The Singapore Free Press, 11 August 1948

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA DLDMK,LDI SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1948 PRICE 10 ILMS
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    talin lays down harsh terms
    517 1 talin lays down harsh terms Climax nears on Germany LONDON, Tuesday. MARSHAL Stalin laid down six basic points for any future comet iice on Germany during the Kremlin talks with the envoys of Britain, France and the United States, according- to Polish sources close to the Soviet authorities—the first "leak"
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    U.S. ARMS ON THE WAY
    49 1 IpIFTY-NINE cases of 1 I'nited States small arms destined for Malaya left Manila yesterday on the President Fillmore. The arms. Including 25 sub-machine suns and 34 riot puns and ammunition, are consigned to Mr. 11. C. Clarke. Thief Police Officer, Betangor, Mala> A. P.
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    N.S. AIRSTRIP
    25 1 Free Press Staff Reporter An airstrip has been opened at the old racecourse at Ampangan. near Serpmban for use of light military plane*.
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    Tel Aviv hails Russian mission
    223 1 TEL AVIV. Tuesday THE 17-man Russian diplomatic delegation' was cheered enthusiastically by hundreds of Jews when it arrived here last night. The State of Israel and Russia agreed some time ago to exchange diplomatic missions. v l i e^ ew 1 aR ua S e
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    ROBBERY IN ROCHORE ROAD
    61 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE most serious crime re- ported to the Singapore durinar the 48 hours ndina: at dawn today was a street hold up m Rorhore Road at 9 Dm. yesterday. Two Chinese stopped a compatriot on the road and d him of $8
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    CHINESE PROTEST
    36 1 The Chines^ Embassy m Siam. is to lodge a protest with the Siamese Government against the proposed reduction m the number of Chinese immigrants from 10,000 to 5,000 annually, reports Reuter i from Shanghai.
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    DUTCH REJECT 19 PASSENGERS
    141 1 Free Press Staff Reporter NINETEEN passengers found aboard the Chinese barter ship Hong Thong, which sailed from Singapore for Pekan Baroe at the end of July, were turned back by the Dutch authorities at Tanjong Üban. The Hong Thong was makin«r a trial run under the
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    FIRE THREAT AT PUMPING STATION
    51 1 Free Press Staff Reporter WOODLEIGH pumping station at Upper SerangGon was the scene of a lallang fire which threatened the building yesterday. A fire engine from the Central Fire Station w Hill Street extinguished th lire before any damage was doot to the plant or
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    GUNMEN TURN UP TWICE AT BATU CAVES
    100 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. SOON after sixty per cent off the labour force on Sungei Tua estate m the Batu Caves area, turned up for work today, four armed men appe*"P'i: *nd spoke to five of the labourers, threatening them. The labour force, it
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    CAPTAIN ARRESTED
    43 1 /CAPTAIN Wilfred R. Gamble v^ a British officer m Vk-nna who was arrested at the German border near Salzburg, by U.S. police has been handed over to the British authorities. The truck m which he was travelling contained «oo<K)O cieaiv A.P.
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    BURMESE REBELS CAPTURE TOWN
    164 1 RANGOON, Tuesday. INSURGENTS have captured Thongwa, a town about five miles off Kayan and about 30 miles from Rangoon, according to Rangoon newspaper reports, says A.P. Several Government officials escaped, and the town's police chief and the district commissioner are now m Rangoon. The Premier's bodyguard
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    Bandits hold up Johore bus
    248 1 Bandits hold up Johore bus Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. A BUS belonging to the Yew Wah company was held yesterday at the 9th mile between Yong Peng and Segamat by six Chinese bandits armed with sten guns. The bandits ordered all the passengers out of the bus,
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    CAPTAIN GETS 5 MORE YEARS
    90 1 CAPTAIN David Vivian, a British Army oificer who was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, m Rangoon on Monday for aiding m Smuggling arms was yesterday sentenced to a further five years' imprisonment and fined 10.000 rupees, for aiding m the smuggling of ammunition. Vivian was
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    FELL FROM, BUS
    35 1 A 19-year-old Chinese Sein Chiarg Hiang. who got off a moving omnibus m Balestifr Road last night, fractured his right elbow and suffered other injuries. He was admitted to the General pltal
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    OKAMURA TRIAL
    28 1 The war crimes trial of General Yasutsugu Okamurn. Commander-in-Chief of th Japanese forces In Cental China during the war, wW i open on Monday, August 23.
