The Singapore Free Press, 4 August 1948

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA i SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1948 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    Rubel guns hold up troop advance
    222 1 Spitfires dive on trenches Free Press Staff Reporter WA T KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. A WATTLE is now m progress between a com- bined army and police force and insurgents entrenched north of Pulai, m South Kelantan. One Gurkha was killed m action, the only
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    TICAN GRENADE
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    69 charged m Liverpool racial riots
    138 1 SIXTY-NINE white and negroes, mostly negroes, appeared m court In Liverpool yesterday after what the police described as "serious racial disturbances" during the past few days. Prosecuting solicitors said the charges arose from disturbances m the coloured quarter when fights broke out resulting m
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    TANKS vs. STRIKERS
    35 1 RATIONAL GUARDS m Dayton (Ohio) used two Sherman tanks, bayonets and tear gas to break up a crowd that surged up to the gates of the strike-bound Univis Lens Company plant yesterday
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    the world's Idren-half day's pay
    6 1 the world's Idren-half day's pay w.
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    Silence over the crisis
    201 1 LONDON, Tuesday. /COMPLETE official silence from the capitals of the Big Four blanketed the international crisis over Germany today. The report of the three western envoys on their meeting with Marshal Stalin on Monday \s now being closely studied m London, Pans and Washington. Optimism continued
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    Security 'in few months'
    132 1 IN a broadcast last night, reviewing operations against the insurgents m Malaya, the CommissionerGeneral, Mr. Malcolm Mac- Donald said they wished "to restore peaceful conditions and security of life and work m the settled countryside and towns not next year but this year within m the
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    WOMAN FALLS FROM BUS, INJURED
    49 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A 22-YEAR old Chinese woman. Tan Lai Chuan, who attempted to get down from an omnibus while it was still moving fell and seriously injured her head at the sth mile. Upper Serangoon Road yesterday. She was taken to hospital.
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    STORE INFANT DEATH RATE LOW
    122 1 Free Press Staff Reporter ONE child m three die m all Far Eastern areas except m Siam and Singapore where the infant mortality rate is not nearly so high, a former U.S. Surgeon-general, Dr. T. Parran said m Washington yesterday. Dr. Parran, who made a
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    TAXI IN CRASH
    33 1 At 8.30 p.m. yesterday a taxi crashed into a tree at Buklt Timah Road near the Wayang Satu police station. The driver was not injured, but the taxi was damaged.
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    Police hold 11 after Balestier Road raid
    93 1 Police hold 1 1 after Balestier Road raid ONE hundred and thirty persons were screened, and eleven of them detained, following a police raid on an area off Balestier Road early this morning. Police lound unlawful secret society cards and spare parts from a car and wireless sets believed to
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    HK RENT SLASH CLIMB-DOWN
    82 1 LIONG KONG Government yesterday backed down from the edict sla&ning the hotel and boarding house rates after the operators had met the Colonial Secretary. An official statement said that the rates were being frozen as on July 31, which is the day before the edict became
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    Potatoes a la Russe
    64 1 AT the 11 -nation Danubian Conference yesterday, the Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, M. Vishinsky accused the Western Powers of treating: Danubian states m the past "as a cook treats potatoes m the kitchen." The British delegate, Sir Charles Peake, countered: "A vivid phrase but, I ask
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    DISTRUST POISONS GOLD COAST LIFE
    154 1 LONDON, Wednesday. AFRICAN distrust and suspicion of the European is poisoning life m the Gold Coast, reports the official commission which has been inquiring into the disturbances there last February and March. In the disorders, which broke out m different parts of the country, 29
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    MID-AIR FIGHT FOR A DRINK
    86 1 JNITED States admiralty laws were invoked yesterday to arrest two men passenger accused of fighting over a bottle of rum during a plane flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to New York. The men. both of Brooklyn, New York, were arrested on the complaint of
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    VALBERG SEES THE KING, QUEEN MARY
    60 1 THHE King and Queen held A a reception at Buckingham Palace last night for representatives of all the nations competing m the Olympic Games, including Lloyd Valberg and J. S. de Souza, who are representing Singapore. Queen Mary was with the King as he
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    'Oust Chiang' call by K.M.T.
    216 1 'Oust Chiang' call by K.M. T. NANKING, Tuesday. rpHE abolition of President Chiang Kai-shek's 1 supreme position as Kuomintang DirectorGeneral and the overthrow of the present controlling minority m the party were openly advocated m a closed Kuomintang Party caucus today, United Press reports. The conference received a mandate' from
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    Couple robbed by gangsters
    82 1 THE gang which has victimis--1 ed young couples and parties of boys and girls at Singapore sea-side resorts struck again last night. They held up a Chinese and his girl friend who were sitting m their parked car on the Pasir Panjang Road at about ten
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    RECOGNISABLE
    22 1 Reports from Nanking said, that China, the United States and Britain will soou extend formal recognition to the South Korean Republic.
