The Singapore Free Press, 16 September 1948

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I r..r, SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1948. PRICt 10 CKMS
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    Protection for every estate
    741 1 levin makes a promise I LONDON, Wednesday. BE fcreiffl Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, gpttiJßt m Malaya in the House of Comi>n> today, declared "It is our aim to provide > M>on as possible, with the aximum <>t trained and armed defenders, lite apart from the regular
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    51 1 Mr. T. W. Ong. vice-presi-dent of the Straits Chinese British Association, speaking at the dinner last night in honour of the Chinese members of the Singapore Legislative and Executive Councils, held at the Chinese Swimming Club. Seated at the table are Mrs. Lim Tem Hock, and Mr. G. E. N.
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    Police mauled in border clash
    171 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Thursday. 'PHRF.K policemen, including: an inspector, were killed, seven constables were wounded, and three others are missing in anti-bandit operations in >mtok in Kedah. Sintok is five miles from the Kedah-Siam border. Military forces are now operating in the
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    BANDIT ATTACK BEATEN OFF
    102 1 Free Press Staff Reporter OAN I) ITS who yesterday attacked the Johore River Estate, 20 miles from Johore Bahru, were driven off by a military party stationed at the estate. There were no casualties. At about 1.30 p.m. yesterday telephone communication between Simpang Rengam Estate police
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    SOVIET TRIAL ILLEGAL—U.S.
    78 1 SOVIET TRIAL ILLEGAL— U.S. THE American Military Government last night charged Russia with actin* Illegally by trying a Berlin city official In a secret Soviet court. Russian authorities refused to permit Americans to observe the trial of Dr. Kurt Mueckenberg. former head of the city Coal Organization, whom they arrested
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    News 'gag' fear
    49 1 Mr. W. L Andrews, editor of the YjrkNhire Post, told the Institu 1 of Journalis s conference n Edinburgh \esterday that there was danger that the newsprint famin? in Britain caused by tbt i war might be continued by de--1 liber ire government policy.— U P.
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    CIVIL DEFENCE PLANS READY IN BRITAIN
    107 1 CIVIL DEFENCE PLANS READY IN BRITAIN LONDON, Wednesday. BRITAN is working on new civil defenc* plans which will be put into operation If the international tension does not ease, it was learned authoritatively today. The plans are described by sources close to the Government as "only precautionary." The Governments decision,
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    CRASHED PLANES WERE FOR CHINA
    75 1 CRASHED PLANES WERE FOR CHINA THREE fighter planes which crashed into a Formosa peak a week ago, killing their American pilots were part «^f a group belonging to the Chinese Air Force being transferred from storage in the Philippines by American pilots. The three planes, in a Ih^ht of 16,
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    THEREDS IN ASIA
    290 1 THE growing Communist x menace in Asia today brought these reports: Nenru Warns INDIA must take "warning!] from the calamitous conditio&a prevailing in Burma and Malaya and South-East Asian countries generally and smother all separatist tendencies like Communism, provincialism and the demand for new linguist. c provinces,"
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    67 1 Sir Han Hoe Lim f standing) speaking at the dim* r given at the Singapore Chinese Swimming Club last night by the Straits Chinese British Association in honour of Chinese members of the Legislative and Executive Councils: (from left to right at the main table): Mr. Yap Pheng Geek (president
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    Burma Battles: 22 rebels die
    74 1 RANGOON, Thursday A BURMESE Government communique last night reported a battle against Communist -led insurgents in the Mandalay district, in which 22 insurgents were killed and 29 captured. It also reported attacks by insurgents on three towns In the Yamethin district, south of Mandalay, all
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    4- A-MONTH BARTER VOYAGES
    125 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. |X)UR regular monthly barter rade voyages between Singapore and East Sumatra have now been approved by the Dutch. This follows th»» successful trial trip to Pakan Baroe last month. In future, there will be two regular barter vqpages each month for both
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    $1.250 million aid
    24 1 Itie United S:ates has sent Europe more than $1,250,000,000 of food goodl and i. fwan R<> ml in»o op A. P.
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    Stay-al-home
    24 1 H Ifiddletoa, who di< d recen Jy an^d 94. lived 87 years in ■>me h^ti'P 1 in 26 Harris ct'roet. Extt^r. South Australia.
