The Singapore Free Press, 22 November 1948

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALS IN MALAYA BVBM SINGAPORE, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1948. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 374 1 Mtne. Chiang appeals to US NANKING, Monday. AFTER a 48-hour lull, fighting is again raging around the Hsuchow bastion. The Comn" ia\e recaptured Janchuan, 35 miles i of Hsuchow, and are attacking at other poinN N O uth and ea>t of the beleaguered city,
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  • 36 1 'Huge pile of tax forms T Reporter Income tax returns arrived li come T.ix Office on Friday vho had received their the month, rushed to get period allowed. of Income Tax. this morning a number of
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  • 24 1 rT Reporter 11 raid on :\e a r re- d. consisting of 23 Indian and -mers up to this
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  • 168 1 Free Press Staff Reporter I^HK Singapore Government is offering: two scholarships to local teachers of the Education Department for study m the United Kingdom. The idea behind the scheme is to give the successful candidates higher training so that they can fill senior officers' posts
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  • 86 1 LONDON. Sunday. 'THE Bra/il an Ambassador. Senhor J. J. Moniz rte Aragao. will be one of the first men informed when Princess Elizabeth's baby is named. As doyen of the diplomatic corps he chose the corps' presen' a silver Rift christening set with platter mug and
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  • 37 1 FOUR Chinese, two armed with pistols, broke into a house m Kampong Tiong Bharu early this morning, and robbed the Chinese occupants of $30 and a pair of gold earrings worth $40.
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  • 23 1 -an 100 cases of typhoid fever have been reported .ibrian cities and I have died and net: iuse mcdi- A. P.
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  • 102 1 Army union appeals to Governor Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Army x Civil Service Union is appealing to the Governor and to members of thr Legislative Council "to obtain for them just remuneration for the civil I of the War Department m Singapon :-nor this m I '.'nion's eff
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  • 77 1 BURMFSh G pr- nt said terday that the White Flag Communists, who c been m revolt since have approached unofficial peace mission a requested intercession v. the Government alor.g conditional lines. The statement aL at the possibility of gent elec Maud P.V.Ob, v ported g ice
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  • 17 1 MPAUL HENRI SPAAK yesterday 6 aid he hopec rm a nrw nmenl by noon tod
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  • 90 1 50,000 STILL TO REGISTER IN COLONY Free Press staff Reporter U7ITH only eight more dayj go before the Singapore registration scheme between 40,000 and 1 people have still to o last night 658,126 I application been received at the a] Registration Oflice m Beach Road, and 562.752 iciei. rda issued.
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  • 18 1 man businessmen aln. plete freedom to I from the Anglt :;can occup '■nd of this month.
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  • 106 1 CREW STRIKE STOPS 'Q.E' SAILING SOUTHAMPTON. Mon. THE crew of the Queen Elizabeth, Britain's largest I liner, stood fast m their j strike yesterday and the sail- of th ssel for New York was again 1 T: the Q Mary, scheduled for Wednesday, will also be delayed because of the
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    34 1 picture nan m vicrnood ut Key West The President Florida yesterday for htngton. where he trill important conferenon the icorld situation S. Secretary of State, Mr. George Marshall, has flown home lor Per A.P.
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  • 246 1 LONDON, Monda>. OKITAIN'S Sunday newspapers yesterday criticised Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's book "Crusade m Europe" (now running m the Free Press) because it lauds American generals and belittles Britain's contribution to final victory. The Sunday Times said the book is "a blow to British-American friendship and
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  • 56 1 TEYLON is believed to have rejected Russia's offer to buy her entire rubber output. The British and United States Governments are reported to have expressed misgivings on the possible bulk sale of Ceylon's rubber to the j Soviet Union on the grounds j that it
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  • 43 1 MORE ECA FOR BRITAIN THE Economic Cooperation Administration has api proved a total expenditure for last week of $650,038,579. More than half was for commodities and services to Britain. The official list of authorisations included Netherlands East Indies $13,932,000 and China $14,000,000.- Reuter
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  • 22 1 A platoon of U.S. Marines has arrived m Nanking from jtao to serve as guard* foi the U.S. Embassy.- A.P.
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  • 92 1 Xr **p Pl V Reporter MAKSHAL of the I Force. Lord Douglas oi Kirtl- member of the Board of the 8.0.AC is arriving at X;. by flying-bo.. noon. He lia wnere he ;he guest of the Government, and the opportunity o: 8.0.A.C. offices en route. B
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  • 28 1 A landslide near Nice has blocked the main tunnel between Nice and Mr-nte. Carlo and cut the aqueduct which supplied Monte Carlo with drlnKing water.
