The Singapore Free Press, 16 August 1948

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    18 1 The Signapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1948 PRICE 10 OOfH
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    Ready for war,' says Russia
    421 1 Ready for war,' says Russia Envoys meet Molotov today BERLIN LONDON, Sunday. MOSCOW Radio announced today that Soviet armed forces are being kept in a state of readiness in view of the international situation and the "expansionist policy of American imperialism." The broadcast, quoting a Pravda editorial, said that the
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    H'KONG TO 'CRACKDOWN' ON REDS
    50 1 H' KONG TO 'CRACKDOWN' ON REDS UOXG KONG authorities, disturbed by spreading Communist activity in Malaya, are expected to "crack down" on Red elements in the colony, state Chinese reports. Among other steps that Hong Kong is expected to take is the suppression of Communist publications, the reports said. IP.
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    Shanghai index up 100 per cent
    118 1 Reuter SHANGHAI. Monday. CHINESE Government officials discussed the use of United States aid at a long meeting yesterday presided over by Premier Wong Wenhao. according to reports from Nanking. The question of enforcing new economic and commercial measures was also discussed. There is still
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    'AXIS SALLY'
    41 1 "Axis Sally" Gillars, the American girl who sold her j voice to the Nazis and cam- j palgned against the United States over the radio during the war. Is going home to the US to stand trial for treason.
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    PATEL: 'FIRM HAND AGAINST THE REDS'
    150 1 NEW DELHI, Sunday. k THE Indian Home Minister, Sardar Vallabhai Patel, x said tonight that his government was determined to use "a firm hand" to prevent the spread to India of Communist disorders sweeping southern Asia. Broadcasting on the first anniversay of" Indian inde-
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    MR. McKERRON DUE TODAY
    60 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, is due to arrive at Tengah airfield this morning from Britain. Mr. McKerron left Singapore in mid-June on compassionate leave to see his wife who was seriously ill. During his absence. Mr. A. Gilmour,
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    PLANE HITS JEEP
    35 1 A passenger oiaru knocked over a jeep on the runway while taking off from Chungking for Canton. Two Chinese customs officials, including a woman, were killed. The plane took off without stouoinz.
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    31 1 picture, Lance Bombardier Siriman Limbu (left) and Bombardier Tanke Limbu two Gurkhas with the 2/7 Gurkha Rifles who are combing areas of South Perak in the hunt 'tor Communist insurgents.- P.R.
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    A PURIFYING EXAMPLE
    90 1 THE Mysore Government ordered the dismissal of Hindu priests who closed the inner precincts of their temple at Seringapatam "for purification" after a visit by Lord and Lady Mountbatten last April. The priests declared they regarded the presence of non -Hindus in the temple as "pollution." In
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    SLISE FIND MEL FULL JAP BOMBS
    14 1 of re- i the the "3 a .r.der
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    LONDON NURSES PROTEST MARCH
    9 1 LONDON NURSES PROTEST MARCH and town ov so U.P.
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    RAULEINS IN U.K.
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    Burmese rebel HQ captured
    225 1 RANGOON, SundaN pit Irrawaddy river town of Thayetmyo, headquarters of the four-day-old revolt against the Burmese Government, has been recaptured and is quiet, it was announced officially today All major towns in the Delta "region are now under control of "loval troops," the announcement said. The
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    Big blaze threatens bomb dump
    95 1 Big blaze threatens bomb dump Free Press Staff Reporter C\ I of the biggest lallang fires in Singapore covering an area of about half a square mile broke out near a bomb dump at the Royal Air Force tSeletarj Base yesterday. Seven fire engines three from the R.AJ 1 two
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    TAXI ON FIRE
    29 1 Free Press Staff Reporter The Singapore Fire Brigade was called to Rochore Canal bo deal with a taxi which caught fire Only slight damage was reported.
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    GRANDFATHER
    22 1 ain's 65-year-old Prime ter, Mr. Attlee, became a grandfather yesterday when his eldest daughter, Janet, gave birth to a girl. Reuter.
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    UK STOPS $ TRADE WITH STORE
    170 1 UK STOPS TRADE WITH STORE HONG KONG, Monday. THE Hong Kong Government has clamped down on the colony's "entrepot" trade In American-made goods for other British points such as Singapore and Malaya. Previously the colony has served as a clearing house for American-made goods bought with America dollars which local
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    POLICE KILL 15 RED SHIRTS
    45 1 FIFTEEN people were killed and 50 injured when police fired to disperse a crowd of Red Shirts demonstrating near the village of Babra in the North west Frontier Province. "Tht? situation is now fully under control," it was stated Reuter.
