The Singapore Free Press, 5 August 1948

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1948 PKJCE 10 CEMS
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    EUROPLAN KILLED BY BANDITS
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    Indies Fleet in-C arrives
    7 1 rtrr 0-ton rfolk
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    I.N THE SAME COIN
    35 1 A Ch -nip is to back to China m September more than 17,000.000 lbs. weight of Japaneselooted copper and nickel coins, some of them antiques dating back to the 14th cen-
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    New talks with Stalin forecast
    335 1 New talks with Stalin forecast Silence still cloaks crisis MOSCOW, Wednesday. A bECOXD meeting between Marshal Stalin and the three Western envoys m Moscow is likely within the next few days, but every effort is being made to keep the time and place of the next appointment secret, and it
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    UNIONS DROP BAN ON ARMS FOR MALAYA
    75 1 MELBOURNE, Wednesday. THE Australian Council Trade Unions did not dlsarvis for Malaya today. Secretary. Mr. Albert would not indicate towhen the Unions would d<» It Ls understood that the Council, remembering the Dutch shippjng headache, prefers to let the Malayan question drop, following
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    Big day for crisis arrests
    72 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE greatest number of emergency arrests m one day sine€ June 23 was made by the Singapore C.I.D. yesterday when 25 Chinese and two Indians were arrested. The total number of persons under detention this morning was 123. It is estimated
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    RUBBER MARKET
    12 1 The Singapore rubber market will be closed tomorrow and Saturday.
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    'GESTAPO HABITS'
    31 1 'GESTAPO HABITS' The Press Counsellor at the Rumanian Legation m London, Mr. Murgu, has resigned m protest against the "Gestapo habits of the regime m Rumania and the London Legation." Reuter
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    Jumabhoy says MIC doing harm
    215 1 Free Press Staff Reporter T»HE Indian .Association, and not the Malayan A Indian Congress, is the only body qualified to represent local Indians m social and political matters with the Governments of Malaya and India, Mr. R. Jumabhoy, president of the Singapore Indian Chamber of
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    Pahang bandit leader killed
    124 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Oband.t was k.lltd. another wa* shot and be•d crowned when he fell into a pond, three others v wounded and three more wt-re taken prisoner, m a fight yesterday between a militarypolice force and bandits near Kerdau. north of Mentakab. The dead bandit
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    JAP ARREST ON STORE ADVICE
    66 1 AS a result of an interchange messages between legal experts In Singapore and the British War Minister, Mr. Shinwell. Allied occupation authorities m Tokio have arrested former Japanese Major General Eiichi Kinoshita, commander of the Kempetai m Shanghai m 1942. Kinoshita is wanted on charges
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    FOUND DEAD ON KAMPONG PATH
    127 1 Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE 3AHRU, Thurs. AT four p.m. yesterday a labourer reported to the Plentong (Johore) police that he had found the dead body of a Chinese lying on a path at Kampong Ayer Biru, Plentong. The body was later identified as that
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    U.K.-CHILE DEAL
    25 1 NEGOTIATIONS for the sale of a British destroyer to Chile are continuing m spit* ot objections raised In the Commons, Chile report* say,
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    S. AFRICA RAPPED
    33 1 The United Nations Trusteeship Council, m its report on South-west Africa, has criticised the Uni<xi Government for alleged deficiencies m educating health services, wage standards and political activity for Africans.
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    Advice to the shot at
    53 1 T>ASSENGERS boarding up-country trains are now JF greeted by a four-language notice posted m all coaches. Here is the English version: "WARNING. TERRORISM. In the event of firing on the lineside passengers are advlsi-d to lay on the floor and m no circumstances should they
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    TAXI ROBBERY
    34 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A CHINESE taxi driver was robbed m Henderson Road last night of $6.50 m cash and $27 m valuables by four Chinese, two of whom were his passengers.
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    SUEZ PROTEST
    25 1 France has protested to Cairo over the Egyptian Goveftament'i attempt, because of the Palestine war, to exercise wartime control on Suez Canal traffic.
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    MORE INCOME TAX MEN WANTED
    135 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE remaining posts which require to be filled to bring the Singapore Income Tax Office up to full strength about 110 people are now being advertised. They are for not more than ten examiners and assistant examiners m Chinese accounts. Applications
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    FULL BUS IN CRASH: 1 HURT
    49 1 "PHE rear off side of a Green A Bus with 15 passengers on board, was torn off m a collision with a Shell petrol conveyor at Bukit Timah Road at 4.20 yesterday afternoon. One passenger was hurt. The petrol conveyor was slightly damaged.