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  • 87 1 Berlin may be settled in 3 weeks, says Evatt PARIS, M THERE are prospec A a settlement of t. East-West Berlin di in the next thn the president United Natioi •mbly. Dr. H Eval ,d Mi for an I .rture l I The A in De; said Dar an Russian
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  • 49 1 Id daughter 1 J Bra. i- laxi ni^ht when the car m travelling plui off the seawall m; Kont; harhour H»r father atid anj»ihri were slightly injured The oar is submerged m 1? feet of ua Miss Braea wouid l\ celebrated her seventeenth birthda.v on Wedn. U.P.
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  • 249 2  -  WILLIAM LATHAM By Keuters' Correspondent PARIS. I FRANCE is the first the world to I rain running on pneumatic M ire Michelin, of ping coach b id Can rich Rr. ed on a I T but express thundered pa.st on normal -els did the Her m the ".silent"
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  • 30 2  - Listening Behind The 'Curtain' DANIEL DE LUCE By Vl*. Correspondent 4 BIG ear Is read} monito; on S ol A::, uey VVheth' utteranr Hoxh threat I ft 1 M T
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    • 588 3  - The Allies land in enslaved Europe General Dwight D. EISENHOWER by Burdens Ie Prime the :o be eg I ment on I heel, I the S Left Wheel our line I I ade had I V or D Tht hat we a held when the breakout n on D plus
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    • 515 3  -  CURT RIESS BY tour of a series on life m the Soviet zone of Germany. 4 WELL-KNOWN 4 orchestra conduotold me that he Id never dare offer an all-Russian programme to his Red-zone German audience. "It is silly, but people wouldn't come," he said. "If
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  • 221 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Nov. 22, 1948. New Municipal Elections Move ]> ns. i ra should be requ Federation and the B m ter at n •^pt faate d Un lim unfortur. prevented by 11 :n"s motion >n of the cla,. xs defeated by a vo include Commi- d
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  • 400 4 THERE are many reasons why the \;ist majority <>! Americans would like to become President of the United States, but the leisure which the office oil its is CQrtainlY not one of them. Tl. Ident, one of the men m a coun < > put(
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  • 518 4  -  SIGRID ARNE K> A. P. Correspondent BEFORE the cm mil United Nations session ends m l ;uis there is ;i chance that the hack door will be pushed op c n for Spain. Th: times since mid-1945 Gen. Francisco Franco's government has been declared un- table
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    20 4 A tal H U.S. Vanguard four centui Royal I down Ludgatt H ring The I a coloir JFHJ rint Lone.
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  • 183 4  -  R. SATAKOPAN By P. (01 respondent. >ELHI -INDIA Will er conUion I be but I ide: the d< I*HOUGH A: >nstitur the Br; T h* by an Th« .s a dual ram it m India there Is a single Institution of th. n and the statei
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  • 7 4  - Britain's Food Problem GEORGE MARTIN JGHJGH 4
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  • 53 7  - MOVE TO INCLUDE LAW TE IK HOCK CRUSADER ky win over Kee Fong t had iiuludec >lo in Mala> Thomas en Lira Kee Pong, one nn\iiuinul> beaten b> nth won the Penanf Ik HihK, at the exhibi v < Drill Hal rt period has not his performance < better I
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  • 36 7 picture. imng the nine-furlong race tor hot iimah on Saturday. Colbay \Flannery\ fourtr on again to second, threequartcrs of a length m fron 'nelly), with On iTaitK a close fourth. Free Press
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  • 78 7  -  JIM CHAMBERS V roni I\^KK^ County, leaders of the First Division of the English Football League, downed Portsmouth Millie goal scored by inside-left Billy Steel. and Newcastle United maintained their great away ng Arsenal 1-0 on Saturd •illy two points ahead of v -tie,
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  • 227 7  -  CO URTCRAFT Thomas Cup team...B By r |MIF most inconsistent badminton player, Yeoh k Chye, Selangor's third Thomas Cup repre sentative, is inconsistent no longer. He proved this m the Selangoi championships last month, when he beat the best players of his state to capture his
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  • 178 7 Inning* defeat the •on Its I and final day at X One hundred and ten runs behind on the first Innings '*nd thi econd-innings lown for 53 with m addition Iran: i hurt Sind tot too happy .ddin put recovery »i\i>— im him i INDIES— Ist
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  • 313 7 AIR. Dave Morris's three-year-old colt, Sports Master by Atout Maitre out of Portworth, dashingly ridden by lightweight jockey Douglas Greening, won the last big handicap of the 1948 flat rating season the Manchester November Handicap at Manchester on Saturday afternoon. One of the best backed
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  • 14 7 R ountT hamp m. Old G N f burst h Reuter
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  • 19 7 'THE Chin. V M -0 at Re •i beat beat .■on« Sow g Soo I -0.