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    End of Peoples Restaurants
    91 1 ON Saturday the last two Peoples Restaurants con- ducted by the Social Welfare j Department will be closed. At 1 one time, the Department ran ten of these restaurants. Premises of two of the last four Peoples Restaurants have had to be returned to the j
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    DYAKS ARE HERE
    176 1 DYAKS ARE HERE Free Press Staff K«-*>ur<er KUALA LUMPUR Wed pORTY-MNE Dy 1 each carrying a parang land wearing a c ound his waist, a at a camp m M jn Monday aft >m Sara The Dyak Coramu. nounced thi The ask^d lor a j .lied of Dya from Si
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    LORRY ON FIRE
    22 1 A lorry which caught fire In Orchard Road ay evening was saved by T arrival ol the ftre brigade.
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    STOP PRESS
    51 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KIAI I IMPIR. Wed. FIVE hundred and X detainer from the Pudu Gaol were transferred to a special detention ramp m Seremban yesterday They were taken by special train under a large combined military and police escort. The transfer was carried oat without any
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  • ENTERTAINMENTS
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      FILMING THE GAMES
      478 2 FILMING THE GAMES BY OUR LONDON FILM REPORTER THE film of the year is m the making at Wembley Stadium. It will be the fulllength Technicolor record of the Olympic Games, which is being shot by a hundred trained cameramen and technicians under the direction of Castleton Knight, head of
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      DANCE TIME
      338 2 by ELIZABETH LEE fTONIGHT. over Radio 1 Malaya at 8.20, we shall continue with the Tango, and the next figure we shall learn is the Promenade. This figure commences m •*Prom?nade Position" often referred to M PP. for convenience*, a position m Ballroom Dancing which we have not
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      Bridge Problem
      364 2 JT would take more than a mere examination of East's hand to discover the basis for hU double of s.x hearts. There Wtfft se\eral factors, however, which motivated his risking ft posvbla redouble One was the hope of mislocatng the heart strength. Another was the feeling that W«g|
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      THE MAN HIMSELF...
      446 2 CIR Laurence Oiivier, who will be seen next week m the film Hamlet is one of the genuinely overworked. The hard core of his day while making the film was an exacting 12-hour stretch at the Denham Studios. Of the other 12 hours, he confesses that for
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      THE PRINCE OF DENMARK Olivier's Hamlet
      260 2 THE PRINCE OF DENMARK Olivier's Hamlet ux uuh FILM REPORTER TT took Sir Laurence Olivier six months to turn Shakespeare's 5V2-hour tragedy of Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, into the magnificent tfyrbour film to be released next week at the Cathay. Trimming the play down to cinema style caused the
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      THE 'BEARD'
      128 2 IF British rlim fans followed the American fashion by naming stars uXXtt their more obvious attractions "The Body" and 'The Lees" are well-kno'vn examples Niall McGinnLs. who plays the part ot one of Columbus's loyal officers m 'Christopher Columbus." would be m danger of becoming known as "The
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      'Westerns' always pay
      116 2 A MERICAN film producers a\ have few worries about financial returns on "1 ems." •Westerns' are me* pictures about cowboys and Indians or early pioneer days of western United States settlements. Invariably they are box office successes, says thYork Wall Street Journal. Indioative of the pop ty.
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      252 2 OODJJDJD SINGAPORE rrom IZ4HI 0000 to 1 M p.m ill metre* U> the medium band *no 1 to meracTrle* ts the 41 metre band tr*m 699 p.m IO 1 C p 0.l from 939 pro tt 11 00 p 8.1 I 485 metre* m the medium »*T« band and 4
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      357 2 AUSTRALIA 4. 0f p m 19 U. l» p m vi. At, 19 74 metre* II X 9 oiefmcyete*: 4 M p m to I.lft p.m VLEB 15 89 metre* II M mefacydts: 6 M p m ie II II p m VLGIO 23 51 metre* 1171 megacycle*: :10 j
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      221 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, your convictions ar« strong and although you have a good opinion of your capabilities you are not inclined to boast about them to others. You are not as spectacular m your successes as somi> others bora under this sign. You, however, reach an even greater
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      16 2 "I WAS MYSTIHSD AND FRANTIC. AT LAST I GAV[ UP, CERTAIN THAT SHE WAS x-""^^. v
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      25 2 -I OVERHEARD YES. I CAUGHT YOU SAY YOU'D HER ON THE END SEEN HER/ j ON MY UNLKirvn \r J NOWOND£RYOU I STARED AT US/
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  • NEWS
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      Olympic women sprinters in fell stride
      81 3 Olympic women sprinters in fell stride —of one race the same Blanker*- Koen finishing line. I are V. and P. Jones I i C. A An Olympic medal winner— l9-year-old Nancy Lyons of Australia with the tUver medal ichich she icon for corning 'cond m the women's 200-metre breast stroke
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      Helpless man wtched his ridee drown
      7 3 Helpless man wtched his ridee drown I
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      "Ramie will be Orient's richest crop"
      70 3 "Ramie will be Orient's richest crop" lit-rn produ make I an m m Manila In South-East .v difflc ed any important a m acreage of the j H Nissle. ramie Company, could r ir per h< if they couk: b by-pro-•i of j is vice- Ra- difficult I natural gum
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      TWO BOATS IN GUN BATTLE
      45 3 Aul*n Dauie oe T DU Bocca b lated >n had the .t and the mcd T i .ipc ov rs who board- :ns of m aboard, r. the Custom ive lnt« which v. a large quantity of :fested car Reuter
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      PALM TREE SUGAR' PLAN
      293 3 T^HE Indian government has estimated that A it has 50,000,000 palm trees which can be used to provide jobs for thousands of under-employed farmers and to produce 1,000,000 extra tons of food a year, mostly "sugar." According to the Indian Information Office m Washington, plans are
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      BIG BEETLE MEETING
      28 3 BRITAIN has invited ail European Governments to an international conference m Geneva m October to try to check the inroads of the Colorado Beetle. A.P.