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    34 1 Jennifer Newboult, 11-year-old daughter of Sir Alec and Lady Newboult. who arrived m Singapore by X.L.M. plane from London. Jennifer is spending her school holidays m Kuala Lumpur with her parents until early September.
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    MAN KILLED BY CAREERING JEEP
    81 1 Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. A CHINESE pedestrian was killed instantly by a jeep at the 2 3 4 milestone, Scudai Road, m Johore at about 7 p.m. last night. The jeep is said to belong to Roscote Estate. After knocking the Chinese
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    Open war now in Kashmir
    217 1 NEW DELHI, Wednesday. RIGHTING over Kashmir appears to have turned 1 into an open but undeclared war between the Dominions of India and Pakistan and what was hitherto looked upon as a struggle by India to clear 1 raiders" from a state, which had acceded
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    Long voyage home—for second time
    127 1 Long voyage home— for second time AFTER a trip to Singapore and back at the Australian Government's expense, a Brisbane waiter and former naval man. Jim Foo. will be deported to China, Immigration authorities m Melbourne have decided. Foo joined the Royal tfavj m Singapore during the war and later
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    Redriols: Britons may quit Bassein
    206 1 Redriols: Britons may quit Bassein RANGOON, Wednesday. ORITISH wives and chil--13 dren have boarded a steamer m the port of Bassein, 90 miles west of Rangoon, after Communist disturbances m the northern part of the city, according to reports reaching here tonight. The Burmese fris; has been sent to Bassein
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    S.H.B. POLICE MANOEUVRES
    40 1 Free Press Staff Reporter CINGAPORE Harbour Board police held full scale manoeuvres m the dock area this morning. The object of the exercise was to test the nobility of the S.H.B. police force m case of emergency
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    INQUEST ON GENI
    43 1 THE inquest on the 39 victims of the air disaster near Northolt airport, London, on July 4, when Sir Edward Gent, High Commissioner of Malaya, was killed, has been further adjourned until September 1. Only formal evidence has been heard.
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      Powerful Charms
      720 2 THE poisoner is pro- bably the most unpleasant type of man living. It is possible to make out some sort of a case for the man who murder* someone under the stress of g& excitement. when he has been over, come by a fit of ungovernable rage, but
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      QUICK LOOKS
      242 2 Saniutl Johnson, b. 0..c of t: :r.en whom we ton c know n enjoy itionm] gusto, but we tossed a:d cc remark xcitcd him to sudden lury. This biographical volume, the wor.-: .can scholar, is as sensible a summing-up as has I on cither side From Smoke to
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      WATCHER OF NATURE
      315 2 IF, by chance, one might suspect that Major Anthony Barton writes oni»/ for the advanced student m natural history, the introductory to his bouk "TRAVELLING NATURALIST" should correct any such false no. ithor writes: "Perhaps it times of unpleasant n I fami: manufactured hatred and a spa
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      Bridge Problem
      318 2 QLAYING 0 is doubl<a I aßninst th thr heart kirrg. SduUi went do*D tricks fi d<*Ecrlbo<! btH-a-^c. after lie led a round of trumpi to hand; then p :^h«(! the heart I and ruffed out ace In c U'*d of leading trumps ai '•ond trick, declarer doc> much
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      MODEST MAIDENS
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      Redskins on the last war-path
      220 2  - Redskins o n the last war-path PETER QUENNELL reviews new 6oofcs m UK. A WEEK ago I wrote of an historical novel which derived its inspiration from a single personality the commanding and alarming personality of the g Cesare Borgia. Here is an h; novel of a completely dissimilar type,
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      The Hall was Haunted
      5 2 The Hall was Haunted J
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      424 2 YOUP LUCKY STAR DOKN today, you V BttadiaSfl and luyal. Your aspiration^ are high and your ideals [off your intuitions arc I rrn, you can se« things m their true lie li t without having to muddle tl a lot of a r a 1 1 v have iudhidual opinions,
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      307 2 phor by 9 30 i 9.45 Tiilk De f> Dai 11 I -ammary pramip.es In Malay 12 Programm* Sumrr.ar 12. 4 r Summary; 6 05 Mus cal 7 Time Signal; 7.01 qu<st; 7.30 News m Malay; Musiril Interlude. AUSTRALIA 4.04 p.m u» 11.15 p m VI At 19.74 metre* 15.