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  • 121 7 Ti: Au ton Wales by to 5 A game v m '.he Rugby rlarh. superior c and open i was too much of a pro'shnien. dicthe run o: Once the never •ned likely to lose it and the en ie a courageous come-; bai before th< 'he
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  • 256 7  -  TRESPASSER By AN interesting: point concerning: the Singapore Turf IX Club Winter Meeting, concluded on Saturday, is that half of the number of races on the three days were won by horses numbered 4, 6 and 8. No. 4 was the most lucky number for
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  • 63 7 I. V. SCOPI medical J student at N Rfary'i Hospital, London, broke his neck when a scrum piled up on him m the rugby football name between Mary's and the United S ricei team at Portsmouth on Saturday. He was taken to the Royal Portsmouth Hospital,
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  • 113 7 Cerdan a big draw— next to Joe Louis MARCEL CERDAN, the biggest drawing card m iTI boxing apart from the heavyweight champion, Joe Louis, is back m New York listening to offY Evidence of the dollar value of tl Frenchman with i string he was met at the airport f
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  • 170 8 UN excluded at opening THE HAGUE, Monday. THE mediation of the I nited Nations Good Oflices Commission will be used only after the first direct Dutch-Indonesian Republican talks m the coming "final* 1 peace settlement negotiations had produced pood results, it was announced here
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  • 89 8 A'KMER pupil of An g 1 Singapore ar-old i Friday at 8t gan, where he had practised for 25 year native of Holhow, China, he later studied Southwestern College, at Winfield. Kansas, and Northwestern Univ H pened a practice In St. In 1923. H his only
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  • 19 8 >n government Themistocles Sophoul year-old Grevk Premier! ol of confidence by a m rdav. Reuter
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  • 84 8 NEW YORK. Monday. rpHE New York, Board of Education is investigating uhy school children m the world's Healthiest city have to take their own chairs to class. An investigation of the furniture shortage disclosed that 500 boys m one school have to eat their lunches standing
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  • 170 8 CANBERRA, Mom TBE Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Joseph Chifley, jresterday urged that all possible efforts should be made to promote Asia's economic development which, he declared, was the key to ending political strife. Mi c rous national brin^in. alm< iy m Asia. He continued:
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  • 125 8 Atlantic pact likely by May next year LONDON M THE U In Inl m Union, I Lnal by tht be Atla. uitic d( is le The North A alliance, it is unuei will be m general terms, pleii :nutual usistai m the event of an attack upon any of the
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  • 68 8 MANCHESTER I^HE C eh i Britain n ;ier exp cent, and natioi lUU investment Labour Party regional fere: I B •li at £10 000 mil] per year Tot;, -ible and invisible, amoun'ed to £2 000 million The nal pr arrd services to balai. payment* is
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  • 145 8 NANKING, Monda THE Chinese Government announced last the general principles governing the opera* the export-import link system and the establishment of an economic co-ordination board under Executive Yuan, decided at a Cabinet meeting on Saturday. In a statement accompanying the text of the new regulations,
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  • 147 8 THE retiring Director of Education m the f ation, Mr. H R. Cbc n. rep< review that Uiere h rge iiu number of priva ned by vii often without consultation with the Departm Education He estimated there must haY« nearly 200 such schools m the peninsula
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  • 121 8 METZ, Monday. THE French Foreign Minister. M. Robert Schuman, rday said that France could never accept ownership of the Ruhr by a centralised German Government. Speaking at Metz, M. Schuman said France did not want to deny Germany the right to work for her
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  • 173 8 TOKIO, Monday. JAPANS No 1 war criminal, Hidcki Tojo, who has promised not to attempt suicide while awaiting the gallows, has refused to ask for clemency from Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur. Tojo told his counsel, "I hope only that the execution will be prompt."
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  • 261 8 NEW YORK. Monday. fOMEDIAN Bob Hope, com--1 meriting on the U.S. Labour Department report that married men spend more foi clothes than their reives, said, "That sounds like the poll was taken m the Fiji islands. It is certainly not so around Hollywood,
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  • 53 8 J^ SPECIAL Market correspondent fives the prices of rubber (m cents per Ib.) at 11 a m toda\ as follow!): Buyers bf Hers No. 1 X s > Spot loose F.o.b. m hal«-> Dei N«. 1 EJB.B 36' No. 2 R.S.S. 351*, No. 3 R s Tone of
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  • 34 8 Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, Chairman of the Western Union Com-mander-in-Chief Committee arrived m Paris yesterday on a five-day visit for discussions with the French Ministry of National Dp. lence.- Reuter
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  • 21 8 The new High Commissioner for French Indo-Chlna. M. Leon Pignon arrived at Saigon yesterday by air from Paris.
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  • 29 8 EGYPTIANS PUSH BACK INTO NEGEV THI bnu Urm p 1 Egyptians h.r m the v j tliree da and damaging th. I This is th< I I A.P. U.P.
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    36 8 of Buckingham Pala eh announced the birth of Pr Elizabeth's son at p.m. nday, I 14 I Liyhtbody of >uryh, j be of the Prince of Edinburgh, .htbody has been "nannie Duchess of 010 Princi Prind
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