The Singapore Free Press, 26 August 1948

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA PRli't HI th.M!> SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1948.
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    Marine, air troops may be sent.
    284 1 Marine, air troops may be sent. War Office 'can say nothing LONDON, Wednssday. DOYAL Marine commandos and airborne troops are likely to be sent to Malaya to join the campaign against Communist terrorists, according to a report m the Evening News. Efforts to confirm this officially were unsuccessful. The Admiralty
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    1 1 AGKHGJAJHJA.
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    'Why no arms for us'—Dutch
    216 1 'Why no arms for us'— Dutch THE HAGUE, Wednesday. VETHERLANDS officials are angry and astonished that the I'nited States should send arms to combat Communist terrorism m Malaya but refused to give similar aid to the Dutch m Indonesia. They maintain that there is no essential differe between the disorders
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    POLICE ROAD BLOCKS AGAIN THIS MORNING
    99 1 Free Press Staff Reporter ITEHICLES were halted at road blocks and passengers subjected to search early this morning when further Singapore Police exercises were carried out. Road blocks and barriers were placed many junctions and across some of the islands bridges. Yesterday, eight Chinese
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    BOMB IN FLORENCE
    31 1 Buildings In central Florence were shaken and a number of windows broken down when a large bomb exploded outside the headquarters of the neo-Fascist Italian Socialist Party.— Reuter.
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    STOP ARRESTS, SIAMESE TOLD
    128 1 NANKING, Thursday. THE Chinese Foreign Office has strongly protested to Siam over the arrest of Chinese nationals m Siam. Through the Siamese Charge D'AfTaires m Nanking, the Chinese have demandod th^ Immediate release of the arrested Chinese. The protest also demanded that police prevent a recurrence
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    TRAFFIC HELD UP IN CITY
    86 1 TRAFFIC HELD UP IN CITY Fre e Press Staff Reporter TRAFFIC along High Str and North Bridge R< was disrupted this morning because of a collision between trolley bus and a motor car, at the junction of the stn There were no casualt 1 but obstruction was caused by i
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    Arms penalty "nothing new"
    148 1 Arm s penalty "nothing new" JOIIORE BAiIRU, Thurs. THE death penalty for the possession of firearms was nothing new, said Mr. McCall. Federal Counsel, m the Johore Bahru Court yesterday, when a school teacher, Tan Ah Seng, aged 28, was 1 charged with illegal posses- sion of a .38 revolver
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    'QUAKE KILLS 3
    18 1 An earthquake which rocked northern Argentina yesterday killed three people m the city of Salta.
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    NO VOTES FOR BURMA MONKS
    47 1 THE Burma Government. 1 gazette last night published the rules which will govern the country's first elections as an independent nation. Voting will be m April next year. Buddhist monks and other clergymen are barred from voting or standing as candidates Reuter
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    RAIL BLOWN UP
    38 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Bandits who tried to dynamite the railway eight miles north of Bahau station, Negri Srmbilan, m Tuesday blew up a single rail. It was replaced without any hold up of traffic.
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    IT'S NOT A BIT LIKE SYDNEY
    6 1 IT'S NOT A BIT LIKE SYDNEY
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    NEWS BLACK OUT NOT LIFTED
    60 1 Fre e Press Staff Reporter FE police news blackout has still not been lifted m Selangor. The order by the Commissioner of Police Mr. W N Gray, restricting information to the press had not yet been rescinded by eleven o'clock this morning, conference yesterday, Mr.