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      13 2 1111 BSD V\ gra:. •xs; 1.05 I 930 Radio N London; 1140 nouncemenU
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      Fantastic' Atlantic storm's toll 800-FEET WAVES
      367 3 Fa n tastic A tlan tic storm's toll 800-FEET WAVES A GROUP of women, all m black, sal at tin- ba. a marine inquiry court m London recta ly and listened to the story of a fantastic storm which, it is thought, swallowed up their s<>n> and hustaf crew of
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      Rocket secrets: Stronger guard
      69 3 THE Australian Special Inv« branch is to be dned detect: States to help pro* secrets of the Ausral' ranee, according; to i ports m Sydney Trie reports follow that Russian aeen's tered Australia un guise of displa d from the Near 1 The number of Au
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      HOUSEWIVES 'WAR' ON PRICES
      183 3 HOUSEWIVES 'WAR' ON PRICES fniman out to cut profits A consumer boycott against spiralling meat prices t\ has developed across the United Slates. Housewives m at least five states have organised against the price*, and if they climb even more as predict ed they have threatened to buy still less.
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      In U.K. its different
      101 3 FORMER United States Federal Reserve •n Chairman Mariner Eccles yesterday complimented Britain, Canada and Australia for their economic controls since the wars end. ■ng the Banking Committee he cited the experience of these countries to prore the United States had followed a mistaken policy m removing
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      RITISH FRAU IN BERLIN WANTS RETURN HOME
      58 3 and It might be r him if occupy all Berlin. I could only get back to -.other." Zemke. who wor :.op. has appealed to d Cross for help. After may be possible r.er to be sent home. I bou.bed from ti-e Russian- m
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      Air service via S'pore planned
      78 3 Q\TAS Empire Airways are discussing with the .ilian Civil Aviation De- a proposed air ser--om Australia acro.^ Ocean to Pretoria a Africa* thus providftnal link between Ausand the rest of the Brii:mpire. .1 Aviation officials will Singapore soon to emR.A.F. Cataliana fly- i -os Island
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      WARNING ADVERT.
      24 3 U.P. A FULL-PAGE advertisement m the New York Post. 5 kers not to bute funds to acV for the J q, Irgun
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      AYORHAD 81 CONVICTIONS
      81 3 ne ime a .ir of I had I m&. ay b ■ftj n k^ r 47->tar-.>ld Kl^r h rep rt Of > on Of the Peace. ion believes s should be s while m office but ,nX MM illy appointed. d Mrrthyr disagrees his H t.)ll»-iiiu'-. He
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      CREW LASHED LIVE MINE TO DECK
      125 3 CREW LASHED LIVE MINE TO DECK SKIPPER George Draper described how he con:or lour d although a live German magnetic mine was lashed to the foredeck of the trawler i Croton. "The fishing was good, find I wasn't troing to put back he said. When the Croton docked the fish
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      CZECH MURDER: U.S. ACCUSED
      89 3 CZECH MURDER: U.S. ACCUSED THE Czechoslovak Foreign MV latry recently charged that a man accused of trying to kill the Czech Minister of Defence, General Ludvikk Svoboda, had been instructed for his task m the presence of some 12 Ame: .cer. -The Ft marie the statement m a note delivered
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      U.K. youth spiritually ill, says "Monty"
      256 3 FIELD Marshal Lord Monts diagnosed the :it feeling of British youth as "spiritual malaise". "Uncertainty, ignorance and four are widespread among young people.' 1 he recently told a meeting of young parents, organized by the Mothers' Union. •This is a disease of morale," h
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      MANILA RATIONED
      31 3 RICE rationing m Manila (population 1 ,500.000 > will start today. Rice disappeared over the week' nd as the Gov meni intensified its efforts to r duce the price. A.P.
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      THE YANKS ARE BACK....
      64 3 The Yanks are back at Lincoln and the girls were there meet them. They .ame with the 'Super-Fortress^ desncdnr Berlin duty which hare landed inairficlds doty^ i m the Fenland district surrounding the historic city. r%' A Sat soon gets acquainted with two WAAFs outside Ninnan%a7hedral
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      CHIEFS DENIAL
      34 3 rHE Governor of the Central Bank m Shanghai. Mr. O. K. Yui, denied that sale deposit boxes of private individuals m the banks will be opened by the Finance Control authorities Renter
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      Vicar ordered to quit Vicarage
      275 3 THE Rev. Trevor Bowen, former vicar of the twin parishes of Hargrave and Huxley, Cheshire, was ordered at Chester County Court last week to hand over the keys of the churches m 24 hours and quit the vicarage inside three months. Judge Sir Edwin Burgil
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      DANISH PLANS FOR GREENLAND
      215 3 DENMARK'S Arctic colony, Greenland, the worlds largest island, may be given the status of a Danish county with representation m the Danish Parliament. The Danish Government is Investigating this possibility as part of a broad-based plan to develop this little known and relatively unexplord Danish possession
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      JAPS CANNIBALS
      36 3 >TINETEEN Japanese capi tured m the Philippines since the war ended will be arraigned soon on charges of cannibalism. They are alleged to have eaten at least nine of 70 persons they killed. U.P.
