The Singapore Free Press, 24 August 1948

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA KAGFHAJGF PRUT l« </h.M» SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1948.
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    We'll meet again. 'says US envoy
    141 1 f l er crucial mlin talks MOSCOW, Tuesday. f the ihree Western Powers left the lus morning, after a meetilin and Mr Molotov which ■n ::eation tha* it was a cruit began it was freely prete the last Kremlin talk, vularly optimistic. But American
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    Tribal chiefs wire the King
    101 1 PESHAWAR, Tuesday. DATHAN tribal chiefs yes- terday telegraphed an appeal to King George to intervene m the dispute between India and Hyderabad. They declared that if Hydead were attacked the consequent spread of hostilities would involve all Cent Asia. The telegram, combined tribal Jirga, said:
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    'WE FIGHT FOR FREE BURMA'
    209 1 'WE FIGHT FOR FREE BURMA --Thakin Nu RANGOON, Monday. WHILE military observers were predicting a full scale battle with Burmese insurgents for Rangoon, the Premier, Thakin Nu, tonight broadcast to the people of Burma a pledge that the government was "fighting to defend the constitution of Burma and to prevent
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    51 1 The Kathi of Singapore. Tuan Haji AH b. Haji Mohamed Said Salleh, (centre, facing camera^. Ahmad b. Ibrahim, president of the Young Men's Muslim Association, and Inche Sardon b. Haji Zuhir. Legislative Councillor, greet leaders of the party of Tilipino Muslims who arrived m Singapore on Sunday en route to
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    'BANANAS' ARE RIPE
    72 1 JAPANESE currency yester«l day emerged from three and half year concealment m Rangoon as businessmen began a brisk trade with "banana money" for lejjal Burmese currency, reports A.P. The present rate of exchange is two Burmese rupees for 100 Japanese rupees. The exchange sprang up as a
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    H'KONG GODOWNS GO UP IN FLAMES
    151 1 HONG KONG, Tuesday. 4 HUGE fire which threw clouds of black smoke skyward last night destroyed two godowns owned by the Hong Kong-Kowloon Wharf Oodown Co. opposite the Kowloon ferry terminus. Thousands watched as all available fire services, including the Army, joined m a
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    31 1 Ez-* u ~i oj .1 nam is to make an urgent appeal to the Vietnam guerillas to cease fighting so that a settlement with the French may be reached m Indo-China.
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    Crisis arrest
    25 1 C risis arrest On e Chinese was arrested m Singapore under the Emergency Regulations yesterday, bringing the total number detained to 270. Assault on 'special'
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    Doctor bound over one year
    179 1 I'kß. John D. Dennehy was bound over m his own U recognisance of $750 to be of good behaviour for a year by the First District Judge, Mr. E. P. Shanks this morning. At last, week's hearing. Dr. Dennehy had pleaded guilty to assaulting Mr.
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    July rubber production shows decline
    111 1 July rubber production shows decline Free Press Staff Reporter RUBBER production iya last month dropped by 2.429 tons, total production being 53.165 long tons. It was the first decline the terrorist crisis began. Exports were also down m according to figures red Kuala Lumpur this :ng. Estate production v. .is
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    Pope, Russians boycott talks
    110 1 AMSTERDAM Monday. THE World Council ol Churches, representing 145 church organisations, was informed at its first pP nary session m Amsterdam yesterday why neither the Roman Catholic church nor the Russian Orthodox church had accepted invitations to attend the Assembly. Dr. T. Hooft, the > said
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    MR. ATTLEE IN HOSPITAL
    82 1 THE British Prime Minister, Mr. Attlec, will conduct affairs of state from a hospital bed for the next week. Last night he entered a London hospital for treatment for •WtSfiSFa- Prime Minister was receiving free treatment under Britain's new National Health Insurance Act -vhich came into
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    T.B SUFFERER TRIED SUICIDE
    64 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A TUBERCULOSIS patknt of Kwong Wai Siu Free Hospital who slit his throat with a knife m a futile attempt to end his life was taken to the General Hospital this mornlrg. He is 38-yeer-old Chow Shi, from Layang Layang (Johore). Chow
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    CONSTABLE HURT
    30 1 A Singapore police constable who was knocked down by a military truck at 3. p m. yesterday near Gate 2 of the Singapore Harbour Board sustained slight injuries.
