The Singapore Free Press, 18 April 1949

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA ft** SINGAPORE, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 194 PKH 1^ 10 I KNiS
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    TROOPS RACE TO YUNNAN
    36 1 TROOPS RACE TO YUNNAN R ire sc n frooi rce-i spread- j B S*T€Tll ret;j r .ur:ng V :.nan. -yArd to rnarbli ■> r-pre-j warlord I W-n Mfffi ft n-ws-G r.-ral bßDlitfd In Hong l»nti m In-
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    Czechs set up political police super-force
    24 1 Czechs set up political police super-force LONDON Monday. < Govern- fore« to -:.U of *y.e I iung i.rcles tv .'e:med ent non- fleeing tht mid.
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    BIG S'HAI OPIUM 'HAUL'
    23 1 20,000 ounce? o/ seized by officers m I pus? two reto havt Swatow, I Aoout drug nder aboard an.'-r.—
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    NEW RED ULTIMATUM TO NATIONALISTS
    315 1 'Give m by Wednesday THP r NANKING, Monday. |Hb Communists yesterday served a second ultimatum, demanding: the surrender of th< Rationalist forces by Wednesday, April 20 Nationalist leaders m Nanking are now certain that the Peipins peace talks have collapsed and that the long-expected Communist
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    45 1 install on !l J" a k i°' dS th SUt< Swor d aft^ his Un »rm« aV. V* K n sar n Saturday. On the SulMhlli. 2!i r armlets, over his left shoulder a colden chain and m hu waistband the TalLmian of P-tnfl#d Dew.
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    NEW RACIAL RIOTS FEAR
    241 1 African report CAPETOWN. Sunday. T*HE commission which investigated last January's African-Indian rioting warned today that Africans mifht make another attack on the Indians "to square their account." In tH* J The commission said that the clash between the natives and the Indians came as unexpectedly as
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    Arabs prefer Soviet plan
    100 1 THE United Nations Political Committee will again take up the question of the former Italian colonies today, v hen the Arab delegations are likely to express their views. The Egyptian Foreign Minister. Khashtba Pasha, is expected to lead off with a strong appeal to the United
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    Reds cut radio news
    44 1 rpHfc Russians m Berlin are X trying to fire western r^dio news programmes thr silent cure. The British -licensed newspaper Der Tftf, said that recently electricity m the Soviet tone was out off for half an hour just when the
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    ZAIM FORMS A CABINET
    42 1 C.)L. Husni Zaim. who led the reoen' successful coup d'etat m Syria, has formed a new Cabinet m which he is Prime Minister and Minister for Defence and the Interior. It has been formed solely 1 from Independents.
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    GREEK REBELS ON THE RUN
    49 1 GREEK Government troops repulsed guerilla attacks on Amyntaion. Vevl and Mellta, m West Macedonia, during the night, an official communique said yesterday. "Our detachments are continuing their pursuit." it said. Exchanges of fire were reported from the Orammos mountain area of Northern Greece. Reuter
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    Federation arrests
    26 1 There were 1» arrests m ,he Federation during the 24 hours ended tost night. 13 m Pahang. two m Trcngganu and lour m Perak.
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    REDS SMASH 3 SHANSIAIRFIELDS
    152 1 REDS SMASH 3 SHANSI AIRFIELDS NANKINCJ. Monday. S II ANSI provincial government reported yesterday that the Communists had smashed to within one mile of the east gate of Taiyuan and had put the cltv's three airfields out of service. It said two army groups and six separate divisions totalling about
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    HELICOPETER VICTIM
    35 1 Mr Foster Dixon. chief test pilot of the Fairey Aviation Company was killed yesterday when a Fairey gyrodyne helicopter which he was flying crashed near Reading. Berkshire. Th* observer was also killed. Reuter
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    Ship rams barrier of pirate junks
    191 1 HONG KONG. Mon. DEFYING heavy machinegun lire from pirates on the banks of the West River and from pirate junks which formed a barrier across the narrow channel, the British motor vessel Kwong Fook Cheong rammed the barrier amid wild screams and shouts from
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    P.I. likely to grant loan to Indonesians
    194 1 MANILA, Monday. INDONESIAN Government officials, now living m exiU m New Delhi, have applied to the Philippine Government for a million peso (U. 5.5500.000) loan with which to buy surplus goods, textiles and medical supplies m the Philippines for the Indonesian Republic, the
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    'PAY UP-OR BLOW UP'
    82 1 CANTON police are watching a leading cinema which was threatened by explosion unless the owners paid extortion money equivalent to $2,000 U.S. The first victim of tht extortion gang was the Grand Theatre, blown up on April 10. 11 persons being hurt. The bandiu have started
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    25 1 The Sultan of Perak and the Raja Perempuan sit on the throne after the Sultan's installation m the Astana Iskandariah at Kuala Kangsar on Saturday.