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    Rocket death roll rises
    121 1 Rocket death roll rises Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. T*HE death roll m the ac--1 cidental rocket explosion m Salak South, just outside Kuala Lampur, yesterday morning, has risen to three. Last night two of the eleven people wounied died m hospital. A thirteen -year-old girl was killed
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    41 1 The Shah of Persia, now on a visit to Britain, with members of the Royal Family—including the King and Queen, Queen Mary and the Duchess of Kent—walking through the guests at the second Garden Party m the grounds of Buckingham Palace.
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    SEVEN APPEALS AGAINST DEATH
    45 1 r)LLOWING the decision to speed-up Court procedure, the Federation Court of Appeal will sit m Kuala Lumper tomorrow to hear seven appeals against the death tence passed at Seangor Assizes only last week. All the death c were for carrying arms.
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    'KING' COLE MOVES IN
    43 1 DESPITE the protests of prospective neighbours, Nat ("King") Cole, negro I and pianist, is to move into his newly purchased $65,000 home m an exclusive Los Angeles dist: The neighbours had claimed that restrictions limited ownership to white people.
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      MAN WHO MADE HOLLYWOOD
      525 2 THE man who made Hollywood David Walk Griffith, discoverer of more stars than othel movie man. the fii\ X of the groat 1:Im makers died recently. He began by writing irios for a few dollars. He became the first of the "bvj. picture" makers at a
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      She says 'no more films'
      233 2 SHEARER. 22- ded ba 1 who -aid No' 1 1 become a film star, last week m that will mean throwing hundreds of pound She began a new campaign as the 0 d afresh to sign her up on long term eo..trac f rev prais
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      Indonesia to make a film
      169 2 THE üblic- an r. rmation Wn h.us decided to fllm U-known Dutch author, icked >uU-h colonial policy m .s works which b«came the subject of many controrersies at the end of the last century, according to UK Dutch news agency. "MuKatuir 16 the pseudonym oi
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      Covent Garden becomes home of State Opera
      470 2 THE Royal Opera House, Coy o n t Garden, is to become the home of Britain's nationalised opera and ballet m January 1950. The State will take over the oentury-old building on that date. A preliminary compulFory purchase 0) has already been ienred.
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      24 2 Joan Loring, China born actress plays a shopgirl m Leo MaCarey's production for RKO called "Good Sam," which co-stars Gary Cooper and Ann Sheridan.
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      Blaze holds up film
      251 2 BECAUSE hi* replica of Columt 3anU Maria, wa burnt out at Bridgetown, Barbados. Mr. Sydney Box say when his U-chmcolour film lumbus" will be finished But he did say that -he loss of the ship will ac.l £100.000 to the estin £400.000 cost of the film
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      Bridge Problem
      182 2 WEST omOml the heart king and E:\st playd the deuce. Dummy ruffed and declarer led a diamond to his jack. Then he made the fatal error of leading the heart queen. West coven d and dummy ruffed with the queen. The are and another club were led and
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      DANCE TIME
      185 2  -  Elizabeth Lee By •TONIGHT, I Malaya i| are going to deal I i urn, m th< but Mist oi all 1 to bring you up m the elements of Tango. Firsth Id Tango i Quid Slow Foxtrot I: the essential p< one do< uht up I With a
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      237 2 SINGAPORE (rum 12-O4 oood to 2 00 p.m. 485 m«tre* m th. medium wave band *nd 7 20 meracyele? bl the 41 metre band rrom bOO p.m to 1 45 p m from tt 30 p m to 11 00 p m: 485 metre* m the medium wave i band
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      367 2 Summary; 6 05 n *ur: 6.30 lud •'< 45 World Affairs: 7 Til uU: 7.01 Culture; 7 15 Musical L'ltorlude; 7 30 News m Mwv; ,45 al Interlude. AUSTRAUA 4. ft p.m. u> 11.11 P m. Vl.Ao 19 74 metre* 15 20 megacycle*: 400 p m to 815 p.m VLEB
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      118 2 p.m. 19 .84 mrirrt mx) 41 3H metre*. S 35-midnifht lit 84 metres and It U metres. WEDNESDAY 12 00 Station Opening and Programme Summary; 12.03 Music for the Milli<»n; 12 30 Spotlight oa the Stars; 12 45 Yankee Quarter; 1.00 World News; 1.05 Announcer 1.15 Your* for the Asking;
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      214 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DOKN today, tht Ues of W ol fanuh are t cp tional]> Mrong and you will M any kind of perx* ifice to help th«»se >ou love. Although you n pear aloof to outsid m your oun t.irrul> ci. >ou are warm-h«ar genial and spontaneous iv >our
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      Growing Sension in lap crisis
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      43 3 Lord Derby, at 30 the England, and Lady Isabel Milles-Lade. 28, -ibed m 1947 as "personally penniless" were -ied at Westminster v. The biggest Society g of the year was 1 by 1,500 guests in.ng the King and Queen -ineess Elizabeth Princess Margaret.