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      The Singapore Free Press Thursday.. August 5. 1948. Dollar Trade
      244 4 The Singapore Free Press Thursday.. August 5. 1948. Dollar Trade Sq trade >w a quite as?ht on the ba ,1 ot the new restrictive an which mast I 'em countries fee against imports, not beimp^rts are not wanted, but because the balance ot trad^ has swung far m. the wrong
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      Australia s Reds
      141 4 munist dominated trade unions are not going to block arms shipments to Malaya, but the jailing of three Queensland Communist leaders may still provoke the long foreshadowed showdown v. the Government. three men were sent i for failure to pay fiin-s ailing £697 Imposed for illegal picketing
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      IT SEEMS TO ME...
      762 4  - IT SEEMS TO ME... Politico By THE Commissioner--1 General's "Soviet day broadcast, m which Mr. Mac Donald revealed something of what has been discovered of Communist plans m Malaya, suggests that m the police archives are still more interesting and illuminating documents pertaining to the Red terror. Some of the
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      DOOM IN SEPTEMBER FOR JAP WAR CRIMINALS
      980 4  - DOOM IN SEPTEMBER FOR JAP WAR CRIMINALS DKNIS WARNER Hv Renter— AJLP. rrespondent TOKIO: FOR nearly 21 months Genera] Hideki To jo. Prime Minister and War Minister of Japan at the peak of his nati< aggression, shuttled between bleak Sugamo Prison and the great auditorium m what was intended to
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      IN FLA TION ATTACKER
      328 4  -  ERNEST HEITMANN Bj Reuti Con .dent WASHINGTON: DRESIDENT man, m electing to make inflation a LiticaJ lie, picked a subject i lo the heai and pockc of El t I hed their peak i i price rises, with wages generally keep abreast, then his position on
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      FAITH
      29 4 Better is the end Of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient m spirit is better than the j proud In spirit. t Eccleslattet 7, t
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      Silver Lining
      25 4  -  THE ill wind i s dock blew extra bi> new pre fl of the Manul .cd good* by a "The extra n I
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      The Odd Job Man
      8 4  - The Odd Job Man LANE NORCON a i
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      $4½ MILION FOREMPIRE RADIO
      294 5 $4½ MILION FOREMPIRE RADIO [irazoak, Borneo Let U.K. aid Staff Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. IYE scheme for the devehroadcasting throughout the capital cost of which over a estimated at £4,500,000, of •aid be contributed out of local actively pursued, it is reCommittee report on Colonial lm m ki W id Sarawak
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      Firearms sale restricted
      12 5 Firearms sale restricted I K .mat* mis or perthem •it iO pur■nvy
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      Retainess to have right of appeal
      11 5 Retainess to have right of appeal I I I I I
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      TEXTILES QUOTA SYSTEM OUTLINED
      143 5 TEXTII FS BOS* suitable to the Malayan market Mmmwmm vr.terdaN. the whole value of oMexti.es from any country m the hard currency bloc. thp suggestion for dividing the quota into sub quotas for separate countries would not be feasible from the Malayan buyers' point of view.
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      Chinese to report on 'crisis' losses
      236 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent T»HE Chinese Consulate m Kuala Lumpur baa notified the Chinese community m Selangor, Johore, Xegri Sembilan and other States within it> jurisdiction to report losses m life and property a^ a result of the present outbreak of violence. The object
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      TO GET AID FOR LABOUR FEDERATION
      112 5 Press Staff Reporter MR. Abid Ali, who repn ed workers at the International Labour Conference at San Francisco by air In Singapore m a few days. He proposes to enlist support m Maiava for the newlystarted Asian Federatio.. Labour which he hopes will eventually
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      MR. J. BUCKOKE
      35 5 The Deputy Director of PudljC is m Federation of MalaMr. J. Backoke, h.13 pssumdutios m Singapore as the assistant secretary m charge of Women's and Girls! Section of the Social WeJf»r» Department.