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      4,000 GERMAN GIRLS TO WORK IN U.K
      102 3 DLANS are being prepared to receive the first German girl workers m England More 4,000 German girls, be* 18 and 20. are coming to work m hospitals, hostels and farmers' homes for periods of up to two years. Thty will get the same
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      RUSSIANS TERRORISED IN US-CHARGE
      354 3 RUSSIANS TERRORISED IN US-CHARGE Envoy protests at 'abductions 9 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. OOVIET ambassador, Alexander S. Panyushkin, accused the United States of trying to "terrorize" Russian citizens m the United States and demanded the surrender of a rebellious Russian school teacher who fled to the FBI yesterday for "protection". The State
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      Housing plan raises uproar
      109 3 THE Italian Minister of Labour and Social Assistance Slgnor A. Fanfani has created a political uproar with his scheme to build homes at the rate of 170.000 rooms—ltalian building schemes are reckoned by rooms— by means of a lew on workers' earnings. He also plans to
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      TYPHOON WRECKS CHINESE CORVETTE
      45 3 Eight numbers of the of the 800-ton Chinese corvette, Fangcheng. are reported m Hong Kon^ to have been drowned, when the vessel was wrecked by last week's typhoon on the coast between Kong and Sx». Thirty-eight si"*vivnrc wr* hed ashore. A.P.
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      JAP REDS HELD
      20 3 Three Japanese Communists have been arrested for interfering with official business In Kurfsawa village m the Hokkaido.
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      'GO SLOW MINERS TO PAY DAMAGES
      177 3 I^HREE miners whose output fell 30 to 40 per cent, m a week were ordered to pay the Coal Board £40 17s. damages and costs at Llanelly (Carmarthenshire) County Court. They were alleged to have adopted a "ca' canny" policy at Blaenhirwaun Colliery, Cross
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      Fortune from 'Pimpernel'
      113 3 vr THE Scarlet Pimpernel" and several other famous novels were responsible for the bulk of the fortune left by the author. Baroness Orczy, the net value of whose estate is £34,690. She died intestate and letters of administration have been granted to her son, Mr. Joy Orezy
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      Kidnappings: Proof Soviet to blame
      188 3 Kidnappings: Proof Soviet to blame FO Germans m the Soviet sector of Berlin recently sentenced to seven years jail by an American Military Government court for attempting to kidnap Wilhelm Duisberg, a German Journalist. The two rrtfn admitted that they tried to take Duisberg from his home m the American
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      CALL FOR NEI PARLIAMENT
      107 3 l^pHE Indonesian People's I 1 Democratic Front m Jogja--1 karta called for an end to the present presidential cabinet lin the Republic and the formation of a cabinet responsible to parliament as a i 'necessary answer to Dutch its The movement If led by the I
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      NO JUMPING TO VYSHINSKY'S WHIP
      182 3 —U.K. retort RUSSIA'S Deputy Foreign Minister, Mr. Yyshinsky, said at the Danubian conference m Belgrade that the Danube States had been treated m the past "as the cook treats potatoes m the kitchen/ To this, Britain's del at the Danubian conference m Belgrade, Sir Charles
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      LION BITES GIRL TRAINER
      39 3 LION BITES GIRL TRAINER Ml animal I hand badly bitten by I Mushie. on ttu Palace Ttieatrr. X week. The audit'i i eer back aftei the li« from hi She was helped off the i but returnrd to gui-
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      102 3 TARZAN Discovering the iQSS /lv £<fear /?to Burroughs 1 I JfFWA TMEN,'S«ESAiO. WITHOUT A WORP \£ff J.-/£L •Tvc sou^vAPTO J^i^^^L/jn >^*T*<V- "WE CAN PINO TARZAN CMPTIEO |a/'/4WI .NANTIT.' /^V* //> Jl V ASHRA WITHOUT HIS QUIVER. A /W/fwk SAO. '-P VOW JnlA A^ API »-C >^*# aVtmE MAP. <3«VE IT
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  • LEADER
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      The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY. Aug. 11. 1948. The Chinese and the Terror
      432 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY. Aug. 11. 1948. The Chinese and the Terror rS steps which Chinese associations m Johore yesterday announced they were ready to take to help the Government suppress the Communist Insurrection are important from two points of view The first, and most obvious, Is the enormous
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      START-LINE IN AFRICA
