The Singapore Free Press, 18 September 1948

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALL IN MALAYA GHGFHGFHFGSH, SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1948. PRUt Ml ChMN
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    Bernadotte killed bv Stern Gang
    84 1 lissasstns get way in jeep I JERUSALEM, Saturday, adotte and his French assist- t OL Andre Serot. were shot dead by hun nmen late last night in the mon ut Jerusalem. —said to be members of the gr_ drove a jeep into the path a
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    83 1 Members of the Stern Cany the Jewish terrorw whose latest victim hat been Count Bernadotte. the I'jiited Nations Mediator in Palestine -here seen at an unusual celebration in the house of an Arab sheik near ilern scene of the Count's death. Sheik Abu third from left, hima member of the
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    33 1 The Mentri Besar of Johore. Dato Onn bin Ja afar, read* the loyal address to the Sultan of Johore, M^Qen. Ibrahim and Lady Marcella ai a.vs celebration honour of the Sultans 75th birthday.
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    NO REPORT ON MOSES BROWN
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    These men shot down the Count
    145 1 T*HK Stern Gang. Jewish terrorist organisation, was 1 founded by Abraham Stern, a Polish Jew who iM member of the Irgun Zvai Leumi. but broke au.i\ to form his own independent organisation. force began its carpolitical gangsterism in Pi tine in 1942. murdering British
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    WED TO GET TO U.S.
    43 1 An American stenographer Mrs. Lillie N. Flala. an annulment of her marriage In the C I cult Court in Mishawaka iid her Czech husband had admitted th*l married h*r *n Prague in >nlv because he wanted .GFSHGFHFGHGS U.P.
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    ANTI-U.K. GOVT. MOVE BEATEN
    79 1 ANTI-U.K. GOVT. MOVE BEATEN BY > to 196 th-. House or Comm defeated an opposition mol -■rung that the Governin nt had beea unable to pro duce any measures lor the solution of the nation a difficulties which were -multiplying both a* home and abroad." The motion took the rorm
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    U.N. BOMBING CASE
    47 1 Stephen Supina. former US Airforce gunner, who unsuccessfully tried to bomb the United Nations build: at take success with a stick of dynamite tied to a parachute, pkaded innocent yesterday to a five-rourH Indictment when he was arraigned before the Nassau County Court U.P.
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    Protest to U.S. by Ethopia
    121 1 WASHINGTON, Saturday. THE State Department said yesterday that it "was studying" a vigorous protest from the Ethiopian legation regarding the "Intuiting" ol Its Minister, Ras H. S. Imru. at a public meeting hall in Washington last Monday. The protest demanded the punishment of the p
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    MANY ARRESTED IN PRAGUE.
    36 1 In a drive to stamp out opposition to the Czech Comni.st Government. Prague police yesterday made widespread arrests. Those arrested were charged with inciting unrest and distributing anti- I state leaflets Reuter
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    RED REVOLT FLARES IN SUMATRA
    184 1 RED REVOLT FLARES IN SUMATRA BATAVIA, Saturday. A COMMUNIST-L E D "Peoples Army'' has > gained the upper hand after rebelling against the Indonesian Republicans in northern Sumatra, according to reports from the Aneta news agency in Medan, the Sumatran capital. Fighting between Commu.tnd Republican Army unltl is reported in
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    9 1 COUNT BERNADOTTE met death on a mission of peace.
