 TOWARD HW .^'^fift 'jbtffeA Llff^ «?M5 CAUGHT THE BUtLET «6AD H'J^^* T^^V i\i- WITH AO?Y OP RAGE, THE BEA5T^^^ -'i^tfcia ?*»JjjgflKiff' J&--;^~-
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  • NEWS
    • 16 3 Persia's Shah in U.K. as King's guos' Co Britain as the g\ With the Duke of
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    • 378 3 NATIONALISTS DENY RED PEACE MOVE N. China Is Swept By Rumours LONDON, Thursday. MORfll China, particularly Peiping, lias been seething for the past fortnight with rumours of a peace move Their origin is a mystery. They could have been circulated by the Communists as part of their propaganda warfare, to
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    • 188 3 GROUNDNUTS SCHEME 'VITAL 100,000 want to join tUM women in Britain have «»rk on Ihc Eas< African Strmehey told the Commons. e. he said, ftt we in a humdrum enterprises, some the this has 'he people's imaginary said U of producing the groundhad gone up but the ■ich they wouid
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    • 158 3 Mlnthony Eden told the Commons that Bridid not need any advice from the United States how to conduct our business" and said British in- tinue their position of quality er than qua Mr Eden was criticising Sir Stafford Cripps' speech at I lay. in
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    • 62 3 The Pakistan Government has lodged a "stronp protest" with the United Nations Kashmir Commission about a speech made bv the Indian Premier. Pandit Nehru, at Madras last Sunday, in which he accused Pakistan of basing her policy on falshood and deceit. The Pakistan Foreign Ministry has
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    • 34 3 rHE I Yuan in ng has granted all he appr ns req rnmpnt in its new with certain modifleaThe Yuai. ailing the e revenue the bud >ns itivv Yuan U.P.
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    • 22 3 .ed md four others Injured— two v— in an exDlosion station mine, three j n. In- 1 The cause waa unde rined
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    • 155 3 AN R.A.F. pilot on the Berlin food run ha* done what the experts say is impossible. He took l a with an eight-ton cargo double the permitted load into the air. flew her i- d brought her in to Th' put on by by
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    • Article, Illustration
      41 3 Among the film stars who attended the Eiffel Tower circus on the traditional "Grande Nuit de Paris" which marks the end of the Paris season— were (left to right): Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Patricia Roc and (extreme right), Edward G. Robinson.
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    • 22 3 pt-rroleum deposits believed to be among the rid in the world have been disred In Upper Syria, in the Khaffours area.— U.P.
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    • 184 3 FILM fans haw struck a new idea lor getting better acquainted with th^ir favourite stars by cashing in on the shortage of domestic help and offering stars their services M "baby sitters." Several British stars with families, including John Mills, Margaret Lockwood and Glynis
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    • 86 3 PRESIDENT Chiang KaiShek has told a group of Kuomintang lead.-rs in Nankthat one of China's main troubles is that some Kuomintang members who have bt en influenced by Communists propaganda do not havt clear appreciation of the situation in China and have lost confidence, thereby creating
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    • 366 3 Girls told 'how to catch a husband' PLK hundred girte were told how to '"chnoj.l. and keep a husband" by Mr. Humphry i Watney, chairman of governor* of St. Paul S or Girls, in London speaking at the priiegiving. He ?aid: "You must no: be too forward m backward. Don't
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    • Article, Illustration
      71 3 The flying car known as the Fulton Awphibian after its Amend jner seen in Fleet-Direct, London, recently. It was making its way to Croydon Airport where it becar borne after having and other accessories fitted. The Kiny's Prize was won at Bisley by P. A. Pavey, a Rerom Victoria, Australia,
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    • 123 3 MOSCOW Friday. THE Soviet Army paper Red Star says the Japanese during the war. planned large-scale germ warfare against the Allies. The paper says the Soviet authorities have found a special bacteriological warfare station headed by a Japanese lieutenant-general of the Medical Service. Thii
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    • 61 3 DRITAIN has pro; u strongly to Communist Rumania against the arrest of two British businessmen Li Bucharest. One other Briton had arrested previously. "We don't know vet whether the Rumanian Government has started an organised campaign against British zens in Rumania," a Foreign Office spokesman said