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    Eire ends link with the Crown
    167 1 DUBLIN, Monday. LfINDKEDS of thousands of people here are today 11 celebrating with public rejoicing the birth of the independent Republic of Eire, severing centuries-old links with the British Crown. As the last stroke of midnight boomed out, ushering m the thirty-third anniversary of
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    PREIMIERS LEAVE
    38 1 Free Press Staff Reporter The Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. J. B. Chlfley, and the New Zealand Premier, Mr. Peter Fraser, left Singapore by air this morning en route for the Commonwealth Premiers' Conference m London
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    KING AT CHURCH
    21 1 The King, convalescing from his recent operation, attended services In the Royal Chapel of Windsor Castle yesterday. U.P.
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    REFUTE 'LIES'
    49 1 BORBA. organ of the Yugoslav communist party, yesterday accused Russia of lying about how much grain she sent Yugoslavia m 1944 Yugoslavia received only 50.000 tons -not 500.000 tons— and part of the "gift" was taken from German warehouses, where looted Yugoslav grain was stored, Borba said.
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    10 per cent U.S. aid forecast
    184 1 10 per cent U.S. aid forecast NEW YORK. Monday. 4 TEN per cent cut* in rk foreign aid is likely *.o be made by the United States Congress-, according to Mr. James Reston. diplomatic correspondent )f the New York Times Congress is already faced with a deficit of nearly $1
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    LONG LIFE FOR STALIN
    101 1 NEW YORK. Monday THE Russian Prime Minister. Generalissimo Josef Stalin, Is not a sick man, and is likely to "live and exercise his enormous influence for BedelY "SmltTi." 'wtio u rTtoirfJ was appointed Commander of the U.S. First Army Gen Smith who during the war wa*
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    ARGENTINA QUAKE
    20 1 Two strong earthquake* have rocked the town of Stn Juan. Argentina There was no damage and no casualties.
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    FORD STRIKE VOTER
    19 1 Workers ai the Ford Motor Company's River Rouge plant Detroit have authorized a strike vote U.P.
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    ITALIAN DROUGHT
    16 1 Prolonged droughts 4 ave forced increased electric power* cuts throughout, Central and Southern Italy.
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    Tom Brown's German School Days
    770 2 Tom Brown's German School Days HAMBURG: BRITAIN'S first v "Guinea Pig" public school, whicn may be the prototype of future State cordmational boarding schools, is m Germany ;i few miles from the Iron Curtain An exciting experiment, it has been nidden benind the flies of the Ministry ol Education and
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    New Hats For The Girls
    282 2 TINY, snug fitting hats will all movement to the side will be worn this spring and summer, according to British hat designers. The big cartwheel straw, all the rage last season, must be stored away or reMyled In line with tht s year's models. Much
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    The Gentle People
    1105 2  -  S.C. GEORGE NMXFFH IN a remarkably short time the house was ready lor Barker's occupation. It stood, as befitted the house of a govern ment man, aloof from the rest, and on rising ground to catch the sea breeze which blew pleasantly beneath it and kept it
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      310 2 I YOUR I LUCKY I STAR t> ORN today, both musi O and art appeal to yo x a great deal. You have, m >> addition, a real dramati > gift and might wish t make the stage your llf work. You have a fine speakin voice which can be
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      599 2 crxirflDnDF Town 9 Music Shop 9.30 News 9.45 on Record Ba*s Baritone Peier Dlti\**lr\Jl\£* Evening Star 10. "London Studio Dawson Isador Goodman Piano (BLUE NETWORK) Concerts" 10. SO Dance Music -The 11. Australian Newi. 484 and 41.7 metre*. Serenades RADIO CEYLON Emergency news from R.L. BFEBS (Singapore) /Q r v
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    EAST EUROPE EXODUS NEARLY OVER
    386 3 Only 20,000 Jews remain is chambers and ttic post-war exodu s to I 7to*e stripped eastern Europe of most of •2L te d f\\e million Jews who lived there I f war. a I nited Press survey reveals. KJ^bAm to Israel of thousands of Jews
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    County ball became 'an orgy'
    45 3 County ball became 'an orgy' at the .»mr an iaiW-'d at Readhe coun--syr. *aid Alderman Lovell *n hall I .~d down I danc'ng I urs. I s arried on I ttrer the; I x l\ed off. I Smith. BJ^j va!c nimf»id rh' w^o)* 1 thing
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    ELGIANS MOB PRINCESS
    33 3 h e.i men i BeiI3»t» 1 and it W j King" ess Josephine f exiled a day or the i- J .v. ■-> .;ah th* I wild 4bu:nl Leopold, aj>j balcony.