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    Louis to fight Baksi-Charles bout winner
    150 1 NEW YORK. Friday. WORLD heavyweight champion Joe Louis announced today that he will defend his title at the Yankee Stadium next June against the winner of the Joe Baksi vs. Ezzard Charles contest I held over 13 rounds at M son Square Garden on
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    ROBBED OF £2,000
    42 1 A> Mr. Ban i. I < ndon turf commission a^ l--.iv-[Df hii flat carrying two bags tning ,1:2,000 he vat bit on tho head with a mallet and robb»*d by bandita whose cm wu round ?b.ridrn"<i In s; Johns Wood
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    THE COLONY IS BIGGER
    59 1 Free Pn^s Staff Reporter. 'IMIE Colony of Singapore JL has been increased in size by 7 acres, 3 roods and 1.1 perches by a (lovernmtnt proclamation which takes over land reclaimed from the foreshore and seabed at Pulau Bukuni Besar as Crown Land. The proclamation was
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    SINGAPORE TO REGISTER NEXT MONTH
    113 1 A national registration scheme, which will dude ti i to every citizen of the Colony. Ij expected to begin In Singapore next month. This was revealed by the mial Secretsi j lir. P. a B. McKerroni, in a talk to members of the Sembawang Village
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    Sailor dies after riot
    87 1 GENEVA Baturdaj AN Australian naval rating died in hospital here J terday alter last night's "dockland" fight between Genoese civilians and sailors from the Australian warship Imbla*. An official statement from the British Consul General said tho trouble started when the Italians became indignu because ol
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    MAN KILLED BY HIT-RUN CYCLE
    50 1 A CHINESE was fatally :nA jured in Tanjong Pagar Road last night by a hit-and-run motor-cyclist. The cyclist, believed to be a Clvnese. was carrying a pil lion rider at the time of the •■nt. The victim died in the General Hospital an hour admission.
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    3 HOUSES GUTTED
    31 1 3 HOUSES GUTTED Four three-storeyed buildings in Temple Street. Singapore, were gutted by fire last night. Joss sticks being burnt in cele celebration of the Bth Moon Festival caused the flre.
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    GUN RUNNING: MORE ARRESTS ARE EXPECTED
    390 1 Free Press StalT Reporter VfORE arrests are expected following the capture by Singapore and Dutch police of seven men alleged to be ringleaders of a gang running guns from the Philippines to Malaya and Indonesia. The eight men already under arrest who include three
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    Princess baby in November
    95 1 Reuter LONDON. Saturday. PRINCESS Elizabeth expects to have her baby, which will b*> next to her in line yt n. about the middle wmber at Buckingham Palace, it was disclosed last night. Presents of hand-made baby clothes haw been pourIng into the Palace from all owr
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    Briton plotted Karen revolt
    104 1 RANGOON. Friday. THE British Embassy here today confirmed that the \Burmese Government had asked that a "certain British subject" be removed from Calcutta, where he is said to have been secretly directing. l lie nuren rerun. The man involved is Col. Cromarty Tulloch, a former Force
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    Nine held after security raid
    153 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A STRONG force of Singapore police carried out a security raid at Coronation Road, behind Farrer Road, at dawn this morning, when 116 Malays and 42 Chinese were screened. Three Malays and six Chinese, two of whom were secret society men,
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    UNKNOWN
    2851 2  -  Tom BrodericK I SHORT STORY by T DISLIKED the little man from the first. There was something about him not crooked exactly, although he was dressed like a tout. Something strangesinister perhaps. He stared straight at me as he took the seat opposite and he did not avert his
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    Bridge Problem
    87 2 J)IAMONE>S are trumps. 6ou:h leads. North and South arc to win five of the six tricks against any defence South leads a heart \Chul. North rufr.s with the diaman*. king. North returns the five. South wins as cheaply as possible and returns the d.amonr three, North discarding the
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      771 2 SINGAPORE so P m 8»5 P«• VLCl.Tnirtj to One; 630 W ria r~ PB fl&ittttJSSS 483 metres in the medium wave Pm t0 U p m I(9 of Scotland Yard: 8 WorJd mmc band and 7 20 megacycle. ,n the lf B tr 17 M -Wl"" 4, m,tre band i"""
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      225 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR it comes to personal relations. Your ambitions a high. Once you get an idea into your head, it is not easy to dislodge it. But you taa be influenced through your affectio and this you must guard against. You have conquerable nervous energy, but are inclined to
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    Guard of honour for the Princess
    8 3 Guard of honour for the Princess i FDGDFGFDG
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    DEATH OF RNADOTTE
    25 3 DEATH OF RNADOTTE desJ i i. W I K MB I W.. 'I iff 1 I I m report H HK I. K m m
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    CARGO SHIPS MAY HAVE NEW PLIMSOLL LINE
    439 3 CARGO SHIPS MAY HAVE NEW PLIMSOLL LINE Lesson of Atlantic disaster inquiry 4XOTHER Plimsoll line a light-load one may be adopted for careo vessels throughout the world as the result of the inquiry into the loss of the 7,219--ton Samkey with 43 British seamen aboard on January 31 last. Mr.