      1076 4  - START-LINE IN AFRICA Major-General J. F. C. FULLER By THE danger today is that, if the cold war continues, sooner or later so explosive a political atmosphere \vjjl be generated that any minor incident may detonate it into a shooting war. What then? Political arguments will be set aside, and
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      He wants to model the Ark
      559 4  - He wants to model the Ark GEORGE BOWEN By I A. I*. (or respondent FREDERICK Avery, Ri'itish-bn/n model ship maker for the U.S. Naval Academy Museum, hopes to carve the first accurate replica of history's most famous vessel Noah's Ark. Mr. Avery is going this summer on an expedition to
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      A DESERT SHOOTING GALLERY
      691 4 First report on Britain's secret rocket range m Australia 's desert by G. STANFORD DRITISH scientists will sx>n be leaving for Australia's Never Nevei Land, the new rocket shoot-ing-gallery m the stony deserts of South Australia. Within a prohibited corridor of 3,000 square miles which stretches
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      Europe on road to recovery
      200 4 WESTERN Europe is on the road to economic recovery, propelled by the dol- j lars and supplies of the Euro- poan Recovery Programme <ERP> An Associated Press sur indicates that the mere proipect of American aid. now a reality, helped the 16 ERP, nations over
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      FAITH
      22 4 But God commendeth His love towards us, m that, while we were yet t sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 6.
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      Pre-invasion notes illegal in few weeks
      195 5 THERE remain but a few weeks In which to exchange pre-invaslon currency notes before ahey become non-legal tender on Sept. 1. These notes can be exchanged at the offices of the Commissioners of Currency m Penang (The Treasury, The Ban Hin Lee Bank Building),
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      MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR PLAN FOR FLATS
      509 5 MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR PLAN FOR FLATS Sites on old cemetery Free Press Staff Reporter A MULTI-million-dollar scheme for building flats and other premises on the fringe of the Teochew community's disused cemetery m Orchard Road has been approved, m principle, by the Ngee Ann Kongsi, ancestral association of the Colony's Teochews.
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      RAIL STATION 'PROTECTED AREA'
      145 5 RAIL STATION 'PROTECTED AREA' THE Singapore railway ata- tiun. witfi the marshalling and goods yard, the locomotive sheds and yards and the signal cabin have been declared a protected area. The area is denned as one bounded by fencing commencing opposite No. 3 Singapore Harbour Board Gate m Keppel Road
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      MORE FRUIT FOR ASIA
      98 5 INCREASING quantities of Australian citrus fruit are likely to be available for txport, particularly to Asia and the Pacific This has been emphasised j by the chief horticultural officer for the New South Wales Government, Mr. Clarence Savage. He said new orchards were being started and
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      REGULATION NUMBER PLATES NECESSARY
      297 5 Free Press Staff Reporter OWNERS of motor vehicles, whose number plates do not conform to regulations, are receiving notices from the Registrar of Vehicles asking them to remedy the defect. The Registrar of Vehicles, Singapore, Mr. W. A. M Watts, informed the Free Press yesterday that
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      MR J.V. COWGILL
      18 5 Mr. J. V Cowgill has been appoint. d to be Joint Salaries Commission Officer, Singapore.
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      First payment in October
      198 5 Income tax Free Press Staff Reporter THE fiM income tax forms for Singapore will be 1 *nt out within six weeks' time, returnable within three wt^ \wssments would then be issued, and it t.i\ payments would be due immediately. ol year of assessment could be made
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      Music teacher dies suddenly
      28 5 Fr« Pre>- Reporter Ik ChtMH are ckM resi Joined the I C 8 n a d was rs of I Cf At X S.
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      S.H.B. STAFF ASSCN. OFFICERS
      31 5 S.H.B. STAFF ASSCN. OFFICERS been rs of rbour Board 31, 1949: M CK>ra3 Mr Ni rajah; S A Iyer: San •T Tan Treaaurtt m C W a V X■ v Mar-
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      HOLIDAY FOR RICE RETAILERS
      35 5 HOLIDAY FOR RICE RETAILERS Members of the Singapore Government-licensed Hire lien Association have been granted usrmissior by the Food Department to close their shoos tomorrow In order '0 celebrate the second anniversary of the Association.