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    DRIVEN OFF
    23 1 Ire* Press Staff Reporter From 20 to 30 bandits who attacked the managers bungalow on 4amiltog Estatinear Nilai. were driven off
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    RUBBER POSITION 'IS SOUND'
    92 1 RUBBER POSITION 'IS SOUND' LONDON, Wednesday. THE statistical position of rubber remains sound, the Financial Times said m a,n editorial today. Commenting on figures issued by the Rubber Study Group, the Financial Times said that consumption and production records for the first half of 1948 "provide little justification for the
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    Two cyclists badly injured
    76 1 Fre« Press Staff Reporter I CHINESE cyclist COllid with a motor cyclist ridden m Lavenckr Street at 8 a.m. today and was taken tc the General Hospital with serious injuries. The motor, cyclist escaped with minor injuries. Yesterday m Colder Quay, a motor cycle driven by
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    U.S. ADMISSION ON SLAYING
    73 1 AMERICAN officials ackncw- ledsed yesterday that a German killed by Russianzone police inside the U.S. zone was employed as an intelligence agent. He was hit when he was at least 100 yards inside the American sector. The U.S. Military Government said he had been sent into
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    Fifty bandits raid estate
    135 1 Free Press Staff Reporter iBOUT fifty Chinese, heavi- /i/ armed with automatic weapons and rifles, dressed m black shirts and shorts and wearing black masks on their faces, last night attacked Amber Estate at the 13th viile, Senai, m Johore. The estate's medical dres- ser, an
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    Berlin currency talks proposed
    235 1 LONDON, Wednesday. A LTHOLGH no date has yet been fixed for a resumption of East-West talks m Moscow, diplomatic sources m London said that Marshal Stalin had proposed a four power conference of financial experts to work out an agreement on the control of Berlin's currency.
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    46 1 Mr. a^J Mrs. J. Tseng cnung Lin after their weaaing at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Tank Road, this morning. Both are school teachers, the groom at St. Joseph's Institution and the bride at Outram School. The bride uas formerly Miss Eileen Tan Wee Lan.
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    Burmese rice exports fall
    204 1 Burmese rice exports fall (PLOSURE of the BurI mese port of Bassein due to insurgent attacks has resulted m a fall of 45,000 tons m the exp of rice to Asian territories. The Burmese Government, however, has told the In national Emergency V Council's rice sub-comm: m Singapore that rice
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    106 MURDERS IN FEDERATION
    41 1 106 MURDERS IN FEDERATION POLICE figures show that 51 f people were murdered m .he Federation m June, igainst 18 m May. 13 m April md seven m March. This figure^ncludes terrorst victims. The six months total of murders is 106.
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    YEW FOOD POWERS
    35 1 Under new emergency regulations gazetted m the Federation, the aur have power to seize any or other food which, bed of its quantity or 1 I may fall into -able 1 hands.
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    HOW THE BOMO ORIGINATED
    597 2 MANY many yeais ago Abdul Kutok, who was chief of all the Saints, jnari ied Siti Ajam, m a part of Arabia known as San. After some time they had a son, Akmal Hakim a studious youth, but noted for his uglir At a very early
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    S.E.A.C.
    53 2 S.E .A.C. KAIJIO BMs M tmiadcasting fron Colombo: Ceylon ao the follow ing wave bands: S to II 30 a m 19 84 metre* and 19 38 metres 11 SO It am 19 84 metres li noon S p m IS 80 metres 19 8' metre* and 19 38 metres
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    NEWS OF THE FAR EAST
    335 2 UtADEKS of Bernard Newmans previous travel books and commentaries on Europe's political jig-saw will not be surprised that he has now switched his observing eye and analytical mind to the Far >t. '-war aspirations of countries which have a! n by racial and (c call
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    Bridge Problem
    311 2 WE ied his single 1 und South the ace to damn heart jack, but Eas I and returned a diamond wh<ch rufled. West led his last trump and declarer won. At this S<mth could count only 1.. trick* unless he could ruff a spade :n dummy, so he
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    MODEST MAIDENS
    18 2 "My husband used to drink whisky a lot ton, but he's taking something tluit stopped him—gin^'
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    QUICK LOOKS
    199 2 Attic and Area. by France.sea Marton. iHamish Hamilton, 10s. 6d > Echoes of Victorian London come rumbling down the kitchen stairs: glimpses of the past are caught be'i the area railings. ty of historical colour, without much literary idwork. The Plantayeruts, by John J, 18$). A pattern of
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    Here's a perfect story-teller
    383 2 Here's a perfect story-teller I PETEIT| QUENNELL I i/jf. I pOR sheer concen- trated entertain-ment-value a quality that depends m the last resort on natural power of story-telling no recent novel that has come my way can compare with a book first published during the year 1885: Bel-Ami by Guy
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    Ballerina's memories
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    JULIANA, BERNHARD IN BRITAIN
    12 3 JULIANA, BERNHARD IN BRITAIN Irlands. smok hard, i m the Command Cen-
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    ALARMING' DROP IN US EXPORTS
    539 3 ALARMING' DROP IN US EXPORTS Car manufacturers 'disturbed TNrRp PC NEW YORK, Wednesday. j^itr.AMLS m the price of motor cars, announced recently by all the major manufacturers m the country, have been followed by the more disturbing news that the export of American cars and lorries has dwindled to an
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    POLICE FIGHT MASKED GANG AT AIRPORT
    159 3 all wore gloves or socks on their hands. Then there was a shout from Divisional Detective-In-specter Robert: 4 -We are officers of the Flying Squad. Stay where you are". The raiders rushed for the door and the hidden police ran to cut them off.