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    Australian factories are 'World's worst'
    111 3 Australian factories are 'World's worst' AUSTRALIA'S industrial production could be increased by 15 per cent, to 20 per cent if manufacturers gave a tention to the working conditions of their employees, declares the president of the Australian Society of Designers for Industry. Mr. W. Falco ;erGreen Falconer-Green claimed that in
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    Jap typhoon drad
    17 3 A'Jured and 23 mla Thousands fled I ♦-ned u engulf th- r homos. A.P.
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    CHINA WAR LULL CANT LAST LONG'
    242 3 SHANGHAI, Friday VOT since the Chinese Nationalists and Comn.ui--1 nistl pitched back into fighting after V. J. Day has their civil war lain dormant for so long. The last scrap of any consequence was the Central Chl- a battle in Honan in ng changed
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    42 3 ted 5f J5 ton* of explosive, the last of Berlin's massive flak-toner^ crumples m the Tiergarten. It was the third attempt to destroy it British Royal EnQineers detonated their charges so skilfully that only a few windows in the vicinity were damaged.
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    New Pakistan Gov. General a lawyer
    178 3 New Pakistan Gov. General a lawyer KARACHI. Friday. KWAJA Nazimuddin, named this week as acting Governor-General of Pakistan to (ill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Jinnah. is a 54-year-old lawyer who was educated at Harrow and Cambridge nnd later became a member of the English Bar. tic
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    ERP WON'T RAISE U.K. LIVING STANDARD
    219 3 CANBERRA, Friday. \I R J. B. Chifley, Australian Prime Minister, introducing a bill into the House of Representatives for the gift of £10,000.000 to Britain, said the provisional allocation of Marshal aid to Britain would not of itself permit any improvement in the consumption
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    TRAILER OVER BRIDGE: 10 DIE
    54 3 TRAILER OVER BRIDGE: 10 DIE Ten men were killed ai.d 16 seriously injured when a i Royal Australian Air Force I road trailer crashed ovi.r a Budekin River bridge at Mac- rossan, North Queensland, striking the rocks of the dry river bed, about twelve feet i below. Most of the
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    16 3 President Truman making a bid 1 D Iroil Labour I'ote addresses a meeting in Cadillac Square.
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    THE WIFE LIVED IN FEIR...
    101 3 MRS. Frederick Brown, 26. was told bv a doctor that if she ever had a babv it would kill her. That was five years a«o in Austria. At a Kilburn (London inquest recently it was stated that when Mrs. Brown found that she was going
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      61 3 1 Itchy 'infers By Edgar kir-- Burroughs H i s\<C* VVJIfL A^. 'START SMOOTN6 NOW AND WE HAVEN'T <CS^ V "T|«(r *£U sS6T A5 MANY OP T>€Se A CHANCE'* TARZAN WAJMED 'TME«?eU W* Wi-X.. S<vLL- PACES AS WE CAN.' WOIA Be Ti/V^ ENOUGH TO FV3MT WMEi* wf CS 1~~ \j_
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  • The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. Sept. 18.
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      Death of a Peace Maker
      419 4 Ii world almost immure* to violence, the bruta murder of Count Berna dotte still strike the min; 1 horrifying impact. Hi was u Mian who not only oe lieved passionately in peace but who worked" devotedl: lor it. a great human in the Scandinavian tradition.