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    TWO ARRESTED IN SINGAPORE
    35 1 TWO Chinese wore arrested iw Singapore unclr emergency regulations yestt.-alay bringing the total emerg DCJf detainees to 298. In addition the CXI), arrested four Chinese fci being members ot unlawful secret
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    BRITONS FACE 'SPY' CHARGES
    96 1 THE trial opened in Jerusalem yesterday to the sound of mortar shells and gunfire of two Britons. Frederic Sylvester and Hawkins, charged with sending information on Jewish troops movements to the Arabs. Sylvester is also charged with the illegal possession and operation of a transmitter. The
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    Hutch debts
    33 1 A DuVh delegation is expected n, visit Australia to settle d?bt« incurred for billeting Du'ch truops duiing the war, and for the sale of Australian equipment in the Netherlands East Indies.
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    Gang tied girl to a pillar
    133 1 JO II ORE BA.HRU, Thurs. A YOUNG Chinese woman of Hailan Kany aaid yesterday that when three mask- < ed Chinese threatened her With death, she replied. Do what you like." The men then tied her to a pillar while her [rnam IMI ransacked.
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    'The Republic in danger'
    237 1 —Indonesian C-io-C BATAVIA, Wednesday. OROADCASTING an order of the day a few hours after the Netherland Indies Government had banned the Communist Party, in Indonesia, Gen. Soedirman. C-in-C. of the Republican Army, announced that military measures would be taken at Surakarta, to put down the fighting
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    CRISIS OFFER TO EX-R.A.F.
    150 1 LONDON. Thursday. EX-R.A.F. aircrew and others with flying experience are offered special conditions of return or entry to the R.A.F. for eight-year period*, with further career prospects, as part of a campaign to build up the flying personnel or the service, the Air Ministry announced yesterday.
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    Indian advance slowed down
    150 1 Indian advance slowed down BOMBAY, Wed. INDIA'S main drive towards the capital of Hyderabad slowed drastically today, according to official reports. The Indian First Armouiid Division, which rolled miles to the east in the first 36 hours, pushed only '0 miles further into the NiXfa territory during the last 2*
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    Red satellite tension grows
    69 1 BELGRADE. Thursdir YUGOSLAV Communii 1 dicated yesterday that the relations with trior iwo neighbours. Rumania and Hungary were near b. point. Friendship and alliance w:th these countries could not exist under pressuu slander and calls to the Yugoslavs declared. The Communist p> Barba, in an editorial,
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    More rice for P.I
    27 1 The Philippines have been allocated 30.000 u>ns of emer?.. rice MippHes by the ln;em. Emergency Pood Count !'s i ccomm.tiee. reports A. P.
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    S'hai Still grows
    23 1 Shanghai's population is 5 390 875. an incirase ov^r July »>r almost 75 000 report* thr OtVi Civil Affairs Bureau.
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    Dying was easy in dull Batavia
    832 2 I H VE been dipping a^ain into Miss Kmffv Hahn'a 4t Raffles of Singapore," su\ouring her extraordinary collection of contemporary pictures of )ii, and of life there during the :i> nth and ninenth centuriA sroang man, just d out from Holland, is said to
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    ASIA IN REVOLT
    156 2 'PHE author of the 1 famous CHUNGKING DAIRY has now made a brave and scholarly survey of the great surge of the people of Asia towards national independence and also of their immense potentialities in the immediate future. In the belief that tomorrow's history will be made
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    Books at Raffles Library
    400 2 Books at Raffles Library THE following ;.'w books will be added to Raffles Library Singapore, witnln the next few days: Tra%el in England 'Thomas Burke*. Richard W lson. KA "The Grand Cla&sic Adrian Bury i. Gliding and Advanced Soar.ng <A C. Dougla-si, Rm Brit,sh Museum Library <Arundell Esda:le>, Your Flrw
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    A great clown blunders
    288 2 ONE of the great clowns of this age the man who is Just as funny as he looks reveals his biggest blunder in his autobiography. Yours Faithfully, Leslie Henson (John Long. 12s. 6d.). It happened in New York in 1915 He was playing In •Tonights the
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    PROTRAIT OF A POET
    61 2 Portrait of William Morrk by Esther Meynell. 'Chapman and Hall, 155.) If. after reading Holbrook Jackson's eitremely suggestive portrait-sketch, you uish to know more about the life and personality of William Morris a good poet an accomplished craftsman and a finely unselfish preacherEsther Meynell's biography, though
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    Bridge Problem
    286 2 opened his diamond. Declarer won tk w th dummy's king u> trump. Easr hopped xn i the ace to return his singlets j heart. West gathered n the j queen and ace of hearts, th*-n led a third heart which East n. Back cam« the diamond low rfpM]
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    THE MIGHT MR. PEPYS
    292 2  -  PETER QUENNE LL re "'e *s fit* bo °ki in DETUBNING from my holiday, happened to pick uo one of those imnu .^lo American magazines, hit on a couple of pages of large dramatic pi graphs, and mediately and irn tihly reminded of a book I
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      551 2 SINGAPORE |2 P'« to 815 pn, VIIB todu^ri.l i, (1 From 12 00 noon to 1.00 pm. J;g n "j '"< ■"■"JESS H«wri«tt«r; 11.45 Clow do «5 metre* in (h« medium wave J* P pro >I( 10 CF A P band and T.M megacycles n the ?4? M l! W
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      180 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DORN today, you dislike discord and will go a very long way around to escape a fight. But you are not lacking in individuality, and if opposed in your ideas, you will revert to a type of passive resistance which is quite as I effective in gaining
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    AT 17 HE KNOWNS 7 LANGUAGES
    69 3 AT 17 HE KNOWNS 7 LANGUAGES K| A other English boys and girls, 17. of South Holm wood, near has just passed his matrie, but he to pass in Chinese except for the Be se Embassv officials. cottr rtfb hn wt If COK Tie col tact jk 1* :ked up
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    32 3 Ijoy of IUU year* ago, tew "travelling book l-ondon. The scheme has been startSmith and Son who have run boukfor 100 years. Fred grandfather worked for Smith's 5 000 son* of employees'.