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    Three die for profiteering
    116 1 SHANGHAI, Monday. THREE rice merchants were executed by a firing sQuad m Changchun, Manchuria, and five others were arrested m Nanking, as the Chinese Government, determined to carry out control measures, was seek- itig to hold prices on the Aug. 19 level to prevent a possible
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    RAF strikes in night attack
    267 1 RAF strikes in night attack Free Press Staff Reporter THE first night attack on terrorists by aircraft was reported m yesterday's communique issued by advanced Air Headquarters, Malaya, which stated that rocket-firing Beaufighters attacked an area south of Ipoh, known to the police as a Communist hide-out. Beaufighters also bombed
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    'Sheer" pagan nonsense'
    53 1 BRISTOL. Monday. 'THE Olympic Games torch and the Olympic hynni are branded as sheer pagan nonsense by the Vicar of Bristol, the Rev. G. W. L. Wynne, who asks m his parish magazine: Can the nations of the world unite only under heathenism? He did not attend
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    FIRST INDIAN SHIP
    27 1 The Indian Trader, the first Indian merchant vessel to open a shipping service between India and Britain, has arrived m the port of London.
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    Commando chief dies
    18 1 Colonel Ahmed Abdel Aziz Bey. commander of Egyptian Army commandos m Palestine, dKd yesterduy. U.P.
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    Customs make 3 opium hauls
    151 1 Customs make 3 opium hauls Free Press Staff Reporter THREE hauls of opium x were made m Singapore yesterday by Customs officials. The largest seizure was made aboard the freighter Kistna when searchers located 112 lb. beneath the eneine room footplates. The Kistna Singapore fron on Sunday. The opium were
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    Ex-soldier & wife allowed to land
    118 1 Ex-soldier wife allowed to land Fre« Press Staff Reporter AN Englishman, Mr. Jonn Yates, a former soldier stationed m Malaya, and nis Eurasian wife. Muriel, a nurse at Johore Bahru were granted permission 'o land m Sine rday. They had arrived Carthage on Sunday but temporarily refused rx sion to
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    HOW TO GROW OLD
    651 2  - HOW TO GROW OLD Anthony Tys li> A. P. Correspondent "IF you want to *to <* good old age, and m excellent health.' says Dr. Rene Sand, Professor jf Social Medicine at Brands University, *'a ffoon method is to be seiiously ill for a start." Professor Sand recently returned to
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    MAKING ART EASY
    149 2  -  TRAUDL WIGLITZKY By A. P. Correspondent SERAL art sponsors have decided to the people, m order to ir. of the population acq i with the out masteres of art. famous p.. ab. club the <»f X- Logra] rels of the greatest :t. If an arr.st. he E::
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    £1,000-FUND FOR LAB. M.P.
    81 2 £1,000-FUND FOR LAB. M.P. MR J K. J5-ycar-old Labour M.P. vklio has been three times a cabinet minister, has been living m straitened circumstanci valid wife. ter the disclosure <»f h difficulties, two funds were launched, one by Labour M P i> and another a more eral fund. The general
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    COTTEN WAS FOOLED
    359 2  -  HAROLD HEFFERNAN »> JOSEPH Cotten plays a smooth and slick jack-of-all-rack-et* m RKO's v Weep No More/ but as ne stands over a gambling table m a fancy Reno result, about to make a pass with the dice, he looks anything but convincing. Joe seems to realize
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    Bridge Problem
    263 2 gOUTH I to get to a sla. at ion the <iuu v.d liave small h«-a: t to dun:: Wllen •r woo Urn uu»ii».n n club d t>) t > Wkj to t! N i hand w 'h r. .i-h m oroei v. t.tke thIt look.d hk. -lv Cram
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    36 2 Sporting the flowers tn this charming picture are three of the young stars of the J. Arthur Rank Organisation. Inside are blonde Peggy Evans and brunette Zena Marshall, and on the ground is newcomer Tamara Lees.
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    A Patient Hobb
    329 2  -  K. S CHIA By QRNITHOLOGY is a very fascinating hobby, so fascinating, indeed, that to study the habius of birds a man will devote his whole Sunday, standing knee-deep m water for hours on end, to photogmph the Bittern m the swamp feeding and protect its young,
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    TOURISTS IN BRITAIN
    6 2 TOURISTS IN BRITAIN M l A.P.
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    BRAIN CUTS STOP PAIN
    117 2 4 NEW brain opera- Uoo that reli« ny part of the body v. it the annual meeting: of the American N al ociation. This operation ab>«. makeg ending of di narcotic arff, a r at Colu:r:-:ri Uniand ns. It ill p I go. O: be from
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      66 2 TODAY AT RAFFLES HOTEI TIFFIN -TIME ORCHESTRAL (W rroa i M pm IN IHE l\)i THE COCKTAIL HOU From 7 p.m ta I pm with FRANK PICKFORD AT THE IN THE PALM COURi From LIGHT ORCHESTRAL DANCE MUSIC PATRICK FORBES HIS Ogjg For i 4// Defects of Vition X M.