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      British trade
      231 4 SIR Stafford Cripps' figures of British trade and the Dalanc* 1 of payments for the first six months of the year have in them a seed of optin. but they are far 'ess tory on closer examination. The trading deficit is now running at in annual rate of
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    How much more will we stand from the Russians?
    860 4  -  LORD VANSITTART by former I nder-Setretary of State at the Foreign Office. EVENTS in Berlin u have abundantly proved what never needed demonstration that Stalin no more desires a real settlement than Hitler ever did. Let us remember the Nazi maxim
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    21 4 while. picture. lidier mas ton excited at the "ocfnrtenZ ol tit „i-,IJ" f c^£: B<>ca S( "<*»« MM erector tfte mSS^^^^^b^STJSS^J^ Planet
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    62 4 ■sZTu^JnlVlurn nut lm i aSt Jr e i bv a million anti-CommunisU The scarred buddincj nd the BraAdtnhnrn^TnrVt ?i J 9e f?u b H Comm *Ot*m. in 1933. Part of this crowd later surged %Z*n andaZ^ti SeCtor tore down the Soviet flag, irea on me croud and arrested five German*,
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    Ceylon's needy children
    104 4 THE United Nations Organl- satlon's appeal for aid to < the children of war-devasta-ted areas was dicussed oy a national voluntary commit tee at Colombo recently Mr. T. B. Jayah. Minister >t Labour and Social S. said that it was Intt-ndea tj remit to the United Natioas
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    American decline
    292 4 4 HUNDRED years from now, about 100.009.000 Americans. living in comparative luxury, with a failing »rth rate and a high oportion of aged peotnay be an easy prey for the rest of the world. This is the opinion of Dr O E. Baker, Professor of Geography at the
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    THE NOT-SO-HUNGRY HIGHLANDS
    544 4  -  PETER HOWARD By I A FRIEND and I teivejnsi captured over ten meat, off the ration. With it go Jard and a: liver, brains and brow and fat But we had to work hard to set it. r a br tabling a Scottish bum We car: and
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    FAITH
    26 4 An unjust man is an abomination to thr just: and hi- that Is upright in the way is abomination to thr wi?krd. Proverbs 29, 27.
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    Entertainment units for Chinese troops
    116 4 Entertainment units for Chinese troops China's so. :e flna'lv Going to have some fuo their ltehtinK. A sp« services division headed genial, rot uric J L. Huang, has been orgn ed to Drovlde er for the trooos. Field units Dro grammes l "—i <> rf from an cient Peking opera
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    FRONT PAC DRUG
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    Grocers ask to stay in markets
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    29 T.B. DEATHS
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    More air services to Enerland
    78 5 t and n hare r r.day. Hjthe frfinx boat* remain on the Dreaent tliree- r times weeklv ic^ednle. The Lancastrian service i leading on alternate Sundays be a ssedal service for cargo shioDers. carrrine i goods C: :s expected that this -eial carßo service will
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    SOCIAL INSURANCE FOR SMC STAFF
    318 5 SOCIAL INSURANCE FOR SMC STAFF Union likely to demand action Free Press st.ul Reporter 4 RtOTIQN to a>k the Singapore Municipal Commissioners to institute a social insurance scheme for Me staff will be one of ten major resolutions which will be introduced at the third annual conference of delegates of
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    'Chinese loyal to Malaya'
    347 5 "^THE Chinese community of Malaya, throughout A the history of British connection with this country, has demonstrated beyond question its intense loyalty to this land of their adoption/' said Mr. Tan Cheng Lock, Malacca Chinese leader. In a speech welcoming Mr. Cheng Chia Hun and Mr.
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    WEDDING Ong—Chin
    82 5 WEDDING Ong—Chin MARRIED yesterday afternoon at St. Andrews Cathedial v^cre Mr. Ong Lock Mui. health Inspector attached to the Johore Bah-j Town Board, and Mis* Annie Chin of Singapore. Rev. Eales of St. Chrfctoph«rt Church. Johore Bahru. ofQcla at the ceremony The bride's parents are Mr arid Mrs. Peter Chin
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    Negri contractor hacked to death
    477 5 DOUCE reports from Negri Sembilan state that 1 Lee Yang, a contractor on Ulu Temiang and llu Pedas Estates, was hacked to death with an axe in his house on Thursday night. On Wednesday evening, shots were fired at the manager's bungalow at Banau Estate.
