The Singapore Free Press, 28 April 1949

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 10* SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1949. PKICE 10 CENIS
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  • 415 1 BANDIT BOMBING ASSURANCES 'RAF is very careful LONDON, Thursday. THE Air Minister, Mr. Arthur Henderson, totd Mr Emrys Hughes (Lab.) m Parliament yesterday that no bandit-infested area m Malaya was attacked from the air unless the civil authorities were satisfied that there was no risk to the civilian population. The
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  • 72 1 Tnuri. I ::i Prime |Q Downs' j \y for Burma -er. Mr. ■J Foreign Bevin. nted by »ters were X'- K.ngdom. XiK i Zealand. was i a: vipers HI Minis- Indian ers had Hp p Burma's the pre- :.!erX 3 -ting m been .^e. who
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  • 42 1 BIG S'PORE RED HAUL Reporter. wttt arMl It ■•"'3 bed as wi of the i> >uspected Maiayan one as a the M C.P. Democratic and the la^t »»^>c a> a secret so- p" d to r-ntion* m T r 161 up fo
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  • 27 1 >un Rrportrr IH hi civilian -^d to havt T! v a oman of »ouun n| $5 m J* «ff Stamford Road. -> «-inrma crowd was ••->• Capitol
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  • 51 1 Nearly 1.000 Royal Air j Force and Royal Navy men with 200 member* of ser- 1 vicemen's families left Liver- pool last night »n the troop■hip Devonshire for Hong Kong, Singapore and Colombo. The men will re- place those coming home for i leave or relief.
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  • 288 1 NEW YORK, Thursday. MOPES that the Berlin blockade will be lifted soon 11 increased yesterday as the U.S. Ambassador at large, Dr. Philip C. Jessup delivered a note to the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister. M. Jacob Malik, seeking clarification on two issues: an exact understanding of
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  • 156 1 QUIRINO CLEARED OF GRAFT MANILA. Thurs. PRESIDENT Quirlno wai 1 late yesterday afternoor cleared of the impeachment charges filed against him by a group of opposition Congressmen by the Lt»wr House committee which investigated the charge* for several weeks. He had been charged with abuse of office, misappropriation of public
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  • 119 1 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. lI R Tom Clarfc, United States Attorney-General, M today added 36 names to the Governments lur of over 100 "subversve organisations." He •lassed 23 organisations as Communist, seven as F*sr£t four as advocating force to deny constituUonaf rights to others and two as seeking
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  • 23 1 The United States yesterday recognised Col. Husni Zaim's Syrian Governmcnc i established after a bloodless coup on Mar. 30. Reuter
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    53 1 me sktop Ameth»t which Ijia* at anchor m the Yangtse and cannot move becauHe of the menace of Communist artillery. She went aground last week after being fired on and 19 of her crew were killed. Other R.N. ships made t vain attempt to rescue her but were turned away
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  • 89 1 Malaya needs help— Mancroft LONDON. Thurg. LORD MANCROFT. In a speech at Little Gaddesden yesterday, declared that Malaya was the' only country In the world whicn was fighting Communism and beating It. "The tragic and humiliating disaster on the Yang; he River accentuatei the Importance of the battle of Malaya."