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    EGYPT NEEDS, RANKS, PLANES
    34 3 EGYPT NEEDS, RANKS, PLANES Pad a encdr: of thr FgypPaiestine. hi **xisi- as the xade it io ln- roes. [■•♦o inks, .113 and I hadd-d that he would > deveo at a '■> ratr.rr than nterfer--stlc
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    UNKNOWN
    28 3 IMONIUS humbug who told a pack of ioney from people" was the descripGerard George Griffiths Ofl Blackpool (Mr. Edward Rowson :m to three years imprisonment remperaaee L.
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    THE WOMEN EARN MORE
    60 3 IN Korea"* capital Seoul it :s the women wage earners who draw the larger salaries and the men don't like it. A daily newspaper noted current pay ind^x as compared with th* 1946 and writes "it is a funny thing— wimen's pay U the double of
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    HOMES FOR UNWEDS
    40 3 Unmarried couples living ther will be allotted mctl houses at Plymouth a< their turn comec. "Alderman W A Miller. :>:ng chairman told the nc!l: "We are not a morals bt-nefit society. We shall dec»de solely on needo
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    30 3 F'» r '.»II14ll took A vlOSt-i-J SH»: Ol lht *f r rhop* flown m from lTi.»t* and on sale 1 shop— ofT the ration. Further imr have since beeu banned.
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    27 3 lioogie Withers, British star who appears m the film "Traveller's Joy" wears a navj worsted suit designed on sleek long lines reminiscent of an air hmlMs's uniform.
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    TRAVELS TALKS
    24 3 Mr. Winston Churchill will open a London economic conference on Wednesday to discuss prospects of freer trade and travel In all Europe.
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    His aima united Europe
    243 3 His aima united Europe TpHE Secretary-General A of the European Parliamentary Union, Count Richard Couden LoveKalergi, has one ambition—to form a United States of Europe. Count Coudenhove-Kalergi sums up his view s as follows: The main thing is to unite. After that the countries must decide whether the European Assembly
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    Syria's 'strong man' is also silent
    299 3 FIFTY-two-year-old Husni Zaim. the man who overthrew the Syrian Government without shedding a drop of blood, is every inch a soldier. Stout, five feet nine inches tall, h e weighs 15 stone. He was born at Aleppo m Northern Syria and after completing his
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    45 3 Kailwaymen at Patricroft. Lancashire are so keen on their job that when the working day is over they return to their place of work to spend their spare time UMIIg model railway tracks and locomotives. They call themselves the Patricroft All (irades Mutual Improvement Class.
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    U.S. TOUR BANNED
    33 3 A planned tour of American •ities by Russian and Eastern European delegates to the World Peace Conference m New York has been banned by 1 the US. State department. A.P.
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    47 3 The Belgian Prime Minister. M. Paul-Henri Spaak arriving at London airport by Pan-American Clipper. He was on his way home to Brussels from the United States where he had signed the Atlantic Pact. To greet him was his daughter, Mrs. Marie Pelliser. whose husband Is an Englishman.
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    MUSIC TASTE MEDIOCRE-BBC CHIEF
    243 3 MUSIC TASTE MEDIOCRE-BBC CHIEF tjilFty years ago, only a very few people had any real musical taste and their standard was very high. Now a much wider circle of people have a certain amount of taste, most of which is mediocre. That was one of the opinions expressed by Sir
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    DISCORD
    25 3 The entire Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra has left the Austrian Tcade Union Federation m protest against the expulsion of two of their leading members. A.P.