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    S'ore proud of the Braddells
    132 5 SIR Roland and Lady Braddeli were guests of honour at a dinner held by th< gapore Association at Raffles Hotel last night. The Commissioner-Genera! Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, attended, together with all the Serv.ce chiefs. "Sir Roland Is one of the most able a".d learned lawyers
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    Petrol policy committee
    122 5 A PETROL Rationing Policy Committee, with unofficial representation, has been formed in Singapore. The terms of referent of th s Committee will be to advise Government on basic rations will. view to simplifying administrative procedure by eliminating applications for supplementary pe-.rol coupons except in exu-aord nary circumstances.
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    Bad men from the hills
    104 5 BAD men from the Mi. ls killed my husband" Pans SOll5 Moi. told Mr. Justice Laville in the Johore Bahrir Hi?h Court when >he applied for Letters of Administration of the estate of Chai Chensc Sang, who was killed by terrorists on July Bon an
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    Hussars arrive
    63 5 pictures. fhe Commander-in-Chief. FARELF, Gen. Sir Neil Ritchie, vhats with Major G. A. F. Kennard. second-in-com-the 4th Queens Oicn Hussars, soon after the Dilwara arrived yesterday. (Left) The C-in-C addresses the troops fiom the quayside in the presence of the G.OC. Singapore District, Major G«n. D. Dunlop and
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    LOAN REJECTED
    66 5 HPHE mai. abluent commi-'.^ of < the Singapore Indian Cham- i ber of Commerce has rejected the i < plar. for a $50,000,000 loan from 1 the Indian Government. j A statement Issued by the i Chamber yesterday says *iut does r.o: share the views of the Malayan
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    RUBBER MARKET STEADIER
    395 5 Free I respou LONDON, I \TTRIBITI\G the fall in the price of j**'2!d. per pound over the to the realisation by Malayan holders of rubber that (here was some doubt regarding the validity of tluir insurance cover, and that the boMing of rubber not a commercial proposition,
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    AUSTRALIAN Y.W.G.A. AIDS MALAYA
    180 5 AUSTRALIAN Y.W.G.A. AIDS MALAYA [JNDER th ma rvine schen> An made it Dossible for Mak* have a tntinine secre' has agreed to finance this project for two nart jf its r> j^t-war as^istan Malaya. This was stat i rday Miss Beatrice L Malayan Sc Untitr the s&me scneme Mas Lynch,
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  • SATURDAY SPORTS PARADY
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      Davis Cup storm
      437 6 Davis Cup storm tyHEN news of the funeral of Australia's Davis Cup hopes reived, a storm of bitter criticism bur directed at Sir Norman Brookes and his fellow administrators of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia. Th- announcement that Australia would challei again next January brought further and the t
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      Everton to have first manager
      78 6 TVERTON, one of the richest clubs in the game now at the toot of Division I. are to appoint a team manager for the first time. Dr. Cecii S. Baxter, chairman, said that the decision does not affect the position ot Theo Kelly, who will
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      AUSTRALIAN TEST SELECTORS
      65 6 YHE Australian Cr.cket Board of Control have reappointed I> d Brudman. E. D'wyer and J Ryder as the.r selectors, and these three will choose the team to tour South Africa next year. The team, which will be limite j to 14 players, will leave for South I