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    Stalin sacks two Ministers
    104 3 DREMIER STALIN Mtft week 1 sacked two ministers and abolished their ministries, according to official Soviet sources m London. The ministers were P.F LomaJco of the non-ferrous y a:d T B Mitrokhin of the chemical industry under the Mr tjr IrcHi and Ste^l. nouncement. experts affair^
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    REJECTED LOVER BLEW HIMSELF UP
    264 3 'THE little Sussex hamlet of Climping consisting of a cluster of cottages, one pub and a general store was rocked by an explosion last week when a man blew himself up for love of the publican's widowed sister-in-law. The explosion which was heard three miles
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    U. K. Govt. is urged 'scrap foreign policy'
    193 3 THE London Daily Mirror, he second largest daily newspaper m Great Britain, has started an intensive editorial campaign, calling upon Britain to scrap her present foreign policy and seek a "new approach to the whole German problem by the four powers." The
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    Hear guard for Togliatti
    79 3 THE Rome IfizUstTf of In--1 terior revealed thai the mmnnlrt leader Togliatti joys greater secuxity than any other Italian d- puty or senator. He has a hand-picked police and private bodyguard to escort him. Rome police .sued four permits to carry arms to persons trusted by
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    15 3 Li> ms of imi* tLA.OA M full battle order, wins a swimming championship at Aldershot.
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    LORD ASTOR ENTERTAINS U.S. STARS
    40 3 Lord Astor helps the U.S. Olympic swimmer, Brenda Helter, to try on a helmet from an antique suit of armour. The U.S. Olympic team were the guests at Cleveden House of Lord and Lady Astor.
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    Siam denies Chinese Press allegations
    223 3 BANGKOK, A SIAMESE Government communique, issued here refutes Chinese press allegations that Siam is following an anti-Chinese poliry. The communique cites two particular allegations made by the Chinese Language press m Bangkok the Siamese handling of the Chinese schools dispute and the arrest of large
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    China "will lead Orient in aviation"
    319 3 SHANGHAI, Tuesday. A MERICAN plane builders are showing a growing: interest m Cninese aviation and are anxious to help China improve her air ser\ivcs, the m cretary of the Central Air Transport Corporation. Mr. Harvey Toy declared on his return here from a tour
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    500,000 pupils to change their schools
    60 3 500,000 pupils to change their schools WHEN the autumn begins next month half a million boy s and girls m n will change their Most oi them will oe eleven j will go for first secondary schools. Aw U De 20 new sererml thousand huts which naput up for older
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    U.N. SQUABBLE OVER WIVES
    75 3 U.N. SQUABBLE OVER WIVES IN repl> to a reso ution oy tha 1 U.N. Economic and vSoeial Council at Oen*\» con-: ing den of a freedom to leg country with n. r band. Mr Payh <v delegate said In pom* states m the ing neerov nns ol m from two
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    JAP HORSES SLEEPY TOO
    49 3 SLEEPING sicfcnefi* rfefceo 1230 throughout Japan ana may cause the virtual suspenof horse racinn until < a To*cn r More hordes have afflicted m area* where the sic km s.« is most pr D tinp that it te 'transmitted Thr f^»nof horses i& about 50 v
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. Aug. 26. 1948. The Siamese Border
    188 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. Aug. 26. 1948. The Siamese Border T > ie ment by the Government that and pouct' i be F :J&S tno fi n their operaainst Commu' ncndiy one winch more d had it been er. the doubt i hat ten ha- "*mg their way he
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    Russo-Amencan Tiff
    166 4 Le the Russian-American I which began with the Kosenkina affair and is ending with, the closing of consulates, will hardly contribute towards the better understanding winch th Western Powers are seeking with Russia, it is equally unlikely to influence Moscow against compromise it any has been intended. The
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    TWIXT EAST AND WEST
    682 4  -  C. R. BRUSINI By A.P. Correspondent A PROPOSAL to make A Trieste the ''barter centre" between East and West has been put forward by Trieste businessmen. They plan new commercial organization to collect all available data on productive and commercial plans of me Danubian and Balkan
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    What theyll tell them at home about Britain
    857 4 What they ll tell them at home about Britain Six European guests of U.K. talk of their impressions to JOHN HALL THROUGH the Olympic Games "window n thousands ;>f foreign visitors Look their first look at Britain and the British people. Among the keenest observers, admirers, and cities are the
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    FAITH
    26 4 Judge nu\ Lord: for I have walked m my integrity: I have trusted also m the Lord: therefore I shall not slide. r l>6 i.