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      661 2 YOUP LUCKY STAR DOK.N on thL> first day of 1 1 1 bjcoojsteg lign, > roa Meals will oombinc with energy to niak** %'>u practical and often .m i ritual of yourself it >our OH ii t< omIngs as you Ari aboot t!n»sf of others, Youi ruler is M rtur\,
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    CRECH IS DEPORTED FROM U.K.
    34 3 CRECH IS DEPORTED FROM U.K. Czech, whose deportaHome Secretary, says Treudle Mitowa at :mpl was secretary of the BritishThe deportation order betid. Czechs Juable information getpower. Mrs. Hampl follow- i to Prague shortly after.
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    CHINESE DEMOCRACY-A GOOD START
    473 3 CHINESE DEMOCRACY -A GOOD START rewer one-man decisions now J)fcMOCRACY, as interpreted m China, is not working smoothly but the country is well on the road to political progress. This is the opinion of political observers m jinking who point out that, while China has met wun initial difficulties inevitable
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    German riots
    63 3 A jeep was overturned when Germans m Frankfurt rioted against high prices and the U.S. Military Government. Mass meetings of 30,000 German workers met m all the major cities of the state of Hesse demanding that General Lucius D. Clay approve a law demanding more rights for workers
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    Church,Stateblamed for V.D. spread
    189 3 LONDON. Monday. .r has argued m the Medical vtramarital relations are not baa that Church and State 'ributed to venereal disease. In a cor n a previous plea for chastity as the ideal control for the d^ease. Dr. W. B. Laing wrote: Sexual requirements of the
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    Voted on horoscope evidence
    122 3 Ttitj Siamese uonstiiueni Assembly, charged with 'ing a new constitution for Siam, has voted to rename the kingdom '"Thailand". The change will not become official until the Constitution is accepted by Parliament. Reports of the debate say the deciding vote was not taken until after the
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    VETERAN SAILOR IN SERVICE MIX-UP
    205 3 4 MAN who served 12 years m the Navy, 19 years m the Merchant Service, two years m the Army, and was invalided out m the last war, was charged recently with deserting. Charles Ascension Bartl y —he was borv. on Ascension Day s*i years
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    Wheel-chair sports
    80 3 Two hundred invalids from all parts of Britain will converge on the Olympic centre at Richmond l.irk on Sunday m their wheel chairs to hold their own sports rally In their chairs which are electric and hand-propelled, and petrol driven, they will first join m parade. Among- the
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    NEHRU ASKS ABOUT INDIANS IN MALAYA
    45 3 NEHRU ASKS ABOUT INDIANS IN MALAYA Indian Government Representative m Singapore. Mr. J. A. Thivy, ha.- received unofficial information that there has been loss of Indian II two incidents during the current terrorism In Malaya, the Indian Premier, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, told the Dominion Parliament.
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    PERSIAN PREMIER ATTACKED
    7 3 l an re- A.P.
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    A REPLY TO U.N.
    6 3 AKGAHGAHA A.P.
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    AIR TRAFFIC RIGHTS
    35 3 Negotiations are taking place between the Ceylon and Australian Governments on air traffic rights. Two Australian companies, Quantas Airways and National Airways, have asked for the regular use of Ceylon airports.— A.P.