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      CRASH VICTIMS
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      ACKKITTEN SAVED HIM £800
      36 3 ■> heard Dandy scratch- bt'dr«K)in and heard noises m the shop He crept downstairs and surprised the gang, who ;>ed, leaving the loot. "Dandy will live In luxury nine lives." said Mr. i
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      Australians bitter about U.S. proposal
      137 3 AUSTRALIAN ex-servicemen have commented bitterly upon an editorial m the Chicago Tribune advocating the giving of Dutch New Guinea to the Japanese. Mr. Ken Bolton. president be New South Wales State branch of the Returned Soldiers League, said: "The >ame question was put to me
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      Almost atom bomb-proof
      79 3 HUGE undtrground built at Spi S.A.) by Smit [nc. are believed the n nir.g to atomic tx.mb m the g rev< tied, president of the cprnMr. Carl Helstrom said" ..n not say it would withb«*nb. bur, It i up better than any s typ»- n t wa.s
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      SOVIET FORBIDDEN ZONE IN AUSTRIA
      483 3 C.-in-C.'s bomfishell for Allies that he had nothing to add. but there wayS a prohibited area where at the present time there could be no construction. The United States High Commissioner said tnis was the first mention riade by the Soviet of there beins a
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      BURMA SEEKS NO FOREIGN AID
      190 3 THE Burmese Premier, Thakin Nu, denied >es>lcr 1 that the purpose of the present visit to London oi Tin Tut, Foreign Minister m the caretaker government, was to swk British aid to crush Communist insurrection. Speaking to leaders of the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, Thakin
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      U.K. films "too poor to beat U.S."
      166 3 U.K. films "too poor to beat U.S." A PLEA for a cut m the number of British films cinemas will be compelled to snow was made last week to Mr. Harold Wilson. President of the Board of Trade, by representatives of the Cinematograph Exhibitors' ciation. After September 30. 45 per
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      INDIA TRADE DIAL DENIED
      60 3 Trade and economic circles Id Buenos Aires say they have no knowledge of any Indian Argentina exchange of wheat for 70,000 tons of burlap. The Indian Trade Commjs- sioner's office said the Commissioner, Mr. J. Modni. who went to India two months aso. had eriven the
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      Youths ordered 'to see cells'
      89 3 AFTER 11 youths had been n bound over at the OW Bailey recently, the Recorder, Sir Gerald Dodson, asked the chief prison officer to take them, two at a time, down to the cells. "It is to let you see what a cell looks like,
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      WALLACE ARRIVES....
      72 3 Mr. Henry Wallace, third Presidential candidate m exuberant mood on his arrival at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the New Party Convention. On the right is Senator Glen Taylor of Idaho, his running mate. Below m more sober mood are Governor T. E. Dewey, Republican Presidential nominee, with General Dwight
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      German women PoWs return from Siberia
      230 3 'FHE first batch of German women war prisoners x raptured by the Russians were returned to the British zone of Germany from Siberia on Sunday, it was reported m Hamburg. Interviewed at Friedland release camp, the 370 women. all middle-aged, said they were captured
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      MILLION $ FRAUD
      34 3 MILLION FRAUD A U.S. Senator, Mr. Wherry br;ii>ka>, said m Washington that racketeering m export licence was a million dollar fraud that might destroy the effectiveness of America's European recovery programme if unchecked. A.P.
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      RED TAPE BLAMED FOR CHINA'S FLIGHT
      235 3 INEFFICIENCY and endless red tape, almost as much as the war, are responsible for China's present plight, says a leading article m the Englishlanguage China Press, a pro-Government newspaper published m Shanghai. "When, during the Great War, it was possible to keep China's currency
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      FEWEST ACCIDENTS IN TWO YEARS
      69 3 FEWEST ACCIDENTS IN TWO YEARS Only seven road accidents were recorded m the 24 hours ended at dawn yesterday -the lowest for any 24--hour period during the* last two years. Most serious of the accident was a collision between a trishaw and a taxi at 11.30 p.m. yesterday at Kallang
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      FAIR CHANCE FOR ALL IN U.S. ARMY
      47 3 President Truman has Established a Fair Employment Board aimed at preventing racial or religious discrimination m U.S. Government appointments. Simultaneously, the President issued an executive order establishment a committee to investigate equality of treatment and opportunity m the armed services.