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    • 79 6 China's costly import— U.S. pilots ONK import that (..uiia i> not likely W> redlM> V I pilots About '20(1 <rf them are at preBCBf piloting C'hina\ c< iiunenial planes. MOO. 000 lm- for a h flight rneu I and who is a former fl of th»' R.A.F. The than on
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    • 37 6 APLAU UK Ol i kind. i rkers 1 Union ping in him from a tree Mr but I:\\ still whii. oft his body without bitir.t him. Tru-n he shot it Reuter A. A.P
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    • 312 6 VIENNA WONDERS ARE WE NEXT? Russian blockade tactics VIENNA, WATCHING the Berlin crisis many people in Vienna are asking themselves anxiously "Could the same thin*? happen here?" Superficially, the situation is much the same. The Western Allies are occupying, as in Berlin, a large part of the city, which is
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    • 90 6 firs rial PolM Thr current many lost nerves. I' muscles to and relai current, like the flexing of biceps. This substitute n»Tv*- on n r.uly aey lack n< to govern their motions. The •ric nerve wll] U a polio victim how to n inn or
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    • 94 6 A STRAY barking dog aroused the ire of Arnold Maki, '11. farm worker in Stockholm (Minnesota, U.S.A.). He grabbed a shotgun, went out into the night, tripped and the gun discharged, hitting a dynamite pit and setting off 100 pounds of explosive. The bla>t ripped off Maki's
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    • 179 6 r FHE orst British group of Alcoholics Anonymous x held their first public meeting in London and the members wore white rain tinguish themfrom non-alcoholics including some 1 men present In the audienc Curious people who came to the meeting-Dlace, th< Theatre In urstreft must
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    • 87 6 THE Rover Car Company in 1 Birmingham (England* has built a gas turbine motor car but denies reports that the model will soon be ready for the market. "Although we have had an experimental unit running". a Company statement .said, "we still consider it will be
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    • 29 6 7,000 new Ku Klux klunsmen sworn in BY U-. sumrmr light "citizer tain Georgia (USA i Thf oaih to u •d into the r a huge circle of dasf
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    • 18 6 DUCHESS INSPECTS THE CADETS to talk to Ca 'roft, •■<]/ Bands School, iham, when s'; ted the school car.
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    • 168 6 A GIRL Devonpori la ard %at her fiance would be aDle to give her a proper hug and ki>- for Or me for fiv*' months and marry hIsabella Wilson of G fiance rant OffiY. :iard Chapm of the R.A.F. has at last com* 1 out
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    • 222 6 AFOi birch cross was mg time all that marii'd a lonely I le of the Reichwald Foi many, aftei '-down in had been buried ihere rs. It was put uji by German forester, who did not sec the glade again lor three r». Then ho found
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  • LEADER
    • 587 4 SjcSmo^porfifitcPit^ FRIDAY. July 30. 1948. The good and the bad of it R« Question T:: merits in Parliament on thi' sK in Malaya, it is extraordidimcult to decide he Parliamentary qu< the reply do harm or good. The newspapers in Malaya, a: to help but ob. face the same difficulty
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    • 875 4 What aid will India give now? i HE DEFENCE OF THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH by Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck former C.-in-C. India, War member of the Viceroy's Executive Council, and member of the Expert Committee on the Defence of India (1938). HAS Britain lost India? The British Empire of India that
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    • 729 4 PEOPLE IN SINGAPORE MAKE NEWS ASSISTING \ineiM- can scientists of U.S. National ll< -'arch Foundation to find a cure for polio ifl an ex-circus dar< devil performer. is 43-year-old lish-born Mr. V N OTREMSKY, who has •K'd down in v w H..- pail m aiding the polio cure ia in<
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    • 399 4 by A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT k SPECTACULAR splash heralded the arrival of a complete flash fractionating column at Shell's refinery at Canton, Venezuela. The refinery, which is to cost Jibuiit £20,000,000 and will have a capacity of 50,000 bands per day (2 1 g million t> -an
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    • 18 4 For thr living know that tfeej ihall die; hut the dead know n.it .mything EcceLsiastes 9. 5.
