The Singapore Free Press, 20 September 1948

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I 17.2*3 SINGAPORE, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1948. PRICI? 10 C'KMS
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  • 84 1 finai answer to Moscow LONDON, Sunday. 0 ministers of Britain, the United Q e will meet in Paris this tl) the next move in the Berlin 1 on f Mr. Molotov's reply to the iern er I rd:i>. in, Mr. George Marshall and will
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    29 1 Air Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd, Commander-in-Chief, Far East, chats with Colonel Verle D. Miller, American Military Liaison Officer in Singapore, after the Battle of Britain service at Changi yesterday.
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  • 94 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE chief of the Singapore C.1.D., Mr E. V. Fjwler. I morning said that there was no significance attached to the discovery of hand ades near the former iquarters of the Malayan Communist Party in Queen during the week-end.
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  • 284 1 From a Special Correspondent 'THE Bishop of Singapore, the Rt. Rev. Leonard Wilson, who lost his crozier (pastoral staff) along with all his other possessions during the Japanese attack on Malaya, will journey soon to a little village in Berkshire, England, where he will receive
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  • 292 1 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE police have arrested another member of the gun-running organisation which has been operating between the Philippines, Singapore and the Indonesian Republic. He was arrested during the weekend at a small Europeanowned hotel in the heart of the city which
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  • 73 1 DEGINNING on Oct. 1 D women will be recruited for ground services in the Royal Air Forces Volunteer Reserve, the British Air Ministry had announced. More than 17,000 men and women are wanted for ground trades in the R.A.F. Only veterans of the RAF or
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  • 41 1 FIVE hundred villagers are believed to have been killed in the worst landslide of recent years on the As-sam-Tibetan border, reports reaching Calcutta said today, The landslide was about four miles across and one mile long A.P.
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  • 20 1 Royal Air Force and Army Fire Service brigades co-oper-ated In extinguishing a small flre at Tengah yesterday afternoon.
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  • 36 1 Frankllir Roosevelt, an American was sen'«nced in Toulouse on Saturday (France) to thre« months n prison for passing false gold c uis He said he was no relation to America's latr President.
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  • 32 1 Cantonese teffela'ors are p u> ask Chiang Kai-shek fork the "loan" of his "tiger hunter" son, MaJ. Gm. Chiang Chlng-quo. I to enforce emergency economic neasurea in Canton U.P.
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  • 91 1 BIG OPIUM HAUL IN BRISBANE BRISBANE, Sunday. OPIUM worth more than £10.000 has been seized here by Customs officers in a raid on the freighter Empire Wallace. Customs officers said it was one or the biggest hauls in Brisbane for early 50 years. They expressed the view that the drug
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  • 83 1 JEN people believed to have connection with Jewish terrorists have been arrested airfield which destroyed an hi Northern Italy following an explosion at Venegono Italian pursuit plan* and I private planes. A small package containing high explosives had been placed in the fuselage of four
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  • 155 1 China remittances cause concern SHANGHAI, Sunday. HPHE Chinese press reports today that the Chinese A Government will once again take up the question of currency control in Hong Kong. "Due to the manipulation by financiers and merchants in Hong Kong" the paper says, "overseas Chinese remittances to the home country
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  • 67 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. INDIAN labourers working In the precincts of the Kallang Airport yesterday mornIng found 4,000 rounds of .303 ammunition in four boxes. Commenting on this, the Singapore C.I.D. chief. Mr. E. V. Fowler, said there was no significance attached to the discovery
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  • 151 1 MELBOURNE, Mon. IT i s naive to suppose that Australian Communists who seek to go to Malaya are mere sightseers, says the Melbourne Herald commenting today on Mr. Chifley's statement that the passports of Australian Cojnmunists will not be cancelled merely be- cause of their holders'
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  • 252 1 RANGOON, Monday. OURMESE police have an important clue which is expected to lead to the early arrest of the unknown assassin who planted the booby-trap bomb which fatally wounded U Tin Tut, Inspector General of Burma's new Union Auxiliary Force. U Tin Tut, who
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  • 41 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. DURING the weekend five Chinese and two Indians were detained Singapore under the Emergency Regulations. The total of detaines is now 299. Four Chinese were also arrested for being members of unlawful societies.