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    WORKERS GET MORE SAY
    649 4  - WORKERS GET MORE SAY SIGRID ARNE By A.l' Correspondent WASHINGTON. WORKERS around the world appear to have made big advan rs since the war's end m getting some say al>nut their working conditions. Reports have just been collected by the U.S. labour department from embassies abroad and from the many
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    IT SEEMS To ME...
    353 4  - IT SEEMS To ME... POLITICO by MOT the least diAcult of the problems the Government faces m fight r Communist terror that of the squatters. The disappearance from some squatter settlements of many of the men is evidence that squatters are furnishing their full share of recruits. That the squatters
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    TERRORISTS A TINY MINORITY'
    321 5 DR. PURCELL REPLIES TO THE REDS aided by working class Free PMM sta^ Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. LrE "Makiyll people and no ctionai >intfnient let alone a national moveTJclaro Dr. Victor Purcefl, making an I Irritative reply m the correspondence I* of The Times to a recent
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    WILL HELP THE PRESS
    79 5 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, WedrE Commissioner of Police Mr. W. N. Gray) announced today that he was rescinding his order that the police should no longer give information to the Press. "It was never my intention to impose any restrictions apart from those affecting
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    TO STUDY IN U.S.
    60 5 J^ PENANG girl. Mic>s Theresa Woo. will ihortlj b" proceeding to the United States to rudy journalism at the Bast Los AnCollege. California. Miss Woo is at presenc m H r.^ r Kong, and will leave for th.« United States from there. She will be the
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    To debate S.M.C. President's powers
    336 5 Free Press Staff Reporter 4 MOVE to change the Municipal laws so that certain powers vested m the Municipal President ivill be transferred to the Municipal Commissioners ts both will be initiated by Mr. D. Robertson at the Commissioners' meeting tomorrow. In a resolution which
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    CHINESE MUSLIM CONSUL HERE
    48 5 THE first Chinese Consul to Ipoh. Mr. Ibrahim T. Y. Ma. a Muslim, arrived m Singapore yesterday from Hong Kong aboard the Hai Hsla. With him was his wife and three-year-old son. His jurisdiction will extend through the States of Perak. Kelantan and Trent??anu.
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    63 5 Ong Soon Hong, 29-year-old cashier m the K.LM. office with the skull of two babi rusas (half-deer, halfboar) which his father, a coconut estate owner m the Celebes, gave him when he visited him recently. He has advertised them for sale at $300 each. Hunters with the help of dogs
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    C. S. TO VISIT VILLAGES
    83 5 The Colonial Secretary, (Mr. P.A.B. McKerron>, will visit tae village committees m Singapore next month The programme of his visivs is as follows: Sept. 1 Serarrgoon Village Committee, 5.30 I p.m.; Sept. 8 Bedok Village Committee, 5.00 p.m.; sept. 8 changi Village Commit cc, 6.00
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    Re-export rights are sought
    174 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent /CHINESE traders m Singapore are seeking: permission from the Government for re-export-ation of potatoes, onions and other perishable foodstuffs from Australia to N.E.1., Hong Kong Indo-China and the Philippine Islands. In a petition to the Government, the Chinese Importers' and Exporters' Association
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    'Join the police' call
    66 5 THE Singapore Association has invited as many members as possible to answer Ihe call of the Chief Police Officer to join the Volunteer Special Constabulary. The Association has been advised by the Stiff Officer of the Constabulary that the nuestion of compensation, m i-ase of bodily
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    India offers scholarships to Malayans
    341 5 Free Tress atan Keporter MALAY and Chinese students will be awarded from six to ten scholarships for higher studies m India under an Indian Ministry of Education plan just announced. Six other scholarships are to be given to Indian students m this country under the
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    HAWKERS MUST QUIT
    86 5 THE Municipal Commissioners will clear hawkers out of five temporary markets fn Singapore as soon as they can. The markets are Erna Market m China Street, Ramah Street Market. Waterloo Street Market, Ailwal Street Market and Hindoo Road Market. "We are giving them still more time to