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      36 6 picture. Bartraiir Charlton Athletic' 's goalkeeper, punches clear from Clarke.. Manchester City's outside-left, during an attack on the Charlton goal in the match between Charlton and Manchester City at The Valley, Charlton's ground in Londoti Reuter
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      HENRY TELLS HOW
      359 6 HENRY TELLS HOW HENRY Cotton, three-lime British open golf champion sat down to lunch in i New' York and began Hexing his hands soon after he gave the waiter his order. The was puzzled. So were the others at the table. •I do this regularly." sam Cotton. "I usually carry
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      THE FUNNY SIDE OF TEST CRICKET
      863 6  -  GODFREY EVANS By England's Test wicket-keeper T NEVER thought 1 when, at the ace of seventeen, I asked the secretary of the Kent Cricket Clnb for h trial a? wicket-keeper and batsman that day I should write about the funny side of cricket especially
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      137 6 h*S*. tej 7K Temp lor l.\tr SEE IT TODAY The OLYMPIAD Do D.WIA I lIM. 11 a.m.. 1.30. 4. 0u Full Length Tccmnico SYMPOSIUM OF THE 1948 s? XIV b j iJrTb'uno,, OLYMPIAD- j THE GLORY of sport j Q.K.A and < 1 JOHN \N MM TEN'S brlllUnl su ran
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    LONDA LAD BEST BET TODAY
    639 7 LONDA LAD BEST BET TODAY Wa tch for upsets in main events By CALL BOY ONDA Lad will go to the post the hottest favourite of the meeting at Bukit Timah today, third day of the Singapore Turf Club's Gold Cup meeting, and I recommend the grey as the best
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    British hopes rests with Woodcock
    49 7 about 2 in i .bout I fir E W m m I P LJ "v j-: V. Od- r. Ql.:. IBd ever S :r K, Om» L oox«r e te*t E u <? and E will ■t H ir :-■>■• os j -back K j
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    ERNA AND OARA INGHH IN RETURN
    40 7 ERNA AND OARA INGHH IN RETURN Jt mm b e »t the L^ R i* 'tear P 5 prtTent ary doubts oc [■t .id and a ST-re ba: |B 2 prowppcrt th« nBoa i Labrio.i 3 X3> and Greenwood BX3 >
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    Indian takes on King Kong
    34 7 y I good anprentan m hj Z tough, B^ t. s*: a hard f a a_.s* C raj tlrttdj r.ors. u ■k K wont I C r '.a<-s on
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    Strong tip for Permita Dormez
    165 7 Strong tip for Permita Dormez By EPSOM JEEP. TUIERE has been a persis--1 tently strong tip for Permita Dormez in the liberation Cap at Bukit Yimah today. I lot of money. I hear, will go on Permits Dormes who >een taken as a good thin? against his more fancied stable
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    SCOTLAND MAKE 178
    124 7 r'O stands of over 60 runs each helped Scotland to a first Innings total of 178 it the Australians on the day of their two-day at Aberdeen yesterday. By the close of play the visitors had made 96 for three in reply. Alter Bradman had won the
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    TEN SATURDAYS WITHOUT RACING
    97 7 Ther« will be t«n Bft tur days without racing next year, u compared with only three Saturdays this year. The first race meeting In :94d be held in Kuala Lumpur on Jan. 22, three weeks after the last day cf the Penang Xmas New Year Meeting.
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    S.S.C WATER-POLO
    48 7 T^HERE will be two water x polo matches at the Singapore S ning Club tomorrow The first, against a Royal Naval team, will start at 10.30 a.m followed by a match versus the Army at 11 am These matches will be preceded by a Novice* Race
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    U. K. CRICKET XI
    54 7 f pHE following will represent the ed K.ngdom against Australasia at cricket on the S.CC Padang at 11 am tomorrow A Oilmour (Capt.>. Rev. J W. J. Steele, J. C. Smith Major DB B. Haig. SJ. Masters. J.W B. Annealey. R.A. Murray. E.W. Lloyds. R.G. Whlttington.