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 21 5 14,711 TONS TIN ORE IN 6 MONTHS rtef half of teas and r r I fsdaf asdf new r Free Press
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    • 8 5 70 DANCE TO 300ST TB FUND ft PQ
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    • 275 5 GOVT CANCELS 1,500 LAND LEASES Property worth $20 million Free Press Staff RennrW PROPERTIES in Singapore Torttat a conservat.ve est.mate, s2o,ooo,ooo, have reverted to the Government because more than 1,500 99-year leases, on expiry, have not been renewed by Government. An official on the question of expired leases, gmn tp
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    • 165 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent A F} eetin S of Singapore Chinese school headmasters takes place today under the chairmanship of the Assistant Director of Education. Mr. Watson -Hyatt, to discuss amon? other educational problems of the day. the question of holding an joint athletic meet of all
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    • 27 5 gapore Police Band .".me for August is as it Farrer Park. 13 at Waterloo Street. 16 at Jalan Besar and A 29 at Botanic Gardens.
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    • 65 5 FKC Preai StuiT Reporter DONATIONS to the Gandhi Memorial Fund by the people of Singapore have totalled $102,192. A meeting will be called shortly of Singapore Indians to discuss what form the me- morial to the late Mahatmu Gandhi should take. Many leading Indians in Singapore
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    • 47 5 FRANK William Norris, a 44--year-old Eurasian building inspector employed by the Singapore Municipality, was yesterday found guilty of accepting an illegal gratification and was sentenced to four months' rigorous imprisonment by the Second Police Magistrate. Norris was allowed rail of $1,000, pending appeal.
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    • 150 5 Rice ration up kati Free Press Corn THE Governments of the Federation of Malaya and Singapore have arranged with the Government of Egypt an exchange of flour for rice. This exchange has received the approval of the 1.E.F.C.. and has been declared by that body as being additional to the
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    • 161 5 A MISSING *CUible attention at the second annual general meeting last night of the Sir. Harbour Board :ation. machine, valued at $616. the property of the As- :>.. wa> stolen fmm the house of the Secretary. Mr. S. A. Iyer, some time last year.
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    • 345 5 Hit by petrol rationing Free Press StaiY Reporter BECAUSE the present petrol ration for taxis only allows an average of seven-ninths of a gallon a day for each cab, Yellow Top Cab Company lias discharged 40 drivers about 30 percent of the driving staff. A director
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    • 42 5 for candiVJ dates who took the London Chamber of Commerce ex- 1 animations have now arrived from London. School candidates should call for their certificates at their respective schools, and private candidates at the Education Office, sth Floor, Fullerton Building.
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    • Article, Illustration
      64 5 picture. The Public Relations Film Unit is kept busy by the many requests for cinema shotcs. The Unit not only visits outlying areas on the island but makes regular calls at the neighbouring islands. This picture shows the residents of St. John's Island enjoying a Public Relatio7is
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    • 218 5 Free Press Staff Correspondent D ICE retailers in Singapore have been informed that the quality of ric« for distribution to ration card holders will be improved to consist of 80 per cent of white rice and 20 per cent of broken rice from the next
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    • 79 5 KUALA LUMPI'R, Thurs. FOUND guilty of unlawful possession of firearms, two Chinese, Teo Ah Long and Cheong Hon Peng, were v« ntenced to death today j under the Emergency Regulations at the Stiangor Assizes. Teo was arrested on July 2 this jear at Riverside Estate,
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    • 135 5 THE acting Chief Justice (Mr. 1 Justice Gordon Smith ordered a warrant to be issued yesterday in the Supreme I Court against a Hainanese I broker named Lam Hong Nong of Purvis Street, Singapuie. lor contempt of court Behind that event lies a story ol the
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    • Article, Illustration
      21 5 picture. Btr. J&uics Jlucxuy, Vicepresident of the National City Bank of Netc York, who is on a visit to Sinaapore.- Orient
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    • 73 5 PERJURY has become more rife since the occupation," declared the Federal Counsel (Mr. M. G. Neal) at the Ipoh Assizes yesterday. "Lawlessness cannot be curbed if that continues." He was asking for a deterrent sentence for a Chinese, Wong Ah Hing, who was convicted on three
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    • 196 5 New housing estate for Municipality Free Prss Staff Repoi A NEW Municipal siaff housing estate, nrtucli m capable of accommodating quarters lor -i junior and labour employes of the Singapore Mm pality, will be opened up in Braddell Road. The extensive, hilly estate lies on Woodleigh Filters and a tender
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    • 214 5 IMPORTANT changes in the system of storage and shipping are expected in future shipments of Iruit and vegetables from Australia to Singapore. These changes are exj, to result from lerenU recommendations which will oe made by an Australian State Horticultural Officer (Mr. A. G.