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    Filipino shot in cabaret affray
    176 1 n Free Press Staff Reporter A FILIPINO was accidentally shot in the leg and a police inspector had his nose broken in an affray in a Singapore Cabaret on Saturday night. Five Filipinos were later arrested. Shots were fired after a scuffle for possession of
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    POLICE IN AIR LIFT TO MALAYA
    124 1 POLICE IN AIR LIFT TO MALAYA Free Press Staff Reporter DAILY until the end of the month, chartered aircraft will leave Northolt or other British airfields for Singapore, carrying groups of exPalestine police officers and men who are joining the Malay Federation police. The first batch arrived early yesterday morning,
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    MASS FOR 500,000
    26 1 Half a million "people Jammed the streets >f Cologne yesterday to he.v Pontifical Mass sild in r*l< oration of the Cathedral* 7OOth anniversary.
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    4 DEAD, 118 HURT IN HOTEL BLAST
    68 1 FOUR persons were killed j and, at least 118 injured in a fire and explosion in the Santa Fe Hotel in Reno (Nevada) yesterday. Four firemen and one policeman were badly injured, and three were believed trapped in the burning building. The explosion
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    Bandits ambush Johore planter
    164 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KLUANG, Monday. 'THE assistant manager A of Ulu Remis Estate, Rengam, Mr. Booth, was shot at twice on the Rengam Estate road at 10.30 last night. On the first occasion three bullets pierced his car and he stopped and searched the area
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    GOODBYE TO MISS GIMSON
    51 1 Free Press Staff Kepoi THE Singapore Governor. Sir Franklin Gimson, the Harbour Board wharves yesterday to say good-bye to his daughter Margaret who was a passenger on the U.K.bound liner Canton. The quayside was crowded with friends and relatives of Malayan passengers leaving for the United
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    TWO OLYMPIC REFUGEES'
    69 1 Tim^i. Hill swimmers who applied for permission to remain in England rather than return to their homeland have disappeared. The Hungarian Olympic Committee last night stated that one of them. Desso Gyarmati, had left for Budapest with a party of athletes. The other two. had decided to
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  • FEATURES...
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      Ex-S'haiPC asks-why?
      678 2 Ex-S'haiPC asks -why? BY MANNING BLACK WOOD I MET a man the other night who used to belong to what he proudly told me was "one of the smartest police forces in the world." He was in the Shanghai Police Force until the war. Then he had 3£ years internment
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      SOUNDS SHAKE CANCERS OUT
      261 2  -  HOWARD W. BLAKKESLEE Bv AT Setenec Editor UIDDEN cancers are 11 detected by their Of sounds in a nvw kind of attack on this disease exhibited at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association. Th- s echo, not to ordii. but to supersounds, which are
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      73 2 Thirty years ago, on August 7, 1918, Air Vice-Marshal A. E. Borton, C.8., C.M.G., D.5.0.. AFC, D.L.. then Brigadier-General Borton, completed the first Eng- land-Eqypt flight. Photo shows him with Mrs. Borton in the grounds of their house at Cheveney, Yalding Kent, England, cornparing a model of the eld Handley
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      Bridge Problem
      352 2 JTASi op. n»-\i !he club five out oi tumji Ihi> g*:v of tail ng a He askt-d 10c a eWb who pteyed the club It %as fuirly obvious to South tlu probably was a fourth bt*t~ but ■d to iruUic much u*« uf the infornutt on. Dummy's club
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      30 YEARS OF PROGRESS
      443 2 THIRTY years ago, 1 on August 7, 1918, a twin-engined Hand-ley-Page 0-40D aircraft landed at Aboukir, near Cairo, and completed the first flight from Bngland .0 Egypt and the flight from England to any destination outside Europe. The pilots were Brigadier General Borton D.5.0., AFC, then
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      Not so startling after all...