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      PILGRIMAGE TO U.K. SHRINES
      80 3 HUNDREDS of Catholic pilgrims converged recently on two ancient shrines. The two shrines which have been restored (Padley Chapel. Derbyshire, and Our Lady of Walsingham. Norfolk) were visited by Cardinal Griffin, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, and the Bishop of Nottingham. '"It is surely a sign
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      109 HELD UNDER 'CRISIS' LAWS
      34 3 109 HELD UNDER 'CRISIS' LAWS Nineteen Chil and Indians i d m S:ry.:;ipore d the met k• nd under Emergency Eleven of the re released after "screening." tal under i this morning ti| 109
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      15 3 TONiGHT AT J^fLES HOTEL I. DANCE at 9 p.m. RICARDO PEREZ J^KR FORBES HIS ORCHESTRA
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      124 3 i LOU PREAGER Xh^ DAXCE A POP(L\r 1 i HIS ORCHESTRA I V* I PRETENDING c U SOMEDAY YOU'LL WANT ME TO WANT YOU FB 3250 < TOO MANY IRONS IN THE FIR* «t DOWN IN THE VALLEY FB 3260 V\ WORLD BELONGS TO YOU t* THREE BEAUTIFUL WORDS FB
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      86 3 TARZAN Wolf On thin ice By Edgar Rice Burroughs •THATSANASTVCUT ON YOUR I I Z jt^fo'V Kifs^l 1^ I l-XISSk^A HEAD LARSON. "DARNOT REMARKED I^/<»L \3JfeSt «POR^a*HE MUST HAVE JOINED L'/ i^KSSL^ A y^~^| iL^yß I- if^TO THE l&i "^V^^k JM 1& 'LARSON JUST CAV\E IN,' TARZAN SAID i >*
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  • LEADER...
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      The Sigapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, AUG 4. 1948. Bsafing the Thug
      500 4 The Sigapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, AUG 4. 1948. Bsafing the Thug Tner-General's br< its have two qr. :lar which :n as reviews ti .as D from Uk vantage of :it. They are factual, and they are untainted by an;. Lmism. Last nights broadcast was no exception, and that Mr. Mac
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      Mystery of Stalin's paratroop forces
      1160 4  - Mystery of Stalin' s paratroop forces B.H. LIDDELL HART -by Capt THERE is very little that is new m warfare, though the forms of it change. All history shows how the struggle for power can continue m so-called peace, and how conquest can proceed without open conflict through a combination
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      50 4 I'iis JEA" BREMNER of iiolborn, London, suspends herself from the Mobile 1-ton Crane, specially adapted to work with a Bernard Electro Magnet. Capable of lifting 5-tons, this Crane icas one of the exhibitions on show at the First National Mechanical Handling Exhibition and Convention, at the National Hall, Olympia, London.
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      Bouquet for UK from Bustamante
      617 4 Bouquet for UK from Bustaman te CIX, the world do not know you. What is all this they Bay that Britain is battered and broken and that there is no heart m the people? What i< this I bear that the women of Britain are shabby and not smile any
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      THE SMALLEST DRUMMER BOY
      290 4  -  Roy Ferroa by THE smallest dnim- mer m the British Army is now manager of one of the bigi theatre* m Singapore, the Capitol. The drummer wa* M tiny that when trarelled on a droop train soldiers m his compartment tucked him away m the "Light
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      From Bleriot to Jets
      368 4  -  COl RiTAAY KimUIDS IN the welter of newi about British airlino rs comes the good ewi about one of the if civil types. The plane is the 450-m.p.h. Jet-propelled Viking which on the 39th anniversary of Louis Bleriot's historic flight over the English Channelmade a new
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      FAITH
      21 4 Be not hasty m th> spirit to be angry: for anger resteth m the bosom of fools. Ecclesrastes. 7, 9.