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    • 28 5 THE will ii.---17.81 mill: ject governing payment of I ciati TV for Trt the expira three or four m he date of issue.
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    • 64 6 JANf Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya ci^4c^ E c^o FJ? T WHY NoT^T^VFN't YOU WOTICLD^ f?>EOROIf I StMPLY^S If AWD WHY HBW^' or V?ir iupL ES Ve.lrT 5 THE JL THE NOT|CE7 V MOST OO INSIDE AND |l MO I t\a Ntw LCXJK. rASHION, ra^^^<^ *^^v SEE
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  • SPORTS
    • 772 7 RACING PROSPECTS VERY OPEN IN PENANG Grand Prix to win main event ar™ i*! reSS R cin Correspondent I AKUL lields, good handicapping and the uncertainty of the weather all go to make racing very open in Penang tomorrow, the first dav of the August Bank Holiday meeting. Keen interest
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    • 126 7 IJELOW is given today's proffran -e Olympic Games. s timts are given *n p m., hi^h jump (qualityI p.m -ioo netrca hurt)** und: 9 30 p.m.. 100 m^res and: 10 p.m. women's dis.nal. 10 30 p.m 800 metres first 11 p.m high jump p.m. 400
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    • 25 7 T.d division maiches scheduled to be played ve been postponed. RAP tSembawangt v :23 800 Dockyard v -ruals on Aug 10
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    • 169 7 A HIGE crowd <iw a major upset in the valuable A bag distance race, the £3,775 (ioodvuxKi (up run at Goodwood, Sussex, yesterday when FretitMCo resio's four year old Italian coH. Tenerani, upset the tick of 3 1 laid on Marcel Bou»ai •"> champion,
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    • 29 7 THE K the Park, r Cop Army compttlt.un. scored a I<im witfc the S.H.B. Auxil.ary Police in th»>nd division SAFA. !\igiß match played fit Thomson Road
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    • 28 7 THE i .itclassetl bo (\e\ lnst to RAF i sembawang by four goals to two n second division SAFA. league match played M Tliom.^on road yesterday.
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    • 112 7 ONLY 1.000 persons, almost lost in the vast Empire Pool at Wembley, saw Sweden trounce Switzerland six-one in the first contest of the games. few hOUM after they weropened yesterday. The pool hoids 7,000 and the small size of the crowd was blamed on
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    • 135 7 U.K. Olympic soccer team selected BRITAIN S soccer team to play Holland in the first round of the Olympio Games soccer tournament on the Arsenal football culb ground at Highbury, London, tomorrow evening shows one change from the team which defeated France three-two at Nantes last Sunday. R. Letham of
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    • 180 7 INTERESTING badminton was 1 witnessed at tiie Chinese Y.M.C.A. court on Sunday t/ben Harrisons and Cros.^ field Sports Club narrowly defeated the Cable ft W relesN Sports Club by four Mi to three. Highlight of the moriang was the third singles sneounter between Ee Poh Boon (H
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    • 218 7 T*IIE Indian Association drew with the Chinese Athletic Assn. one all in a S.A.F.A. second division league game played on the 8.0.D. ground at St. George's Road yesterday. The Indians should have won on the run of play, but erratic shooting by their forwards
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    • 55 7 J^ RETURN friendly badminton match of five singles and four doubles, has been arranged between Wi-nsfk'ld B.P. and Wcfltj c-rn B.P. to be played on Saiur|day at 4 p.m. at the tatter'i court in Buona Vista Road. Players and supporters of the Winsficld B.P. should ~s.-emble at the
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    • 18 7 rp H E R.A.O.C. Farelf Swi'iimmg gala at Gillman pcol will ?tnrt at 3 pm tomorrow.