      225 2  - Not so startli ng after all... FRED HAMPSON By \P. Correspondent SHANGHAI: AT Song Meh-dzang (Pine Tree Ph, just over the hill from the needle pagoda, are the walls of Kwang-Chi compound. Kwang-Chi is r leprosarium. startling to db>< that visiting a leprosan not half as s you expected it
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      FAMOUS SINGER DIE IN POVERTY
      7 2 FAMOUS SINGER DIE IN POVERTY I Reuter
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      114 2 l^flSk GERALDO and HIS ORCWEST Lj] in bOfi n t ALL THROUGH THI SLEEPY SERENADE m TILL THEN YOU KEKP CX>MIN, 19 PRETEVniNG I THIS IS ALWAYS no ro; m ONE MORE TC I DOWN IN THE c SOMEWHERE LN 1 LOVF I GOTTA GET ME IUMIW HARIETT .•J IHE
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      254 2 SINGAPORE rum iZJOV 0000 U> 1 M p m 485 metres in th« medium war* band and 7 19 neffir?clef ta tb* 41 mtirm band trom 6.§9 pun to 7 45 ami from tSO p m tc 11 00 p m.: 485 mrtr« to th* medium wire band Mid 4
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  • NEWS...
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      Home fleet cruise to Indies, S.Africa
      173 3 •"THE programme for the autumn cruise of the Home Fleet, announced by the Admiral' indicates that Britain's peacetime Navy is gradually being strengthened. When this cruise begin on Sept. 23, the 35.000-ton battle ship Duke of York will be in full commission as the
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      NEW DRUGS CURE DREAD DISEASES
      208 3 ROCKY mountain sp I fever, whooping cough md certain types of meningitis are among the dreaded maladies which respond to treatment by a rapidly growing number of new drug discoveries. United States Public Health Service experts here estimate that in the past three years more
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      15 3 Sign-carrying marchers parade o: I Han Philadelphia, at the opening of the Democratic National Convention.
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      SRINAGAR UNIVERSITY
      57 3 A UNIVERSITY for Islamic education has been opened at Hazrat Bal. near Srinagar (Kashmir). The Prime Minister. Sheikh Abdullah, says it is "intended to impart to the 3.200.000 Muslims of the state the real message of Islam." Maulana Abdul Hai. of the Jamia Millia Islamia of Delhi, has
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      enty' sees American man rifle
      17 3 enty' sees American man rifle nes the new American a tour of Austria. The as a hand-carried
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      Huks refuse nnesty terms
      80 3 Huks refuse nnesty terms MANILA. Saturday. Lbila:..i- r leader, l.ui* Tame, says that a C^sajKk^tandiiiK has developed in the Lotion of the amnesty proclamation and ha\e "virtually stopped." >t the amnesty offer under rebels who register and will be freed of charges of and murder. I H si P: r.o's
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      22 get free air trip from Paris to U.K.
      194 3 TWENTY TWO passengers flew recently from Paris i to England for nothing. T move was made to avoid the Government ban on prlv airline services from South Africa to Britain. The passengers had paid £129 to fly from Johannesburg to Paris
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      Trial of Nazi Generals ends
      129 3 [T.S. prosecutors are demanci- Ing stern punishment for 13 German generals and one admiral accused of passing on to subordinates orders to kill all British Commandos without mercv and all Russian Commissars caught in the East. The accused are: Field h&l Ritter von Leeb. who
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      ATOM ELECTRICITY DUE DECEMBER
      627 3 ATOM ELECTRICITY DUE DECEMBER Post-war pile for peacetime uses rpnpfi NEW YORK, Saturday. £Hfc, first atomic plant able to make electric power, villa?- 2 n l y 2 500 kilQ watts, enough for a small village is due to start running here in December. rnmrn^ 1S the r, pile of
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      Engineers combat tidal phenomenon
      205 3 Engineers combat tidal phenomenon I FOREIGN engineers are tam- ing the Hangchow bore which for thousands of years has been one of the most destructive phenomena in the world. At each full moon the bore —a tidal wave of water as high as 20 feet— rumbles, through the narrowing mouth
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      BIG AIR FORCE CUT
      36 3 A round trip by air from New York to London is now $472 (U.S.) as a result of a25 per cent, cut on all main International routes by Pan American World airways.