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  • 33 1 THE U.S. State Department 1 last night still had not received official word of the Russian statement that Soviet troops would be evacuated from Northern Korea, virtually at once. I
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  • 47 1 TASS, the official Soviet news agency, i eported from Helsinki, last night that the Swedish Government recently approved a secret treaty between Sweden and the United States providing for co-operation between the two countries in the event of war or threat of war.
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  • 44 1 THE Chinese Foreign Minister. Mr. Wang Shi-chleh, has left Bangkok by plane for Paris where he will attend the United Nations General Assembly meeting. Mr. Wang Is expected to see the Indian Premier, Pandit Nehru. In New Delhi en route. U.P.
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    34 1 The six-tier wedding cake at the marriage yesterday of Mr. Lau Keow Yong to Miss Lim Mee Yin at the Victoria Hall yesterday. The cerem ony was performed by the Chinese Con sul General.
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  • 232 1 Jogja orders martial law BATAVIA, Sand. COMMUNIST rebels have seized control of Madiun, third city of the Indonesian Republic, and President Soekarno has declared martial law throughout the Republic. In a broadcast from Jogjakarta tonight the President said "trrs seizure of power by the (ommun Mmay be regarded as the
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  • 69 1 THE Singapore Traffic Police are anxious to contact the relatives of an unknown Chinese, aged 45 years who was knocked dewn and ed by a motor cycle at tbi Junction of Tanjong Pagar Road and Neil Road on Fridav night The motor cyclist, a Chinese li
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  • 1052 2  -  Hall Romney LONDON LETTER By EXPERIMENTS being* conducted in France with pneumatic rubber tyres, on trains indicate that, trains similarly equipped, can make the journey be- t twee* Singapore and Kuala' Lumpur in six hours com-\ pared with the present 14 hours. Picture above shows
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    270 2 WXEJi in exp s like the one in which this deal occurred, a player occasionally will overlook the n< Ing a different bid after he has pa^cd *han the I he DUfbl properly have made. South b id. but minimum hand. W h by his ralnermblc ovtrcall. plus
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  • 73 2  - 5 MOONS SO SOLID ICE THOMAS R. HENRY By THE celebrated rings of Saturn and the planet's five inner moons are solid ice. Each of the satellites is from a fifth to a third the size of the earth's moon. This is the finding of D:. Gerald P. Kuiper, director
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  • 208 3 Chiang opens war on 'social parasites' KUOMINTANG MAY TURN TO SOCIALISM SHANGHAI, Saturday. If INTS that China may swing: to Fabian socialism n first voiced by economic supervisor Chiang Chlng-kuo and later affirmed by his father, President Chiang Kai-shek may find an open outlet in the Kuomintang reform conference scheduled
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  • 137 3 rpHE Japanese education ministry is trying to find out how much the Japanese themselves know about their complex language. Written and oral tests will be given in 280 cities, towns and viUages on four islands. Some 21,000 men, women and youngsters will be tested. The survey is
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    39 3 Did he feel sheepish? This little boy surrounded by t>heep is i7i the centre of London— Hyde Park to be exact. A Romford farmer has obtained special grazing rights from the Ministry of Works for his flock of 500.
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  • 35 3 (MOSCOW. DCm Times continuing the rite, declares the "Tito Group boffi down in the inducting a policy harmful tfc .munist Party and the country I I pe 1 antiBi Reuter
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  • 163 3 HUGE NEI EXPORTS INCREASE HONGKONG. THE export oi raw materials ->m Indonesia skyrocketed in the first six months or 1948 and has already surpassed exports for ntire preceding year. the Far Eastern Economic Re- Rubber exports, which in ere valued at $26.2 mil- ito $37.5 mill in the first half
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  • 74 3 406 OF 421 JAP SHIPS SCRAPPED A TOTAL of 406 out of 421 former Japanese warships that were considered beyond salvage have a'rpady been scrapped. Under the direction of the U.S. Navy the remaining 15 are expected to be disposed of this year, ViceAdmiral Russel Berkey. Former warships in the
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  • 257 3 A FTER five years as a deserter under an assumed name in India, RAMC Private Cyril Herbert Jackson, 30, of Plymouth, came home to England because his mother died and solicitors wanted to see him. In the solicitor's office the wife he left behind in 1942
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  • 66 3 THE 9.000-ton British steamer Lochmoner was reported last night to be breaking up on a reef in a hurricane, in the Caribbean sea. She sent an- SOS asking for immediate assistance for 73 persons on board: "We are in bad shape." the ship radioed United States
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  • 165 3 Jennie felt sorry for the constable JENNIE CLARK, 17, wrapped a towel around the twopiece swimsuit she was ing, walked up to a little darkened hut in London's Hyde park Lido and invited Police Constable Thomas Hurrell out to lunch. He had arrested her recently for swimming across the Serpentine,
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  • 63 3 TENERAL Smuts, launching u a £500.000 United Party fighting fund appeal, predicted that the Malan Gov rnment will "go to the country soon in an attempt to increase its precarious majority.' He said: "The Nationalists are using soft words today. But there is no doubt that
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  • 317 3 THE ex-R.A.F. man who lost his memory for four x years, 41 -year-old George Wallace has decided to return from the scenes of the life he had forgotten in Leeds to those of the new life he had found in Birmingham as Gunner John Crisp.