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    M.C.F.A. CUP
    23 7 The Malayan Chinese Football Association's Inter-State challenge cup u expected to arrive tn Singapore from London bv air on Scot 20
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    U.K. soccer fixtures for today
    272 7 U.K. soccer fixtures for today riOLLOWINQ are U.K. footF ball fixtures today: FIRST DIVISION A*ton Villa. Hnddenflrld Boltun W. v Blackpool Humify r Blnnlnrhain C. t h*rlton A. Newcastle t F.vertoa t Liverpool MftßchcsUr v PorUmouth Preston NE. Chelsea Sheffield V w Manchester I Sl«kt Citf T Middlesbrough Saaderland r
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    INDIAN ASSN. CRICKET
    106 7 TpHE following will play crlclce*. 1 for the Indian Association In a home-and-home match on the Khalsa Association Ground a* 8tG«orge's Road at 10.30 a.m. morrow DIIARMARAJS XI: D. Dliarniaraj, R. Sitharam. Dr M. Abraham R. V. Singam. C. Popatlal Thangathural. Ibraahlm Isa. M. TiObo. Rajah Arasaratnam,
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    GLAMORGAN WIN
    37 7 At Swansea. Glamorgan beat South of England by two wickets. South of England 301 and 178 for 6 declared. Glamorgan 229 and 251 for 8 (W. E. Jones 56. Wat- kins not out 111).- Reuter
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    All The Latest Selections
    155 7 EPSO* ,EEP TRESPASSER POINT* K TffiiwSSS?" GARNFAIR BADGER SELOP1 \N Badxtr Gamfair Badfer BADGER Selopiao Bright Mengsenr Cold W*ve TOTLAND LORD FREDERICK DEMAK ATI'S rWk Kais*rine roaratu« Lord Fred, ri-k v LORD FREDERICK Drmara'aj Miv Papillon Coronation Day XROIINA FL\F FEATHERS AFFABLE John BuD arolina Kakama
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    JOHORE CHINESE WIN
    246 7 'J'HE Johore Chinese played brilliant soccer yesterday to beat the Johore Malays by three goals to nil in 1 the annual ma'ch for the Tong Seng Cup at the Istana Padang in honour of the birthday of the Sul'an of Johore. The three goals were scored by
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      341 7 THE MOTOR VEHICLES (COMMERCIAL USE) REGULATIOMS Notice Of Application For Variation Of A Haatagr Permit TAKE NOTICE that we, Lonj? Guan Honp Brothers of Jalan Rahama*. Ba:.u Pahat. by occupatioii Manu' Aerated Waters, the olders of Permit Number 5170 we are authorised to carry own eoods only on .he Main
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      1239 7 OELOW are the acceptances for today's races. The Double Tote will be on races 6 and 9. The Big Sweep will be drawn on race 9 Race 1—1.45: Cl. 3, Div. 3— Abt. 6 Furs. 2™ Linki i r Harper 9.00 "Mandarin Stable" Yeng 000 Ron Marie Spencer 811 K.
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    BIRTH
    20 8 W Efc —At D Cotta's Clinic, on S pt 16th. to Rasie. wife of Wee Kim Poh -o son.
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    ENGAGEMENTS
    48 8 TtO LEE l tie etua«emen» is announced todav kMmn Mr. B L. Teo and Itoa Nancv Y I. Lee the engagement Is announced dav between Mr. Y. C Young, Mr. Mrs K S Youn« and Miss Chun* Yun Fung, hter of Mr. and Mrs Chun* Sim Hiam.
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    Indians enter Hyderabad city today
    282 8 Indians enter Hyderabad city today NEW DELHI, Friday. T*HE Nizam of Hyderabad today ordered his defence forces to cease fire, and instructed his representatives in Paris not to press the dispute before the Security Council. India has accepted the ceasefire. Tomorrow morning, Indian troops will enter Secunderabad, garrison town in
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    2,000 MISSING —JAP FLOODS
    70 8 2,000 MISSING —JAP FLOODS "THYO thousand Jap 1 believed to t>e dead <>r ag following the inundation by floods of the city of Ichingseki in Iwate Prefer! are :i Honshu. Japanese police and pre.s> rtera lisu-d 24 dead. 37 y. 55 injured. 155.000 homeless. 3.900 homes flooded. 2.200 houses destroyed
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    US-Dutch talks on Asia Reds
    202 8 WASHINGTON, Friday. tM)R nearly two hours, the Dutch Foreign Minister, Mr. Ido Stikker, discussed Far Eastern matters, particularly Communist activities, with the Secretary of State, Mr. George Marshall, and the Undersecretary of State, Mr. Robert Lovett. Mr. Stikker afterwards disclosed: "We talked about the whole
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    Battle of BOAC -71 years' jail for eight men
    183 8 LONDON, Friday. OENTENCES totalling 71 years peual servitude were d today on eight men who attempted to rob a warehouse at London airport containing goods worth £237,900. The individual sentences ranged from five years to 12. The attempt, on July 29.
