The Singapore Free Press, 6 September 1948

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1948. PKlt > 111 VtaS »N
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  • 376 1 Eight nations to join forces AT Geneva today, Britain and other colonial powers will join forces to resist proposals designed to place all colonies under the trusteeship of the United Nations. m India is expected to lead the attack on colonies, supported by Soviet Russia
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  • 20 1 Larda sailed for ;ed i 1 sail next I -ched mtm to I scort "-ere
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  • 12 1 ?t I*l I Reporter shed ta] mage
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  • 139 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A QANTAS flying boat V Singapore at 6 o'clock this morning and will return this evening with passenger.^ from the flying boat which crashed during take off at Sourabaya yesterday. The aircraft was bound for Singapore and had 14
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  • 118 1 LONDON, Sunday IN a comment headed "A Strange Appointment." the independent Sunday paper, The Observer, today criticised the appointment of Sir Henry Gurney as High Commissioner of the Federation of Malaya. "No personal disparagement of Sir Henry Gurney is implied in saying plainly that this appointment to
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  • 241 1 60 INJURED IN CALCUTTA RIOT 35,000 flee from 'poison' volcano MANILA, Monday. OTREAMS of molten lava spread with new vigour last night from Hibokhibek volcano, as Filipino naval patrols began evacuating the last 10,000 inhabitants of Camiguin island. Twenty-five thousand have already fled the island. Fear of poison gas led
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  • 35 1 Singapore Police seized 31 rounds of .38 ammunition alleged to be in the possession of an Indian during the weekend. The Indian, arrested at Newton Road, is to be charged ln court today.
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  • 103 1 CALCUTTA. Sunday. THE ieftwlng All-India Trade Union Congress today warned the I: dian Government that it may have to face a "major political crisis." A statement declared that if the "wholesale campaign of repression of the people and the denial of civic lib* rty"
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  • 75 1 Free Press Staff Reporter SUPERMAN" ia among American comic heroes who have fallen foul of Singapore import authorities. In the past two weeks thousands of copies of American comic— forbidden imports— have been seized by Singapore officials. Among other comic strip heroes in trouble are
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  • 129 1 LONDON, Sunday. TWO more deaths were reported today i?i Britain's great mock air warbringing the total to four since the forces of "Southland" launched their first attack against the "Northland" defences last Friday. Latest casualties were the Dilot and the navigator of a Mosquito
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  • 43 1 SINGAPORE police arrested one Chinese under the 1 Emergency Regulations over the week-end. The total number of emergency arrests up to date is 287. The C.I.D. also arrested j seven Chinese suspected of I being unlawful secret society members.
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  • 27 1 REDS COLONIES The Soviet Government has j called for a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers to consider the question of the I former Italian colonies.
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  • 26 1 Imperial Chemical Irrdus'xies ts spending £4,000.000 on developing it plants throughout Australia and reeds about 700 more employee? ror new jobs, says Reuter
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    25 1 Gaily dressed in national costume, thi s Dutch group took part in the K.L.M. display at the Air Day pageant on Saturday at Kallang Airport.
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  • 43 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A 15-YEAR old Chinese schoolboy was dragged from his bicycles, searched and then robbed of his machine by a Chinese last night at Winston Road. He walked to the Kandang Kerbau police station to make a report.
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  • 113 1 MANILA, Sunday. f^RESH violence broke out between Constabulary and Communist-led peasant guerillas in Central Luzon, as Constabulary headquarters reported that nine Hukbalahaps were killed in clashes in four villages 12 miles north of Manila. An Associated Press un-official count of deaths in the 21 days since
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  • 216 1 Free Press Staff Reporter TRAVELLERS reaching Singapore from Rangoon during the week-end question whether the eight-months-old Republic of Burma will survive till the year's end. They repeated without comment Burmese allegations that a "certain group in London" is plotting the downfall of the Socialist Republic.