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    JJAPS TRADE DEFICIT
    38 3 Japans txports for t.^e half .vere 13.216 million yen and imporis w k re i3.441 million. Textiles comprised almost 50 per cent a- d raw slk 17 per cent, of exports. Hai. mporta consisted ot
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    PARLIAMENT'S RECORD OPENING
    78 3 PARLIAMENT'S RECORD OPENING ANEW session of Parliament was opened in London yesterday in four minutes, the shortest opening ceremony on record. The King read his speech in 56 seconds announcing to both Houses of Parliament that the session, a special one of only two weeks, had been called solely to
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    'We are free to stand alone' WHAT HYDERABAD WILL TELL U.N.
    404 3 'We are free to stand alone' WHAT HYDERABAD WILL TELL U.N. PARIS, Tuesday. AN outline f *he Hydernbad intends to argue x before the Security Council was disclosed by a spokesman close to the Hyderabad delegation which arrived in Paris tonight. The Hyderabad argument in general is that after the
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    Yearly cost of accidents: S10 million
    107 3 MOTOR vehicle accidents in Australia represent an economic loss of £10,000,000 a year, according to an estimate of the Australian Road Safety Council. Cost is made up of damaged property, hospital xnd medical treatment for injured, wage losses, and calculated life value of persons
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    WELLES AT VENICE FILM FESTIVAL
    24 3 WELLES AT VENICE FILM FESTIVAL H h at the Venice Lido are <u 20th Century-Fox films, and Orr director and actor. They fUm festival.
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    U.K. speeds germ warfare defence
    189 3 1 THE British Cabinet has sanctioned a big expansion of the Government research department responsible for defence against germ warfare. Doctors, bacteriologists, veterinary surgeons and biochem'sts are being recruited on a big scale. This is believed to be part of a long-term plan recommended months
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    Guns seized in place
    34 3 POLICE seized arms Includl 1 muskets, five rifles and an e?ght-milimietrf» gun from > nf the Prince of At Ghulam Mahomed All K^ r. Bahadur, in Madras last ni*h R' uter.
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    U.S. MAY BOYCOTT CUBA CONFERENCE
    258 3 THE United States may boycott the Latin American conference on colonies in South America which is planned to be held in Cuba, as they have no desire to be implicated in debates involving Britain, France and Holland. Argentina has never been happy that the British
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    MUSLIM' LECTURE
    59 3 The Young Men's Muslim Association will hold a lecture meeting tonight at 8.30 in the Malay Teachers' Union premises in Palembang Road. The speaker is Mr. Ismail Bariahdah. a Muslim youth leader from the Philippines. A view of the arounds of the Palais de Chaillot. the home of
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    86 3 The Operations Room Fighter quarters during the "B of Britain" reca. defences. Hundreds oj tain's I in a tour-': -Briia nerable southern c agar "Southland CS. SuperFort res^ }}e bombers who a' find pans in wall W t fie balcony t above* an WAAF plotters keep check un battle are
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    BOY SPENT £400 IN THREE DAYS
    241 3 A 15-YEAR-OLD boy stole £1,100, and spent £400 in London in three days, including £4 15s. on a permanent wave for a woman he met in a Piccadilly 1 cafe. This was stated at H- < Stalls) juvenile court when the boy admitted stealing
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    Church must fight 'what the hell'
    135 3 Church must fight 'what the hell' THE "what-the-hell" attitude in the world today would have to be tackled by the Church Dr. Wand. Bishop of London, told the World Council of Churches In Amsterdam. He said an American churchman had told him of a conversation overheard between a man and
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    300,000 to go to Dominions
    92 3 ABOUT 300.000 displaced person will find homes in the two Dominions of Canada and Australia during the next few years, the Council of the International Refugee Organisation iIR.O.i was told. Australian delegate. Brig F. Galiaghan. told the Council that Australia was spending £1.000,000 on housing
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      66 3 TARZAN Bird's eye View By Edgar Rice Burroughs I y^r «.nrtT c-mooen TV.B I VAI I i 'NEVtR MATM STRANSER LOOKED AS THE S€NOOT STOPPED, <Me V V uPOf4 ASMOA AND UvEO-JTOTELL C4OW C^ffiG^E^ET6C«l^ 0 1 Wl O OP.T/SAIOOTAMU. "MAY TH£ tJ^^J M» J siC'<ii'' < J int 7icicu'*iic. y
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. Sept. 16, 1948. Changi shock