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      18 4 CARPETS OF dKpgiccdUutoffv A Idi Ku fi&w on Display at r f*« 9 }7imFQgP ROAD TBLi- 7S6S I
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      33 4 TRANSPORT STORAGE LID IMMBIK 1 SINGAPORE International Freight Forward FURNITURE PERSONAL EFFECTS BAGGAGE REMOVED STORED P» clfl j SHIPPED DOOR-TO DOOR WORLD SERVICE Agent! lln A I c.bi« TRANSTOR D Telephone n Mar
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      TO SHARE CUSTODY , OF CHILD
      29 5 TO SHARE CUSTODY OF CHILD P>r T ter Lim i hose High I c t the m no P I r;:' '.d on U. lumnioi SE DMORROI •ode I
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      COMMUNIST PLAN HAS BEEN FOILED -CG
      752 5 COMMUNIST PLAN HAS BEEN FOILED -CG Reinforcemen ts equal to two brigades T m Free Press Staff Reporter HE Communist plan of proclaiming a Communist Republic ot Malaya —on Aug. 3, 194S— had been frustrated by the firm action of the Government, said the Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, m
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      COLONY YOUTH HANDICAPPED
      55 5 COLONY YOUTH HANDICAPPED Marine engineering hs. who wish to enter the ■rint rring profession, are under a beaunc the necessary technical tvaiiablc m the Colony, says Mr. neral of Ships, m the 'H of the Marine Surveys Deere is a constant demand i to man the ships registered m of
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      LOST TYPEWRITER
      40 5 Secretary of the Singai arbour Board Staff Associa* Id S. A. r that the typewriter. whos' is discussed at n's meeting recently was stolen from the house of. the ex-Secretary. Mr X X Namb.ir. and not his house
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      HARI RAYA PARTY
      36 5 i all Malaya Society and other Muslims are invited t a Hari Raya Puasa •Emu! Fitr» gathering to be inder the auspices oi the Society at Lorong 12. ng. on Sunday, at 430
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      Radio for night mails
      1209 5 Free Press Start Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. NIGHT mail trains travelling bbetween Penang and Singapore are to be fitted with radio. This is one of the most important precautionary steps being taken by the Malayan Railways to ensure the safety of travelling along the line by
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      36 CASES IN ONE MONTH
      89 5 THE Seventh Police Court heard a total of 38 preInquiries In July. s figure constitutes a record Dumber of cases heard In any one month since :he operated m Outram Road, said the Magistrate. I G. Shea: Th:i :he cases were committed to the Assizes
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      Jap goods limited to bare essentials
      241 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent T'HE Singapore Government's policy on imports A from Japan is one of treating all such imports "as on a hard currency basis" limiting imports to essential^ which are insufficiently available elsewhere. This statement is made by Mr. H. W. Nightingale,
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      44 5 picture. On the bridge their new headquarters ship (the former Japanese minelayer Wakatake) are three officers of the Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve— (from left). Lt. Com. E. A. Hooper, D.S.C., Com. F. E. W. Lammert. D.S.C.. and Lt.-Com. H. G. Riches Free Press
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      Secrecy must be observed
      82 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A RULING enjoining the observance of secrecy m Municipal matters by the staff was put on record at the last meeting: of the Commissioners. In the case of appointments to posts especially concerned with secret matters m internal administration, a clause will
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      Artist flays Nanking ruling
      101 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent THE famed Chinese artist Mr. Lo Ming, who is now m Singapore m the course of a South Seas tour, flayed a recent ruling by the Overseas Affairs Commission m Nanking requiring ail Chinese artists proceeding abroad to apply for permission from
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      Technical workers are m demand
      268 5 Free Press Staff pondent MORE CLERKS, technical men, amahs, cooks and labourers were required m Singapore than could be found, lasi month, according to statistics of the Labour Department's employment exchange. At the end of the month, openings still remaining for two meteorological assistants, an
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      COLLEGE JOES FOR LOCAL MEN
      173 5 Free Press Staff Reporter TO give graduates of Raffles College an opportunity of filling posts as assistant Lecturers and demonsirat more local men are be appointed to junior pi tions m the College T •lore Mala 1 d for a year each The Johore Government,
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      ST. JOSEPH'S CONCERT
      92 5 THE St Jo^ep 1; 1: 1 Drama: its first vari* on Friday at 8 p.m. m school hall. There will plays, one oarh to tithe following «.<r Middle and Hwher Scho; Old Boys, and Teachers The school orchestra and >1 choir will take par The concert it
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      WEDDING
      61 5 Miss Priscilla Nicholas, daughter of Mr. W. D. Nicholas of Singapore, was married at the Church of the Holy Family. Katong on Monday to Mr. Gerald Summerell, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Summerell of Bristol. The groom is m the RAF Police. The bride is a teacher at
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      24 5 ">< KTAII h N l\«, (.OWNS Lf ls Basah Road Near Rallies Hotel FITZPATRICK S 9tt the RIGHT ANGLE SQUARE MEAL f 528/ ORDER DEPARTMENT
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  • NEWS...
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      VATICAN FEARS RED COUNTER-BLOW
      325 6 VATICAN FEARS RED COUNTER-BLOW Pope 's horror at Togliatti shooting /CONSIDERABLE apprehension is expressed m L Vatican circles as to the possible future repercussions that the attempt upon the life of the Italian Communist Party leader, Palmiro Togliatti, may have m Italy. The Holy Father expressed dismay and horror when
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      Sino-Japanese trade rules relaxed
      119 6 Sino-Japanese trade rules relaxed REVISED rules governing Chinese trade with Japan. under which certain Govern-ment-imposed restrictions will bt relaxed, have been submitted by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce for approval by the Executive Yuan. While the original time limit for Cll missions visiting Japan was .set at one m<>n;h.