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    Girl with pearls found strangled
    118 3 4 GIRL ased between 20 and 30, believed to be a London University student named Joan Wordhouse, was found strangled recently m Arundel Park, near Arundel Castle. Sussex, seat of the Duke of Norfolk The girl wa.underclothes and pearls. fch e is belie v dto
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    HIS RUSSIAN WIFE HAS VANISHED
    127 3 4 BRlToN's Russian v. pretty dark-haired NataIsba Vasbor. 27, has disap- 1 peared m Moscow. Her husband, ex-Captain Clifford Whitehead, 33, of, Dcvonia- gardens, Edmonton London. N., has had word from the British Embassy that 'Mrs. Whitehead went out for a walk one evening and
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    SHE 'STOLE THE SHOW AT FILM FESTIVAL
    149 3 BRITAIN'S 22-year-old red -head Moira Shearer has so far "stolen the show" at the opening performance of the international film festival m Venice. The British ballerina's performance is expected to give first place to the film of which she is the star, "The
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    Admiral joins merchant Navy
    72 3 VICE Admiral Sir Charles Morgan will sail I Mersey next month as a Merchant Navy captain. He is the first Br tish Admiral of the century to do so. Sir Charles, who is 59 and has been at sea 43 years retired from the Royal Navy
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    Holiday camp for Govt. servants
    65 3 Holiday camp for Govt. servants AEYLON S frrst State Holiday mp for governmexr vants will b* 1 estab* shortly at Bandarawala. I dom from household w< for the housewife Is claimed to be its prime asset. The camp, which based on the English n tuated on a 15 site and
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    S'HAI POLICE SHOT CONDUCTOR
    35 3 S'HAI POLICE SHOT CONDUCTOR Chontabie Chlnghui of Shanghai jump aboard a m wing dus. and en the ducior refused w open the shoi him through I I. A thr The conduc :n a cr. on
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      37 3 TARZAN Piercing the darkneSS By Edgar Rice Burroughs m U |^MMM^M| u »iii-m wcjlj* WHO COU.O BT y>^ £i IMAGINATION, HAH.'" WCX.F fOZ&D jf A V I /*^Vs OEPOUOWiNG/uS CHIRAM r F^ 1L GROWLEO. "IF ™AT.*MT I
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    The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. Aug. 24. 1948. Crucial meeting
    537 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. Aug. 24. 1948. Crucial meeting IN i .ly hours of th.s morning, the envoys of the left o endinf th meeting with Mr M •w. the Russian For- v: Thf em c N ?en w Radio has dropped a could not if it would, for
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    Don Iddon's Diary
    935 4 Don Iddon's Diary NEW YORK: DERHAPS any day now the FBI men will call on me. They will say: "For years, week after week, you have been looking at America through foreign eyes, sending cables about America to foreign countries, receiving money from foreign sources, exchanging letters and messages with
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    White man with the Black Mouths
    523 4  -  MANCEL FERREIRA By A. P. Con ond( WHAT'S better: Co live m f he tangle or m civilization? "Hie answer to that old question is e> pected 4 <> be .uivcn goon by a white man. Reports horn Porto Velho, capita] of the Guapore
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    One sure way now of saving the peace
    943 4  - One sure way now of saving the peace A. DUFF COOPER SIR by THERE exists to- day a simple and a sure method of preserving the peace of the world. This is a bold statement, but it is true. Here it is proposed to demonstrate the truth of it m
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    58 4 When "Simba," sole survivor of a litter of four lion cubs born at V 7 deserted by his mother, a fostermother uas found for him m the person of "D Boxer ***** living at the Zoo Here "Daisy" glares balefully at the lion cub. She is as proud of the
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    IDEAL ISLE
    17 4 IDEAL ISLE I I I 1 I j I T S m i i.l ,1.., m -J
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    FAITH
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    SELF-DEFENCE PLAN
    93 5 \nd by patrols for the area and have ements standing by .dquarters. It will be the duty of the unit to protect every house m the area, day and night. The unit will be manned by both European and Asian fulltime professional guards, who will be sufficiently armed
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    15 5 picture. Free Press of an Ipoh ife of re transit pas- to H)no Kona on
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    JOHORE RHINO
    68 5 THE first rhinoceros shot m Johore for many years was killed on Sunday night by the assistant manaser of Ulu 13 miles from Johore Bahru, on the Kota Tinggi Road. The assistant manager four 1 the animal m an old on the estate, and mis- for a wild
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    ACTING C.M.O.
    17 5 Dr J. W. Winch s. or his b d acting Clurf •n to ~al Hot-p
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    CLEANING UP FOOD SHOPS
    470 5 'DRASTIC ACTION' IS RECOMMENDED a rAMlflrm Free Pres s Staff Reporter fa COMMITTEE of Municipal Commissioners, dealing ST f! c lth matt «rs. has recommended that "drastic action be taken to ensure that Singapore coffee shops and taxing houses are run under sanitary conditions m place
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    For electorate, not individuals
    167 5 Free Press Staff Reporter •THE interests of Indian, Chinese, Malay, European 1 and Eurasian residents of the Rural West were the interests of the electorate as a whole and should be appreciated as such, said Mr. Cheong Hock Chye, Progressive Party candidate for the by-election m
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    MUST TELL MALAYA WHY
    108 5 WHEN something is clone n. England which atlects Malaya, more ought to be done to explain to Malaya why the derisions were taken. Mr. K. W. Blackburne or oi Colonial Office, told a Press In J£'J; I unpur y< rday. 1 sud he felt taere wa*
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    Youth is jailed, wastedchances
    143 5 WITH two waited opportunities to make good behind him a 17-year-old Chinese heard the Assize mdge Mr. Justice Brown pass sentence of four years nard labour on him j*e was Tan Ah Kow, convicted of committing two armVt f robberies m Boat Quay within an hour
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    ARMY TO RECRUIT MORE MEN
    183 5 THE recruiting office m Fort Canning, will be open again on Sept. 1, to take more men into the Army. The following Corps need more recruits for training m selected trades:— Royal Engineers, Royal Corps of Signals, Royal Army Service Corps, Royal Army Ordnance Corps,
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    Free schooling to be extended
    182 5 Free schooling to be extended 'FIIE scheme of granting free places to deserving pupils up to five per cent, of the approved enrolment is being extended to all registered schools m Singapore, it was oflicially stated yesterday. The announcement also gives a list of 49 aided Chinese schools which have
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    New rules for trading with N.E.I.