    643 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. Sept. 16, 1948. Changi shock THE official statement that the suspension of work on Changi airfield does not imply that the plan for reconstruction has been abandoned is not quite a> reassuring as it is meant to be. All that it really means is that
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    RED SKY OVER BERLIN
    917 4  -  Alexander Clifford by BERLIN. "Of course, the onlu way to handle the Russians The trouble about the Russians is You can't understand the Russians unless I The Russians ANY night at any candlelit gathering in beleaguered Berlin you can hear that word rising and falling like
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    73 4 Royal Marines at Portsmouth are holding a Searchlight Tattoo in aid of Service and local charities. The programme will include a drill and massed bands display, a commando raid, historical pageant, and a dancing display, by Wrens. Here. Wren Eileen Gifford. is seen with two stalwarts of yesteryear— Marine T.
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    Music, medico, please
    530 4  -  CECIL WILSON By FRIENDS called Dr. L. B. Neel a fool when he gave up his South London practice in 1933 and abandoned medicine for music. During the past fortnight at Edinburgh's Freemason's Hall he has been proving hov wrong they were. For the Boyd Neel Chamber
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    No petrol rationing yet in Ceylon
    120 4 No petrol rationing yet in Ceylon The Ceylon Minister of Transport and Works, Sir John K. Kotelawala, has warned consumers of petrol in the island that unless they cooperate with the Government and voluntarily bring down consumption by 20 per cent the Government will re-introduce control. The Minister said the
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    JERUSALEM TANGLE
    820 4  -  MORLEY CASSIDY by JERUSALEM. ANYONE who thinks the problem of Jerusalem is goiii^ to be easy to solve should spend an hour in thought on top of the stone tower of .he Notre Dame Hospice. He'll have a nara time getting there. The windIng stone stairs are heaped
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    NEXT PREMIER?
    453 4 (GRAPPLING with Britain's new free medical and dental services is the Health Minister, Mr. Aneurin Bevan, who would be an almost certain choice for Prime Minister if the country's administration swung further left, short of Communism. Left-wing leader in the Cabinet, 49-year-old Bevan —"Nye" to his friends— has
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    It Seems t Me..
    315 4  - It Seems t Me.. POLITIO BY IT ha claimed for post-li 1 of Government it is the -ible system nomical both in and effort. But its most i cuous weakness, nov posed in almos meeting of the Legislative Council, ap; ly went unsu during the period of constitution makin The
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    FAITH
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    Straits Chinese will stay British
    58 5 Straits Chinese will stay British .1 01 inese of \v. last the S be left d to reel i luted are proud legllout be- .> newand, we are -operate .<:turght *hts -d. and ::uine ->Pwhose spective said .ition was R It had an <ible task, fegomrd the ccr.s" rights that
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    S'PORE COURT TO HEAR CASE
    55 5 S'PORE COURT TO HEAR CASE Press >rrr>pondent. ANG Wed. S» ,e tMr. J Bia w today averred a case to Singa--1 :used, Bartxvn identified r h m Boon; f tee. Ba: u charged t. com heft of 19 He Wi, have sooja at -"S -d as sa stcr eeper by
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    $40,000 FOR FINGERPRINT REGISTRY
    147 5 $40,000 FOR FINGERPRINT REGISTRY MORE than one-'4iird of th< work done by the Crimi nal Registry in Kuala Lumpui was on behalf of Singapore reports the Singapore Finance Committee in passing a contribution of $40,050 to th« Registry. The Committee says thai it has been agreed that the Singapore Government
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    HONGKONG TIN
    25 5 The Directors of Hong Koog Tin. Ltd. haw declared &n interim d jewn and a half per cent pftj&ble on October 11. picture
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    Penang nearer to free port status
    151 5 Penang nearer to free port status ttre e P -pendent .ci oil k the :< on bring full prei free port r of e on M Jules tang had ■J**- opposed to these to note that Food has at >aid Mr. deed. fn rtSpv -as now st unfair n position
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    76 5 This bust of the late King George V, stands at the entrance to the Junior Technical 'Trade) School in Balestier Road. Originally in the Supreme Court Building, the bust icas moved out by the Japs during the occupation, and was found in the old Trade School building after the liberation.