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    T.B. patients miss their radio
    163 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A PLEA Is made by patients] of the T.B. ward at Tan Tock Seng hospital, that there should be no black-outs on Thursday evenings, so that they can tune m to Radio Malaya's "Calling all hospitals" programme. Mr. Billy Loh. one
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    CHARGED WITH MURDER
    91 5 JAN DI THOK, a Netherlands Indies Chinese, aged 40. was charged yesterday with the murder of Mr. J. N. Becker of Watts and Co.. who was shot dead m his office In Robinscn Road on Tuesday afternoon. The charge vus r ad to Tan m the presence
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    86 5 Dato Manalo Mindalano, (left), leader of a party of Filipino Muslims who have called at Singapore on their way to Mecca, is seen with Senator Thomas Cabilt who is on his icay to represent the Philippines Republic at the UNO meeting m Paris. Former Minister of National Defence m the
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    CO-OP MEETING
    24 5 The half yearly general meeting of the Singapore Urban Co-om.ra.tive Union Ltd. will be held m the Municipal Building on Sept. 1.
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    WILL OPPOSE INCREASE IN TAXATION
    84 5 WILL OPPOSE INCREASE IN TAXATION "THE Pro-- anX nounced yesterday that t would oppose any a tempt by the Singap rnment o impose or increase taxation cigarettes, tobacco, maic bicycles, motor cycletea and such other md. taxation as imposed rt eentlj m the Federation Referring to blackouts m the Colony,
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    GLUBB IN U. K. ON LEAVE
    6 6 GLUBB IN U. K. ON LEAVE
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    JUNK MAN KILLED FOR HIS "RICHES"-£3
    186 6 JUNK MAN KILLED FOR HIS "RICHES" -£3 65-year-old pawnbroker jeweller r 18 years, was murdered m his p in Ponders End. Midc for £3 from his till. Th> man who killed him bed he would f.ncl In the ding} and valuable antiques which he imagines haired man had col.c nee
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    Raw cigarette blend plan for Britain
    45 6 rpO3ACCO Workers Union yes are svga scheme which. If! B ird of n, u*ou".d put -ie ,'ar«'ttes In maie a type of ciX i blen, ana uld c but nt from the idy the pr p.ised Ls accepi- re-
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    COLOUR PROGRAMMES COMING SOON
    286 6 COLOUR PROGRAMMES COMING SOON UK gives OK to television m dustry LONDON, Thursday. BRITAIN has advised other countries to "pin their faith" to the British system of television and has hinted that programmes m colour will soon be coming. A statement of Government policy, issued by the General Post Office,
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    China deserves high Unesco priority
    179 6 China deserves high Unesco priority MANIL..-V ITIO DR. Kuo Yu-shou. special adviser on Asia and the Par Bast to the United Na- Edu .1. Scierv and Cultural Organisation. rvnee last Ina and > count: eh suffered greatly during the war ved the bJ rity for UNESCO assist Dr. Kuo. who
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    Pigeons to aid Police
    100 6 CIXTY courier pigeons, trained to carry urgent police messages will soon link communications ben all police stations m Ceylon and the Colombo Central Headquarters. Test flights have proved satisfactory and carrier services from Colombo to Man« nar, Mullativu and BatticaIca will be started shortly. This will
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    INDIA TOLD TO PRICE CONTROL
    70 6 A COMMITTEE of ft mists, summoned to a the Government of India on measures to combat Inflation, is understood to have recommended immediate re-imp tion of controls on all nee r>? curtailment of Government expenditure and ter taxation proposals to :he higher Income groups m
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    SMUGGLERS'500 —BOAT FLEET
    60 6 SMUGGLERS' 500 —BOAT FLEET \TE\v Netberlaodi Minister 11 In Manila. Dr DStra \o his first press co: ferer. recently, &aid some 500 small baits were engaged m smuggling, bi-tween Phllipptnef and the nfi (iescntyrd it o polllgnlflc.incc" a poor man's business." The illicit traders are bringing m American cigan textiles
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    FILIPINO POLICE KILL 28 HUKS
    40 6 TWENTY-EIGHT Hukbu*ahap p> and 24 wounded m a twohour clash with Philippine constabulary units m Pam:a province, 60 mnes north of Manila. The Huk capcd. Communist pamphlets and firearms were found m headquarters. A. P.