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  • 30 3 CHIANG CUTS STAFF S? President Chiang Kai-shek has decided to call home one In ten of China's Diplomatic and Consular staffs to cut down foreign exchange spend- mg. Reuter AAP
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  • 17 3 Women at Woolwich Arsenal are making 150 000 lipstick holders out of 303 cartridge-case machines.
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    28 3 Madame Benes, widow uj :nt former President of Czechoslovakia, palces a floral spray on the casket which was guarded by an Army, Legionaire and Sokol guard of honour.
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  • 188 3 A FRENCH count and his beautiful girl friend who lived in a luxurious Mediterranean villa, are in Cannes prison facing charges of robbing rich holidaymakers— including a London business man and his wife from whom they are said to have stolen £20,000-worth of e is
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  • 182 3 THREE girl typists A of Walton-le-DaJe (Lanes) Urban Council staff nave resigned because, they said, they find it "impossible" to work with the councils £900-a-year clerk and finance officer, 30-year-old Mr. Frank Bailey. Eldest of the three. Gladys Bennett, 28. who is to be
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  • 27 3 A drive for 39,000 more women for Britain's Auxiliary Ter e will be made wh^c the Territortal Army recruiting campaign opens on Oct. 1.
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  • The Singapore Free Press Jay. September ?0, 1948.
    • 497 4 THE killer's hand has removed from the Rangoon :er of the all too fern Burmese whose leadership, placed freely at their mtry'j service, has been the repository of hope for the future of Asia's youngest republic. U Tin Tut, the lates: victim of terrorism, both politician
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    • 84 4 MOSCOW S invitation to the United States to withdraw American troops from southern Korea at the same time the Red army withdraws from the north is too transparent to cause heart-burn in Washington. North Korea has been thoroughly Indoctrinated, not only by three years of Russian occupation, but
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  • 1002 4 M k A m "l^V^ I'Yl 1 1 *IT\ C I \^ohiiii uiiio l ROME. IT wsiQ 1Q29 nnH 1 1 Was Vd<L£ ana Ro^e WHS alive With the first Ugly sounds of Fascism. -»i i i ,i i3lack-Silirted youths formed into the narrow T7- TTff nmv Via
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  • 651 4 CHUR CH MILITA Nl VATICAN CITY. RECENT youth de- monstrations of members of Catholic Action in Rome have made it abundantly clear that the old phrase, the "Church Militant," remains a vivid reality here today. Some Idea of the immense drive and vitality pervading Italian Catholicism at the present moment
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  • 110 4 Jap Reds get funds from smuggling THE Japanese Communist Party obtains its fund by smuggling goods into Japan, writes the Osaka daily Chuka Kokusai quoting the results of investigations by Japanese Information authorities. "A new smuggling route lias been opened between Japan and Korea by which drugs, crude rubber and
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    52 4 picTure. In England, after a rainy summer, the sun has at last come out from behind the clouds. And the crowds left the cities, making their way to the rivers and the sea Here are a couple of lovelies with the right idea—drinking the toast of Health and the Holiday"
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    46 4 picture. Twenty-Six persons were killed and 100 injured when the Canton-Hong Kong was derailed near Shumchun, ten miles frmn the colonial frontier in Chinese territory Rescue workers were rushed to the scene of one of the worst train disasters in China of recent years. A. P.