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    'Parallel seniority lists unfair'
    525 5 Unified Medical Service THHE proposed institution of parallel seniority lists for European and Asian medical officers in the Government service in Malaya "was condemned by the Alumni Association of the King Edward VII College of Medicine as giving only the shadow, and not the substance, of
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    JOHORE CURFEW
    153 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. THE Chief Police Officer, Johore announced today that there will be a curfew In the whole of the Johore i Bahru Police Circle as from Monday, every night between 7.30 p.m. and 5.30 a.m. until further notice. Police and Military patrols are liable to shoot
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    ROAD CLOSED
    53 5 I*HE Chief Police Officer. Kedah. has ordered th* closing to motor traffic of the ro*d from Balng to Weng This is a notorious, bandit Infested stretch, surrounded by Jungle. Public serv ce vehicles may, however, obtain permits to use the road from the officer in charge of the
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    ON LEAVE
    41 5 Mr. c. "Hiornton, manager of Quthrie and Co., Ltd., Kuala' Lumpur, has le t by plane for England on leave. He will be away for about six months. His wife and baby left for Kogland In July by sea.
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    IMPORT BAN CONTINUES TILL DEC 31
    193 5 No more dollars fa? e!^*h Stock position 'very sound 9 free Press Staff Reporter |HE Keg IS trar of Imports and Exports. .Singapore, (Mr. A. I). Stutchbury) told the tree Press yesterday that the Government had no intention whatever to spend American dollars on
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    60 5 picture FAMILY RE-VMON: Mr. and Mrs. J A. Sheilim join their children, Va< and Tony in Sinyu. after a f tie -month plea cruise tn Europe and United States. They rei ed on the President l yesterday. Mr. Sheilim the Managing Director A Sheilim and Co.. i porters of Calcutta.
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    Federation police round-up EUROPEAN SHOT ON WAY TO MINE
    609 5 Federation police round-up EUROPEAN SHOT ON WAY TO MINE T»HE funeral of the Mr. William Walter Archer took x place this morning at the Cheras Cemetery, Kuala Lumpur. He was on the staff of the AngloDriental (Malaya) Ltd., and was employed at flawang Tin Fields Ltd. He Was killed yesterday
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    U.S. jail chief here on tour
    103 5 AN his arrival yesterday by v the President Polk, the State Prison Director of California, Mr. Julian H. Alco, said he was looking forward to visiting Changl Prison. He will probably hold a coni e c e Sin gapore prison officials today. u Mr#
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    FOR RED CROSS IN INDONESIA
    75 5 THE Indonesian Repuolican 1 representative In Singapore. Dr. Oetoyo has received a shipment of medical supplies from Australia and 12 bundles of us^d -clothing and shoes from San Francisco. The goods are addressed to the Indonesian Red Cross. The medical supplies have been donated by
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    CO-OP MEETING
    29 5 The Singapore Government j Servants' Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society will hold its half-yearly general meeting Dn Sept. 30 at 5.30 p.m. in the old Council Chamber.
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    tour Chinese gunmen hanged
    247 5 Kn«i i CSC unmen were Ranged in Pudu Jail i iru U L m P ur yesterday morning. Thev were Lui Chow, Wong King, Kho^Kooi/ang S efew Lul Chow was convicted and sentenced to death on Aug. 11, 194«. He fought a gun battle with two
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    CABLE SHIP COMING
    75 5 LONDON. Wed.-The Cable Ship Retriever (command* Chief Officer R W. Reynolds* sailed from London on A, 18. for Singapore. wh"r. will be based. Retriever. formerly the Bullfrog, was bou^h* b\ companv from the Admiral iv and is sister ship to El-vtia now in the West Indies She
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    AIRPORT ENGINEER
    23 5 Mr. J. j ■ryaa. Senior Executive Bigiiif^r. N, gi h i now stationed in Eingap Superintend Engineer in of^he Sn^.wre Airport.
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    Indonesians seo Juliana
    28 6 Indonesians seo Juliana Kepresentatives of Indonesia arriving for the inauguration ceremony of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands at the Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, provided the biggest splash of colour.
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    ARABS ADVISED NOT TO QUIT U.N.