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  • 138 1 BLOCKADE LIFT: 'ANY TIME NOW' BERLIN, Sunday pERMANYS iuur Military w Governors leporVd to be on the verge of agreement to end the Soviet blockade ot Berlin, were meeting again today after a 48-hour break in their week-cld talks. Berlins City Assembly was also meeting in the City Hall in
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  • 253 1 Karen revolt hangs fire RANGOON. Sun. OBSCUiiITY shad the situation in nasserim where K. insurgents, ;ed oy Burma Union mil! police, have overrun two districts ?.nd occu the towns of Motrin and Thaton. Both the < Karen Nati' nal Union h quarters in F awaiting the return Moulmein cf the
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  • 28 1 The former Siamese Con-sul-General in Singapo: Supreeda Buranasiri, died suddenly in Bangkok while acting as steward at a Sports Club race meeting H. 54.- A.P.
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  • FEATURES...
    • 916 2  - FOOD-FOR THE OLD-TIMERS Hall Kemney London! letter I By TO a number of old folk in Britain this week Malaya will cease to be merely a country they have > seen boldly headlined in the newspapers as one of the world's j storm centres. Such is j the effect of
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    • 355 2 TTHIS aas i.ne ca.e where h a part score actually helped toward reaching a slam Souths three heart bid u. definite slam try sund Norths four club bid was an acceptance of the inv.tation locating exactly the top-card .strength South needed to leap to slam. West opvned the
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    • 578 2  -  GRAHAM STANFORD By HAPPY days are Here for the British technician—particularly if he's footloose and likes the Wide Open Spaces. Doors of the Dominions are wide open today for him, and they're likely to remain so for years to come. In the
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    • 134 2 More ba bies DEATH-RATE among mothers in childbirth in Britain--4.62 per thousand in 1934— has fallen to an all-time low record of 1.43, but many women who lost their lives this way need net have died, according to the Ministry of Health. Thi.s conclusion 1 from a secret ii carried
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 90 2 ytytryty SINGAPORE trom 12 00 noon to 2 00 p.m. 485 metres in the medium wa\e hand and 7.M megacycles In the 41 metre band. From 6 00 p.m. to i 45 p.m.: from 9.30 p.m. to 11.00 p.m.: ■Ctrca in the medium »a\" band and 4 825 megacycles In
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    • 407 2 9 'T rid 1 Affairs; 10 Nights at th. 10. 30 D Bands; ill.. ra Summ PROGRAMMES IN MALAY: 12 Programme Summary, cai Interlude; 12. 45 Newa In Malay; 6 Programme Summary; 6.05 'a Hour; 6.30 Slide; :ne Signal; 7.01 Musical Interlude; 7.10 Talk; 7.25 Musical Interlude; 7.30 Malay: 7.45
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    • 116 2 noon ;> p in. 16.88 mctn^ I >l metres and 19 38 metres 5 5.30 p.m. 19 Sl metres and 19.38 meres. 5.30-midnight 11 metres and M.M metres. MONDAI 1 p.m. World News; I.M I La Carte; 1 15 Yours for tho Asking: 1.55 Programme Sum- I mary; 8 Station
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    • 17 2 EM JL »<K^*«* o* 9^\m-— t-»-a% CN.r v\-wU can 3d \\WyK, CAN 91 J,^ \> m ,m t3ossmz
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    • 181 2 LUCKY STAR DOK.N todav. jou are more slow and deliberate in j action than many of your J sign. Vou go forward, step by step, with considered and thoughtful intent. Vou are conventional in jour attitudes although you can be progressively coiistiuctive. once you have been pursuad'd that a new
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  • NEWS...