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    BORNEO CO, DINNER
    28 6 Nearly 100 guests on Tv t tended a Chinese dinn on the tccasloa c' Johnson and Johnson ng The Borneo Co. as sents m Singapore,
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    PLEA TO INCLUDE CATHOLICS
    300 6 4 PLEA for the inclusion of Roman Caihulics m the World Council of Churches was made at the Council's Plenary session by Prof George Florovsky of Paris. The Pope had banned Catholic participation. Prof. Florovsky told the Council that no real Chri* .ion could be effected
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    Baptism with tadpoles
    107 6 CH»K months, aays the Hey. Kirhaxti rook^hank, of Here Fern rs, I>evon. he has been "baptism; babies m mud and tadpulr The rector is looking for a barrel. He wants to fill it urh thi repulsive liquid* thai, he says. passes for drinking water at bYre Ferrers
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    ANTARTIC PLAN
    26 6 Argentina has rejected an informal proyosTi by the -1 States calUnp for consideration of a plan to p entire Antarctic area under -ational administration.
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    28 6 Shah of Persia, m goldbraidt'd unifi>rm, has an 'iner chat with the President. £r. ;fcf> and a Federal i^iUor at a The Shah un a W to Eurwp4,
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      67 6 JAWE Bxelunii* to Singapore Free Pres* m Malaya MADE SPECIALLY FOR COALS TO V POURS J WOW'T S««li H N W AN YW AV -WE 1 L ME FROM SOME NFW NEWCASTLE A \»^UK5f/ V WON IT SHOW W SEE IF IT GOES OFF L ATOMIC MATFKIAI' y\ EH JANE
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    GOLD STREAM FASTEST ONI K.L. TRACK
    415 7 GOLD STREAM FASTEST ONI K.L. TRACK binal gallops for Saturday rwßFrnv c ss Racin Correspondent QKEGON Smiling Through, Gold Stream, Sir wh*« i! and Princ e Eugene showed up well wnen horses running on Saturday, first day of the l£?i?* T IV t CI 2 h A «^t-September meeting! mtrningf
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    Arsenal win three-nil
    81 7 l Itv M>- \t.J.lir»l»r.»u«h I l \-t..a VIIU I j** '-.am*? 1 »fleld I Sp I Si I B I r I il I r I frfcM I*** p|%M .N Ml TJOKN K Lr ion e. 1 i l t I I I s. ..-t t KTHERN
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    $60,000 For Badminton Court
    65 7 $60,000 For Badminton Court A S w l0 er ««J "adminSSVE.^ Iyear>s1 year>s Mum- will be the first public »neplan is approved Pr^ss yesterday. The building Mhk h wi| J> 01 permanent construet'o;i. «iii besingle- s to reyed It will be suffirientlv high to allow for lobs. AccommodaUon uill be
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    WORLD CYCLING
    46 7 G. bCHULTE, of Holland, won the professional pursuit title at jb< world cycling championship* m Amsterdam yesterday beating the holder F. Coppi. of Paly, m the final by two metres. SchuLVs time was ill minutes 24.9 seconds and Coppis six minutes 25.4 seconds. Reuter
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    FALKENBERG NOT IN U.S. CUP TEAM
    151 7 FALKENBERG NOT IN U.S. CUP TEAM IjVDUR American Davis Cup veterans have been chosen to play against Australia m the challenge round at Forest Hills. New York, from Sept. 4 to Sept. 6. The Cup Selection Committee chose to. bet on these veterans to turn back the Australians: Tom Schroeder,
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    NOTABLE WIN FOR S.C.C.