    393 6 ARABS ADVISED NOT TO QUIT U.N. CAIRO WITH the approach this month of the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in Paris the question whether the Arab States should withdraw from the United Nations has again come to the fore. Certain sections of the press have for the past
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    WOMAN DEFIES EVICTION ORDER
    390 6 BEHIND bolted doors, Miss Marjorie Edith Hartnett, 38-year-old private secretary, sits in a rosecovered cottage near Ingatestone, Essex, defying an eviction order It had been granted to her former employer, 84-year-old Colonel D. L. Hilder, millionaire J.P., former High Sheriff of Essex, and former M.P for
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    30 JOBS AND NEVER SACKED
    78 6 CAMUEL Reginald Simpkins, J aged 44. has had 30 jobs in his lifetime and not been "sacked" from one of them, a detective told Maidstone (Kent> magistrates when Simpkins was jailed for six months for stealing a fountain pen. And this, said the detective, is
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    Juliana's rush trip to London
    92 6 QUEEN Juliana, escorted by her husband. Prince Bernhard, secretly visited London for a short time to consult an eye specialist about their youngest doughter The royal couple arrived ahx.e in a red-nosed Dakota at Northolt Airport. Airport offllials had no inkling of the Identity of
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    3 RECORDS FOR CAR ACE
    81 6 DRIVING his all-British "Ooldie Gardner record car" Lt. Col. Goldier Gardner, the British racing driver, established three new world records in the two litre class on the Jabbeke-Aeltre motor road in Belgium. Col. Gardner's new record average speeds were: flying five kilometres: 170.523 miles per
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    Wants to be jailed but can 9t get in
    237 6 Wants to be jailed but can 9 t get in THE case of a man who vainly besieged Brixton x Prison, pleading to be allowed to serve a threemonth sentence for receiving, will be the subject of an application at Thames Magistrates' Court shortly. Mr. Leslie Marks, the magistrate who
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    51 6 Circus stunt-rider Vickt Sherry, aged 25, includes tigers, lions and snakes among her friends but she can't stand spiders. Here Vick is takiny a friend from the snake-house for a stroll at Belle Vue. Manchester. "I'm not scared." she says, "I love all animals except spiders they give me the
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    54 6 Tne Lonuon Zao'i Jour j youngest chimpanzees at their first public appearance. While Sally, trapped in i the bucket, rages. Oompo tch a broom. Susan is intrigued by :'n sauce pan, So-So watches from the chair. Below:— Susan has to be content ivith licking the spoon while her big sister
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    U.S. SOLDIER LEFT $10,000 FOR JAPS
    201 6 U.S. SOLDIER LEFT $1 0,000 FOR JAPS AN eager Japanese youth left Tokyo by plane last week-end for an American rolleqe education bequeathed to him by an American G.1., Robert Johnstone, who died in the Pacific war. Robert Nishiyama, 23. who served in the Japanese Navy. will spend the next
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    He ate 'strong' fish-died
    102 6 by train to Harrogate, Yorks, eighty-fivc-y tar-old Major-General Sir Arlington Augustus Chlchester was the only one to have fish for lunch according to his wife. Later in the day he was take.: ill and removed to a nursing home, where he died last week. The inquest
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    MR. JUST'S PLAY FOR COLONIES
    163 6 MR. JUST'S PLAY FOR COLONIES I AMERICA wants the British p essential raw materials In the United States can build The list oi ma tied is long. It includes mi ganese and chromium (both used for hardening steel*, tin, vegetable oils, and fibres. Supplies of some may be sold to
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    NAKED GIRLSAT ON GALLERY
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      95 6 JANE Exclusive in ih« Singapore Free Press in Malara /i'M SURPRISED TfcEY^l HAVING A N I /"bY J1h460, ERICI-^I/i'lL DRIVE THE FIRST/wiTh SOME (CAN GET THE PETROL if a PROCESSION OF ALL N V I'VE COT IT! >/ CAR— THE OLDEST/SUCH SLOGAN FOR THIS, BUT -—x^fcA; TYPES OF AUTOMOBILES, J
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    BILLY CAROL IS READY FOR CUP RACE
    570 7  - BILLY CAROL IS READY FOR CUP RACE CALL BOY Final gallops for Saturday By f rm: ommissioher-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonalds Liberation Cup candidate, Billy Carol did one of the best gallops at Bukit Timah this morning when a number of Saturday's runners were given their final workouts on the second
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    SINGAPORE MOTOR CLUB COMMinEE
    79 7 J^T an extraord nxry gereral m*e'ng of the Singapore Motor Club held at Ratß«s Hot«l laet night, th-.- following were j to the new comm Mr. F. C. Pi p.- <cha rniam. Mr. L. E G. S«agroaU ureaP. D O Lidell <sec:- :ommi*tee Messrs P. J,
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    SIX SCHOOLS ENTER YOUNG CUP RELAY
    66 7 T^HE Inter School Relay (4 x 100 metre* for th- S.r Arthur Young Cup will be included n the programme of the Chinese Intt-r-School Sports at Jalan h Stadium on Saturday. Six schools have entered teams for th s popular annual uiterschool event. They