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      Call for 200 nurses
      144 5 Call for 200 nurses CINGAPORES five Governd ment Hospitals need 200 girls as probationer nurses, says the Principal Matron. Miss H. Patterson. •The next course for pro-' bationers begins next month, but despite our intensive propaganda campaign m the schools and all our advertisements, I have so far got only
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      SET FREE
      54 5 A market stall holder, named Mohamed Ibrahim bin Alia Pltchay. who had been sentenced to two months' rigorous imprisonment on a charge of cheating by the Singapore Third Police Court Magistrate (Mr. F. B. Oehlers>. was set free by the acting Chief Justice (Mr. Justice Gordon Smith) m
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      'NO URGENT NEED FOR TIN PACT'
      217 5 Free Press Staff Reporter LONDON, Tues. DISCUSSING the possibility; of a new international tin agreement, the official Dutch paper, Economische Voorlichting, quoted by the j Financial Times, says for Malaya and Nigeria, there is, at present, no urgent need of tin control because the
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      Clearing canals to stop floods
      571 5 Free Press Staif Reporter f VO reduce the flooding of certain parts of Singapore A on stormy days, work will be mi aheart with the clearing of obstacles from canals, the Municipal Engineer, Mr. G. Edmond, tola vi. i.^e Press yesterday. In a survey of
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      DOCTO FACES 'HURT' CHARGE
      23 5 DOCTO FACES 'HURT' CHARGE DR. red In D1 1 publ: vant Dr The de! the charge and the case w*poned to Aup I
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      LIAISON TALKS
      29 5 The annual conference British Military Attaches and Liaison Officers from Legations and Embassies ..i the Far East will be held .n Singapore from Aug. 17 to 19.
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  • NEWS
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      Devastation follows big explosion
      46 6 Devastation follows big explosion Shattered buildings of the I. G. Fttfben chemical plaiit burning many hours after the disastrous ex- J 'i at Ludwigshaien, ~h :one of Germany -jst the lives of hundreds of German em- bodies are °i under the ruby .'eh r --storey plosion.
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      RUSSIAN AIR SECRETS REVEALED
      288 6 RUSSIAN AIR SECRETS REVEALED 'Many planes, poor airports 9 WASHINGTON. VTTORLD Aviation Annual, a new publication, has reported that Russia has an air force about the size of that of the United States, a large modern aircraft industry, but insufficient airport and airway facilities. The new book Is probably the
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      BIG SLUMP IN AMERICAN AMUSEMENT INDUSTRY
      201 6 AMERICA'S entertainment md to Itfl worst post-war slum]). Printing U ol a national Burrey, the N t Tin. 'he decline "may be the m man:: jii to date of a trend that set m 18 months ai<o." Th* slump may carry the amusement business
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      BABE RUTH ILL
      13 6 Bab*> Ruth, former idol of :s. who '.n >orted U.P.
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      BRITON'S WIFE JAILED BY REDS
      80 6 RUSSIAN wife of William T. Oreenhalgh. 22. of lUdLanes. ha« been gaoled for two years m Muse VM told by the Foreign Oilice that she waa charged with "trying to bribe an laL" Mr. Greenhalgh thinks, however, that it was because she wanted to stay
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      He swam Channel —but is so sad
      211 6 He swam Channel but is so sad ITORSE-brtedcT Giovanni Gambi, aged 40, Is 11 the saddest mun who ever swam the Channel. I .ike too ikes the Odars Hotel re he «1 shores i do again, and he "But me of all brins money I for a meal. I lay
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      "Wotcher, Cock" salutes are banned
      124 6 "Wotcher, Cock" salutes are banned RAILWAY police must now take their saluting seriously. Orders have been given that salutes must be co-ordinated into the Armytype salute. Railway police have been m all three Services and the tendency is to use the salute of the branch m which they served. "Some
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      TIGHT SQUEEZE
      27 6 A CHINESE driver m Hong ig was fined $150 for carrying 22 adults m vehicle, a station wagon the bod asured six feet by five.
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      ZAIIJATSU BAN
      31 6 W. alsu na. m will disappear by a Japanese Government ordinance. Eleven companies named for dissolution because of ..o economic Mits-, sul. IWltftki, Si.: Yasv Nomura. Nakaiima and a.