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    MacA;s RETORT TO RED CRITIC
    84 8 MacA;s RETORT TO RED CRITIC GEN. MacArthur, answering criticism from the Soviet Ambassador in Washington of his policy with regard to strikes by Government workers in Japan, said yesterday that Communists constitute the "main potential danger" to the liberal gains made by the Japanese since the surrender. He pointed to
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    CHINA REMITTANCES
    29 8 China's sharply curtailed import quotas will not limit Chinese overseas remittances in the form of commodity imports, the Director of International Trade in Nanking said vf.svrday.— A.P.
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    Rubber prices
    112 8 Y SPECIAL Market correspondent (Ivfi the price* of rubber (In rents per Ib at 11 am today a* follows: Buyers. Sellers No 1 K.S.S Spot. loose 44 F.o.b. in bales Oct. No. 1 R.S.S. IS*i 44 No. 2 U.S.S. 41 Ut% No. 3 R.S.S. 40 s l« Tone
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    SWOOP ON SHANGHAI HOARDERS
    142 8 SHANGHAI, Friday. HIGHEST-RANKING officials in' the National Defence Ministry's intelligence department mostly full generals were searching warehouses in Shanghai today as reports gained currency that numerous big-time speculators and hoarders have lined themselves up with high military leaders who will serve as fronts "for certain considerations'
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    MILITARY LORRIES IN PARK' -WITNESS
    317 8 4 HEQIE for 52.500 was produced in the Ninth A> Police Court, Singapore, yesterday when the preliminary inquiry was continued into 10 tentative charges, concerning K.A.F. lorries, diesel engines and generators, against five Europeans The cheque was stated to have been cashed at the Capitol
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    HUK AMBUSH
    62 8 THE Police Chief of San Miguel and two other police were killed, and eight police and constabulary troopers were wounded !n an ambush 42 miles north of Manila. The ambush was attributed to a roving band of Hukbalahap peasants. One Huk was killed when the Constabulary fought their
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    21 8 SIR MIRZA ISMAIL ex-Premier of Hyderabad and Mysore, to whom the Nizam has turned for advice in his hour of crisis.
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    BLOCKADE OF REDS TIGHTENED
    200 8 BERLIN. Friday IniE Western Alliei tighten- ed their counter-blockade of the Russian zone today to shut off the last flow < f goods from Western Germany to the East. Patrols were increased at crossing points along the length of Blzonia's f ront;er with the Soviet zone
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    GUARANTEE TO BUY COLONIAL GOODS
    354 8 GUARANTEE TO BUY COLONIAL GOODS 10-year pacts for producers LONDON. Friday. THE British Government plans to enter into longterm contracts for many colonial products to encourage the economic and political advancement of the colonial empire. Some of the contracts will run up to 10 years. This plan was outlined today
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    THREE NEW DATOS IN JOHORE
    40 8 THREE NEW DATOS IN JOHORE THL ord' Ibrahim on the The Ord f M b 1 munitj I i Joho: I N Bupren.- J Ahrrac Auditor V I -t kay Tan &.*>• f Moho I 1 dir bir I I 1
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    EARLY GAINS ELIMINATED
    354 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Friday. ■THE statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, on the country's improved economic standing made for better feeling at the commencement of business in todays stock markets, with all-round improvements seen in most sections, says Reuter's financial correspondent. But.
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