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  • 623 4  -  M. T. LEONG Profile By A VIVID description of a recent battle between the Communists and the Nationalists at Suiyuen, North China, was given to me by 32-year old Captain Lim Kum Chin of the First Tank Company of the Third Tank Regiment in China. Of average
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  • 19 4 Verily, veril>. I say u you. He that believeth in me hath everlasting life. St. John. 6. 47.
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  • 387 4 CAIRO. SCIENTIFIC research has given a new trade name to the Middle East's thriving drug trade. A brand of hashish has just been revealed bearing the title "Atom Bomb." It is stated to be so named to distinguish it from the cheaper variety known as "Cannon." The
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  • 37 4 A billief cigarett A '"'eoß J JHER, < town J sian ex-CI becaJJlSl first tobacco SH ln the ZaSejH year a h«? A I Tom j i n i 0 land v 200.000.000 UW il ■>00 000 totfil
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  • 532 5 TEACHERS WO^SE OFF UNDER NEW SCHEME Time scale extended Free Press Staff Reporier MALAYAN Asian teachers are being placed in an unenviable position, under the newly approved terms of service, of having to serve 24 to 26 years before reaching the maximum grade, compared with the old time scale of
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    38 5 The C.-in-C, Air Command, Far East. (Air Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd), taking the salute at the march past of WAAFs and airmen at Changi yesterday ichen the RAF held a parade to honour The Few."— Free Press pictures,
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  • 179 5 THE Commander-in-chief, Air Command, Far East, 1 Ik Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd) took the salute, and it haplain-in-Chief (Group Captain E. \or) conducted a memorial service when the RA ngapore commemorated the Battle of Britain at Changi yesterday. an story at ant as the said Kin
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  • 102 5 ST. Ai.cuews Cathedral will observe its Harvest Thanksgiving on Sept. 26. This year the occasion will be symbolical not only of the agriculture, but also of the industry ar.d commerce of Singapore, and an appeal is made lor the co-operation of Singapore manufacturers, industrialists and agriculturalists. The Rev.
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  • 22 5 Takuapa Tin reports production during the first half of September as: Dredge No. 1. 319 pruls, Dred I 201 piculs.
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    71 5 Friends and associates entertained Mr. L. J. Lins at a dinner party at Tai long Restaurant in the Happy World prior to his departure (today) for the United States on a business trip. Picture shows (from left): Mr. G. Jeffrey, Mrs. Lins. Mr. Yap Guau Watt, Mr. L. J. Lins
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  • 364 5 BIGGER GOVT CONTROL Remittances to China Free Press Staff Reporter. pHINESE remittance shops in Singapore and the Federation will be required to furnish cash deposits, ranging from $2,000 to $10,000 with the postal authorities before be ing allowed to operate The new ruling takes oiTect from Oct. 1. This step
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  • 159 5 Free Press Staff Reporter pOLLECTIONS for the United Nations Children's Aid Fund will start from Sept. 23 and special sub committees have been assigned to this task. Mr. L. Cresson, chairman of the Singapore committee, informed the Free Press that several associations and public bodies
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  • 78 5 |JNDER the auspices of the women's section Singapore Regional Indian Congress, Tamil classes for women and girls, and boys under 12 years of age, wli be held at No. 6 Race Course Lane. These classes will be held twice weekly every Monday and Thursday from 4.30
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    29 5 Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Savers ijter their wee Andrew's Cathedral yesterday. Mrs. Savrrs is the (later of Mr. Albert Mitchell. The bridec attached to Changi prison. Free Press
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  • 36 5 GOHO MEMORIAL PRIZES 4 > jf $200 fcas been aucie :o the women's section Rjgl ..a. Indian '.r r>* utiliaed e Mr. S. has de- j this amount r.o memorial prize* to the ssay compet trarlons on
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  • 126 5 COMPLETION of the rehablu litation of the Government holiday bungalow and the bathing ptgai at Changi bungalow is reported by the Executive Engineer, Rural, in a statement on rural works covering the period of August. During the month, works carried out included the clearing of canals
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  • 249 5 CECURITY forces in Johore have scored success against the terrorists in the past 48 hours. About 30 bandits who tried to attack Maiai Estate. Joborf iahru. were driven off by a military party, after special constable* had held th? terrorists at bay during a 15--minute gun
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  • 194 5 Free Press Staff Reporter I NICIPAL Health authorities last week ani™* nounced that the infantile death rate had declined for the week ending Sept. 11 It 84.69, compared with 102.19 the week previous. But this does not mean that the polio epidemic is completely over,