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  • 71 1 DOLJCE investigating the murder of a police constable m the Malacca area yesterday shot dead an unidentified male bandit. He was wearing long khaki trousers and a dirty shirt. The bandit hid m a padi field and bolted on sighting the police. In the Ulu Pakka area
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  • 71 1 UNUSUAL evacuee from Nanking turned up m Shanghai yesterday. The man, Chu Ho, left Nanking by trishaw. It took him three days to get to Shanghai and the trishawman charged only 50 silver dollars. Chu and tbe trishaw iet Chen Yi's Communist armies a few miles outside
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  • 227 1 WASHINGTON, Thursday. T*HE United States Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson urged Congress yesterday to ratify the Atlantic Pact and said that the American military aid programme was a great "hope for peace." He said West Europe's sense of insecurity had come about through Russia's "cynical
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  • 137 1 Denial claims statement in Commons LONDON, Thun. 1 MJM M ANDKR Allan Noble J V Cons. a.sked In the I Commons yesterday why service departments In Malaya were refusing to pay compensation for certain goods requisitioned m 1940--42 on the ground that they were requisitioned for purposes of denial and
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  • 160 1 SHANGHAI, Thursday. THE Woosung garrison admitted this morning that Communist forces, advancing on Shanghai from the west and north-west took Soochow without a fight and had advanced to within 40 miles of Shanghai. This means that Shanghai Is completely ringed by Communist armies. Its fall seems
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  • 46 1 The RAF. broke Its own Berlin airlift record veaterday by flying 2.080 long tons of supplies into the Sovietblockaded capital during the 24 hours ending at noon, the Air Ministry announced. The previous British record was 2,033 tons carried cy» April 15-16 A.P.
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  • 92 1 SIR B. C. M. Van Suchtelen, former Governor of East Sumatra, has decided to go on a hunger strike from Apr. 30 unless "radical reform of Dutch Indies policy starts before then and the most important culprits of this policy resign." Van Suchtelen, who is living at
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  • 27 1 DURING excavation work »a Bukit Timah area yesterday afternoon, five skulls believed Japanese were dug up. There are also reports that gold rings were found.
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  • 53 1 INDIAN Foreign Affairs Vice- Minister, Mr. Krishna Keskar, was met by a guard of honour of Vietnamese troops on his arrival In Saigon yesterday by air from Singapore. This was the first time Vietnamese Troops have formed a guard of honour for the arrival of a
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  • 30 1 Col. Husni Zaun, who seized power In Syria at the end of March, yesterday released the former President. Shukri El Keuatly. subject to his remaining at home. Reuter
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  • 31 1 Final peace terms between the Jews and Arabs will be agreed upon during the coming week. Mr. Mark Ethridge. chairman of the United Nar.'.iii Conciliation Commission, forecast yesterday.- A.P.
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  • 253 1 Wrecking crews wanted Free Press Staff ReporUf OINGAPORE Government is inviting tenders for the demolition ofra big block of condemned shophouses between Pickering Street and Upper Hokien Street". The property formerly housed 2.433 people m fill households. It is one of three condemned blocks of property lying between South Bridge
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  • 55 1 J^ SPLCIAL Market c«rrr«p..adrnt giv«« ihf prices of r it.- ■< (m cents per Ik.) Mll m •.1 m follows: Bu»«-r» Si-H*-i«. No 1 K.B.S Spot ioos. .Js\ It t.o.h In ftalat Apt X: 1 X 5.9. m% U S: t E 8.8. 34 31*. No S H.S.B.
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  • 73 1 The International Olympic Committee appoint, d an Executive Commilli-e today to deride on the. status of thr Singftptxe Olympic Committee. Olio Mayer. Chancellor of the lOC Secretariat, said Singapore had been recognise 1 as a state by the IO( and allowed its own eommitu—. but that it had
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  • 555 2  - Come-back tor best seller that shook London PETER QUENNELL Reviews new books m U.K. JUST such a teacup hurricane was aroused m 1895 by Robert Hichens's "Green Carnation" as boiled over, during the nineteen-twenties, alxuit Michael Arlen's "Green Hat." "Everybody" hastened to read it; and everybody was sure that he
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    298 2 IEfEST openeo the spade four. South allowed East's queen to hoid th«» first trick and also ducked the ten-«pot, which West overtook with the Jack m order to lead another spade and knock out South'* ace. North discarded a club and East threw off a heart Declarer led
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  • 385 2 The Pitcairn Bible Goes Home rpHE "Bounty" Bible has reached London on the first stage of the long voyage home to Pitcairn Island after an absence of 110 years In Connecticut, m the United States. The Connecticut Historical Society is returning It to the Islanders on permanent loan "because of
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  • 379 2  - SHOW TALK FROM LONDON Maugham is still the JACQUES POUTEAU tops By ]^jR. SOMERSKT Maugham's outstanding qualities as a playwright shine again m their lightest vein at the Arts Theatre Club where the revival of his 30-year old comedy "Caroline" easily eclipses the nvw productions 1 have seen m London
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    30 2 Michael Anthony Brinkman, 2 month old son of actress Jeanne Cram and Paul Brinkman sits on his mother's lap m Hollywood, California, as he made his camera debut last month.