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    CHILD STARTS HUGE BLAZE
    66 3 A CHILD wilh a lighted match touched off a million dollar fire m a densely populated district of Cebu City, Philippines that left more than 8.000 persons homeless. PreliP'inary reports said six persons were missing and more than 10 city blocks razed to the ground ui'rr
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    EARTH'S MAGNETISM: NEW THEORY
    303 3 rpHE source of the earth's magnetism may have been tracked down m studies by Dr E. C. Bullard. Head of the University of Toronto's Physics department. He ascribes it to disinte"ration of radio-active material m the carth 1 molten core The surface of the earth's liquid
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    12 'MYSTERY' MEN PICKED
    92 3 TWELVE "mystery" men have been picked oy the British Foreign Office for a coveted Job involving travel and a spice of adventure. They will act. as escorts 'or King's messengers the men who travel all over the world with secret diplomatic dispatches for Ambassadors and other
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    FRENCH KILL 70 REBELS
    55 3 FRENCH troops have killed r 70 members of Viet Minh army In skirmishes 15 miles southwest of Hanoi, the semi-official French press agency said. The agency quoted well informed sources "--probably French military authorities as saying the Viet Minh fighters had massacred families of ten Indochinese
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    GAVE WIFE A 'TOKEN' WHIPPING
    205 3 WHEN Frank Ewen Barlow, 37, stated he gave his wife a "token whipping," a Birmingham divorce iud^e said. "I don't believe it was a token whipping I think he gave a guou uumuu%. Quite apart from what hurt it might have caused her, what decent
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    SMALLPOX TOLL NOW 5
    46 3 A FIFTH passenger from the liner Mooltan, which docked m London, from Australia last week, has died from smallpox. It has been confirmed that three of the eight passengers now m hospital five men and three women— are suffering from smallpox- Reuter
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    INDIA MUST END PEASANT 'BONDAGE'
    396 3 INDIA MUST END PEASANT 'BONDAGE' 111 ANY foreign observers m India believe the A government must push a vigorous programme of land reform and agricultural modernization if it is to win its struggle against communism and make substantial headway m its efforts to solve the subcontinent's economic ills. They believe
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY. Apr. 18, 1949. UNITY AND LOYALTY
    603 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY. Apr. 18, 1949. UNITY AND LOYALTY I]NITY and loyalty are J qflalit.es that spring from :he heart: they can never be imposed on a people by an outside agency. Malaya will never take Its place m the comity of nations until Its many races are
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    The 'Circus' is lit up...
    1164 4 The 'Circus' is lit up... LONDON: WHEN I asked Mr. Tf Ward, the Malayan Agent, what contribution Malaya House had made to the lighting up of London yes, the capital, like the Fleet on a notable 8.8.C occasion, is all lit up and our gay neon lights and electric advertisements
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    They don't know how it's done
    348 4  - They don 't know how it's done J. W. TAYLOR By ••fvOGGONE It n drawled the American 3,000 miles away. And Mr. K. H. Arthur, m his tiny lean-to amateur radio station at Fishponds, Bristol, chuckled. It rather looked as though he had started something which would lead to far-reaching
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    FAITH
    34 4 Remember now thy Creator m the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure m them. Ecclesiastes, 12.1.
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    HOW THE ATLANTIC PACT WORKS
    516 4 AN "all-in" mutual insurance policy against all forms of aggression that is the Atlantic Pact just signed by Britain, America, France and nine other nations m Washington. You will notice the all forms of aggression. That is because since Hitlerian days we have learned the
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    8 4 "THEY'VE SORT OF BROUGHT IT UP TO DATE
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    Russia's defensive in Germany
    752 4  - Russia 's defensive in Germany BRIAN CONNELL by BERLIN: THE Berliners are telling with glee the story of the Communist Party functionary from Dusseldorf who paid a visit to -the nearest branch of the "Promised Land" the Russian zone of Germany and got into conversa tion with a rather deaf
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    Shaw's last word
    327 4 \IR. Jack EastaiiKh. iTI village sculptor and stone-mason, of Windlesham, Surrey is a man who tried to give Mr. George Bernard Shaw a lesson m grammar. He tried. It was the epitaph on a grave stone that caused the trouble. Mr. Eastaugh has carved the stone at
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    Two African weathermen
    40 4 r-0 Gold Coast wm Messrs F I quaah and A. L Wjfl have begun ««J Weather Forecasting tJJ Air Ministry* Metwro^ an- given instruct:. these c Accra airport. j Messrs Acquatf DjtbaWv the: forecast* ever Nigeria. -H
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    50 5 picture. hi iup of tea is this Dyak, one of 40 who have ved .it Kuala Lumpur to join the Security Forces 3* hid k**n h»re before and knew how to dress himself to> v.-ne note the t .S. Army lef fines and boots. Anil jiMlr-ireen uniform. v Free Press
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    FREE LONG-LEASED PREMISES' PLEA
    459 5 Rent control Free Press Staff Reporter iPROP(».\L by the Singapore Ratepayers' Asso:i to th e Government, that local industrial rmises which are held on long-term leases should »t be subject to th e restrictions of the Control of tat Ordinance. ha s not had a reply
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    PHONE FOR EVERY HOME SCHEME
    313 5 PHONE FOR EVERY HOME SCHEME New rate system before Govt. A "MF<^™ Pre! l 8 Staff X MESSAGE rate system" of telephone fpuJ? '"^n^Pwe. which will bring tht hontew W K thm u the means of the aviragc feKftS^' S^, I**?1 approved by the Oriental U Intel.' nd EI J
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    LAND FOR CATTLE BREEDING
    138 5 LAND FOR CATTLE BREEDING LAND should be reserved exclusively for animal breedIng In Kelantan and Trengganu, said Mr. Cheah Phee Phay. President of the Malayan Veterinary Association on Saturday night. He was speaking at the dinner of the Malayan Veterinary Association, which held its three-day conference In Singapore. Mr. Cheah
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    UNITED MALACCA RUBBER OUTPUT
    25 5 The rubber* crop for the United Malacca Rubber Estates, Ltd. for March was 113,040 lb. Total for 11 months. 1.142,044 lb.