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      'I QUIT VICAR CHANGES MIND
      60 6 'I QUIT VICAR CHANGES MIND rIE Rev. W. H. Elliott, domestic chaplain to the King, said recently that, "deeply touched by the hip and warm-hearted aflt A the people," he has withdrawn his resignation as vicar of S* i, Warwick. He hopes to 'remain there happily for years." Six days
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      GIRL KILLS COLONEL JAILED
      41 6 TSO SWh-haa. 1 19-year-old i battalion executive baa year* impr i sin for iriiiing a rr Tso Col rolver Her husband MaJ Lu-ptng, has bc€r. at Kalgan lor som^ i: Chang Chiea-chiu i from rr. DLKDLMD A.P.
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      STALIN IS THANKED
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      CAPITAL FROM CHINA H.K.'s huge dollar deposit
      278 6 CAPITAL FROM CHINA H.K.'s huge dollar deposit T»HE total amount of deposi!!° U K °*G 1 banks Is estimated at HK>; ,oiiLs?* I* Eastern Economic Review r< UO(J tfc£ the flight of capital from China Pcfer^J The Review said t approximately 160 per < estimated pre-war ft^u: such factors as
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      GLAMORGAN REGAIN LEAD
      618 7 Great win over Somerset QLAMORGAN returned to the head of the County cricket championship table yesterday with their tnrilling win by eight runs over Somerset. m another thrilling finish Middlesex beat Surrey by one wicket, after Middlesex had been outplayed for most of the match, and now
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      Swedes reach Olympic soccer final
      49 7 Swedes reach Olympic soccer final dtfca:ed Denmark r I S M i meet Swede* could troH- ffM but jrtjes Favoured methodical r. a year Ice to wtn do the i 'T.tre-half *hereas tn ■> Is prie way wfll hare m a fast, oo the Dynamos. ihook Brtwhen the \HS A.P.
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      Chinese S.C. win at draughts and chess
      51 7 Chinese S.C. win at draughts and chess to I i and pa z*. i vCGHT* -t i, LCf pa Ci '.g Ann li !v Tir. Kang Leng 0 I* W^ac IDbo.\. Say Hir M 3.C. S. lisa Yec 5 C. t. 1 c to -skeiball q tald 1952 OlymI d/-
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      Fight verdict booed for 20 minutes
      130 7 A STORM of protest which echoed throughout the Empire Pool at Wembley yesterday resulted from a decision In th* 1 Olympic featherweight boxing champlontM m favour of Ed*wd Johna 20-year-old private m the United States Army Air Force, over B Alves of Uruguay. The
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      Title fight for Walcott
      69 7 JERSEY Jo* Walcott's chio has accepted m printo fight Jimmy Bivins or Exzard Charles for the worW heavyweight title at WashNe^°j n ers:r rtS fr m Menendez, Washington promoter, who has Bivins and Charles matched for a bout there on Sept. 13. Mendendei claimed to have
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      DAY OF PROTESTS AT THE GAMES
      232 7 nRKK .B y DONALD FRASER BA v JVL n d keen com P ct "ion during the fifth resferdav l 7l piC > achtin events m Torquay eft tht finaf" cd u hl a Pate f Protests whlch crt the final results m doubt.
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      FORMER S.C.C. HOCKEY CAPT. IN DUTCH XI
      164 7 WHEN Holland met India In the semi-finals of the Olympic hockey competition on Monday, and went down by the odd Koal m three after putting up a magnificent fight, the man to lead the Dutch team was a former Singapore hockey starand lanky
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      A MISTAKE IN NAMES
      177 7 THE Olympic boxing authorities announced tonight that they had made a mistake m a name. Earlier it had been stated that Pascual P» ?*7 Ar?«>nt:ne flyweight boxer, was too heavy at the weighIn for his Olympic bout with Desmond Williams of South Africa. This was wrong,
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      KOTA RAJA WIN 8-0
      38 7 THE Malay Football \j.vciation second string was trounched by the Kota rtaja m a second dlvsion S.A.F.A leagu? match pl&yed at Geylang Stadium vcsterday. Kota Raja p:l»>d up eign: goals without return from M.F.A.