    • 21 3 iad:an-born film star, Mcuretania" on her I sight-seeing W She has qualr fi r aphed girl
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    • 30 3 I in Hong Kong, booked to aboard the French liner to be refunded their passage .inds firm in their refusal to I
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    • 11 3 Greek more gi: 1 villages in the Grtece-
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    • 309 3 'Still sub-normal, uncivilised people 9 rjCCUPATION of Japan must last for at least 50 years if the Japanese are to be civilised, thinks Lieut.-General H. Gordon Bennett, who commanded the Bth Australian Division in Malaya. Lieut.-General Bennett was speaking on the
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      62 3 The final section of what is believed to be the world's largest funnel being hoisted into position on the superstructure of the new Cunard White Star liner, the "Caronia" which will be one of Britain's largest and consistent dollarearners. The funnel weighs 125 tons and is 53 feet long nine
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    • 177 3 He paid to be murdered NEW YORK police say Herbert J. Kindred, 60-year-old president of the City Finance Corporation, hired a man to murder him. His idea was it his widow would collect £15,000 life insurance, s suicide would have invalidated the policy. BUI avuiz .j was nely road at
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    • 83 3 C ..'V::,o millions i. B\ district are eating human ilesh of newlydead persons and tree bark according to reports reaching Wong ch. >, vicechairman of the Food Control oission of East K tung has gon n to Taiwan to appeal for aid. c *>ers mtries. with
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    • 32 3 The Pakistan Government has eight scholarships to Muslim students of South Africa East Africa ar.d the Fiji islands. Mauritius Zanzibar and Trinidad for study In engineering and medicine at Pakistan unlversites.
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    • 109 3 Invalids 1948 style Two ways of improving the invalids' morale. Right: Egg and spoon race competitors members of tbe Invalid Tricycle Association at a recent Richmond Park rally. Tu*o hundred members took part in various races including a repair race which involved changing plugs within 'a given Below: In Bolton
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    • 232 3 UNITED STATES Government circles are convinced that the big factor in Russia's shut down of her consulates here is her. desire to lessen the exposure of her people to Western ideas. Although Moscow's ollic'al motive was something else, it is said UIS net esult
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    • 72 3 MORE than 300 dockers unloading bananas at Avoni mouth (Bristol) stooped work I for two hours when a girl clerk was taken into custody I because she was believed to have received two bananas from a man unloading cargo. The dockers demons'.: outside the Dloce station, and only
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    • 86 3 Anti-strike law affects 200,000 Japs I^HE Japanese Government has decreed no Jap employee of the Occupation authorities could strike or bargain collectively. This ruling affects approximately 200,000 Japanese working for the Allied forces. It said that the National Personnel C lon had decided that Japanese working for the Oceirjatlon would
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    • 111 3 Australian 'no change yet' THE value of the Australian pound is not likely to be changed for some time because it would be against the national interest. Reuter learned in Canberra on the highest authority. New Zealand last month raised the value of her pound from 18 shillings to parity
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    • 38 3 U.S. Consulate closing Ail four employees of the American Consulate at Y vestok. soon to be closed at m r quest. will be transferred to new jobs in the American Embassy in Moscow it was learr.ed in Washington.
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    • 84 3 PHILIPPINE recognition of 1 the new state of Korea was in the form of a cable signed by President Quirino and transmitted by the Department of Foreign Affairs to President Dr. Svngman Rhee of the Republic of Korea. The message said: "I take pleasure in
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    • 163 3 'Natives need not be asked' says Malan T\R Daniel Malan. South African Prime Mini has told the Union Parliament that there had b -en any question of the incorporation of native o>otectorates into the Union being subject to the natives' agreement. Replying to a question. Dr. Malan said this question
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    • 62 3 THE arrest of film actor Robert Mitchum and three others on narcotics charges after a midnight raid on a secluded cottage in Hollywood was "only the beginning of a Hollywood clean up," police ators taid. "Hollywood can let this serve, as warning one investigator said. "We
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  • LEADER...