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    23 5 picture. Sultan Sir Yussof lizuddin Shah, wearing special articles or the regalia, is seen on the throne during Saturday's Installation ceremony Free Press
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    Little inducement for Sumatra trade
    143 5 T»HE cessation of barter trade with Sumatra has x tied up hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of textiles, hardware and general merchandise m the hands of Singapore merchants. These goods cannot now be imported into Sumatra because of the very narrow "inducement" margin of
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    No decision yet on Jap textiles
    98 5 No decision yet on Jap textiles VTEGOTIATIONS between 11 Singapore and Federation Governments over their share of Japanese textiles imports is understood to have held up allocation to Malayan traders of a $7,000,000 textiles niport quota These negotiations have been going on for some time, but no decision can Lo
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    TO ASK U.K. FOR SELFGOVT. PLAN
    116 5 TO ASK U.K. FOR SELFGOVT. PLAN KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. THE Malayan Indian Con--1 gress is to send a message to the Secretary of State for the Colonies requesting the British Government to announce a political, economic and educational programme designed to. help Malaya to achieve democratic self-Gov-ernment "m a reasonably
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    STRAITS TRADERS: NO DIVIDEND
    369 5 THE Straits Trading Co. Ltd., earned a net profit of $337,993 m the year 1948, after providing undisclosed amounts for depreciation, amortisation of Pulau Branl leases, bad and doubtful debts and income tax. Shareholders, however, will uot receive a dividend as the director* recommend this sum
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    SINO-BRITISH FRIENDSHIP
    216 5 Visitor praises HPHE cordial friendship existing among the British 1 and Chinese peoples m this part of the world is impressive and encouraging said the general manager of the London Express Syndicate, Mr. W. T. Aitken, who has just arrived hi Singapore on a world tour. A nephew
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    59 5 1 wenty-one-year-old Anthony Kennedy, an able-seaman m the crew of the 10,000- ton ship, s ten tor, who fell down a 50-foot hold, on Good Friday and received multiple external and internal injuries, was flown from Labuan to Singapore yesterday by a Malayan Airways Dakota. Kennedy is seen being transferred
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    Textile re-exports drop 70 per cent
    293 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent rpHE chairman of the Singpore Chinese Textiles x and Sundry Goods Importers Association said, m an Interview, that textile re-exports had been so hard hit since the stoppage of barter with Indonesia that a general drop of 70 per cent
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    BMA OFFICERS NAMED
    116 5 The following have been elected officers of the Southern Division and members of the Executive Committee of the British Medical Association (Malaya Branch) for the year 1949-1950: Chairman Dr. Chen Su Lan. Chairman-Elect Dr. N. Mootatamby, Vice-Chairman Professor O. A. Ransome, Hon. Secretary Dr. J. M. Lewis,
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    BUY MY FLOWERS, OR ELSE
    264 5 - Free Press Staff Reporter ANEW Juvenile racket, m which well-dressed people are forced to buy buttonholes at exorbitant prices, is springing up m seme restaurants and amusement parks m Singapore. The girls, who are obviously employed and trained by adults, are about five to six
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    Easter concert by children
    62 5 The Singapore Junior Symphony Orchestra and Combined Schools' Choir captured the hearts of the Colony's music lovers last night when they staged a very successful Easter concert at the Victoria Memorial Hall. The concert wag In aid of St. Andrew's Mission Hospital. The programme Included two
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      70 5 After the Easter Holidays we will be opening at 8.45 p.m. on Tuesday 19tk When we have swept up the splinters and fragments remaining from our Annual sale, fresh merchandise will be unpacked and displayed. Brand new stocks are ready m our departmental stock rooms and by Wednesday we will
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    I go down in the fifth to Lloyd Marshall
    1514 6  -  FREDDIE MILLS by *T0 HIT rock bottom m one light and win a championship m the next is something out of the ordinary, but I don't think anyone can suggest I ever do things by halves. Anyway, tliat was my lot
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    Growder's decision proved correct
    282 6 /\\('E again rain interfered with inter-State cricket m Singapore. Only an hour's play was possible m two days m the Singapore v. Selangor match, which was ti> have begun on the Padang on Saturday. Owing to the bad weather, however,- not a ball was bowled. A
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    Dato Onn supports Johore athletics
    466 6 Free Press Staff Correspondent SEGAMAT, Monday. JOHORE intends to take op athletics seriously this year and the first State meet has been scheduled to take place at Johore Bahru on Friday. June 24. Though there have been championship meets organised by various departments, schools and
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    Pompey attack tears Wolves to pieces
    195 6 Pompey attack tears Wolves to pieces from JIM (HAMBIkS PORTSMOUTH took a grip upon the cha*. of th e First Division of th c Kn s |kh nshi P League on Saturday as their fast p 0 V h tb all banned m five foals without reply aeain^u tfai finalists,
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    K. BAHRU SOCCER
    44 6 A sacerr team from the Trengganu Customs played the Kelantai. Customs at Kota Bahru yesterday which resulted m a win for Kelantan by four goals to three The visitors were entertained later to a dinner and ronggeng at Pantai Chinta Brain.