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      Praise for Britain
      179 7 Q\ his return to Madrid by air after at* ending the opening of the Olympic games m London as head of the nine Spanish teams. General Jose Moscardo, Chief of the Spanish National Sports, described Bri'ain's organisation of the games as "a tremendous effort" on her part
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      Medals must be exchanged
      119 7 IN the biggest sensation of the Games, the Olympic Jury yesterday reversed the judges' disqualification of the U.S. team and award of the coveted first place to Britain m Saturday's 400 metres relay at Wembley. Recognition of the American victory means that Britain's four-man team mv.it
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      IKIN BOWLED AT 99
      183 7 LANCASHIRE, n their match aga.nst the Australians at OH Traflord where Don B-radxran made his eighth century of the tour, managed to draw th.- game yesterday the feature of .he County's second Innings being the fine fc»attin« of Jack Ikin who made M before being boy
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      10-MAN MALAY SIDE UNLUCKY TO LOSE
      251 7 1 0-MAN MALAY SIDE UNLUCKY TO LOSE BAD luck dogged the Malays yesterday when they were defeated by the GHQ Signals by the odd goal m five m a S.A.F.A. first division league match at Jalan Besar stadium. The first setback they encountered was when their 'star' left full-back, Salleh,
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      WINNER OF PENTATHLON
      73 7 WINNER OF PENTATHLON With a burst of enthusiasm, members Of the Finnish modern pentathlon team toss into the air the winner of the Olympic pentathlon. Captain William Grut. of Sweden. Grut icon the event with three wins out of a possible five H^ is the first person to achieve this,
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      M.C.F.A. IS IN THE "WARS" AGAIN
      644 7 Letters to Sports Editor TT Is amusing that the M.C.F.A. is under fire 1 again, thanks to exaggerated publicity. Whatever the arguments are for or against the M.C.F.A., there can be no denial of the fact that it has pioneered something m Malayan sport.
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      DOCTOR IS REQUIRED
      207 7 one who ha* be*n a keen .ower of local socoer for a number of ye.irs, I would like to draw the attention of the SAP A. officials to the ac t that they haw all this time not been doing justice to soccer player* with regard to
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      THE FIFTH TEST England have interesting XI
      542 7 THE FIFTH TEST England have interesting XI From BILL BOWES npHE England selectors, as anticipated, have dropped Cranston, Pollard, Laker, and Crapp and the twelve players from which the team for the fifth Test at the Oval on Saturday will be chosen art Yardley, Edrich, Compton, Hutton. Washbrook, Dewes, Simpson,
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      255 7 F.P. Crossword No. 460 'I UJ2 j I |3 j 14 15 It t, 7 8 >|: 1 i I. i lUHI I I t i i lip |X) I! I 12 f __T H 415 l 6 !7 -_-i _J m j "3j CLIES ACROSS 2. Quells (f). 7.
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    INDIA SOON TO TAKE HYDERABAD'
    321 8 Fresh talk of 'action' NEW DELHI, Tuesday. COMMENTING on reports that the Indian Army has already begun military operations against Hyderabad to compel that Muslim-ruled State to accede to the Indian I'nion, an Indian Government s.Mirte said m Madras today: "You will see rigorous and
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    BIRTHS
    24 8 al to Pat w -a dau?: at Batu .i -VELD.— To J. Var. of a son BLI > Keith Bolloch. Btane Darby. a son.
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    ENGAGEMENTS
    78 8 Tne rnetifement wa» announcea ywterday In Sererr-.tan between Mr Yau Sow Wah. second son of the late Mr Yau Wee Khian and Madame Let Yoke Pine ar.d Dr Beanor Gaik Cboo Eu. eldest inter of Uxe late Dr Ku Khay Hw and Madame Choo Guat Ltn The pv.gagement U
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    VOLUNTEER SPECIAL CONSTABULARY
    85 8 Wii: ::owtag please attend at tiie PTS Rar?e at 5 30 p m -sday, Wednesday, Thursday and Prtdar nex* As many as possible, who Lave -•^adv attend d are required to a' PT S at 530 pm. to-morrow Au« '48. !2 !3 23 M 60 63 103
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    TOKIO EPIDEMIC
    17 8 One American soldier In Tokio died of polio yesterday and 72 Japanese died of encephalitis.
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    23 8 LIUKT REVOLT OVER A Nanking spokesman, quoted by Reuter, said yesterday that the revolt of native tribes m Tibet had h n settled.