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    • 214 2 I'NDER REVIEW The Green Carnation, by Robert Hichens. (Tnicorn Press, Bs. 6d.) Wisteria Cottage, by Robert M. Coates. (Gollanci. Bs. 6d.) Buildings and Prospects, by John Piper. (The Architectural Press. 18s.) CAPITOL M'NITE TONIGHT i i '^BLv i 1 it IVNG HWA FILMS* "OUR HUSBAND' 'In Mandarin) LI H-HUA, SOON
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    • 192 2 Ifffpl is here! m THE PERMANENT WAVE YOU GIVE YOURSELF AT HOME! sr JL 1'^ i s^^^^^^^s^^_^s^^^fcy*^^ Easy as rolling your -yet the wave stays m for months I W So soft, so smooth, to natural-lookinf. You'll and you are free to do whaievtr aay your Toni is the lovdiest
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    • 191 2 ASDFASDF SD SINGAPORE (BLUK NETWOBE) 484 and 111 metrea. bmeriencj news from R.L at 10 am TOOAT 10 to 10.10 News from Kuala Lumpui 1 Radio Orchestra 1.30 News 1.45 Dance Music 6 Programme Summary 602 Children's Programme 6.20 Calling All Hospitals 7 News 7 l j Indian Si Pakistan
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    • 235 2 tect*— -cnrlstopber Wren'; 53u Symphony Concert; 6.15 Balance of Europe (BBC); 630 News In Cantonr&e (BBC): 646 Indonesian News Si Programme; 7.15 N m In French; 730 English: News «t Commentary- Music and the British Poets (BBC); 800 Biamese: Programme Sz Newc; 8 15 Blam sr (BBO; 8.30 News Eng-lish-BBC):
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    • 369 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DORN today, you v combine a highly intuitive nature with a determination which helps you to carry through your objective to a happy conclusion no matter how severe the obstacles. You are not one to seek advice from others and will go your own, lonely way especially
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    21 3 W^m m f-ftrr bonnet iiid M«»wrr» and a C f Kirld^ ju»i arrived ihr I S riijoys the Hyde Park. |„»iidon.
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    57 3 !i>»f fawral < hriniAult wax the host at a recent part* > H'brating the sixth anniversary of the is :nh \\x Forte v*hith he commanded m China during the •r ijiin%t Jjpan General (hennault i> here seen »lvi» linion >la>»r Ou-Yang Chu. Co-host, while ■*vrii r X Moy fomeriy head
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  • 130 3 HUE— BUT NO CRY NOVELIST and playwright Marguerite Steen la confined to h*»r 18th century cottage In Blewbury. Berkshire, with an embarrassing complaint. Describing the symptom* cheerfully, she says: "Without warning, my face will blow up like a balloon, turn rapidly to beet-root -coloured cement, and finish up. about five
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  • 33 3 The John Lewis Partnership, a chain of 60 British department stores owned by its 12,000 employees, has banned tht employment of "members of the Communist Party or fellow travellers."
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  • 417 3 ALL-OUT INDIA DRIVE FOR RECRUITS Wation-wide campaign starts TOE uovernment of India has launched an all-out drive to recruit officers and men for India's derence services. Pamphlets, posters and press appeals, urging Indian youths to join the armed services, have appeared all over th« country. services selection boards have been
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  • 64 3 PERMANENT waves add more than beauty to Japanese Kirl factory workers, say Tokio police. On a complaint from a Government tobacco monopoly factory that cigarettes were disappearing, police began searching the employees leaving work m Ihe evenings. They found two girls with cigarettes stuffed into curls of their
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    38 3 Berlin Soviet sector police march m a Communist-led demonstration down Unter den Linden carrying a large cartoon of a German policeman grabbing Uncle Sam by the back of the neck. The slogan reads: "Against warmongers and currency swindlers."