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    WOLVES MAY CHANGE MIND
    13 6 WOLVES MAY CHANGE MIND WOI tour Turki proflcf.t dur: TOtl A'i- W A.P.
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    INJURED IN TRIALS
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    PENG SOON LOSES TO FREEMAN
    684 7 PENG SOON LOSES TO FREEMAN Ooi all out to beat U.S. star Poh Lim of Malaya and Annelise Hansen of Denmark 15-6, 15-10. and Chan Kon Leong (Malaya) and Tonny Ahm (Denmark) beat Preben Dabelsteen and Aase Svendsen (Denmark) 15-7, 15-7. The women's singles final will be an all-Danish encounter,
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    31 7 picture. r ,,u ,;<•> (left) receiving the Woman Captain's twin >* rv Tan rhin Tuan. wife of tJ »c president of i i lub at the priie presentation on Saturday evrnin?.- Free Press
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    Valiant bid by Johore fails
    377 7 By COIRTCRAFT \Ui\M hid by Johore yesterday to win the lpjnuda>a Cup failed by four points, Singapore the trophy for the second year m succession. beat Johore by three games to two m the final > quadrangular tournament, played at the Wil Inion hall. l
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    'I'm surprised,' says Peng Soon
    244 7 -117 HEN I think of Freeman's ff victory against Ooi T- Ik Hock m the all-England final I am surprised that I could follow him through both sets," a tired but smiling Wong Peng Soon said after hts defeat by Dave Freeman m the Danish
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    SINGAPORE WIN 8-3
    45 7 HONO KONG, Sun. rB Singapore Services soccer team defeated the Rest of tbe Colony by 8-3. Scorers for Singapore were Wilson (1). Todd (2). Shea (2). Loveless (1). Inglte (1). Hughes of Hong Kong, kicked the ball Into his own goal. Reiter
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    Kinder Gold to win Cup sprint
    165 7 Ttt* .Press Racing Correspondent IPOH, Monday. STRONGEST tip on the course this morning was for Astivel, running m th e third race here this afternoon. Happy Traveller is strongly fancied for the Easter Cup over a mile and a quarter, while Kinder Gold is
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    S'pore Army side beaten m H.K.
    143 7 S 'pore Army side beaten m H.K. rE Singapore Army footballers yesterday lost 0-3 to a Hong Kong Combined Chinese team. The game was keenly played, the Servicemen giving a good account of themselves despite the margin Tht Chinese team, which was composed of olavers who had been unable to
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    WATER POLO GAVE S.C.S.C. VICTORY
    523 7  -  CRUSADER By SINGAPORE Chinese swimming J Club's superiority m water polo once again gave them the honours m their Easter aquatic meet against Penang Chinese Swimming Club, which concluded yesterday at the S.C.S.C. pool m Amber Road. Singapore completed the nine swimming events with 32
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    TORONTO WIN ICE HOCKEY HONOURS
    58 7 TORONTO Maple Leafs won iae Stanley Cup. emblematic of the world* professional ice hockey ♦hat a profeaaional ice hockey league team had won the Cup for three •ucceaaive ymn. t| Toronto beat Detroit. u League champion*. J—l to est»oU«h a decisive lead o: four mAt^f.
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    METRIC BEAT MEDICS 2-1
    62 7 Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Monday METRIC defeated Medics 2-1 m a League soccer match yesterday. Play was very even m the first half, during which Metric led by a goal scored by Heng Leng. In the second half Medics equalted through Hodgson, but before
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    SPANISH LEAGUE
    17 7 THE Club Barcelona won the Spanish football league championship yesterday, defeating Depesanol 2 l. A.P.
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    Ipoh acceptors
    447 7 npHE card of events at Ipoh today, final day of the 1 Perak Turf Club's Easter meeting, is given below. Double totes will be on races three and four and six and seven, and the big sweep will be drawn on race eight. RACE 1—2.30: CI. 2. DIV.