    273 5 ALL goods exported from the Indonesian Republican territories must be report i ci immediately to the Trade Dc partment of the Indonesia, Office, Singapore, upon arrival of the steamer and/or tong- m Singapore harbour, an announcement from the office of Indonesian Government r- Dr
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    VICTORY SWINGS
    18 5 Sales of Victory Savings Certificates m Malaya up to the end of July amounted to $761,407.50.
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    38 OIL PALM ESTATES IN PRODUCTION
    84 5 THIRTY-EIGHT of Malaya's 47 oil palm estates were m production m July, with a total acreage of 73,408. according to the latest statistic. July production of palm < amounted to 3,245 tons, an< the total for the first sevti; months of this year was
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    TO ATTEND UNO TALKS
    65 5 senator romas loom (standing fifth from the left) who will represent the Philippines at next month's general assembly meeting of the United Nations m Paris, with members of his party and officers and men of the Philippines pilgrim ship bound for Mecca. Included m the group
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    Deaths highest under the Japs
    303 5 Deaths highest under the Japs Free Press Staff Reporter [REFLECTING the in- creasingly pressing conditions of life m the last few months of the Japanese occupation are the 1945 figures of births and deaths m Singapore. Births dropped to 24,441 from 34.421 m 1941, but ro.se at the liberation to
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    Spanish gypsy wedding in London church
    36 6 Spanish gypsy wedding in London church Spanish shawls and made Soho Madrid when Sen the Spanish gyp^y married 19-year Veronica Farmigiana. the leader of the show, was at the anng a mantilla a jinq a tan.
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    JULIANA WILL BE QUEEN ON SEPT. 4
    42 6 THE i to the throne of 1 the Netherlands laimed by th< aids immeci. Wilh< '.4 Emma I as q 1898. I r of robes will f Queei d 6 of n 1 N riv
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    PALESTINE FIGHT-TO-THE -FINISH IS FEARED
    375 6 PALESTINE FIGHT-TO-THE -FINISH IS FEARED Arabs ready for '100 years war' NEW YORK, Sunday. THE Palestine problem is far from settled. Despite the second Tnited Nations truce, half a dozen armies are lined up m the Holy Land waiting to join a fight to the finish which almost everybody m
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    BODIES FOUND
    37 6 poLK'hi have dv i up tne A bodies of lour rrom the bi a M lima i Kettikuppan m chei women kun pericxU ir to two months and laid to have c >nc 'o the
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    BICYCLE RACE SHOOTING
    54 6 BICYCLE RACE SHOOTING CPI pn'a blcj beard what they 1 tWO pis t<>! iin •its. Then rtd< r oil her bicycle v from a bullet wou m the crowd wa i a man holding a smoking pistol. r i num. Pierre TYtnz. told tlie police he shot her because she
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    Peace makers
    53 6 King Abdullah, of Transjordan, who has been playing the unofficial role of peacemaker m the Palestine dispute, is seen here on the balcony of the Royal Palace, Amman with Count Folke Eernadotte of Sweden, United Nations Mediator for Palestine. With them is the King's Defence Minister, Pasha Mulky.
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    PRINCES OFF DUTY
    26 6 rting v. a day off. Tl ydtnburqh (o wai 'king bet and A. at V City. I I to c name ..<ig the
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    Life-sustaining drug found
    42 6 Al. Nl dCoped a drug k< v 3 men alive and fi»r a per up k. ..pone is BO r lood bal liable. It is I by ttfl ln\ abit I tirlc or rut off from their supp U.P.