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      22 6 Eileen Joyce, the famous ntanUt, returns home m Australia she has played m all the state capitals aJid m erai provincial dtU
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      SOVIET KEEPING JAP PRISONERS
      72 6 THE newspaper A^ahi In Tokio reports that Russia Is slow m sending Japanese Dnsoners home because they are needed m Russia for the "smooth execution of the new Soviet five-year industrial plan." If all Japanese were sent home immediately some Soindustries would be paraJyfced and some
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      Missing Jap C-in-C to be tried in China
      146 6 Missing Jap C-in-C to be tried in China GENERAL Okamura, wartime Jap.. C-ia-C m China, whoe whereabout* for th c la^ three m has been kept a top secret by the Government. indicted a.s a super war criminal and vv.ll stand trial shortly, Shanghai China Preae The paper reports that
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      'THREE IN HARMONY' ON U.K. VISIT
      34 6 'THREE IN HARMONY' ON U.K. VISIT Andrews Sisters "show a leg" on arriving at Southampton, on the Queen Elizabeth The a r l<. Patty. Maicne and La Verne, at -;f; at the London Paladium.
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      What A Man!
      70 6 NOBODY answered when the Minister of Education, Mr. George Tomlinson, addressing 300 women at a London Y.W.C.A. conference, asked: "Any questions?" He said: "This is a real triumph. It's the first time m my life I've seen so many women speechless." American Army manoeuvres m the Cruncuald
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      China Reds expel missionary "spies"
      143 6 rE Chinese Communists announced this week tiiat they had sentenced four European Catholic ion.ii ies to expulsion from China an charges of spying for the United States. A Communist broadcast, heard by the Associate Press m San Francisco, named them as "Rene Charvet. Assistant Bishop
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      Canada-Newfoundland Union
      95 6 CanadaNewfoundland Union THE Union of Newfoundland with Canada, first discussed more than 80 ye.v will probably become a ren within a year The Canadian Prime Minister Mr. Mack* nzie, King, has announced m Ottawa that his Government Is ready to work out details for the vith representatives of the 450-year-old
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      10 6 Field- Marshal Viscount v Imperial Genera: honour of Itc > 1*
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      M.P. works his way to U.K.
      124 6 THE 48 shipmates of 37 old E. i). Darby, hand on D now on its way to England rrom Durban are not aware Membei Parliament for Manly. New South W Darby has chosen thi* travelling from AusEnalund because he ho wants to "rub shoulders
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      US INTER-OCEAN CANAL MISSION
      91 6 r ov aii m W f on v the Unittxi Stat s has asked and received permission from Colombia to send an Army on to make engineei studies of a possible alUrna-mter-ocean rouu? to the Panama Canal. The officials emphasized the U.S. requ- ild not constitute
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      77 6 JANE Exclusive to thp Singaporp Frpp Press m Malaya ffT'S A PITY "R> EXTINGUISH V"" /MERCY?- MY ANKLES^ /EXQUISITE, JAME.'- J L^^" MY NYLONS BUT S I ARE STILL VISIBLE?— /ALTHOUGH IT*S A PITY DON*T WORRY, ER|C!~) "IU FAUT SOUFFRIR Jill HOPE THE GENTLEMEN, ITO HIDE THOSE S%*W I'VE STILL
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      U,S, SWIMMER BREAK WORLD RECORD
      827 7 U,S, SWIMMER BREAK WORLD RECORD 15 new Olympic marks m 4 days QNL world and 15 Olympic records lay broken at 9 7il fee of the earth's best at hie' es and swimmers ™if d y of c °mpe itions m the 144h Olympiad ended at Wembley Stadium last night.
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      REG HARRIS DROPPED
      30 7 REG HARRIS DROPPED W3t because re- I np by last >t the the I I to go I fused. .11 urn had I rdcd the a m I for Reuter
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      DETAILED RESULTS AT OLYMPICS
      825 7 THE following are the detailed results of yesUr-day'-s events m the Olympic Games: M metres (4 x 200) mminr rtlay flnal. A \V Lar.e and W. Smiths ■ea (world and Id, G M. E. Szaa I Q Rv r Olympic rec 3 I H Padou. R.
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      REME WIN 4—2
      35 7 The Singapore District Works R.E.M.E. beat the Customs Sports Club 4-2 m a Division 111 game at McNair Road yesterday. The game was contested at a fast Dace despite the muddy pitch.
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      SIR N. BROOKES IS CONFIDENT
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      TENGAH R.A.F. WIN
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      OLD STYLE WAS BEST
      103 7 THREE young Dutch, Australian and Hungarian glided through the waters of Wembley's Empire pool last night with the orthodox breaststroke and all shattered Olympic records. The "old-fashioned" stroke proved itself superior m this race, the women's 200 metres breaststroke final, and ousted the modem butterfly stroke.