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    Boey Yuen Siew is 'Mr. S'pore Junior'
    351 7 BOEY Yuen Siew of the Queen Street Boys' Club was voted "Mr. Singapore Junior" over 38 other competitors at the New World last night m the Singapore Amateur Weightlifting Federation's first junior body-beautiful and weightlifting championship contests. Poh Kirn Leng and Tan Ciioon
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    LOUIS TO BOX IN MANILA
    69 7 ft AY Stevens, 25-year-old Paclxv flc Coast heavy-weight, will fight Joe Louis In Manila on May 2. Stevens is scheduled to arrive m Manila from San Francisco, on April 22. Louis Is expected to follow one week later. The two will meet m an eight
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    LOCKE PLACED 2nd
    35 7 OOBBY LOCKE, the South Afri- can golfer, scored 68 for 36 holes with a total of 135 yesterday, giving him second place m the Specialists* golf tournament at Virginia Beach, U.S.A.- A.P.
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    22 7 pic- The trophy presented by Eng Aun Tong Medical Hall for the Malayan chess championship, now m progress at Penan;.- Free Press
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    SCOTLAND TEAM TO TOUR U.S.
    57 7 gCOTLAND s= till jubilant over its 3 l soccer win over England last Saturday at Wembley Stadium has picked the 3%me team to play Prance at Hampden Park, Glasgow, on Apr. 27. The team with Thornton (Glasgow Rangers), Telfer (St. Mirren) and MacKenzie (Patrick Thistle),
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    CHEERFUL LADSAP
    127 7 CHEERFUL LADS AP rE office-bearers of the Cheerful Lads Athletic Party, Singapore. for 1949 have been elected as follows: Patrons: Messrs. Ang Hood Choo, Urn Kirn Lee. Chee Liang Lock and Harold de Silva; president Mr. Joe Seah; vicepresidents: Messrs. Wee Tiang Choon. William Scow. and Ang Swee Urn; hon.
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    WOMEN'S FOILS TITLE
    30 7 ELLEN Muller-Preiss, of Austria, won the women's individual foils title In the world fencing championships m Cairo yesterday. She beat Keren LachmAnn m*nmark) m the final.— Reuter
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    PERM HEAD FOR VICTORY
    391 7 »T<HANiiS to IXnis Martinz, performed the "hat-trick i taking eight wickets for 19 rui v and to Ec Yong, who knocked up 83, Perak today take the DeM against Penang m their an nun 1 inter-State cricket match *t Ipoh m a strong position. At Kuala
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      72 7 Today's Sport CRICKET: Sinfapoie v. Selangor, 3rd day, Padang. 11 a.m. BADMINTON: Marigold v Young Yoong Club of Selangui Clerical Union. LEAGUE SOCCER: Jnr. A Grp. 2, S.H.B. Aux. Police v H. M. Dockyard Thomson Rd Regi. Pay Office (M) x. P A T— Geylang: Jnr. B. Grp. 2 AM
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    BIRTHS
    38 8 TOY On 4th Marcn, at Koyai Ifnternitj Hospital. Glasgow, to Mwi mttm of Dr. A. Roy. son Alan. Arthur. Freebairn. H'TLSON: To Alma, wife of le Wilson, at Bungsar HosKuala Lumpur, on 16.4 49. *n»i Paul James.
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    DEATH
    44 8 CHUA BOON QUAY: At 4.1 V ci I-ane. X.L.. on 16th April, t d 84 leaving four sons, i i Chv cc Lwee. Bock Lwee, Lwce and Hock Lwee, two c* *hters-in-law. fifteen grandr i'dren. and one great-grand-Funeral took place on instant. Reuter
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    5 armies run out of rice
    87 8 CANTON, Monday. MILITARY rice for the five armies m Kwangtung province will be exhausted by the end of April and purchases will have to be made from Hunnan province, 'the rice bowl of China," which will sell at five silver dollars tUSS6-» a picul
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    BIG UK.STRIDES TO RECOVERY
    375 8 BIG UK. STRIDES TO RECOVERY Exports and output rise WASHINGTON, Monday. rHE U.S. Department of Commerce, m an analysis of Britain's international trade, said there were many indications that the United Kingdom has made substantial progress toward recovery. It cites January exports as 62. per cent above January 1938, industrial
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    Had no hubby to worry her
    47 8 LONDON, Monday. lf/SS Ada Ramsbotham. who has just died at Bristol at the age of 104, recently told reporters that she had lived so long because "I have never married and so have not had a husband to worry me.'- A.P.