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      S.G.B.A. DINNER
      90 5 onour of the Chinese memb n of the Singapore Legislative and Executive Councils, the Straits Chinese British Association plans to hold a dinner at tfc I Club Li the first week of September. Tne dinner would not b Chinese Mr. Pher.g Geek, president of tliAssociatic.i. told the FreePress
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      CHEATING CHARGE
      40 5 R. P. Nathan, a contractor, was charged m Johore Bahru District Court yesterday with having (heated O. K. Na!r and C. Phillips, In respect of a sum 01 $450. The case was fixed for tearIng on Sept. 28
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      MALAYANS STUDY IN AUSTRALIA
      214 5 AMONG the many Asian students who are finding their place m Australian Universities and Colleges today are two Chinese students from Malaya at the Melbourne University. They are 18--year-old Alfred Hong Kwok Wong and 24-year-old Ng Chee Sen, who are just starting the full-time five years'
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      Troops arrive
      93 5 Six hundred officers and men of the Ist Battalion, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, arrived m Singapore yesterday by the troopship Lancashire from Hong Kong. The men said that they were "longing to go into action against Malaya's terrorists." They were welcomed at the quayside by the pipes and
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      KASMA BOOTY APPEARS IN SECOND FILM
      227 5 KASMA BOOTY APPEARS IN SECOND FILM Free Frew stiff Correspondent IT ASM A BOOTY of "Chem- paka" fame makes her second debut on the sen Shaw Bros' latest release 'Tisau Berachun" <PoiKnife* which is now showing simultaneously at the Qu Jubilee and Shirin theati The picture, which was specially reserved
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      ART EXHIBITION
      84 5 AN exhibition of 50 oil J\ paintings and four pencil bches by the artist. Chen Shou Soo, is to be held at Robinson and Co.. Ltd.. Raffles Place. Singapore tomorrow, sponsored by the Society of Chinese artists. Mr. Chen took the Roman il College of Fine Arts degree,
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      Queries on Govt jobs for Council
      316 5 Free Press Siaff Reporter TWO unofficial memberf of the Singapore Legislative Council, Mr. C. C. Tan (Municipal SoulhWest) and Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir (Rural East) have asked the Government what acUon has i been taken to fill the pus* j of Vice-Chancellor of
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      Trade with NEI: prospects better
      147 5 Trade with NEI: prospects better the Pek Inc: the buli: c was closed b year. Free Press Chinese Correspondent pROSPECTS lor the resumption of n between Singapore and Sumatra In< ian ports have brightened since the first ban the Hong Thong, sailed early this week on I to Pekan Bahrj.
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      N.E.I. NOT BUYING FROM CHINA
      36 5 N.E.I. NOT BUYING FROM CHINA The nomic Aft.: that the N.E.I. ing for the pur 200.000.000 yards from China. A Dutch aside fr .■> m India. England, the U S. and countries the only way are A.P.
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      Leaflet raid
      23 5 The crew of an RAF vine handling pamphlets on the anti-terrorist campaign for distribution ore: -n Perak.— Federation Public Relations picture
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      U.S. Envoy on U.K. visit
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      IHTLER'SHOME NOW LIBRARY
      5 6 HI A.P.
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      BID TO CURB CHINESE DOLLAR RACKETEERS
      219 6 BID TO CURB CHINESE DOLLAR RACKETEERS NANKING, Tuesday. OFFICIAL sources today confirmed that despite desperate control measures, billions of Chinese dollars were changing hands weekly m the blackmarket "round robin from Shanghai- Nanking through the coastal cities to Hongkong. Governor T. V. Soong of Kwangtung Province has hurriedly returned to
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      38 6 mbcrs of the American Women's Olympic gymnastic team watch Mist Clara Scroth of Philadelphia go through some of ret the team will q Stadium n< *k. Rfc/- of Jamaica demonto three otf.Sh Air, id Ar 4 for 4
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      DEATH-KITTY OF 500 PESOS
      116 6 |>OLICE m Quezon City 1 (Manila) are holding: a man who has confessed that he murdered a man for 500 pesos, raised by contributions from among: the victim's enemies. Some sums put m the death-kitty for the victim. Artemio de la Ciui, vrere as low as
      A.P.  -  116 words