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  • 75 3 INDIA was among 11 abstentions when the General Assembly of the United Nations, by 39 votes to six, called upon Soviet Russia to withdraw its measures preventing Russian "wives from joining their husbands abroad. The USSR was also asked to report its action to the General
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  • 91 3 r»OL. Husni El £aim. Syrian Prime Minister. has closed the Syrian-Transjor-dan frontier because of what were described as aggressive measures and ordered the recruiting of troop* to -face every menace." The Colonel, It was said, intends to make the Syrian army the second great torce m
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  • 33 3 U. S. PRICES FALL President Truman has li formed Congress that pnc dedincs would make it possible to finance the European Aid Programme with $8*.800.--000 less than the figure Congress authorised. A. P.
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  • 166 3 )MAN who *as stated to have bitten and Ministry of Food enforcement officer guilty at Towcester Northampton of m the exercise of his powers and z thp case was dismissed. Mr J Ro«. J-fenriir*. said there were men vva!V»»g around thr? rountn «vii* powers, not
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  • 63 3 NEW BILL MAY OUST CHAPLIN THE US Attorney-General, Mr Tom Clark, will be reauired to remove London- actor Charlie Chaplin SS the United States under a bill now before the us. Senate, according to Senator Harry P Cain The bUI provides for the front oVganisations and that he believed America
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  • 255 3 —CHENNAULT \IAJOR General Clalr« Chennault says events m i?I the Far East "are driving us into World War 111 far more surely and swiftly than the events m Europe," and he thinks it's time for the United States to accept the leadership
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  • 278 3 THE sinking of the CantonHong Kong passenger ship -Mils Orient on March 24 was the latest chapter m a story of tragedy and frightfulness that has been the lot of China for a year A mine, large enough to cause the crowded river snip to keel
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  • 201 3 A nti-corruption Bangkok drive A CAMPAIGN to suppress corruption between customs officials and Bangkok merchants is being launched by the Siamese Customs Department. It is believed customs evasion is costing the government about a million baht a month. One of the first alleged cases of evasion was the uncovering of
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  • 190 3 BEOUM Liaquat Ali Khan, wife of the Pakistan Prime Minister, said m London that she had arranged for British matrons and nurses to go out to Pakistan to train women m nursing. Declaring that m the towns women observed purdah and wore the veil though 80
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  • 65 3 THE Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Trygve Lie. recently warmly commended the efforts of the four major powers to reach settlements or\ the Berlin and German problems. He said m a statement that the "whole world" will welcome a successful conclusion of this effort to
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  • 25 3 Alfred Drayton. aged 68, famous British stage comedian, died m his sleep a few hours after a performance at the Garrick Theatre, A.P.
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  • 102 3 IUIE Uganda Government has taken strong action >o deal with threatening riots tormented by what it called "African hooligans" In the British East central African protectorate, it was learned there Police baton charges broke up a rrowci which gathered near the Palace of the Kaba ka,
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  • 148 3 Worlds fastest 'sub' BRITAIN now bas the world's fastest submarine. Successful trials, the details of which are secret, have followed maximum under-water speed tests by the Seraph, the Secret Service cloak-and-dagger" submarine of World War 11. Seraph, commanded by Lieutenant N. L. A. Jewell smuggled General Giraud out of Vichy
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  • 80 3 Abdullah plot: Arabs to die THREE Pa lr sun-- Arabs anil one Transjordanian nave b^en sentenced to death by the Transjordan Criminal Assize Court m Amman for conspiring against King Abdullah Th«y were charged wi'h planting mines last month near Salt, on the road betwten Amman and Jericho, over which
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    26 3 Against the towering 'bark drop* of smoky Lower Manhattan. New York city soars the world's largest commercial plane, the Pan American Clipper. "Fly in g Cloud".