    489 7 at the Jalan Besar stadium yesterday r,™^' llectin two Points, the Club have not improved their position m the league table which i< second-last, but their victory proved beyond doubi that they were the better team yesterday The Athletes, fifth m the rent League, beat them
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    "TRANSFER SYSTEM IS ROTTEN"
    389 7 THERE is no doubt that the tranfer question is big news m football and, while many clubs are prepared to let it go on with prices rocketing until the record fee is broken regularly, one man has made a statement which may well play Its parts
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    New MCC captain
    143 7 F. G. Mann, this year's Middlesex captain, who has been chosen to skipper the M.C.C. team visiting South Africa this winter. He captained Eton m 1936 and was top-scorer for Cambridge University m 1939. He served ivith the Scots Guards during World War Two, and gained a
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    BRADMAN AT HIS BEST AT LORD'S
    362 7 J)ON Bradman marked his last appearance at Lord s cricket ground yesterday with one of the best centuries of his wonderful career thfl The Australian captain, leading his side against the Gentlemen of England, was cheered all his wav to the wicket by 15,000
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    Denis Lazaroo has a future
    518 7 ATHLETIC NOTES By MALCOLM ISHER •TALKING point of the Singapore representative x athletic team championships held at R.A.F. Seletar last week, was the strong competition put up by Singapore A.A.A. Although beaten into second place by the Royal Air Force, their performers greatly impressed the
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    Outschoorn just misses 100
    348 7 Outschoorn just misses 100 I AUDlfc Outschoorn, former Singapore cricketer, had bad luck yesterday to miss, by one run hit second century m English County cricket Playing against Essex, Outschoorn made 99 out or Worcester's total of 306, towards which E Coo Der scored 107. While the Welsh national flag
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    Royal Drake wins Manton stakes
    102 7 T K: Drak« second favour the St Stakes run over the St. Leger distance d 'hree c,uar at Salisbury tnere »-a« nothn? par- impresabout tbf manner of his surr at 9-4 on and ridd. n by Gordon Richards ho won by one ajid a half
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    S.C.C. CRICKET XI
    46 7 THE S C C v ution a' ground on Saturday at 2 pjfl L Webb Jone« <Cap" > g P Darke R g Whittington Hyslop, p f HTbapf/ R G Thomas A H Robsor P M Barnep. R. c Low J D>y 1 Mclr.:
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    MEMORIAL CRICKET
    85 7 ]\|R. M. J bHrii has prented a crick.-: bat to bo given to the highest scorer on the Indian side n the tv.o-day Gandhi Memorial Cup match to be played between the Singapore Cricket Club and the Ind a:: on the padang thia Weekend. A bat for the
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      249 7 F. 9. Crossword No. 472 M I 7 8 S I 9 "p ~15 ieT if 7 >iVBMa 21 22 "^25 IT 11n| i... 11 It 29 IT 52 T^ II I I (LIES ACROSS to 2> ,9 Ba o ked UP (3) 7 FlUing (4) 9 An er >3r
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    BIRTH
    19 8 TOOOOOD— To Eileen (nee Bab«n wife of J. T. Toogood at fcatu Oajah on 20th August 1948 sod.
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    'I JUMPED TO ESCAPE -Mrs. KOSENKINA
    517 8 'I JUMPED TO ESCAPE -Mrs. KOSENKINA Teacher tells moving story NEW YORK, Wednesday. MRS. OKSANA Kosenklna, 42-year-old Russian teacher, told reporters today she jumped from a third floor window of the Russian Consulate because she wanted to escape "and not to kill myself," when she spoke to the press for
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    BERNADOTTE ORDERS HALT TO MIGRATION
    130 8 THE United Nations' mediator In Palestine, Count Bernadotte. last night ordered the Israeli Government to end all immigration of men of military age before Sepaccording to reliable I ill s In Tel A. It is belie-.' Tel Aviv rnment will reject I order as "against
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    FRENCH POLLS POSTPONED
    52 8 THE French National A bl> day adopted, by 245 votes to 193, a proposal tj postpone the departmental flections due m October. The Socialists and of the Popular Republican Party, the two pillars of the nment, voted for the postponement. Thr Qaullistl and Right-WinKers against, while the
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    DEATI PENALTY
    42 8 ARRESTED during an antiterrorist operation at Taikong m Semenyih, 21 miles from Kuala Lumpur on July 25 this year, a young Chinese. Khoon Koi Sung, was yesterday sen ten red to death at the SclanKor Assizes for rying a rifle.
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    C'wealth to be asked on Europe plan
    172 8 C 'wealth to be asked on Europe plan LONDON, Wednesday. BRITAIN is to consult the Commonwealth Prime Ministers about the proposal that she should take the lead m forming a European Assembly. Letters on the subject between the Conservative Opposition leader. Mr. Wii ston Churchill, and the Prime Minister, Mr.