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      Belgium contests China's victory
      81 7 BELGIUM yesterday protested against China's 36--34 basketball victory on Monday. The Belgians claimed one Chinese point m the regular time did not count and the match should not have gone into overtime. China's fast little team had won m extra-time. The Chinese sank all four of
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      TOMMY RYAN DEAD
      30 7 TOMMY RYAN, who retired undefeated m 1907 as welterweight and middleweight world boxing champion, died m Van Nuys, California, of a heart attack on Tuesday night.- A.P.
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      'Now for some Babies'
      42 7 Mrs. Victoria Draves of California, 23, daughter of an English mother and a Phil ippine father, who won the jcovien's springboard diving at the Olympics yesterday, says that she intends to retire after the Olympics "to have babies."
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      Today's Olympic events
      196 7 WEMBLEY stadium will continue) today to be main centre of activitii-s of the Olympic Games, j with five more events to be brought to an end. They are the 110 metres hurdles and throwing the javelin for men and the 80 metres hurdles, long j jump and
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      Indians missed their chances
      132 7 J^HE Dockyard XI held the Indians to a two-all draw m a S.A.F.A. second division league match played at Geylang Stadium yesterday. The Indians had the better of the exchanges m the first half but were unable to score. On several occasions the forwards had only
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      Rovers nearer their goal
      534 7 Rovers nearer their goal Rovers 2; S.C.C 1. rpHE Rovers cleared another hurdle m the first division of the league when they beat the Singapore Cricket Club two-one m a fast and interesting game at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. The Rovers now have 31 points from 18 games and need
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      Lester scores another 100
      470 7 pPROMINENT among present-day batsmen is Edward Lester who not only achieved the ambition of all Yorkshiremen to hit a century against Lancashire m a "Battle of the Roses" but he did it twice m the same match. This equalled the 28-year-old recuid of Percy Holmes, the
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      Swede makes history at Olympics
      117 7 Swede makes history at Olympics CAPT. W. O. G. Grut, a Swedish artillery officer, made Olympic history yesterday when he won the swimming contest of the modern pentathlon an event which gave him victory m three of the contests of five events and assured him of the championship. No previous
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      39 7 Sports diary SOCCER: S A.F A. League, Div. I S R.C. v. 'ndians, Jalan liisar stadium; Div. ll— RAF. Sembawang v. Pulau Bukom 8.C., Gi'yLanx; Div 111 Haikowyu S.C. v. Sfranffoon Association, C V.M.A ground. TENNIS: Tan^lin (lub tournament
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      246 7 F.P. Crossword No. 454 WM X Wfft I I Wl I I 4 |5 I 6 ''/St;. ffln h Ife 13 IP M P^ _HZS_E.I!_!L IL IL 18 j 19 MM z_ m^-A. I i ll II 1 N I <; > i:2, Hanging about (9^. 7, Point (4) 9,
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      PAKISTAN ARMY IN KASHMIR
      390 8 'To foil Indian war plan 9 KARACHI, Tuesday. THE Pakistan Government has produced before the 1 United Nations Kashmir Commission documentary evidence revealing plans for a joint summer offensive against Pakistan by India and the NorthWest Frontier Gandhi, the Fakir of Ipi, it is learned here.
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      GEM STUCK TO HIS TOES
      59 8 SHANGHAI, Tuesday. n U S T O M S officials at Shanghai's Lunghwa Air" port today found a diamond plastered under the toes of a Chinese passenger named Yeh off an incoming C.N.A.C. plane from Hong Kong. They said their suspicions were aroused by his
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      Ultimatum by India to Hyderabad
      220 8 m MADRAS, Tuesday. rpHE Indian Govern- ment has delivered an ultimatum to the Hyderabad Government as a pre-military operations warning, a Madras Government spokesman said today. He was commenting on a statement made m Hyderabad earlier today by Hyderabad's Agent-General m Delhi, Nawab Ali Yar
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      MOSHI-MOSHI
      15 8 The India-Japan Radio TVl^graph Circuit closed during the war wili be reoDened shortly.- U.P.
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      NEWFOUNDLANDERS VOTE FOR UNION
      55 8 NEWFOUNDLANDERS VOTE FOR UNION FINAL f:.;ures yesterday m r the Newfoundland referendum showed that 78,400 for confederati m witn Canada and 71.464 st. Canada announced on Saturday that she was willing to go ahead with arran^efs for Newfoundland's entry Into the confederation as Canada'? lOtn province and that th< U.K.