    • 541 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Sept. 6, 1948. UNO. and the Colonies O\E more curious ui a which wrist on U v of ti s is the Speg with Information on Non-Sell -ing Terr it- I in Genei where cer its men bers are continuing an atmpt, besun at the
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    • 1441 4 OMJBB PASHA FITSTOCETHERSOME PIECES OFTHE 'The Western nations get a confused idea' THE majority of people are accustomed to think of the Jews as a weak and persecuted race. So it is a shock to persons who come from Europe to Palestine to find the Jews in that
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    • 721 4  - WE COULD MAKE THE DESERT WE COULD MAKE THE DESERT BLOOM MAU RICE A. JAFF And the Jewish point o£ view By says MAURICE A. JAFFE Former Senior Jewish Chaplain to the 14th Army 'rHE Israel I found in the summer of 1948 was much changed from the country I
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    • 22 4 He draweth also the mighty with his power; he riseth up, and no man is sure of life. Job 24, 22.
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    • 37 4 g pool is wonder jul fun for anybody, but for the < who use the new pool at Woodlarks Camp. Farnham, Surrey, the In this, the batfichair pool, they are able to for. p*
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    • 695 4 l>r. Fduard Benes, former President of Czechoslovakia, who fought fot more than 30 years to make and keep htoto— nlff free, ded toil Irida% night at the age of 'il. He had been unwell since he retired from 'he Presidency immediately after the Communist coup in
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    • 14 4 M No dec> ed until th« K had bee: v semblv month. Reuter
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
    • 440 5 'Schools must stop turning out clerks 9 Free Press Staff Reporter \IALAYAN schools should stop educating people 1 merely to become clerks but should give them the training which will enable them to pursue the varied occupations to be found in this country, said Dr. Herbert H.
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    • 26 5 r: Sept. 8. acancies R A F will be ..o a wang. RAF reI 01. are 18 t un- e ac- inches.
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    • 159 5 f\S the r*. commendation of ne Salaries Sub-com-mitttee. the Malacca Muncipality will be paying its start a cost of living allowance of 50 p-r cei.t. oi basic salaries. lhe adoption of the new scales ls from Jan. 1. 1948. On this point, the Staff and
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    • 38 5 More than 500 guests were entertained by Mr. George E. Lee and other directors of the ing Siang Pau, one of .pore's leading Chinese -ular newspapers, at a cocktail party at the Happy World Cabaret yesterday
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    • 222 5 HUNDREDS SEEK PASSAGE TO CHIN A Free Press Chinese Correspondent lIINDKEDS of applicants beseiged the Immigran tion Office in Havelock Koad during the last few days in attempt to get certiHcates for their passage to China. This sudden rush in the number of applicants who wish to travel home has
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    • 78 5 IMPORTS from Malaya into Australia for the month of June were valued at Aust. £230.000, making a total for the twelve months ended June of Aust. £3,889,000. Exports to Malaya in June were worth Aust. £818.000. Total exports to Malaya for the year ended June were valued
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    • 54 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. AFTER several hours' discussion tonight 50 trade unionists decided in favour of forming a Malayan Labour Party, but postponed further action fill after a meeting ln December.. Final decision appeared to rest on the willingness of trade unionists to take a leading part
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    • Article, Illustration
      80 5 picture. Kallang Airport's first Constellation was the -centre of attraction at the Air D"» ri^-'ny last Saturday. The gia.it plajie, specially brought in from Batavia by K.L.M., landed in only one-third of the run ay. Safety requirements at Kallang make it impossible for a fully-loaded Constellation to land there, so
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      16 5 picture Mr. Sydney ueorge Burl who has been appointed acting' Sixth Police Magistrate, Singapore. Free Press
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    • 106 5 MINE SPARES FLOWN TO BATU ARANG WHEN terrorists attacked Malaya's only coal mine at Batu Arang in July, they endeavoured to put the machinery out of action by smashing up parts with hammers Some damage was done to the open cast mining machinery recently supplied by Le Tourneau in Australia.