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    Western Union defence talks
    80 8 LONDON. Wednesday. [TNITED STATES and Canadian observer! attended a meeting m London of the chiefs-of-staff of the five Western Urlon Powers yesterday. it is learned. They were the same observers who regally ike tart m the work of the military committee of the Western Union perrranent
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    7,000 REDS ESCAPE
    26 8 The Greek General Staff estimates that 7.000 Communist guerillas have escaped In the Grammos area. They said that 5.000 crossed into Albania. Reuter
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    PRICES REMAIN QUIETLY FIRM
    471 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Wednesday. I)KICE changes showed quiet firmness m the 1 London Stock Exchange today, says Reuters financial correspondent. Rubbers were unchanged to higher and Tins Irregular to higher. Th- main topic of ronversa- 1 rr~ Uon was the closing by the Russians of
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    U.S. TO STAY AWAY
    25 8 The Uniteu States may stay away from the InterAmerican Conference on Foreign Colonies to be held at Havana, on 3eptemb?r A.P.
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    Dutch expel Republicans
    137 8 BATAVIA, Wednesday. PERSONS In the permanent service of the Indonesian Republic are no longer to be allowed to reside m Batavia, the Dutch-sponsored Indonesian Provisional Federal Government announced tonight. Many recent events have given rise to this decision, the announcement said. The events were not specified. The
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    Japan's women wrestlers
    72 8 JAPAN now has women wrestlers again, Sumo wrestling by women having just been revived for the first time m 15 years near Nagasaki. The women Sumo contestants are all amateurs ranging from the age of IS to 50, including several modern girls with fine permanent waves. They
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    TORNADO WRECKS N.Z. TOWNSHIP
    109 8 AUCKLAND, (N.Z.), Wednesday. pOUR persons were killed and 17 injured today m a tornado which, m two minutes, practically wrecked Frankton junction, 86 miles south of Auckland. Accompanied by thunder, lightning and torrential rain, the tornado cut a path several hundred yards through the township, which
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    JETS RETURNING
    36 8 Six Britiin Vampire jet fighter** have landed at Stornoway on th; ir way home from a Koodwjll mission to the United States and Canada. They were tha first lets to cross the Atlantic. U.P.
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    30,000 Japs still at tear
    183 8 TOKIO. Wednesday. ABOUT 30.000 Japanese are still fighting m Chinasome for the Chinese Communists and other for the Nanking Government, ac- cording to Japanese reports. Disregarding the Imperial surrender order, some have i Joined the ranks of the Chinese armies Individually and donned Chinese uni-
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    Nazi to die for slaying Britons
    117 8 U.WibURQ. Wednesday THE British war crim s war 1 t Hamburg today sentenced to death by hangSS Maj «r Oskar Hans, who shot six men of the Royal Navy during the war on e who had to blow up the battleship Tirpltz and another
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    134 8 SPECIAL Market cor. csoond. n gives the price* of rubber «i 11 am today as CoUows: P« Ib ocr ib Buyer* Seder* Ot« CU No I X S M Sdoi loo«e 41% UH No I KS 8 mr In bales Sept... 42', 42S No. 2 K.S.s fob In
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    84 8 SAN FRANCISCO. Wed. THE U S. Navy will retire the 45,000-ton battle, ship lowa from active *ervice with the Pacific fleet on Sept. 1 m order to concentrate on an anti-sub-marine training programme. The Russians are known to possess more submarines that the combined Hestern Powers. Putting
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    Indians bomb Kashmir town
    249 8 NEW YORK. Wednesday niSCLOSURE that the I'nited Nations K^hm Commission is "having some diilicultii taining a "cease-fire" agreement between Inch Pakistan coincided today with a Karachi report of bombing attack yesterday by the Indian Air For* on Gilgit, m Kashmir. The Karachi report says Indian aircra:
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    Money reform may wipe out Red war chest
    41 8 M oney reform may wipe out Red war chest JHE new currency reform m [*****J. they have been financing thiS military and political war/,, -.>£* The Reds may find re Nationalist currency worth:. the Government block: m for the new *old yuan
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    21 8 Marsh- I ed the third Soviet central goi This follows n aiming at moreof manpow down o? penses U.P.
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