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    FIRST MAN TO 'SNAP' LAMA
    61 6 GMB. xplorer author and li and .v the Lama of T died m s of I di.s. ;lm\ H. i M Mr. Lamb spent nearly 30 i as riser to Chim dans. In the i )a rt of little-known Tibet, wl man m even live
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    MAKE-UP FREES GIRL FROM JOB IN DARK
    152 6 MAKE-UP is being put to a new Bond-street (London) beauty salon, being used to give new confidence to men women who bear birthmarks or the accidents or burns. Plastic surgeons and hospitals m many parts of the country are sending patients to Miss
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    'West should study Yoga'
    41 6 DR JULIAN HUvi. |UL Julian Huxln. lU Atfy United Nation* Cultural Organisation t tion for Mental. Health tl study yoga and urg^d tl IT^^M 1( lore of th, I "If this lore could he advised men! immediate
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    SYDNEY MARINE PILOTS STRIKE
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    WORLD WAR 1 HEROINE DIES
    51 6 WORLD WAR 1 HEROINE DIES Oof the episodes ol cry d v I by th< m b town Quentin of Madam B BE She was one o'. who received an a: •yed to: London >er. At the function to p: with the bc-droom tx h Madam G house was 'f-rnian
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    NEW U.S. RED BAN
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      122 6 JANiT Exclusive to the Singapore Froe Press m Walavn Ijtffj 3sT7 l/^!?' ELL N \J /^YOIA WAS A Bll\] r \J WOULD SERVF HER^J T\'m RATHER MOM THAN^N fllfr 5 WlKr OFF A f CATTY ABOUT IT, BUT > RIGHT IF I DID SNAFFLM f FOND OF TmAT PIG HMD(D<
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    GLAMORGAN ARE WELL SET FOR VICTORY
    366 7 GLAMORGAN ARE WELL SET FOR VICTORY Clay again m top form QLAMORGAN, the English County championship leaders, made almost certain of vital points against Hampshire yesterday, building up a commanding Mrst innings score and taking six cheap Hampshire wickets m the last 75 minutes. Glamorgan's batting was sound if not
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    KENT WERE BEWILDERED
    119 7 r VHE Australian cricketers skitted Kent for 51 m their first innings at Ca?iterbury yesterday, the lowest score made against the tourists so far. Kent followed on, 310 behind the Australians' first innings total of 361 and fared little better m their second knock, scoring only 124.
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    The Airmen grew tired of scoring
    65 7 MJ.A 0 men. the lasocUi- nil to rday ret division .c Jalan :b c I I the Airmen had aouM elves ihoreu.: k oddosU of doing >ed and m m that. tie is it to give v >rs. The Pearson, a corner .rt. coad
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    £.C.C. SOCCER TEAM
    4 7 C.C. SOCCER TEAM AGJKAKGAK
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    FORMER BOXING CHAMP DIES
    58 7 FORMER BOXING CHAMP DIES KNOWN a^ the hero of more than 300 fights, "Spider" Roach former Australian featherweight champion doxer, died recently m hospital m Queensls* d from tubercu Roach who met many imported fighters, did most of his fighting during the depression years, and his earn&t After his boxing
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    S.C.F.A.holding up the final
    552 7  -  CRUSADER By 4 NOTHER storm is brewing m Chinese soccer A^ circles, and once again the Singapore Chinese Football Association is m it to the hilt. While all the northern States have completed their fixtures m the Malayan Chinese F.A. Cup competition, with Penang emerging as
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    Blue-print for brighter cricket
    196 7 "IF I were controller of 1 cricket I'd launch an allout campaign to brighten up the pa me," says all-rounder Jack Pettiford m the Sydney "Sun." "My first target would be the major cause of. drab cricket— the ridiculously overprepared pitch. When I'd fixed that batsmen
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    Kota Raja set a soccer record
    286 7 KOTA Raja, S.A.F.A. second di\i*ion champions even before they took the field for their game against Dockyard at Geylang Stadium yesterday, made their record for the season more impressive when they beat their opponents by two goals to nil m a fast and exciting
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    THIS IS MR. UNIVERSE
    51 7 John Carl Grimek < centre of York, USA., takes the stand after being judged Mr. Universe 1948 at a contest held m the Scala Theatre, London, on August 13. In second place (at left) is Steve Reeves, of Oakland, California, and third is Andre Drapp, of