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      JUDGE REBUKES DOCTOR'S WIFE
      342 3 A FORMER student nurse, who charged her doctor-husband with cruelty, was told by Mr. Justice Hodson in the Divorce Court that she did not know what she was talking about. Dr. Walter Francis Carpenter, who has a hospital api pointment in Buckinghamshire, and Mrs. Daphne Leslie
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      48 3 TARZAN Coincidence? «y Edgar Rice Burroughs y^^rfi r TO LOSE LETH A," (THIRAM IT 1 !•>/ iTS^ > STRA^6E,'CHiRAM MUSED. "ROBERT PORT OP MYSELF. SHE HAS BEEN f SAFARI IN A SIMILAR /WANNER VERY XtT S^^ lINI IN MV CAgE since cth/lohoop/ /osf£^^^^^^\ aosE to this spot a year asq.»
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Aug. 16, 1948. Report on cocoa
      472 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Aug. 16, 1948. Report on cocoa me caution J which features Professor Cneeeeman's report on the potentialities of cocoa culi and the os not ,'ceed U) obscuring the possibll r in turning tb the planta- n industry a::d the ay secure the diversiflca- >n of
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      The Berlin crisis grows on paper, anyway
      773 4 The Berlin crisis grows on paper, anyway BERLIN: THE urchins of Berlin m longer hang over the railings round the T&updhof airfield. The novelty of the "air bridge" has worn quickly away. The fleets of silver planes are almost as familiar as the dirty, yellow trams. There \M still an
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      THE REPUBLICS BIRTHDAY
      931 4  -  MARC PURDUE l*y A.t\ < poiident THE Republic fit Indonesia, proclaimed in the interim betweeen the Japasurrender and the Allied re,»ccupation of the Netherlands East Indireaches its third annive rß a i y tomorrow. That the infant and in the legalistic viewoutlaw Republic should have survived three
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      AIR COLUMN
      394 4  -  GEOFFREY GELDARD He preferred flying to tea by |UR. Clive Arthur 1* Ifararier should have been in Assam now running a tea plantation. Instead he has just arrived at the Royal Singapore Flying Club as Chief Flying Instructor. When war broke out he was i tea taster for
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      FROM POET TO PRESIDENT
      617 4  -  LARRYin F. STUNTZ By < A. P. Correspondent POET turned economist is due to become President of Paraguay. Presidentelect Juan Natalicio Gonzalez has laid the plans for his Government during 23 years of public life. And his two years as treasury minister in the present Government
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      29 4 This new British car uas sent to an Elsuick, New-castle-on-Tyne, factory for the workers to see the sort they h A 12-tiU vrt^. pr< their Icing out stream -m
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
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      15 5 ptctvn ng at the Sikh Temple in Singapore jn of Indian Independence Day Free fress
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      Malaya greets India, Pakistan
      128 5 Indians in Singapore and the Federation yesterday celebrated the first anniversary of their national independence. Flags, festoons of palm leaves. and newly cut plantain trees with bunches of green fruit* decorated tntranees to Indian homes and ss premises The celebrations included flve mass meetings, feeding of
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      FELL FROM BUS
      30 5 A 12 year-old school boy, Michael G. Vythilingam. who fell off a bus near the Junction of Rangoon Road and Race Course Road yesterday, was slightly injured.
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      SCHOLARSHIP AWARD CHANGES
      426 5 SCHOLARSHIP AWARD CHANGES British Counc announcement Free Press Staff Reporter gRITISH Council scholarships for the 194!* academic year will be awarded separate for the Federation of Malaya and Singapor: Mr. A. Truman Baker, British Council repress tative in Singapore, told the Free Press. "T he five British Council scholars who
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      £2 million Colonial projects
      313 5 £2 million Colonial projects lIOW Britain spent two million pounds in 1947-1948 financial year on research to improve the lot of colonial peoples is described in a report published in London. More than 60 new research schemes were approved during the year as well as 90 supplementary schemes. Proposals for
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      42 protected places
      70 5 FRTY two military bases, stores and warehouses in Singapore have been placed under the Protected Places Order with effect from yesterday. Entry Into any of these protected places will be by permit only, and no exemption from the necessity of obtaining permission will be granted. Among the
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      PAKISTANIS BAND TOGETHER
      235 5 Free Press Staff Reporter FRMED eleven months ago, soon after the establishment of the Pakistan Government, the Overseas Pakistani League in Singapore has donated Rs. 43,000 to the Quaid-1-Azam Relief Fund, and sent several bales of blankets and old clothing to Karachi for relief purposes. The Pakistani
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      60 5 i'l the Federation is being stepped up roith the arrival of the New Commissioner of Police, Col. W. N. Gray, and 40 ex-Palestine Police Force members. These 40 men uill train the Federation Police in the methods of lighting which proved effective in Palestine. Picture shows two Malay constables in
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      Torres Is. men to replace Malay pearlers
      126 5 Torres Is. men to replace Malay pearlers rjEEP-SEA divers from among the Torres Strait Islanders are expected to replace foreign divers—formerly Malays and Japanese In the Northern Australia pearling industry within the next I few years The Queensland Minisstc-i for Health and Home Affairs said that tne Torres Strait Islanders
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      GANDHI FUND CONCERT
      136 5 y\R. and Mrs. Malcolm MacDon&ld and Mr. and Mr*. John A. Thivy were Jn the audience at the Victoria Theatre on Saturday night at the variety concert presented by the C.Y.M.A. (Church of Our Lady of Lourdes). in aid of Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Fund Mr Sandy G.