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  • 25 5 THE Labour Party, recently rmed in draiti g its new which it expects to fore the members tor approval next month. GHGSHGFHGGS
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  • 66 6 United Nations territory in in Paris i f/ie United Nations i r al Assembly opens its •i tomorrow it I fftt" Pa/ais de Chaillot. Pciris. The Palais Nations terwhen, at the France's Premier. M. Schumann, handed a golden key to the U.N. Secretary- General. Mr. Trygve I end the blue
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  • 174 6 'USSR ARMS FOR ISRAEL -GLUBB Bid to dominate the Middle East LONDON, Saturday. OUSSIA is undoubtedly supporting Israel in the 11 Zionist attempt to control the Holy land by force, Brigadier J. L. Glubb Pasha, Commandant of the Trans Jordan Arab Army, said here last week before returning to the
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    40 6 allege that Halina Korolenko Mrs. Kosenkma cane." They allege that the Americans refused to hand over Halina— who is buffering from paralysis— when they sent an ambulance into the hospital in the American sector where she i s being treated.
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    22 6 Four p.. Junior A;- nr ing a h special field W'i Of Birm:\ the cusse Dorothy u Anthea H end Jun w
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  • 157 6 A PRETTY brunette aged 23 wno fled from her drab life In a Pennsylvania coal town to seek fortune and romance in New York City will next week marry Francis Hitchcock, polo-playing scion of one of America's wealthy society families. Stephana Saja whose late Czechoslovak
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  • 128 6 WHILE England is facing the f worst tobacco famine in her history. New Zealand is being worried by her surplus of tobacco and cigarettes It is estimated that New Zealand merchants have a slut of 300 million imported British and Canadian cigarettes as well as a
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  • 231 6 NANKING, Monday. TOKIO reports of the existence of an underground organization which claims it is working for the independence of Taiwan drew a sharp denial from Formosa today that such an organization had any The Executive Yuan revealed the receipt of a telegram from the Hsien
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  • 35 6 The Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Lt.General Sir Kenneth N. Crawford, who is to visit Australia this Autumn, will see British troops stationed in the F*r and Middle East.
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  • 179 6 SYDNEY Friday. AUSTRALIA is looking for overseas markets, preferably in the dollar area, for a sizeable exportable surplus of leather. There is in leather one of 1 the biggest, exportable surpluses, except for wool, yet reDorted in Australia. The Minister for Post-War Reconstruction. Mr. J. J. Dedman.
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  • 96 6 Annour.cing that he Intends to vacate Glynllifon Hall estate of 1,000 acres near Carnarvon (Wales), Lord Newborough said. "I am leav- ir.g the place because of the very high taxation and because I can't find staff." Lord Newborough, fifth baron, who is 70 and childless Is
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  • 137 6 PREDICTIONS that the Japanese merchant marim will be back on the high seas again within a few made n°e?e P OWM nn^ tra^ are being Arthur G Syran one-time chlel of General Arthur's occupation divin. told American ship] men: "It may well be that r e long
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  • 285 6 'were hidden "she added sadly. Van Meegeren, in order to disprove accusation* that he wt* a collaborator because he sold an "Old Master" to G r.ng. confessed he had painted It himself iiiJUiLis somewnere "between two pieces of ply--11 wood"— that Is all a dying
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  • 44 6 Denham lover* art to be left alone after all This was aecldtd at a meeting of Denham Parish Cour.ci:. which rescinded a resolution of a month ago to place spikes on top of a kissing gate across a footpath to discourage courting couples
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  • 51 6 A sch' Hindu sop: Dr S. forr. UniV( i A bo< i "R del:: soph part soph j eronomi; A emanated Behind are .<■ deep ph the way mony, not on India s c pool of p: ia perhaps es: boi In qualii. Utive
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  • 17 6 BcoUand Yai a a»| Pftlgn to r«rr. constable;- for rh< M^rr-jcl Pollw speci»; Reuter
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    • 42 6 JANE /o //,p Singapore Free Press in Malaya >r jMI U WHAT'S GO INO ON U /FYrn^A/AuA N fTTI jl^W^Mfi I'VE SEEN HIM BEFOKE )f* gS* Y UR SERVICE _^T9\ fc v^w^^£ {^r^! ji k° MEwHERE but is J i 7^^ T^y^y
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  • 783 7 GOLD CASTE SET 9.12 IN CUP RACE Ecliptic will carry 9.07 By CALL BOY QOLD Caste, Liberation Cup winner over six xx furlongs and generally acknowledged as the best sprinter in the country, has been set the top weight of 9.12. in the Singapore Turf Club's Gold Cup race over
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  • 41 7 Club emergJl champion* Liang District ten games. *J tetfß came in H*". _.^h 16 points from ...d two drawn st one match. r.ese were the Coastal a better teams B' I! His i 2 i *ec A.P.