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      Soviet mines menace British shipping
      108 8 Soviet mines menace British shipping VANCOUVER, Tuesday. THE News Herald reported yesterday that dangerous types of Russian mines were menacing British Columbia shipping. The newspaper quoted fishermen as saying that numerous floating mines were being encountered off the west coast of Vancouver. The Canadian Navy is maintaining strict silence on
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      Vyshinsky says Danube may be opened soon
      88 8 Vyshinsky says Danube may be opened soon BELGRADE. Tuesday. THE Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Mr. Andrei Vyshlnsky, expressed the hope that the Danube would be open for free movement of shipping soon even if the Big Four Powers remain at odds on terms of a peace pact for Austria. In
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      New deal urged for Falklands
      123 8 THE Daily Mail yesterday quoted the Governor of the Falkland Islands. Mr. O. M Clifford, as saying he was with the Colonial Oil: i new deal" for the i- lands to improve their situation. The Inhabitants have urged a Royal Commission to come out to
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      U.S. planning rival to Panama Canal
      111 8 U.S. planning rival to Panama Canal WASHINGTON, Tuesday. COLUMBIA has agreed to the United States request to survey for a giant new canal to link the Atlantic and Pacific 250 miles south-east of Panama, whose Government has refused to renew the lease of America's wartime bases. The State Department, announcing
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      GREEK REBELS CRUMBLING
      143 8 ATHENS, Tuesday. /GOVERNMENT troops m Greece have squeezed the rebels mto an area of 300 square miles, suggesting that Gen. Markos' inner defences are crumbling. His troops once operated m an area of 1,000 square miles. The latest Government success Ifi on the eastern front, whtre the
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      U.K. MEAT THREAT
      24 8 Official British quarters yesterday were examining possible repercussions on Britain's meat position following a reported cut of Argentine shipments, says U.P.
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      27 JAPS ON MURDER CHARGE
      151 8 TOKIO, Tuesday. TWENTY-SEVEN Japanese, including five former generals, were charged today by the legal section of Gen. Mac Arthur's headquarters with murdering more than 50 captured American fliers by beheading, shooting and poisoning. All but four of the defendants were connected with the Japanese Military
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      'Big Red Fifth Column in U.S.'
      267 8 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. THE former Communist editor, Louis Budens, deA declared today that a "considerable" Red fifth column has wormed its way into the I'ni'cd St,it»*s Government. While .some Communists are "confined"* enough to believe their loyaJty is to the United Male-. liudenz said, the
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      Olympic ban defied by ticket peddlers
      161 8 Olympic ban defied by ticket peddlers LORD Burghley, chairman Of the British Olympic Organising Committee, said lust ni^ht that the Committee had done all it could to prevent profiteering m Olympic tickets. There have been complaints that tickets were being sold by foreign officials and comptors. Lord Burghley said he
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      P.I. CENSUS
      16 8 Philippines' first national census m nearly a decade will be held on October 1.
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      CHIANG'S SBID TO COUNTER BIG RED PUSH
      83 8 sha.nchm t rjENERALISSIMO Chiang h conferring m Nanking with t'l X manders from all the war fronts ,l ankin f tJ planning nationwide counter-»o-Z kl the impending now imminent 3 I*** t£ summer offensive aimed into South China. rilt thJ^J These discussions con
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      ALL SECTIONS QUIET, FIRM
      410 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Tuesday. A QIIETLY firm tone was maintained m all sections of the London Stock Exchange reopening today after the holidays, says Reuifinancial correspondent The trading volume mained at a low ebb, and business that was recorded was mainly for the purpose of
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      78 8 A girlhood promise to meet once every five years under the clock at the Victoria Station m London was kept when the former British girl ice-skating champion now appearing m Tom Arnold's "Stars on Ice" at the Stoll Theatre m Kingsway, Miss Daphne Walker (centre) met four friends with whom
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      Dreaded mayoral visit
      41 8 SHANGHAI Tues SHANGHAI'S enrr Mayor X C. Wu threatened to give the half-hea^ programme a ghot-in arm he said he wou'.c on wealthy residents m perThe campaign. months ag resulted m only o: ■.< I I I I A.P.
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      New turn in Sarawak case
      128 8 IN the legal action instituted In Brunei by Captain Bertram Brooke. Tuan Muda of Sarawak, and his son. Mr. Anthony Brooke against Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, the former Rajah of Sarawak, and others, the Resident of Brunei m Chambers has declined to make an order
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      Rubber prices
      152 8 SPECIAL Mark* i nifpißiipj sires the prices of rubber at 11 «j». toaay m foDowi per Ik. ft Buyer*. gaUcn M*. 1 8.8.8 Soot CU loos* 4*K No i 8.8.8. roe m bales Auf 48 4**. No t ft 88 r«ft m bates A«f... 47 No. t 1.8.8
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      UNDERSIZED
      26 8 Explaining a UJS Am. for 2.376.062 infants &h:r army spokesman said they were not for vi sized draftees, but for offspring of Servk? men.- U.P.
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