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      RUBBER CROPS
      66 5 Rubber output* in July are reported by Turquand, Youngs, McAullffe Co. as foL'ows: Alor Oajah Rubber Estate Ltd.,' 27,200 lb. Aver Panas Rubber Estate Ltd., i 96,000 lb. Glenealy Plantations Ltd., 52.000 lb. Kluang Rubber' Co. Ltd.. 62.000 lb. Pajam Ltd., 205,000 lb. Tambalak Rubber Estates Ltd., 32,883
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      2nd ANNIVERSARY
      26 5 The Army Civil Service Union plans to celebrate Its second anniversary on Sept. a A committee has been form ed to make necessary arrangements.
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      New type cars for Colonies
      183 5 Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sunday. MALAYA will soon see a new type of British motor-car which will do away with the criticism often heard in the past that British car manufacturers had no idea of what was needed for motoring in the colonies, or
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      Motor factory plan shelved
      62 5 DLANS for the building of Qtv.eral Motors Corporation's automobile assembly plant at Katong. Singapore, have been shelved. The acting manager of the corporation in Singapore. Mr. F. W. Allen, told the Free Press that the ban on imports of American cars into Malaya has af'ected the
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      LICENCES FOR SOME IMPORTS
      299 5 LICENCES FOR SOME IMPORTS IT is officially announced that no licence is required to Import any goods Into Singapore from the United Kingdom, the Colonial Territories (deluding mandated territories) Australia. Ceylon, Eire, India, New Zealand, Pakistan. South Africa, and Southern Rhodesia except the following. Animal Feeding Stun\>: oii cakes and
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  • NEWS...
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      OLYMPIC SWIMMER COLLAPSES
      33 6 OLYMPIC SWIMMER COLLAPSES ammat ~ene ca of Den.ng the "ipic 400 metres crowd of arms I -h cramp and 1 A-. Elma S:atr.ry and >U S.) dived in Vlss ■'y in '.is ■m
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      INDIA'S PRINCES ON THE WAY OUT
      337 6 INDIA' S PRINCES ON THE WAY OUT Baroda 'rebellion 9 only the start... INDIA'S bejewelled Maharajahs, no longer secure 1 on their golden thrones under British rule are racing down the broad highway to oblivion and some are doing so very quickly. This new turn of events is exemplified by
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      THEY LIVE ON SIX TABLETS A DAY
      305 6 By Special Correspondent HAVE lunch with me," said my host, offering me two brown-coloured tablets about the size of a 2s. piece. "And drinks are on me, too." he added. The tablets were iimilar to those which 80 medical students are living on
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      13 6 Tne Nizam of Hyderabad believed to be the richest man in the world.
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      MERLE OBERON
      11 6 predict* n will d!H.dlard and imirry Sir Alexander Korda.
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      LIED ABOUT HER AGE TO WIN 'GREAT LOVE'
      131 6 4 WOMA] i 40. the mother of five children, 4 sub ars from her ape to "marry" a man aued 27 "because she 1 happiness so badly." This was revealed in a Middlebrough court when she was charged with bigamy. The Rose
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      37 6 Winner of the Pentathlon at the Olympic Games. Captain G r J lt °U the Sw *<H** Army on the Olympic rostrum. Major G B. Moore Heft) wan second and Lt G Gardin of Sweden ?ra.t third.