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    • 123 5 IF all the applications for permission to build on proposed and existing public open spaces were approved, at the end of Ave and a half years there would not be a single plot of ground in any large town in the Federation. This was the view
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    • 94 5 th t uniil 1; led and uiulaini d corpses in Singapore O may be given a decent burial, tenders are being invited by the Government for the removal of dead bodies for a period of three months from Oct. 1. The practice of contracting for the
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    • 387 5 Free Press Staff Reporter 'THREE welfare centres in Singapore one recently built, the second half-built and the third to be built will be paid for from funds raised by the residents of the rural areas. At Jurong, a maternity clinic and welfare centre was recently
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    • 31 5 Takuapa Valley Tin output during August was as follows: Dredge No. 1. 487 piculs, Dredge No. 2, 470 piculs. The estimated total value $137,000. against production cost of $63,400.
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    • 107 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Ceylonese Association, Singapore, "has appointed a committtake a census of all I lon<\se resident in Singapore. This r the purpose nl making a preliminary survey to ascertain the exact and o: l ier particulars about the Ceylonese communlt] the Colony,
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    • 133 5 A SPECIAL representative of Monogram International Film Corporation, Mr. William E. Osborne, is visiting Singapore, on an extensive world survey of film distribution. Mr. Osborne told the Free Press that more authenticity would be depicted in pictures lf they were "shot" in the countries the story was
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  • NEWS...
    • 50 6 'TOUCHING-UP' WOODY WOODPECKER Miss Georyt ones OH a drawing of Woody Woodpecker, the bel cartoon character of the in the inking and painting department of a Hollywood studio, on the same job Jean ha s had an art school training and her ambition is to graduate to the animation department.
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    • 393 6 Bid to raise 150, 000 by the spring LONDON BRITAIN, faced with a post-war recruiting slump in an uncertain peace, is launching a campaign this autumn to strengthen the country's defences. I'nder the slogan "Spare Time for Britain", the British public will, in the next few
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    • 114 6 Paint may be constable's death clue POLICE in South Wales and the border counties got a "stop all lorries" radio r. after Police-Constable John Evans. 40, of Rumnt-y. had been found dead on id, Cardiff. His bicycle was found 10 vards away twisted into a ire eight, and his wrist
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    • 161 6 NEW YORK. T^i E Western Powers' policy of rebuilding Germany is doing more to spread Communism than all the Communists in Europe, according to War Crimes Prosecutor Joseph E. Dubois Jnr. "American, British and French leaders in the Reich are coddling Germans to win them
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    • 53 6 JERUSALEM IHED Nation^' eiTorts reJ suited recently in a "real cease-fire" in Palestine. Constant ship.ng and shelling )ped abruptly at th e noon ;ne. .vithin a truce U.N. first ordered a ceasefire two months a^ a special s a widenhe neutral zone in m area U
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    • 79 6 INVESTIGATION IN SHANGHAI M A E. Kyte of the ITI British Army in j has returned to Tokyo spending a v-tek in Sha reinvestigatin > evidence ol c-rimr.s against Majorraj Kinosinta and Ser geant-Major Yoshida of *he Japanese gr- ric The cases of thes<> rs. who were accused of maltreating
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    • 73 6 THE Polish Rmbassy ir 1 London has issued a ment c. release from a British of Dr Wladysla 11 accused for ti t If months cf war ci \s con- ■< I to j f w ir c Dr. Deri f eriminil during the war v.h:
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    • 39 6 Kurusu, who for Japan Washh gton when Pr Harbour was attacked is reported in Tokio to be recovering from a minor cerebral haemorrhage. The !orm r Japanese envoy on short trip ir m his home at Kuruizawa
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    • 148 6 Dutch Queen abdication rumour FE Scripps-How ud Newspapers Foreign Editor William Philip Simms. reports from Washington that "rumours persist in the Netherlands and abroad that Queen Wilhflmina's abdication this week is due, at least in part, to political differences ovei the Dutch Indies. Many of her people believe that the
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    • 84 6 NINE people were arrested recently in Brussels for thefts of gold teeth, rings and other valuable objects from the remains of American soldiers which were being transferred from an American military cemetery as Fosses, m-ar Namor. The Brussels paper Le People headed its account of
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      48 6 The Prime Minister, who was then in hospital, recently called a meeting of Cabinet M inciters, to disthe report of Mr. Frcnk Roberts. Britain's special envoy tn Moscow, on the latest talks with Marshal Stalin. Below. Mr E. Shinwell < left). War Minister. Wr Arthur Hrirlrrson A r Ministrr
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    • 197 6 'THE 16-uation United Nations committee on non-self-governing territories received assurance from Britain that she uas not going back on her pledge of self-government for her colonies An assistant secretary to the British Colonial Office, Mr. Fletcher-Cooke, told the committee that "since the war there have
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    • 34 6 SIX Chinese were ar: under the Emergency ms The total umber of detainees ls now 258. other Chinese ed by the Singapore C ID. for being members of Illegal secret societies.