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    • 155 7 THE fir Is from Denmark and Xk-x Jany of France r3nk as r.y off the bit; IIMM Olympic xv. niming hon< u' The \m*ruaiis r.itc us siren.; favru ItCS in all diving events bin thev may meet strong challenges n ,he Mexlean bovs and the h and
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    • Article, Illustration
      30 7 wasnorook returns through a lane of cheering spect after scoring 143 for England against Australia in the fourth Test at Leeds. Australia won the match by seven wickets.
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    • 74 7 S'hai soccer team beaten in Manila THE football League selection stopped the winning streak of the muchvaunted Shanghai Chinese Combined Eleven with the score three to one before 9.000 spectators at Rizal Memorial Football Stadium yesterday. The game was fast and thrilling. Han Lung-hai, Shanghai's centre forward, scored the lone
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    • 253 7 RUNS were plentiful again at Trent Bridge ye>*urday and, facing the highest score made against them this season and also the highest raised by Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire put up a jjrc-at display after two early shocks. Simpson and Stocks added 212 In three hours and 25
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    • 78 7 yHE 1 allowing will r. the Ptrtimi Y.M C A and "biu- faintt the Chiius* Engineering Association and juniors respectively, a; tennis today and tomorrow at the Chinese Y. premi^ 7 30 p m. 'Red;'' Kwan Sung Ho. Lo Meng Kong. Lira Han To:. Soo Chee. Lau
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    • 560 7 Referee wilt report on div. ore incidents pEGRETTABLE incidents crept into the cloe fv stages of the first division S.A.F.A. league mi at Jalan Bt\sar yesterday, in wh ch the RJLF. beat the Amicable Athic'.ic V -ciation bv the goal in five. Exactly five minutes before the end <>i the
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    • 58 7 A GOAL scored abled the R defeat th RA} lh by two gOftl* to nil in a SAK A Second Division league n played at Geylang vyesterday. The Rovers attack after the start and got first goal throug; minutes before the inter At interval the Rove:
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    • 244 7 F.P. Crossword No. 450 F~| IT] 13 I R~~| [Tl |6~| 1 ™VZ// r^^!^> rm^^ 7 s Pl* I" l2 BJtTw 151~20 1 ZtZ3Z_ 1 1' 1 jp"^ j IB^^KMfl H 33 1. Pood and drink (12). 7. Lean (5). 9, Coupled <6 13. Sharp (4). 15. Idler (s'. 16.
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    • 21 8 CT^ISTOPHERS: at Ellendene Brisbane, :C4B. to Barbara. f H B Chiistoph rs. Sungei K .im a h Estat Gemas— a
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    • 28 8 RAMSAY LA NAUZE. At St ews Presbyterian Church. Lumpur, on 27th July. 1948. A>x»rd r Jchn McGregor Ramsay to B a r .-i"c K nt La Nsuxe.
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    • 469 8 BEVIN TELLS OF WAR PREPARATIONS But peace bid continuing iapn don, Tnursaay. DIPLOMATIC observers here recognised tonight that the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, in making his statement on Berlin Co the House of Commons today, faced the dilemma of wishing to say nothing Uiat might prejudice the chances
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    • 210 8 U.S. not to inspect U.K. industry LONDON, Thursday. THE Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir StafTord Cnpps, told the House of Commons tonight that the proposed new joint AngloAmerican Industrial Council would be an important step towards improving Britain's productivity. Concluding th^ debate, in which opposition to the proposal fizzled out.