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      EEL CREW UP IN BOMB
      131 6 MR W. F. Basterfie.d. of Taunton, .England) stopped his eel-fish-ing at Dunster, Somerset, to inspect a mortar bomb he found in a stream And. as he examined it, a head popped out of a small hole in the base of the bomb the head of
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      Navy admits: 'dive bombers worried us'
      110 6 Navy admits: 'dive bombers worried us THE German dive bombing that damaged the aircraft carrier. Illustrious, i erely thook the B: faith in Its own hold on Mediterranean early In '941 This was made cl'ar In a .-time dispatch from Sir Andrew (now Lord) Cunningham, the Mediterranean Commai.der-In-Chief. to the
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      SADLER'S WILLS BALLET TOUR
      41 6 SADLER'S WILLS BALLET TOUR The Sadler's Weils Ballet. London, is to ro on a short Continental tour, under the auspices of the British Council. It will flr.< for a two weeks Kftaoa and then ko to Germany for Tew weeks —UP
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      UN AMENDMENT ON CENSORSHIP
      66 6 THK Human Rights Commit--1 tee of UNESCO in Gen has amended one of Its articles g\ ntracting nations the right to Impose censorship lor the maintenance of "national military security b\ deleting the word military British and U.S. members of^ the committee withdrew their proposal that
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      CHINA TO HAVE 65 'MET' STATIONS
      213 6 I PRIMARILY to facilitate op, and shipping companies, Chin; establish a network of 65 modern stations and observation country. Shanghai, where the larg> of China's present 12 c< and river weather ra stations is located, has bchosen as the site of the n. bureau
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      FROM RAGS TO DIAMONDS
      5 6 FROM RAGS TO DIAMONDS I
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      105 6 JANE Vxctusiro to tho Singapore Free Pres* in Malaya WE SHALL HAVE TO K HOPE TmAT OLD KvOU NEEDNT WORRy\ "TELL LORD LOVACE BUTLER OF HIS W*d& I JANE. I—MA1 MA LTK A VERS EV ABOUT YOUR APPOMThEHT] DOESwV OFFER US #*S HAS GONE To EIRE FORELOCK? MfI V AS
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      20 7 Mr. 0. H. M. Sturoess leads in Astivel after his horse had won at Ipoh on Saturday.— Photo by Scoops.
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      U.S. tribute to British fair play
      140 7 U.S. tribute to British fair play >JHE New York World Teleoram said in an editorial on Saturday that th» "camera cannot lie 1 settlement over the Olympics 400-metre relay race had "confirmed and cemented the good sportsmanship of both sides." Judges at Wembley awarded first place to Britain's Jour-man team,
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      DILLARD COMES INTO HIS OWN IN HURDLES
      737 7 DILLARD COMES INTO HIS OWN IN HURDLES Equals Olympic record in Paris H *8! Dillard the hurdler who could not h«#^Sr e i f' 01 y m P ic team in his special event, uui wno instead became the world's fastest sprinter by winning the Olympic 100 metres, came back
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      Field day for English horses
      397 7 Free Press Racing Reporter HPHE success of English-bred horses, a sensational A upset by Waveation and a thrilling deadheat, were the highlights of Saturday's racing in Ipoh in the first day of the Perak Turf Club's August meeting. Six English horses scored. They were Kaiserine,
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      Class 3 may not get run at B. Timah
      68 7 (''LASS three horses may not get a run. as originally intended, at the Singapore Turf Club's Gold Cup meeting next month. Mr. L. C. Bailey, S.T.C. secretary, told the Free Press this morning that class three events woe Id have to
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      ANY WINS AGAIN
      10 7 Alex relnI m rei was roke: flay:
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      INDIAN OLYMPIC SOCCER TEAM WIN
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      FILIPINOS WIN TWO TITLES
      6 7 FILIPINOS WIN TWO TITLES com--1 A.P.