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    • 15 6 1 the "When the early fid en: world and < more than
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 105 6 L i J*-4.<r Rxrlusiw Cu Mm *in£upt>r" Frp* .'rw» in Malum J THOUGHT THEY'D YYOOR MISTAKEN P BUT THOSE ARE 7&e\ Kh'M.'— YOU CAN GEt\| Ay GOSH'-You'ReA FT SWALLOW ANYTHING-) WAS IN J ONES I WANT TO A AWAY WITH MURDER IFyRIGHT JANF^i? oj 0 V BUT .VE GONE /SHOWING
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  • SPORTS...
    • 329 7 Mulloy, Talbert win doubles THE I nited States retained the Davis Cup lawn x tennis trophy by. winning the doubles yesterday to gain a decisive lead of three matches to nil over Australia in the challenge round at Forest Hills. The American doubles champions, Billy
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    • 45 7 IX x Eng^ batting in the current table s 0 Rous HS I 4J t 2441 i3 2111 I 33 34 30 83 WBl !54 50 63 OM R W i I. t I I t I O M R I Reuter
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    • 8 7 TURNESA WINS U.S. GOLF TITLE I I Reuter
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    • 16 7 Bulu: I .gust C Goss. X of T '.P. J 119. 5H *kdfkdfdfkdfkdfkdfdkd A.P.
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    • 50 7 USEFUL B. P. J»HE B P ed at the Hcsp'.tal Union Road p.m. tou. Junior AlWi bin Arshar v Larry Lim. Chuv. Kuat Soon l S. S. Alhady v Louis Loh; Charm.; Tuan v Qu-k Ha. long. Norices Singles: 3. G Tan Bwee; Bhn Thiam Yew v Teo i'ok H
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    • 61 7 \1 MARCEL Bou^sac's French colt Timur Second will not 0 run in the Doncaster St. Leger, jockey Charlier ElUott stated yesterday. Ellin t, who was to have ridden Timur. went acres :ice to ride lim in a gallop on Saturday but found he had broken down.
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    • 655 7  -  COIRTCRAFT By A MAGNIFICENT bid by today's top-ranking j women's junior player, Mrs. Ong Heng Kwee j (Diehard), to eliminate the Singapore and South player, Mrs. Chionh Hiok Chor (AAI from the women's open singles of the Singapore badminton championships, failed by the narrowest
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    • 152 7 Rugby League— new style k NEW form of professional football registered in New South Wales as "Rugy League Night Football" i__ being promoted as a summer game and. according to its promoter, H. R. Miller, will be vastly different from Rugv League or Northern Tnion— and to any other forms
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    • 64 7 THRILLING .u by ri. the Olympic 10 000 with a t<>rr lie buist to win tht--5.000 tattoo i! a' hi- I wh c\\ Fa: vakia by 91 j '.7. wth off or! n heavy track, 14 mins. 4 Bed I Rnundo Deyro. Filipino tenris irom vi States. whPn-
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    • 448 7 APART from any function which the county authorities may stage for the players, Glamorgan have been hailed as the County cricket champions for 1948 and their rise from ninth position to first since last season has definitely featured a year's cricket in which English
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    • 53 7 Journey s end res above show the start and the finish uf the 100 miles road cycling race )chich uas held in Singapore yesterday. Pit below shows Kwa Chin Swee winning in the splmdid tune 5 hours 21 mins. from Yahya bin Alias. Third icas
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    • 572 7 Free Press Racing Correspondent SNAPS scored a most impressive maiden win in Malava at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, final day of the Selangor Turf Clubs Aug.-Sept. meeting, and it looks as though he will turn out to be a force to be reckoned with
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    • 40 7 Pru:- Gcll wich, once one of Br. championship links, will be restored. It was badly damaged during the war by enemy bombing and use by British troops I has not been usf-d for p. A.P.