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      Gold refinery for Manila
      32 6 THE Orient s nrst cicciroiyld reflu being I plant will produce soommonly m Oriental gold as rolled sheets I gold. l by N G I I i was
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      CROWD WAVES, PLANE CRASHES
      29 6 CROWD WAVES, PLANE CRASHES UOLIHAYMAKEKS waV( d t« ralty hovw plane i hfllI tmouth, D killin. Nt E J ■■r. Lieut. r J <" i trattan, DSC, Of Sloutjh, Bw
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      Channel swim attempts
      65 6 Tnrce Egyptian twtmmen who are to make a triple uton the English Channel Hassan Abdel Rehtm, Fahmy Attalah and Uarct Hatsan Harnmad. This Will h. talafrs third attempt. Ht- ha.s failed tit with t) stro ttyle adopted by companions. During training the three have covered 32 the
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      POLICE FINED FOR SPEEDING
      156 6 uu young behind 1 t-looking 1 C 11-road, Birmingham. For half mile n 45 and 50 m.p h.. d the car to Stop. D Police th and I foil Mr R I the back was Superintendent J. ol H i hours am I ••ndiary magisi .Ist-
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      THEY PAY RENT FOR CELLS
      68 6 Seven prison or .fiord (England) are living cells— and paying rent fur B use they cannot get rooms m the town. Councillor K. Tyler— a prison officer, telling this to the Town Council, said the P.. Commissioners wanted to build houses, but could not Ret
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      65,000 ton U.S. 'super' carrier
      24 6 THE r is binding 16 1 i.t-.v .>hips, with d desie: submari er. Amon<; the v co. strm Reuter
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      VILLAGE BOYCOTTS RED PROFESSOR'S PARTY
      99 6 JNION JACKS "We In C fear God and King D<>\vn I sm/ 1 bit ze i.n I lie S<»n ar Bridgu. The flags and banners were *a garoen party held at the home of uson. cfat man of the Bridgwater branch of the Communist Party.
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      NEW SWEET PEA
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      NEW SHANGHAI FINANCE CHIEF
      52 6 NEW SHANGHAI FINANCE CHIEF MH. L:ii Tsung-yung was :..iugura Dir Shanghai Finance Bureau a by many o'!: bankers and I w ral Lin hsu v n the O I He said that In executing his duties he was resolved to Ignore nepotism fai and powerful 'ufluem might hams trine hLs
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      TARZAN WAS HIS HERO, JANE HIS IDEAL
      192 6 TARZAN WAS HIS HERO, JANE HIS IDEAL Slw's hi it m tit how 17-year- ::;> reI ed of waitln h He his cell. 'I get impatient. I hold of things like that or ol the wltm p that." said the n 't clerk. "We d n't w.mt you pulling the
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      S. HURDLERS WIN ALL THE MEDALS
      418 7 S. HURDLERS WIN ALL THE MEDALS Swimmers break more records piE .Lniled States made a clean sueep of the 1 Olympic 110 metres hurdles yesterday, their thiee competitors taking gold, silver and bronze medals. They were m a cla>> by themselves. The winner, Willy Porter, easily broke the Olympic record
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      Bedser, Laker kittle Derby
      33 7 I < re kept m the field all d«O' by wickets fell apace at ChesterFy^ -:->hip leaders Derbyshire faced 2i b. having been sent back when m n at* A.P.
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      Hollies kept Australians on defence
      154 7 £)ON Bradman and his Australians, welcomed by a 20 000 crowd as they sent n Warwicktfl ba: on a wet Ditch at Birmingham yesterday, ?ave the fans a fine example of their hostile bowling and keen field ng m I out the C 138. Bradman
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      30 7 SINGAPORE Chinese I Club'i cricket team a an Sunday at 11 am w... be as follows: Low Kee Pow On* g T :?nm So Kee Tian- Lav H^ck C :>?e
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      TWO GOLD MEDALS FOR DUTCH MOTHER
      450 7 T»HIRTY-YEAR-OLD Mrs. Fanny Blankers-Koen yesterday won her second Olympic gold medal m Royal fashion at Wembley Stadium. Flashing over the 80 metres women's hurdles she returned the world record of 11.2 sees, watched by Britain's King and Queen with their son-in-law, the Duke of
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      Lenient is destroyed
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      Latest Olympic results
      929 7 pOLLOWING are tho details remits of visttrday's Olympic ■> 110 metres hurdle final: il. W Portr (United States 13.9 (new Olympic record) 2, C. L. Scott (United States) 14.1; 3. C Dixon (United States* 14 1; 4. A. U. Triulzi (Argentina) 14.6; 5, P. Gardner :'.3>; 6.