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    • 78 8 TOKIO, Thursday. HPHE verdict on Tojo and 24 other major war crimes deiendenta probably will not be given until mid-September now that an Indian member I of the International Military Tribunal is leaving shortly rive weeks in Calcutta. The tribunal language experts on Monday began traruii
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    • 116 8 DAMCHANDRA Bad of the ace used in the Ihi murder trial testified yesterday that ne informed police at the start, that he M determined to tell the 'ruth and take the onsequ "even if it be the rope." He said he advised tho prosecution that he
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    • 232 8 LI UWUiMl.\rh>, inursciay. 11 HUE the Mannheim police say that 500 to 800 |H»rhons are still missing in the mystery Farben explosion in Ludwiu^haien. and that most of them must be presumed dead, American Army authorities on the spot put the casualties at 300 killed
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    • 19 8 The South Afru-un Nationali I rnment and United Party opposition I command 22 votes in Senate
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    • 196 8 NUREMBERG, Thursday. NINE directors of the giant I. O. FarfcXn Chemical Trust were convicted today of having looted industries in countries subjugated by Hitler's armies. All 23 leaders of Farben by the same judgment of a a United States military tribunal, after a year-
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    • 451 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Thursday. EVRMNESS of the London stock markets today is attributed to the absence of any bad news and some bear covering prior to the holiday, Keuter's financial correspondent. Rubbers were unchanged; some tins declined. The day's buying was largely confined to the
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    • 85 8 WASHINGTON, Thursday. SECRET service guards of President Roosevelt were so suspicious of the Free French leader, Gen. Charles de Gaulle, at the Casablanca conference in 1943 that they kept him covered with their arms throughout his meetings with the Prtsident and Mr. Winston Churchill. The story is
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    • 110 8 Reds dropped from new Finnish Govt. HELSINKI. Thursday. AUTHORISED by President Juho Paasikivi to exclude the Communists, vhe former j Social Democratic Speaker of the Finnish Parliament Mr. Karl August Fagerholm, to- day formed a purely Social Democratic Government. This Is the first break with coalition rule since the end
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    • 139 8 A si I'LL lAL J-arkea correspondent fire* the prices of rnbber al 11 am today aa foBows: per to per lb Bayers SoUars CU C4a No. I RSS Soot loose 4«S 49 No 1 R 8.8 roe tai bales Auk. 4«V, _sf| No t ft. 8. 8 fata
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    • 197 8 SHANGHAI, Thursday. AS the Nationalist Army claimed successes on all major fronts today, it was disclosed that more than 400,000 Communist troops, comprising 24 columns, are regrouping and redeploying in North and Central China, preparatory to launching fresh offensives within the next two weeks.
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    • 71 8 TXDTAL rubber consumption 1 in the United Stat« Juno was 95,628 tons compared with 87,665 tons m May. reports the Rubber Manufacturers' Association Natural rubber consumption was 56,065 tons and synthetic was 39.563 tons. The industry also used 24.203 tons of reclaimed rubber. Total consumption for
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    • 110 8 TOKIO, Thursday. INDIGNANT ivives of IchiI 7ioseki. in licatc Prefecture, have got together at a shrine and approved an ultimatum telling their husbands to foliow certain "musts" or else. If they don't, the women threaten, they will reject all orders from their spouses and "will not
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    • 45 8 Britain is reports j at Lake Success to be ready to demand that the United Nations Rive urgent attenion to tne I question of Jewish and Arab refuge. Britain is particularly concerned about 30.000 Arabs who fled into Jewish occupied territories in Palestine
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    • 134 8 IMGHTY-TWO thousand I cheer to MalayaS on!> U?l Games— the hi*h jum;., marched past the King (fi V Va S J Olympic Games open. d *W2| As the King fin, the Olympic Games of j I Olympiad of the mod< I free to a salute of 21 I portals
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    • 304 8 J I HEQIIEM MASS A R quiem High Mass. will be j at O:r Lady of Lourdes -ch. Ophir Road, for Uie late Mr nhn A S'indra Raj on 3.8 48 at 3 m SITIXTION N \C\NT VACANT: Una are urgently d f >r ttm -lining in v r^ing m
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