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    17 7 Mro. Julian Loke-Car-■iael leads in Totland iLaii'ler*. winner of the second race at Bukit Timah on Saturday.
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  • 213 7 wlu-r» the field closed in. Thrilling Finish Go d Cast* took furlong out with Gold Medallist and Kindt-r Gold coming through on the outside. Kinder Go d Rave up the struggle half a furlong out. Gold Medallist kept rouu and In a thrilling race to '.he finishing line just fai!<
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  • 38 7 rHE Japanese swimmer, Kon «hic Furuhasda. is claim' ri t<^ b«ve lettered the world record for 300 netres free style by cov. i nr. the ils'ance In 3 mins. 20.8 MCS. ai ifawata yesterday.
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  • 152 7 J^. GONZALES (US.) beat Uric" Sturgess (South Africa) 6—2: 6—3; 14—12; In the men's singles finals of the U.S. tennis championships at Forest Hills yesterday. Fxcitement grew as dusk fell with Sturgess still gamely trying to stav e off defeat in tbe third set, which was
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  • 177 7 THE f blowing are additional weights for Wednesdays races at Buklt Timah: l.iv« I— Div. 2—6 furs SNAPS 9 .00 KASHMIRI SONG 8 13 BLACKPOOL 8.11 CABARET 8.09 INVEST 8.06 CHATSTER 8.05 KEY COMB 8.03 HIGH POST 8.02 D.p.B. 8.00 I.VNCHBURG 7.13 LORD IVAN 7.10 (lass I—Div1
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  • 183 7  -  Call Boy B* r OLDEN Slipper (Allan) and Bl d the best time at B Timah this morning \*hen clocking 36^ sec over three furlongs. The going was very good. Others sent out watch were: Laurie. Winnipeg (Landsdown) and Alabama, who did Uiree in i8 Winnipeg finished
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  • 352 7 IGNORING the clamour for "new blood" in England's team, the Football Association again favoured the "old guard" for the first international match of the season against Denmark, at Copenhagen near Sydney. Seven of the team played \l\ England's matches last *on, and nine were
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  • 278 7 SELANGOR CLUB WIN STONOR SHIELD Free Press KL. Correspondent THE Selangor Club won the Stonor Shield cricket competition for the second year in succession when they defeated the Selangor Eurasian Association by nine wickets on the Padang yesterday Batting strength, which was in evidence in all the Club's games this
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    38 7 J C. Annedey (left) and K. Gould ao out to resume the United Kingdom's innings after lunch on the S.C.C, padang yesterday. The U.K. scored 129 and dismissed Australia for 91 to win by 38 runs.
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  • 540 7  -  COURTCRAFT Bv /MVINu a skilful exhibition or net play, miss Waileen Wong, pre-war women's champion, made a successful comeback in Singapore badminton when she ably assisted her brother, Wong Peng Soon, to an easy two-set victory over Ismail bin Marjan and Miss Baby Low
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  • 26 7 ¥N a friendly badminton match played at the S.H.A.L. hall, the Maxfli B P. drew with the Shell S.C. three-all.