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      'Excited but very tired'
      116 7 MRS. Fanny BlankersKoen, the Dutch girl sprinter, went straight back to her camp to rest after establishing a world record of 11.2 sees, m the Olympic women's 80 metres hurdles yesterday. "She was very excited but very tired," her team manager who is also her husband
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      DIVING ACE OUT
      47 7 MILLER Anderson, United Btatei diving ace, who was injured m an exhibition event on Monday, was scratched from the high diving Olympic event yesterday. Anderson was anxious to compote but United States officials decided not to take the risk so liter his accident.- Reuter
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      WELCOME REST
      46 7 The nearest spot of grass tva s comfort de luiz after 50 miles of speed on a bicycle saddle— Awthar Sinyh, Omar, Wahid Shaludin and Eden Peters, second, first, third and fourth, respectively, m the cycle championship race held m Kuala Lumpur on Sunday.
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      Today's Olympic events
      240 7 HIGHLIGHT of the athletLcs programme m the Olympic (iames at Wembley today will tin' 400 metres final and the quality of the qualifiers guarantees that it will be "the race of the century.'' The 16 seconds or so of the race will be packed with drama and
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      S.R.C. defence fell to pieces
      372 7 AN erratic defence lost the Singapore Recreation Club their first division league soccer match at Jalan Besar yesterday against the Indian Association, who won by the convincing margin of live goals to one. The first round game between these two teams had ended m a
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      Renoir to win class 1 race
      413 7 should fight out I ue m the class four, d furlong race. Speedy Caravan Invariably runs a better ract out and I am gj\ other cl.. Rapsey Queen I James should a^ finish to thetnselvei class four. div. four while m the class four
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      REG HARRIS APPEALS
      128 7 REG Harris, world cj spring champion, j day asked the British < pics Committee its decision dropping him from the British Ol team. An official of the B: National Cycling Union Is the responsible autl for putting forward < I cycling nominations. Olympics cycling comrr would meet
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      Phillipines heat China
      132 7 Phillipines heat China The Philippines mac their Olympic basketb; C and seised the str qualify for th- ft) They won by 52 po: points m group B of th After ten minutes. pines had built up a i lead of 16 points to 8 poi: the Chnese pressed tin Phillppln'-
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      262 7 F.P. Crossword No. 455 H 1 If I PI f 4 I M I 6 t -'Vi\ _v_62c MfiVi ti.vZ/t 's/4/'/'a 5~ 'to jjii ~\T i 5 pi 4 15 ~W*> I. wß__ <> __i__ _H___ I 40 Wa CT *****1 I I m I LI it 2, Choice (I
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      UNO REBUKES GOVT. OP ISRAEL
      380 8 Jewish ban on Arab DPs. TEL AVIV, Wednesday. THE Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations. Mr. Arkadi Sololev, has cabled a terselyworded reminder to Israel of the status of the Jews m displaced persons camps m Europe and Jewish drtainees m British camps m Cyprus.
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      P.I. WISHES TO FORGET
      69 8 MANILA, Wednesday. n^HE Philippines ivould 1 rather forget the war atrocities committed here, it appeared today. The Director of the National Library, Dr. Eulogio V. Rodriguez, disclosed that only 2,000 responses had been made to a questionair c circularized to 25,000 families through the public school
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      BANGKOKEXCHANGE
      32 8 A group of bankers and financiers headed by the former Governor of the Bank of Siam, Prince Wiwathanacnai Chayant. is planning the establishment of a stock md commodity exchange m Bangkok.
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      MISSING PLANES SECOND SOS
      96 8 THE French weather ship Leverrier yesterday reported receiving a second SOS signal coupled with the call-sign of the giant French seaplane missing since Sunday m mid-Atlantic with 52 people aboard. Revealing this, the French Admiralty m Paris said that ill search planes and ships hdd been
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      STRICTLY NUDE
      49 8 Plve hundred nudist members of the American Sunbathing Association began their annual convention at nearby Sunshine Park NewJersey yesterday Sessions would De strictly m the nude, said Dr. Ilsley Boone, 69-year-old superintendent of the 2,000-acre park, where "clothes of any kind are strictly forbidden, without special permission."
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      'NO TO FRKNCH
      33 8 Britain and the U.S. have refused to help increase German rations m the French zone of Germany unless the French stop feeding their troops partly from German supplies, reports A.P.
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      CHINA'S BUDGET
      29 8 The budget for the last six months of 1948 has been accepted by China Executive Yuan. The contents of the "ordinary" budget will be made public shortly.