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    MILLS TURNS DOWN AUSTRALIAN OFFER
    439 7 I^REDDIE Mills, the light-heavyweifrht champion of the world, has been very much m the news since his title win over Gus Lesnevich. Following the fight there have been controversial discussions over the "long count" that Lesnevich was alleged to have taken, reports concerning Mills's health
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    Plans for Empire Boxing Assn
    310 7 T*HE unsatisfactory performances and judging m A the Olympic boxing events may lead to the withdrawal of the British Amateur Boxing Associated from the Association Internationale De Boxe, if a proposal goes through at the annual meeting next month. The break woula mean that Britain
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    Gameborough retains form
    353 7 Gameborough retains form X.L TkALK NOTES Free Press Racing Reporter pAMEBOROUGH, fastest horse m training m Malaya, did a fine spurt at Kuala Lumpur this morning as serious training began for the Selangor Turf Club's meeting which opens on Saturday. Given his head over two furlongs, Gameborough returned a time
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    UNITED BEAT BLACKPOOL
    90 7 MANCHESTER United, who beat BlacKpool four-two m last year's English F.A. Cup Final, yesterday beat BlacKpool three-nil m a first divison game. Scores m all games yesterday are: FIRST I)I\1>I<»\ lU*4 kpowl U MAuche«l*r I I SE4 (i\H M\ hltA Blackburn lir.tdfurd t arditt I Lion (oicntn
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    India SOCCER team defeat Welsh XI
    54 7 India SOCCER team defeat Welsh XI THE 1 teur team by I won morscore sugge.ht oi their plftj tit boot* bu ed negligible qu tiflc m thods. They k ground O o we I] thai had the Welsh sidr cl the wrong direc*. ovation field .eir Upo cci :or India
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    S.R.C. HOCKEY MEETING
    36 7 A MEETING of all S.R.C. members interested m hockey will be held at the S.R.C. pavilion on Monday, Aug. 30. at 5.15 p.m. for the purpose of electing officers for the coming seasons.
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    SINGAPORE HOCKEY ASSN MEETING
    51 7 AN thf 1 rules oi the as lowed by the annual G wll be held the S R C 15 on Sept. 3. All affiliat d Clubs tho.come JEFF Sche; signal sprint said m I terday that he may be v. abi? lefend cam ntx* 1
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      232 7 F.P. Crossword No. 470 I W§l |||]3 pg]4 I 15 16 17 I PIM 112 15 [14 30 51 I! 32 33 54 ts~ «T'^~ ~~7''W ?vr~ w J:!L \i..., mm mi '4U£6u II I 1 m N a tXUES afiBOM 4, Conduct oneself (6). 6 Wild fancy Ui Atmosphere
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      BIRTHS
      38 8 GRAHAM —At Bungsar Hosr on 21st August. 1948. to Eileen wife of Malcolm D. B. Graham a sen SCHAAPHOK.— On August 22nd at 1 Queen Astrid Park, to Kiet. wif« of P. Schaaphok. a son Both well.
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      DEATHS
      117 8 MR. KOH SEX LIM passed •way peacefully at his residence No. 655-17 Padang Terbakar. Bedok. Singapore on 20.8.48 at 7.10 p.m. aged 80 years, leaving behind 1 widow. 14 sons. 9 daughters, 9 daughters-in-law. 7 in-law. 5 grandsons-in-law. with several grandchildren and grandchildren to mourn his loss Funeral on
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      'Red' Dean banned from U.S.
      162 8 'Red' Dean banned from U.S. LONDON, Monday. DR. Newlett Johnson, the "Red" Dean of Canterbury, said tonight that he hoped to go to the United States when the "anti-Soviet feeling there had blown over and when Mr. Wallace is President, as I think he is sure to be within three
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      CONTROLLED JET TARGETS
      36 8 THE United States is planning to develop an undisclosed number of small, fait ground-controlled Jet planes that can be used as targets for anti-aircraft guns, it was announced m Washington t rday.- U.P.
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      U.S. STUDENTS
      15 8 Some 32.000.000 students are expected to register this mn m United States U.P.
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      RUBBER SMUGGLING 'SERIOUS'
      266 8 Treasury on leakage LONDON, Monday. THE "leak" of dollars through the smuggling of Malayan rubber is described by a Treasury official as "quite serious." Smugglers get raw rubber from Malayan plantations, send it m boats by night to Siam and there dispose of it through illegal channels.