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  • 350 7 'King Sol' angling for Louis FISHMONGER Jack Solomons, now Britain's 1 leading boxing promoter, is busily angling for a match between world heavyweight champion, Joe Louis, and Bruce Woodcock in London. "King Sol", as Solomons is often referred to, announced in London yesterday that he will outbid all U.S. promoters
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  • 132 7 ONE ui the leading part: the Colony, the Eclipse B.P. celebrated this 12th anniversary over the w« at Mr. Teo Kim Eng's picnic bungalow at Tempenis Mrs. Chan Chee Seng, of the president, distribund the prizes to the winners of the various events as well as
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  • 154 7 A Ufa baa Gotten. footoall followers wondti th(: -:kely tc n -pending orf pro\c th a: by the signing of Ambr ine Birmingham l tj was thought this ma. lude tc another I ket as they did 13 j f 19oj ■pent on s. :n
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    • 242 7 F.P. Crossword No. 492 i 2 J 5 J 1 I 4 1 F Is w ■m^ m mjy iM'A. m io it li 15*^ **T 5^5 7W' Z W-M M 20 2i ar P -"j a 5 l i 'a j _:■:>.. a tLILS AIKO>> 2. Cut into two
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  • 17 8 ORUT. To Dora.* wife of R. L. Grut, born on 10th Sept., at Perth, a daughter
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  • 40 8 TAN-KONO. The engagement was announced on Saturday 18th Sept.. 1948 between Mr. Tlbon Tan Chin Ouan. second son of Mr Mrs. Tan Teck Ouan. and Miss Freda Kong Pui Tie. only daughter of Mr. Mrs. Edwin Kong Kim Qui.
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  • 26 8 The marriage Is announced of Edmund Cecil WilUanu and Muriel Roberts at Wesley Methodist Church. Singapore. Sept 15th. 1948. The Her. M. B. Amstuta officiated
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  • 17 8 In lovinc memory of Mrs. Kon Peng Yam who passed away on 20th. Oeptember. 1946.
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  • 20 8 DO YOU NEED miniature medals for Remembrance Day DellTery In 4« hour*. H. Sena Ltd.. Jewellers. St&capor* and Penang
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  • 429 8 BERNADOTTE: UN STEP AWAITED New fighting in Palestine PARIS, Sunday. WITH Arab-Jewish fighting continuing in Jeru- salem and the belief gaining ground that a general flare-up hi Palestine is imminent, the United Nations Security Council will discuss this week sterner measures in the Holy Land. Count Bernadotte's chief-of-staff, Gen., Aage
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  • 299 8 JERUSALEM. Sunday. A MAN who deceived the British Intelligence In the Middle East for seven years, 34-year-old Norman Nahum Nimrl. was among 200 Stern Gang members detained by Israeli Army and police In the two days' Intensive round-up since the assassination of the Palestine mediator.
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  • 168 8 LONDON, Sunday. THE Communist Party of Great Britain, in a statement issued today, accused the Labour Government or opening "an all-out offensive" against the living standards of British workers for war preparation purposes and "a drive to 'solve' Britain's problems by intensified exploitation of the
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  • 86 8 II SHOCKING" chapter In A Communist spying which might involve unnamed American atom scientists is promised by the Committee on un-American activities In a statement rejecting tu "absurd" the charge by President Truman that they were "smearing" atomic research experts The President has retorted! with a
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  • 220 8 PARIS, Sunday. /COMMUNISTS and de Gaullists clashed in Grenoble today, exchanging gunshots and wounding at least 20 persons in the bitterest battle yet between France's two extreme factions. A member of de Gaulle's bodyguard, died. The riot climaxed a day of sporadic fighting between de
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  • 65 8 THE Japanese Kyodo News Agencv yesterday quoted a SCAP official as saying In Osaka that Japan's labour movement was run "onesidedly by bosses and R*»d I samurai Mr. R. L. Deverall. chief of the labour and education branch, said he found that democracy was not yet understood
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  • 51 8 A four-engined York air:raft loaded with supplies for Berlin crashed near Wunstors aerodrome on Saturday night. The fate of the crew is not pet laown. The plane crash?d 500 yards from the airport, which i s the British sone terminal for the airlift into Benm.-
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  • 99 8 Plane crashes into crowd: 12 dead CONINOSBY, England, Sunday. A PILOT, killed in the crash of a Mosquito bomber at Conlngaby yesterday, wa* Identified today as Squadron Leader G. W. Curry, Britain's ace Pathfinder pilot during the war. He led the dam-busting raid of British warplanes on the Dortmund-Ems Canal
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  • 26 8 The Governor General of India, Mr. Chakravartl Rajagapalachari, has called for thanksgiving day, on Sunday next, to celebrate "the conclusion of our task in Hyderabad."—Reut«r.