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      Greek rebel territory cut in two
      176 8 Greek rebel territory cut in two ATHENS, Wednesday. i^OMMUNIST Gen. Markos* \J "Fre e Greece" was cut into two today, when two advancing Government columns met ii the hrart of the guerrilla territor^feouth of Fourka, near the Albanian border. The columns had been advancing for the past ten days from
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      U.S.-SOVIET CLASH OVER DANUBE
      93 8 U.S.-SOVIET CLASH OVER DANUBE BRITAIN and France are expected to fight vigorously at tiie Danube conference m Belgrade for repayment of s of pounds have Invested m the commissions the .ins are proposing to abolish U.S. diplomats m Belgrade say that America will tell and the Ea. pean states that
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      Reds back Yugoslavia
      100 8 DESPITE recent Cuminfonn attacks on Marshal Tito, Soviet Russia and the Ukraine backed Yugoslavia m a det at Lake Bucceai yesterday with the West over Trieste. This line-up m th e United Nat: urity Council k the first clear-cut indication that party difference! had not dented the
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      ASIA"S TIMBER UNDEVELOPED
      83 8 AS IA"S TIMBER UNDEVELOPED THE Forestry expert of thf Food aud Agriculture Organisation. Mr. H. A. Huberman said m Washington that his recent trip through Far Eastern lumber areas convinced him that the Orient's greatest need was trained forestry personnel. Huberman said he visited forest mills m Malaya, Pakistan, India.
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      Civil war in Korea seen by Nanking
      167 8 NANKING, Wednesday. AS President Syngham Rhee completed his Cabinet m Seoul today for Americanoccupied Southern Korea, the Chinese Army organ Peace Daily predicted that this new regime will a face a Communist coup or Invasion from Soviet-occupied Northern Korea within a fortnight. The
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      Govt. forces take Red base in China
      120 8 Govt. forces take Red base in China NANKING, Wednesday. hint- undex 0 Fu Tso-yi. North China Commander-in-Ch;.-: I -day {captured the major Communist bast- Ol n. 90 miles of Pelplng. attack waJ v d to break up Communist prept tlon for an offensive I the Peiping-Tlentsin area. A Government military
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      SPELLMAN WAS TOLD
      78 8 NEW YORK. \W\inesday. THE Philippine delegate to the Security Council. Mr. ViCtOTiO Carjno, tonight withdrew a complaint that a British delegate had ported" him to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Spellman, for :riticising church ncnership of large estate*. The British representative. Sir Alan Burns
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      AUSSIES NOT CONVINCED BY JAPS
      124 8 TOKIO, Wednesday. THE Japanese people will have to do much more yet to convince the world, particularly Australia, of their peaceful intentions, the leader of the Australian Parliamentary delegation at present visiting Japan, Mr. Leslie Haylen. said today. "The Australian people feel that blame among
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      73 8 About to touch down at London Airport is the first jet-powered airliner to take the air— the Nene Viking, returning from a record trip to Paris. The Viking was flown by the Vickers-Armstrong ace test pilot, Capt. J. ("Mutt") Summers, who, on the trip to Villacoublay, near Paris, averaged 394
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      SECRET POLICE TRAP CZECHS
      56 8 THE Czech Secret Police were reported to be trapping refugees from the Communists at the Czech bord' r by disguising themselves as American soldiers. The refugees are led to thl^k they have crossed the frontier are greeted by the bogus soldiers, asked to write the reasons
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      TRADERS ARE CAUTIOUS
      405 8 London Stock Exchange P. IB Antelope '5/-) 13 10% Rolls Royce <uts.) 6T Shell (ut* 3\ Turner NewaD (ut«) 74 fl BUBBERI Anglo-Dutch 13 9 Anglo-Malay 11/:ds 24 Land II Kepcng <2 2 2 8 rru«t 21 4 Soder.a* U 6 riNs 9 3 29 6 3
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      Burma affirms anti-Red stand
      163 8 LONDON, Wednesday. m RTHER clarifying the situation m Burma, the Burmese Foreign Minister, I Tin Tut, during Ins visit here is understood to have reaffirmed the Burmese Premier's determination to see that Burma stamped out the Communist insurrection. U Tin Tut, who left England today by
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      FIRST ENVOY
      11 8 won dat aged She was a frage leader Hunga:
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      'Share land' pica to KMT
      17 8 L today turret for r< :e the told the group <y A.P.
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      Britain backing U.S. of Europe
      14 8 Britain backing U.S. of Europe JV I I I 1 I I iff A.P.
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      239 8 BIRTH Lpore on 3rd August to T. Lvall. a son. t\«, \l,IMi NT The *iuagement is announced !alcclm Quayle I the late Mr. C. M. c. c and Mrs. Quayle of I nd M reton, Cheshire I a. Jones, only B. Jones of -stead Wa n. DEATH The funeral of
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