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    $60,000 lost on Favourites
    672 7 FAVOURITES lost punters something like $60,000 on the tote alone at Bukit Timah yesterday, second day of the Singapore Turf Club's Gold Cup Meeting. On the first day the sudden change In the weather was blamed for the downfall of the favourites, but that excuse could
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    U.K. Rugby League & Union results
    89 7 U.K. Rugby League Union results {J. K Rugby rcMUI jrsterday were Yorkahiiv Cup First Round. Second Lt-g Bradford Northern 20. Dewsbury 5. i Dewsbury eliminated>; Bramwly 9. Caatlefcrd U. <Bramley elminited 1 Featherstone Ro\ers 17. Vor< 9. (York eliminated. Hull Kingston Rover W»k«Held Trinity 4. i Hull Kingston el;minaVd>, Hunaiet
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    South of England meet champions
    45 7 SOUTH of England met the County champions. Glamorgan at Swansea yesterday, first day of the match. Close of play scores were: South of England 301 (W. J. Edrlch 58. Horsfall 69. Clay 5 for 74 Glamorgan 9 for II Renter.
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    Airmen have crack team
    277 7  - Airmen have crack team MALCOLM USHER Bv H r g<>i off to a convincing start in the K r wi\-tormed soccer competition for the interKces Cup when they beat the Army five-one in |Kr>t match of the series at Changi yesterday. ■r. d on a home-and-away basis, so H: 'o
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    Leicester made £10,000 offer
    45 7 EK ESTER hare offered (rew e £10.000 for inside forward Jack Meaney, 25. and Tony Waddington 23. right half. Jock Dodds. Eyerton centre forward, may join Oldhatn. Price 1 8,000. (ieorge Dick. Blackpool inside forward, Is expected to go to Ererton.
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    'WOODCOCK PRETTY GOOD' SAYS LEE OMA
    368 7 'WOODCOCK PRETTY GOOD' SAYS LEE OMA I EE OMA. 32- year-old Ame- iktO heavyweight who fights Bruce Woodcock at Harringay on September 21. arrived in London with "a dollar and a half* and "bags full" of confidence. Oma, who must be one of the best looking boxers ever to visit
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    Thrilling finishes
    89 7 In a thrilling finish Boio Legs < Charles i, on the rails, snatches a sliort head ivin almost .on the post from Purple Knight (Spencer) in the fifth race at Bukit Timah yesterday. Lucky Star II suffered a check in the last few yards and the red cone
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    Malays defeat Coast Battery
    176 7 A solitary goal scored against the run of play cave the Malays two points when they met the Ist Malay Coast Battery In a third division S.A.F.A. league game at Geylang Stadium yesterday. The Coast Bty XI had more of the play but they failed through
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    Leading Australian breeder dies
    266 7 Jlfß. Percy Miller, who died recently in Sydney, owned Kia Ora, the largest and most successful stud farm in Australia, a property of 2,800 acres with over 100 brood mares and me outstanding English stallions. Mr. Miller established Kia On 30 years ago. and madt It
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    Derby take second place
    268 7 Derby take second place DERBY County moved into second place in d sion one ol the English Fc i ball League yesterday three-one victory over Bb poo], still mLus Si i Matthew*. The triumph gave them 12 points one more than Newcastle and two less i League leading Portsmouth. By
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    Rovers win div. I title
    491 7 Rovers 3; R. Navy I. "THE Rovers Sports Club provided all the thrills for a fitting climax in the first division of S.A.F.A. league at Jalan Besar stadium jrestferd when a record crowd saw them defeat Ui£ K<» Navy three-one in their final game. By
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      250 7 F.P. Crossword No. 489 ji 12 I 1 13 14 b p~ ZZLZZ3ZEEZZZ g« _DL 13 PI r^ ~1 P| >!~ 15 17 ITZZ 25 If C p25 "26 Ti 2d" 1 :^m 50 "^1 CLUES ACROSS 2. Offers of marriage <9>. 7. Meditate (4). 9. Hiatus (3> 14 quire*
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    STALIN DID NOT SNUB BIG 3 ENVOYS
    398 8 Talks may go to Paris LONDON, Wednesday. PRESCRIBING reports that Generalissimo Stalin *J had refused to receive the three Western envoys in Moscow as "inaccurate," an authoritative source today explained that the Generalissimo is on his annual holiday in a "resort at a
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    MR. BEVIN IS CAUTIOUS ON EUROPE UNION
    197 8 LONDON, Wednesday. THE Foreign -Minister. Mr Ernest Bevln. referring in the House of Commons tonight to unofficial proposals for a Western Union, said the Government was exercising caution and wanted a full and frank discussion on the whole question of Western Union with
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    AGED 10, GIVES MOTHER AWAI
    127 8 THE 10-year-old Marquess of Dufferin and Ava "gav* away" his widowed mother in a wedding ceremony at Little Brasted, Essex, yesterday. His mother, the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava. was married to Major H. D. Buchanon of the Grenadier Guards at St. Nicholas Chifrch here.