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      British arrest Soviet major
      270 8 British arrest Soviet major BERLIN, Monday. BRITISH military police m Berlin today arrested the Soviet director of the Berlin Radio, Major Ivan Lepedev, for speeding m the British sector. The Russian-controlled radio station the principal Soviet propaganda outlet m Germany is located m the British sector. Meanwhile, the Russians today
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      Rubber yield overtakes consumption
      157 8 Rubber yield overtakes consumption THE world during the first half of 1948 produced 60.000 more tons 1 natural rubber than it used, the U.S. Depart:. f Commerce R'ibb:r Study Group estimated m a report. The report world pr tion of natural rubber for six months at 727,500 tons, of which
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      12 U.S. Reds to be tried for conspiracy
      114 8 12 U.S. Reds to be tried for conspiracy NEW YORK, Monday. FEDERAL judge Harold R. M. dina >day ttxed Oct. 15 as the da.tfl for the triai ol 12 American Communist leaders on a charge of conspiracy to overthrow the government by force. House of Representatives investigators said that M
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      Rubber prices
      119 8 SI'KCIAL Market corrrs.icnd* nt <itc» the prir«« of robber 11 a.m today as follow*: on fb ocf ib najrrM S«Her« Vn I R S S Spoi l<.o^> .1 44 X .> rnt m bal« Sept. 43' No. 2 K.S.S fob m bales Sept. U 42 No i H
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      Not enough power, say Indonesians
      294 8 BANDOENG, Mon. DELEGATES to the conference of non-Republican Indonesian States, now meeting here to discuss the bill drafted by the Dutch Government to administer Indonesia until the United States of Indonesia and the NetherlandsIndonesia Union come into being, are reported to be dlsapDointed at the
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      EIGHT DIE IN BOMBER CRASH
      59 8 EIGHT airmen returning from a training flight were killed last night when a Lancaster bomb it to land at Royai Air Force n at Kinross, Scotland, .id burst into flames. Rescuers rushed to the scene but could not get to the men. The bomber just
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      NEW NOTE OF CAUTION
      425 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Monday. "THE anticipated meeting tonight at the Kremlin between the Western envoys and Marshal Josef Stalin reintroduced a note of caution to the London Stock Exchange today, says Reuter's financial correspondent. There was a disposition which put prices lower but losses were
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      GENERALS PLEAD FOR JAP C.IN-C.
      156 8 pOUR Japanese generals, all serving long sentences 1 for atrocities m China during the war, yesterday tried to exonerate their 67-year-old former Com-mander-in-Chief, Lt. -General Okamura from all blame for crimes committed by troops under his command. Lt. -General Hunabiki. spokesman for the generals, at
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      FLOODS IN DELHI
      34 8 The Jumna River, swollen by monsoon rains» flooded mx villages on the outskirts cf Delhi yesterday and threatened a repetition of last years costly floods m the flat Delhi plain U.P.
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      U.N.O. hits at inter-marriage ban
      137 8 GENEVA, Monday. WHE United Nations EconoA mic and Social Council today adopted a Chilean resolution "deploring" laws forbidding freedom for women to choose their husbands and leave their countries to reside abroad. The resolution was aimed at the Russian refusal \o allow their women married
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      SWISS REPRISAL
      28 8 The Swiss Federal Government has decreed the blocking of all Rumanian assets r* Switzerland as a reprisal for Rumania's nationalise without compensation, I Swiss property. Reuter
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      Capital of the world
      107 8 PARIS, Monday. HTHE new, independent state of "Unosia," being born m Paris, will cover 10 acres of land and will have about 4,500 inhabitants. Smaller than Andorra, Monaco or Liechtenstein, Unosia will be far more powerful and far more polyglot. Its members will come from 58
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      People hold on to their foreign money
      69 8 CHINA CHAWGf-OVP, I lIOLDERS of I nited W, "currencies and the pos^ tr J among those absent todax sOid Wv J reopened m Shanghai and other ds th *C three-day closure during currency was changed ovei I A check with leadin I ed
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      New Arab war moves alleged
      277 8 "\IAJOR war preparations" by the Arab for* A?1 going on at the combined Iraqi-Transjordan base at Mafrak, m Transjordan, an Israeli Government spokesman said m Tel Aviv last night He said that m the past week, 'troops, vehic I ns and equipment have been pouring"
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      CHINA ASKS FOR LOAN
      53 8 NANKING, Monday £H£NA has madr an v application to the Int#r national Bank of Reconstruction and Development for a loan to suppor: new currency, it is learned here today. Chinese subscription to the bank is reported at I SS6O9,—O,QM. which is thr maximum limit of the
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      City's 60 double suicides
      42 8 Reuter TOKIO. Mond U JTH the sentimcautumn season i come, there he \6O double \in the city of A known seaside and h resort m Japan I accepted dout:> son begins about September. The wumt popular double Reuter
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