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    Shanghai prices soaring
    166 8 Shanghai prices soaring SHANGHAI. Sunday. SHANGHAI bread and rice prices rose by 50 per cent, overnight, and edible oil and coal briquettes, cooking "essentials" for nine-tenths of the population, went up 130 per cent. Wage earners struggling for survival against the rising tide of inflation found that tram and bus
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    Nanking to Canton by rail
    71 8 THE train service between Nanking and Canton ultimately it is hoped to Hong Kong- is due to start next week. The trip to Canton will take six days with stops at Shanghai. Hangchow. Nanchang and other cities.— A. P pletur*. i lie .-i^h Cuuimissioner. Sir
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    ANTI-ACHESON ACTION UNLIKELY
    105 8 ANTI-ACHESON ACTION UNLIKELY WASHINGTON. Sun. THE U.S. Secretary of State's letter to Senator rom Connally. chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has stirred bitter comment from tone China alcj proponent*. However, oteenren believe that is unlikely to precipitate any immediate action one way or the other m Congress unless
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    U.S. PLANS FORAY TO ANTARCTIC
    158 8 vVASHLnuTON, bunday. OECRET preparations are being made here for a United States expedition to the Antarctic, which may have far-reaching international consequences. The expedition may produce a formal American claim to the strategic areas of Antarctica. The decision to dispatch a new expedition followed the
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    GREEK STRIKE OFF
    37 8 The Greek Civil Servants' j strike ha s been call«d off fol- lowing a Government pro- mlse of sympathetic consideration for the strikers' request for a grant loan equal to one month's pay— A.P.
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    'Sure' test found for early cancer
    150 8 DETROIT. Monday ANNOUNCEMENT of the isolation and identifleatlon of a cancer virus coincided here yesterday with a claim of discovery of a simple, cheap and "reasonably sure" test to detect cancer m Its early stages. The cancer virus, which has been discovered by Columbia
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    SHIPS HIT IN YANGTSE
    176 8 SHANGHAI. Monday. SHANGHAI shipping companies fear closing of the Yangtse river traffic as a result of shelling by the Nationalists and Communists from the river banks. During the past few days, two ships have been hit by shells. Crew members of one China Merchants Steam Navigation
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    'NO VIOLATION'
    26 8 AN official Pakistan Defence Ministry spokesman has described all reports ot a violation of the cease-fire m Kashmir as "grossly exaggerated and without foundation."
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    U. S. 'SPY' IS RELEASED
    52 8 liHE United States Ambassa- dor m Prague has been told that Miss Adele Vraz. head of the American Relief m Czechpslovakia, has been r«le&sfd "m the interests of better relations between the two countries" The Czech polict still maintain, however, that she is guilty of
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    'US ultimatum to the Soviet before 1952'
    276 8 'US ultimatum to the Soviet before 1 952' Nfctt YORK, Monday. r VUV I nited States may feel compelled some time before 1952 to send Russia an ultimatum demanding that she immediately accept international control of atomic nergy and open hei borders to the agents of the world atomic authority
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    P.I. PLAN TO BOOST RICK
    29 8 pRESIDENT Quinno cabinet has released 10.000,000 peso« < U555,000,000 to start work at once on 14 irrigation projects, with the object of increasing rice production.
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    A 'Robin Hood' seeks duels
    53 8 PALERMO (StClly Monday. ITALY'S most notorious bandit. Salvatore Oiuliano. yesterday issued a challenge to Government leaders to a series of duels to the death. Police and military units have been searching m the mountains for th* s elfstyled "Robin Hood of Italy riiiri'in iht> tommi
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    32 8 picture. Representatives of the Chinese community of Perak advancing to the throne to present their community address after the installation ceremony at the AsUna Iskandariah at Kuala Kangsar on Saturday Free Press
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    Joy in Christ's birthplace
    335 8 Joy in Christ's birthplace BEST EASTER IN DECADE AS the bells of Easter pealed m Nazareth m Christian churches filled to overflowing for the services m celebration of the Resurrection of Christ. European nations celebrated their gayest Easter m ten years. Among the celebrants m Nazareth were the 20 000
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    RED RAILWAY TO 'CURTAIN'
    98 8 FRANKFURT. Monday A MEMBER of the ex 1\ Ukrainian government at Augsburg Germany. I\a: Tychojkyj say* Russia ruilt a strategic netuoiK of broad-gauge railways extending almost to the edge of the Iron Curtain.' He added thai most o! the main Polish and Hungarian railway systems have
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    VAN MOOK TO WRITE BOOK
    55 8 fpHF 1 (iovvrnji -G": Dute.\ Fast lndiri Dr T till J. van V Satur I wher*- he l^c :ndooesia Hf told newsman a* kmsxndam taat hr hac contract irith a Hfw York polishing firm for th^ pubiicjtion thts ->>-ar ol i t>-.k*o« B ".-East Asia
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    Socialist bid for local vote
    45 8 U.ndon a, ld Will b. •■lMrt^ n ntd t J M *lh| t^sts. which invoii urban counciil" 4^ trirt councils i«5iX Cou- v (ion,:County c in* fi mi 2 :k run out oi L«o r p >■ Übou' up R •.*<riS
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