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      SCFA ambition may be realised soon
      561 7 IFn th 1S n e r y h pe that the Sin «apore Chinese Football Association will soon realise its erezt^t ambitlon-that of providing its aHUiates wUh a central clubhouse and ground. Mr T. W. Ong, president of the S.C.F A told the Free
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      All Berlin records broken
      237 7 Arid record in takings and attendance is expected to be disclosed when the official figures of the number of people who attended the 14th Olympiad and what they paid are announced. Although it will take some months before the completed accounts are made known, first indications
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      SELANGOR CLUB IN STRONG POSITION
      329 7 T*HE Selangor Club were in a strong position at the 1 L end of yesterday's play in the Stonor Shield cricket match against the Technical College Union, which will be continued next Saturday. The Club scored 281 runs j for eight wickets declared, and the
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      FRANK PARKER WINS
      32 7 FRANK Parker of the U.S.A.. defending rhampfon. defeated Ted Schroeder 6 2. f) 7, 2, to win the Eastern Grass Courts tennis championship yesterday In South Orfrnge, New Jersey.
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      England batting 'deplorable'
      854 7 England batting 'deplorable From Bill Bowes pNGLAND, all out for 52 after winning the toss and electing to bat on a wet wicket in the lath Test at the Oval on Saturday, made their lowest Test score hi England. The previous lowest was in 1888 at Lord's when they got
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      264 7 F.P. Crossword No. 464 liy a 5 b 4 1 r rl, _IZ iIL!L 15 16 P l7 ZiiE""Zi?l-""iZ L _iii 1 24 25 W^ wm m k mmmm v/// '> 30 51 55 M WL tfy'/A mm^ mM mmmm mmmm mm i 40 I |p CUES AC'RO>S 4. Mental
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      BIRTHS
      53 8 At Kandang Kerbau Hospital, on the 6 f h August, to Mr. and Lin Ene Bee. a babv girl. THOMPSON— To O*ive. wht oJ Charl-^ Thompson, on Augui. I3tr at Kadang Kerbau a daugh-rr. MACDUFF— On he 11th u.stcnt at Batu Gajah Hospital to Brenda. the wi.e of Kenneth
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      ACKNOWLEDGMENT
      49 8 Hi Burnhain gratefully acknowledges the many kind iressand floral tributes ol her ds on the occasion of her bereavement. The Broth T and Sisters of the late Janet R. Russell thank all friends for the manv kind pr ssions of sympathy and help vei in their sudden Devent.
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      ACCOMMODATION WANTED
      23 8 FURNISHED accommodation y required. Two F N COs. and wives. Would -harm* house or flat. All -s answered Box 5.201. P.P.
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      Korea now has own army, navy
      194 8 Korea now has own army, navy SEOUL, Sunday. AS 500,000 South Koreans peacefully celebrated the birth of the American-spon-sored Republic of Korea today, 10,000 constabularymen on parade, symbolically ripped off their insignia— thus proclaiming themselves as an army while 1,000 coast guardsmen wore for the first time the new emblem
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      ISRAEL WARNS OF WAR RENEWAL
      420 8 ISRAEL WARNS OF WAR RENEWAL Will drive out Arabs' WARNING that Israel must be prepared for a "renewal of war activities," the Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. David Ben Gurion, in a speech at Tel Aviv threatened that the Israelis would drive the invading Arab armies out of all Palestine
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      TIN ALLOCATIONS
      19 8 The Combined Tin Committee lui.s allocated 28.685 long tons of tin for the last >f 1948, A.P.
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      'FRAME-UP BY RUSSIA'—U.S.