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    MOST SECTIONS ARE FIRxMER
    439 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON. Wednesday. <T»HE new account today made a promising* start x with most sections of London's stock markets showing a firmer tendency, but business was not particularly brisk, says Reuters financial correspon- 1 dent. Tins and Rubbers were unchanged to lower Industrials were
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    British blame Soviets
    64 8 BERLIN, Wed. DRITAIN today charged Rusn sian troops had provoked German anti-Communists into last Thursday's rioting which resulted in street fighting at Brandenburg Gate. The statement, by an official British military government spokesman, rejected an accusation by the Russian commandant, Maj.-Gen. Alexander Kotikov, that' "inactivity" of British
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    BIRTHS
    70 8 COLDER —At Batu Gajah on 13th. 1948. to Jov. wife of Calder—a son. GOUGH. On l.">th September 1918 to Jo. wi e of Peter Gough— a dau^h'er. KYD At Kjindang Kerbau on September to Gwendolyn, wife of G. D Kyd. Chartered B*r.k. the gift of a daughter WICKS. On
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    RAF lorry theft charges: inquiry
    794 8 'PHE preliminary inquiry into tentative charges concerning the disposal and retention of stolen property against five Europeans, Alexander Greenock Forrest, Ronald Hurst, Gordon Edwin Morris, David Wolf Ginsberg and Michael Emmanuel Perez, started in the Singapore Ninth Police Court, yesterday. A 22-year-old poster boy. Tan
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    IF B-29s HAD A-BOMBS
    190 8 NEW YORK. Wednesday. pENERAL Carl Spaatz. U.S. Air Force chief, said today that the 'United BUI now h-.i> i bomber force rtationed iti Europe which Is potentially equal to a sup fleet (if 79,200 Flying Fortr esses. Grn. Spaat-.t. writing in Newsweek magazine, produced Si show
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    N. Y. stocks
    51 8 ON the New York Stock Exchange erday. occasionally pmt offerings served o tip th« market balance on the offside in late dealings. The market closed lr- regular. Shaies changing hands numbered 710.000. The Dow Jones Averages wereStocks 67.81 Industrials 180 62 .Rails 60.43 Ut-ilitiea 34.73 Reuter A.
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    Rubber prices
    111 8 SPECIAL Market correspondent t>vet the price* of rubber (In rents per lb.< at 11 am today a* folio its: Buyer*. Seller* No. I R.S.S Spot. •<**• 44 44S rob. In bale* Ort. No. 1 B.S.S. 4Jii» 44 No. 2 E.S.S. .4* 4t No. 3 R.S.S. 40 i%\ Tone
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    New Red star over China
    242 8 SHANGHAI. Thursday. OIGHLY-PLACED persons believe that Mao Tie--1 tung. the recognized leader and spokesman of the Chinese Communsts, is losing power, and Li Li-shan, mysterious Moscow trained Chinese Red who has operated behind the scenes for years, will soon emerge in full control. Diplomatic and
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    Mothers' milk hank
    38 8 Thre« bottka of mothers milk from the newly -formed Mothers Milk Bank of San Francisco left <ht aboard a Pan-American Clipper for Manila to answer an urgwr call for a prematurely born oabv- U. p.
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    U.K., U.S. 'regret' Indian fighting
    68 8 U.K., U.S. 'regret' Indian fighting men! rabad 3 been aba I i Mi mattej B«cu tomorrow. man he 1 'fl of d. a Th. mom*-; r»eh- e: m tmd v d U P< to donuzw j lim\t to fl( facts tr.ci I j| d- til r v at tionc ,-afl
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    21 8 confer- .m»O4 tb* the fortnei r.< colobmlH at t n it MH hand thf th< Uni>d NhUoop qu
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