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    • 209 7  -  CALL BOY By TtRAINER Heddie's horses did the onl y fast work A at Bukit Timah this morning when training fur the Singapore Gold Cup meeting, which slarts on Saturday, was resumed. The going is in perfect condition after yesterday's rain. Advantage (Stirling) and
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    • 68 7 THE foL of play Korea in English rri'icet on Saturday: At Scat -b j.-ojk'i. I.i \c-,on G«.\tT'» Eleven ee, »I( immlmg tram M.C.C. (Huttro 73. D :.ptor. 135. Lab-r Etc for 97'. At Hastings, South uf England I the Vmmi. The Ncnh 182 <Barn<it 06, Jenkins six
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    • 21 8 Mr Tan Kee Soon (Govt M, oassed away rt-idtnce 154C ton Lane. Funeral to-dav at 3 dHdari at 5 p.m.
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    • 41 8 At Penane 3rd September 1943. to Tere?a. wtts cf L T WA daughter. DANT. To Eliza betn. wife m Alan D Dant of Kueh.-ng. Sarawak at Kandang Kerbau Hospital or. Sept. 5. 18 hours ifter disembarkation from U.K. a son
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    • 386 8 UK WORKERS BACK US POLICY IN EUROPE TUC congress opens today m BRITAIN'S ail-powerful representing 18,000,000 America's foreign policy i Moscow's claim that the 1 for war. The annual con Voicing the solidarit; here with the United i president of the annual J old Miss Florence Hancocl session today that
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    • 281 8 PARIS, Sunday. 4FTEK its first meeting tonight, M. Robert Schuman's new French Government issued a communique confirming the payment this week of a 2.500-franc bonus to all wage-earners, excluding the civil service. This is taken to indicate that the Government intends to tackle the vexed
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    • 54 8 ATHENS, Sunday. LJELEN SHARPEZI, 16, con icted as a Communist, was removed from the firing squad line-up by a last-7ninute clemency today after she had written to the Military Governor of Athens condemning Cor?imunism. "I take oath," she wrote, '•to God and to Greece" 'Today I
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    • 48 8 JAPANESE trade circles have recently been giving increasing attention to trade with the Soviet Union, the Japan Economic Weekly n There were no export the Soviet Union in January but in F/bruary they were valued at 2.106.000 yen and reached 17.658.000 yen by M
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    • 189 8 Split behind Iron Curtain INTERNAL dissensions behind the Iron Curtain j threaten seriously to undermine the solidarity of the Soviet bloc. Purges in Rumania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia have now been followed by one in Poland, in which the Communist party is reported to have expelled hundreds of doubtful members. The
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    • 232 8 ROME, Sunday. OOPE PIUS XII, in two speeches here today, called on Germans to carry on what "may amount to a struggle of a life and death nature" for the freedom of the Catholic Church and told 250,000 Catholic Action girls in Rome to lead
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    • 254 8 PRAGUE, Sunday. THOUSANDS of people— who came by trains, buses, lorries, a fire engine, tractordrawn trailers and on foot formed a two-mile queue to file past the body of Dr. Eduard Benes, co-founder of the Czechoslovak Republic, who died on Friday. Many knelt ln prayer, weeping.