      173 8 'FRAME- UP BY RUSSIA '—U.S. WASHINGTON, Sunday. .'PHK is. state Department charged that Ihe 1 Russian authorities had framed up an espionage ease against l.ieut. Robert Dreher, whom the Moscow press and radio today accused of serving as aw American spy. The BU meat said that Lieut. Dreher, who :.ow
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      Last group of Jews leaves Cyprus
      161 8 Last group of Jews leaves Cyprus CYPRUS, Monday. THE last batch of Jew Immigrants abovtary age will leave here ten: About 12,000 younger men and women, who could be I cruited as soldiers, will remain in British hands until a fuller statement of the t! is made. Before being allowed
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      China battle lull broken
      94 8 i'&PING. Sunday. NATIONALIST forces in North China claimed this week smashing victories in East Hopei ana placed Communist casualties at 13,000. U.P. reported today. The action broke a longe lull. The Red forces some of which came down from Manchuria were said to I retreating into
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      MOON MURDER HUNT ARREST
      70 8 A 22-year-old Hour mill worker. Pete.- Griffiths was charged at Blackburn (Lanes) on Saturday with the murder of three-voar-old June Devandy who was snatched from a cot In the children's ward of Queen's Park Hospital. Blackburn, on May 14. Griffiths was arrested on Friday night. Police
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      Czech Communists plan purge
      153 8 PRAGUE, Sunday. 'THE Czech Communist Party today announced that A its 2,000,000 members will be screened between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, this year, and that all who fail to meet the exacting standards will be expelled from membership. The announcement pointed out that the Communist
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      GAEKWAR BACK IN BARODA
      87 8 THE Oaekwar of Baroda. who arrived in Bombay yesterday from London, said he would Implement without delay the pledge to grant full responsible government to the people of Baroda. Facing demands from state's legislative council for his abdication for alleged misuse of funds, he said he
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      Arabs holding Wailing Wall
      94 8 JEWS were not able to say their traditional lamentation prayers at the Walling Wall on the eve of the ninth day of the Hebrew month of prayer, commemorating the destruction of the Holy Temple and conquest of Jerusalem in the year 70 AD. The Military Governor
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      ULSTER WILL FIGHT UNION
      86 8 WHILE the Prime Minister ul Northern Ireland, Sir Basil Brooke, speaking in Belfast yesterday, denied rumours that action was to be taken to unite north and south Ireland, the ex-Prime Minister of Eire, (Mr. de Valera, declared In Ennis County (Clare) that Ireland must become a
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      Rubber prices
      65 8 A STKCIAi. Market correspondent elves the prices of rubber at 11 a.m today as follows: per lb. per lb Bayers Sellers Cte CU No I RSS Spot loose .43*34 44 No 1 RS S fob in bales Aug. 43 >, 44 No. 2 R.S.S. fob in bales Aug.
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      Army Helps flood relief in Scotland
      132 8 Army Helps flood relief in Scotland LONDON, Sunday. ARMY teams were today touring the desolate flooc areas of South-east Scotland In preparation for military relief measures to help restore communications and services to thifl stricken border country. In the hills above Eyemouth, special constables are patrolling the railway enbankment which
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      10 8 MR. BEN GUR: "we'll drive out Arab invaders from Palestine."
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      INDIA ASKS MORE AID FROM U.S.
      173 8 WASHINGTON. Sunday. FE Indian Ambassador, Sir B-.-negal Rama Ran. today called on the United States to continue her cooperation and a e in developing India, and said India was in a "key position in Asia, strategically and otherwise" Trie Ambassador spoke in a radio
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      GIRL 'SAINT' PREDICTS OWN DEATH
      165 8 VERONA. (Italy), Sunday. OOLICE had to keep order today among thousands of visitors to Miss AlfonsL a Ghini, 28. allegedly ryarer of "stigmata." who predicted her own death for tonight, at the close of Um Day of Assumption of the Vlrpin Mary Among the visitors
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      GREEKS OGCUPY RED STRONGHOLD
      61 8 GREEKS OGCUPY RED STRONGHOLD THE Greek Army, supported by aircraft, occupied the whole of Orlas Ridge on the Grammos front In a new thrust yesterday. The objective, the southwest anchorage of the Grammos Mountains perlmetre ivas completely occupied ana Jreek troops immediately began to surround guerrilla defences of the southern
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      Shanghai rice prices soar
      256 8 SHANGHAI, Sundax lI'HILE Shanghai buzzed with rumours of an promulgation by the Chinese (Kivernnient of new economic regulations, the price of rice hit the all-time high record of CN570,000,000 per pic-ul. (133 lb.) today— a rise of CNS6,OOO,OOQ in 24 hou Meanwhile, it has been ascertained
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      Woman now, under U.S. protection
      61 8 Woman now, under U.S. protection COMSULAnj^ MRS. Oksana li^Mim^oS x v* Russian school- teacher I consulate window here on Ihtrsd »v h with a subpoena to testn> t eI a I sentatives Committee on In m I Mrs. Kosenkina, wh I prisoner at the consul;. I Hospital, where she is
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      CHETTY RESIGNS
      27 8 The Indian Finar. ter. Mr. R. K S Chetty. has ten slgnatlon to the I Pandit Nehru, it wai from reliable soui been disclosed Reuter
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      Sympathy for Indonesia
      59 8 WE are not Indilft i the strug^.--:.ng for nation." the :aaa' A*i "'No rig.' doubt their r the yoke of I become masters of th< destiny. "The people of F feel deeply about the \t Palestine The Arabs ca a just cause and It v tinu£ to
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