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    MARGARET GOING TO NETHERLANDS
    199 8 LONDON, Tuesday. PRINCESS MARGARET, emerging fully into public life only 16 days after her 18th birthday, will represent the King George and the Queen at the Investiture of Princess Juliana of the Netherlands on Sept. 6, Buckingham authorities said today. Queen Wilhelmina announced m May her
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    DANUBE: WEST IS OUTVOTED
    177 8 DANUBE WEST IS OUTVOTED BELGRADE. Tuesday. AT the ten-nation Danube conference Russia and her Danubian associates voted solidly today to defeat Western efforts to assure complete freedom of navigation on the river and to link the proposed Danube Commission with the United Nations. Rumania's Foreign Minister, Miss Anna Pauker, opposing
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    200,000 strike in Bombay
    94 8 DOUCE parties moved into Bombay's mill area last night on the eve of a threate.'d one-day strike ol the city's major textile industry today. The strike Is planned as a protest by 200,--000 operatives against staff cuts In two mills. The police arrested one Communist Municipal
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    PEONS'PRAYER FOR BOSSES
    72 8 PEONS' PRAYER FOR BOSSES BOUT 400 secretariat peons have offered prayers to God to "guldr employers to the right path so that they may do justice to the lowpaid staff." It was the last day of their eight-day programme of speeches and prayers to secure financial relief from the Pakistan
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    Rubber prices
    134 8 J^ SPKCLAL M&rkri correspondent ffiTes the prices of robber at 11 ajo. today as follows: per ib per ib Bayers shut* CU. CU No. 1 ft. 8. 8. Spot loos* ..48 48 4 No I BS.S rot m bales Aug. 4ft 48', No. 2 R.S.S. fob m baJes
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    LIN YU-TANG'S POST
    20 8 Dr. Lin Yu-tang, celebrated Chinese author, yesterday became head of the arts and letters division of UNESCO.
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    Warning to Pakistan
    96 8 NEW DELHI, Tuesday. TN a fresh warning to the Pakistan Government over the conflict m Kashmir, the Indian Prime Minist r, Pandit Nehru, declared today that the Indian C.ovemment was "determined to act strongly.' Mr. Nehru said, that Pakistan's "admission** betore the I/nited Nations hmir ommission that
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    RACING PRINCE ASKEO TO ABDICATE
    110 8 BOMBAY, Tuesday. THE Princely State of Barcda today was excited over a demand "for the abdication of Maharaja Pratapsinha. the Gaekwar, made by Dhara Sabha yesterday m the State Mature. The resolution, passed by a huge majority, said the turf- !< ving Maharajah "moused and
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    Cease-fire line agreement?
    84 8 KARACHI, Tuesd THE United Nations Commission today ended its talk* with Pakistan military leaden on the fighting m Kashmir between A2ad Kashmir (Free Kashmiri and Indian forces. Military observers will fly Ie Kashmir on Thursday to examine the firing line from one of the areas occupied by
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    'WORSE THAN THE CASTE SYSTEM'
    116 8 WASHINGTON. Tuesday. 1 LEADER of the Methodist A Church m India. Mr. X V. Rajan. today chared that discrimination m the United States against coloured people was worse than the ca.^te tern m India. "While travelliiiu on trains and buses m my trip through the
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    'YUGOSLAVIA HAS AIM TO TAKE TRIESTE'
    180 8 NEW YORK, Tuesday. RENEWING the Weitern Powers' demand that ...este be returned to IU the United States delegate, Mr. Philip Jessup, told tht Security Council today that Yugoslavia was keeping "an Iron curtain around Trieste* and that she wanted to Incorporate the entire Free
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    9 MEN IN A BOAT
    36 8 9 MEN IN A BOA T Nine Australians, m blooded Saudi Arabian uniform*, have arrived at Famai Sicily > m a small boat. They told newsmen they wanted I They had "ttlon -.ts A.P. London Stock Exchange
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    TRADERS ARE PESSIMISTIC
    390 8 LONDON. Tuesday. THE continued black-out of news concerning the Moscow talks, coupled with the fresh nervousness of Wall Street, caused a slight change m sentiment on the London Stock Exchange today, with the tone becoming dull, says Reuter's financial correspondent Opinion is that the absence of political
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    CHINA FORCE FOR BURMA FRONTIER ?
    254 8 CHINA FORCE FOR BURMA FRONTIER NANKING, Tuesday. THHE Chinese Ministry of Interior Commission investigating the Sino-Burmese border issue has advised the Chinese Government to mm contingent of armed forces to guard the border demarcation and prevent illegal traffic, an ofl release said here tonight. The official statement also quoted a
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    S PORE HIGH TIDES
    13 8 Today H! p m. Ihuri 3 45 p m.
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    N.Y. storks
    56 8 New York Stock Exchange yesterday continued quilate dealings with prices holding at around noon levels. Pressun increased, particularly m chemicals, steels, oils, rails, farm Implements and wet s>u>cks and the market closed easy, down to lower The Dow Jones closing average* were: Stocks 67.40. Industrial* 180.02. R&ilrn*/1s SO
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    U.S. to sell vast stock of machines
    121 8 4 MERICA is u> Plan count" Chin*, and Jap^ 000,000 worth machinery at the 1938 cost p: nounced here U Charles S Dt Agent General ior the Cor. .al Committee on the M Plan, told pressmen that mar ponds m type u> wm
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    Secrecy over Italy's colonies
    13 8 Secrecy over Italy's colonies I I i I I 1 1 I U.P.
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    P.I. PLEA FOR G.I. CHILDREN
    7 8 THE A.P.
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