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  • 111 8 German 'slave 1 miners— 2o dying daily TWO Germans who escaped from the Russian uranium mines in Saxony, declared on arrival in th e U.S. occupation zone that 20 Germans died in the mines daily. The two rugltives. who I ed beaten and worn after only a few minutes work,
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  • 48 8 PUNISHED NIAZM, SAY INDIAN REDS The Moscow Pravda yesterday published a declaration by the Indian Communist Party calling for "an end to the bloody regime of the Nizam of Hyderabad." The statement said the Nizam must be turned over for punishment because of his repression of the peasants.
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  • 79 8 CAGLIARI, Sunday. IN 1920. young Giuseppe Tacchini was in Castiadas prison for a minor crime. But he killed a guard and escaped. He then made his way from Italy to the United States, and lived there, for over a quarter of a century. Early this year.
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  • 22 8 Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery hat denied rumjurs that he may soon retire as Chief of the Imperial General Staff
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  • 160 8 WARSAW, Sunday. IyHILE officials of the Polish Socialist Party mainTT tain secrecy over the meeting, which began last Friday, of the party's supreme council, reliable quarters here said that the purge of the party was already under way. Five Yugoslav officials, including three members of the
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  • 253 8 PARIS, Sunday. THE French Government. In spite of domestic worries, has drawn up an extensive programme to welcome delegates to the third Genera] Ass'mbly of the United Nat'.ons which opers at the Palais De Chaillot here on Tuesday. On that day aeroplane*, will fly over
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  • 41 8 ine rrussian crown niaaen auring the war in a Minden church tias been handed back to a representative of the Hohenzollern 'amlly by the British military jovernment. The crown was hidlen bricked up behind a laise »all A.P.
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  • 167 8 rr^ SHANGHAI, Sunday. •rHE Chinese Communists today had completely surrounded Tsinan, capital of Shantung Province captured the north airfield and are now lobbing a steady stream of mortar shells into the city. An estimated 300.000 to 5U0.000 Chinese Reds are massed in central Shantung moving
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  • 121 8 BALMORAL, Sunday. WHEN the Australian tes cricket team was entertained at Balmoral Castle today by the Royal Family both j the hosts and the guests tool numerous photographs of eact other. Most of the cricketers had cameras with them and when they asked for permission tc
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  • 33 8 SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS, Chancellor of the Exchequer, left London by air yesterday for Canada. He will discuss financial problems In Ottawa before proceeding to Washington for similar talks. A.P.
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  • 206 8 LONDON, Sunday. DRITAIN is tightening her air, land and sea defences from her Eastern Pacific outposts to the Western approaches of the Home Islands, because her leaders regard the international situation as grave, and a display of military preparedness might discourage possible aggression. Co-operating with Britain
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  • 56 8 I A SPECIAL Market correspondent fives the prices of robber (la cents per Ib *t 11 a.m. loda* a> follows: Bayers. Seller* No. 1 R.S.S. Spot. loose 43.V. 437. Fo.b. in bales Oct. No. 1 R.S.S. 43S 43% No. S R.S.S. 41T, «U No. 3 R.S.S. 40 S,
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  • 32 8 Mor e rice by air The Chlnase Government hajs purchased 30.000 bags of Siamese jr.ee for airlifting i n t o thje warIsolated cities of Changchun Tai- yuan and Tsiniin, report* A.P.
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  • 162 8 'War crimes' trial plan for Hyderabad NEW DELHI, Suailt rpHE possibility of a "war crimes" trial i high officers of state in Hyderabad 2*^ further "police action 0 in the different n»^% State to -liquidate pockets of Rama? was hinted at by an Indian (.•.\rrnmi.h?S today. ment Saying that the
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  • 118 8 \EW YORK &J iwa> DOLICE have officially written off as murder and suicide the deaths of a man and woman, originally believed to have perished in a plane crash. The small plane in which they were flying plugged into a salt mash on Thursday.
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  • 57 8 THE Pakistan Goverr has halted all releases from the armed forces, urged terans to and rlsed the .nder-ln-Chief to absorb National Guard* battalions into the army when required ThLs action followed reports from Lahore that India was feverishly strengthening her Punjab border defences and rushing tanks
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