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    • 71 8 rIE second day of the American Pacific coast j maritime strike saw a total of j 160 ships tied up and 28.000 men Idle. The only water commerce j .moving were tankers, bulk i cargo carriers and army and navy transports. New York City's
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    • 153 8 5 SHANGHAI, Sunday. MANY prominent Chinese are reported to be applyfor passports to Hong result of the series arrests of prominent Chise on charges of conivening the Governments 1 economic regulations. A leading merchant. Hsu Wen- ping, is reported to have n detained today
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    • 28 8 16 BISHOPS 'REVOLT Cardinal Iflndssenty. and 16 Hungarian H __ta MM on Suniay, attacked Hungary's newly nationalized crchoola a* rr. r and godless, controlled by Marxist deology. U.P
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    • 44 8 R.A.F. Regt. inspection Tne A.0.C., Malaya, Air Vice-Marshal A. C. Sanderson, inspected the newly raised No. 93 Sauadron of the R.A.F. Regiment (Malaya) at Sembawang RAF. Station on Saturday. Here he is seen with the Chief Interpreter of the Regiment, Wan Chik bin Ismail.
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    • 50 8 rHE U.S. Stat. Department yesterday bluntly described Bulgaria's announcement that an American ViceConsul had been caught in a spy case as a "transparently fabricated manoeuvre The Sofia Government alleged that the Vice-Consul. Mr Donald Ewing. was caught last July "getting Important espionage inforj^__________ two Bulgarians I A.P.
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    • 134 8 VANCOUVER, Sunday. I HISTORIANS here are stu- dying a 22-page document purporting to be Christopher Columbus' personal log book, kept on the voyage that led to the discovery of America. Mr. Charles Smith said he found the book in the library of his deceased brother in Devonshire,
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    • 154 8 TOKIO, Sunday. AS a result of Gen. MacArthur's statement last week that Japan had become "an asset upon which the free world may confidently count," there is speculation here whether Japan will be permitted to rearm if the International situation continues to ■deteriorate. The ■said today
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    • 56 8 A SPECIAL Market correspondent gives the prices of rubber (tn cents per Ib.) at 11 a.m. today as follows: Buyers. Sellers No. 1 R.S.S. Spot. loose 45', 45U F.o.b. in bales Sept. No. 1 R.S.S. 44* 4 45 No. 2 R.S.S. Af/» 48 S, No. 8 R.S.S. Amy
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    • 33 8 VITAL SAIGON TALKS SOON AN important conference on the Franco-Vietnam situation is expected to take place soon ln Saigon. Military authorities believe that the Franco-Vietnam problem has now arrived at a decisive stage.
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    • 285 8 Ll XEMBOIRG. Sunday. COMPLETE transformation of the I nited Nations Organisation into a World Parliament was urged here by a spokesman of the World Federal Government Movement, whose second annual comcntion opened here tonight. Such a Parliament, the spokesman told a p: conference, would represent a
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    • 96 8 JULIANA'S CALL TO INDONESIA AMSTERDAM, sundav L IN her first proclamation as Qu. Netherlands, Queen Juliana told the peoiU^l Indonesia, "I trust that under mj go\< relations will find a harmonious form ,r2 ing to what is living and growing ami The proclamation, which was a the peoples of the
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    • 81 8 CLEVELAND, Sunday. A FULLY-ARMED U.S. Air Force Jet figh which Major Richard I. Johnson is believed to have flown at 669 miles, an hour, failed to establish a new world record because the official timing cameras caught only three of its passes over the
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    • 21 8 MR Wer. I of the California Air. [5 the m to -V m h consists oi m fa
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    • 223 8 MOSCOW. S MARSHAL Feng Yu-Hsiang, the famous Chinese 1 ,lord. better known as the "Christian General.'' and daughter died in a fire which broke out on board the 9.000--ton Soviet motorship Pobeda between Batum and here at the end of a journey from New
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