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    70 3 Princess Elizabeth passes a line of children at Victoria Station who are. to spend a month's holiday m Switzerland The children. 25 boys and 25 girls, are between the ages of 10 and 14 years. They are air raid sufferers from London, Manchester, Birmingham and Plymouth. All their expenses are
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  • 654 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. April 28. 1949. EVILS ARE WROUGHT... FIRE dangers in the older and overcrowded parts or Singapore are great, because without prompt action by the Fire Brigade any fire in one of the ancient houses could be the starting point of a conflagration *hat would raze
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  • 695 4  -  GRAHAM STANFORD By WHEN the Governor of one of Britain's 35 Colonial possessions first arrives on the job he's entitled to a 17-gun salute from the ship that carries him. When he meets his Parliament he must wear Wellington boots, a cocked hat of pure black
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    6 4 OtiCt MO» UWbTHS BIR6ACH. t>sAfc FWEUDS
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  • 462 4 Truth' Wants To Ban Asian Seamen SYDNEY: "QET rid of Asiatic seamen and stewards on British boats because they may be smallpox carriers," demands the Sydney Truth, m an editorial on recent smallpox deaths of Australians travelling to London via the East. "Any British-owned steamship company under the British flag
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    60 4 This cigarette case, made a German manufacturer, saves the smoker a lot o) bother. He simply presses I a button and<out comes a cigarette, a^eady alight for him. It de cd for use i m motor cars, when it is i attached to the dashboard. The case is on show
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  • 249 4 Aussies are gamble mad By EDWARD BISHOP Special Correspondent SYDNEY: HUNDREDS of thousands of Australians are indulging m a mammoth gambling erase that makes fortunes overnight for the luckj few. keeps bookmakers In cigars and whisky, and provides millions of pounds annually for hospital improvements and maintenance. Australian gambling flrnres
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  • 929 4  -  POLITICO BY /GENERAL Percivai's book on the Malayan campaign, puolished at last almost two years after the writing of It, closely follows his despatches. This Is hardly surprising, but the completeness of his despatches unfortunately makes "War m Malaya", where it does differ, something of an
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  • 50 4 India Makes Her Own 'Planes' S vsSss t galore. T HT-2 a Pcuereci vr;tt ar. A» er oowe: xcrcted to tool of her cGU£ien»»«* i Lar. T: ted s£: nous sfflK'ite«i .f excepuon of Hi IX if* j i w:. not maaaacwi an Alrta^w serv;c< ace. a Br/is: Utbtta(MU:at! U.P.
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  • 239 4 CYMPHONY concerts on gramophone records are, among their many recreational facilities, consistently drawing the largest attendances at the Sudbury (Staffs.) "Prison without Bars," where not one man serving a sentence there has attempted to a break- away, despite the absence of guards on the main entrances and
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  • 74 5 picture. MORE than 250 people at- tended a cocktail party »t the residence of Mr. J. A. Thivy, Indian Government Representative here, yesterday m honour of Dr B V Keskar. visiting Indian Deputy Foreign Minister Future shows Madam Guibaut, wife of the French Consul-General m SinraPore talking
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  • 444 5 Free Press Staff Reporter vFKY considerable funds*' must be made available during the next decade if reasonable progress m Sin. p«>re is to be maintained and if th e works nnr-arv for the well-being of the town ar c to be carried out. s
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  • 85 5 The East- West Society and Stamford Club will debate a resolution, at the British Council hall at 8.30 p m. this evening, that "Nationalism Is the greatest menace to world peace." Speaking for the motion will be the East -West Society members, Yen. Gregory, Archdeacon of Singapore,
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  • 123 5 AT the annual general meeting of the Regional Oounc 1L Catholic Young Men's Association. Singapore the foUowinf were elected executive officers for twe y *Cfaaplain: Rev. Father O. j<£ceTpn*ident: Mr. O. V. Santnou vice-president: Mr. W. H. Mosbergen. J.P.. Hon. general secretary: Mr. Fu Wa Chu.
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  • 606 5 FOOD PRICES DROP IN S'ORE But other costs have risen F.»">e PreFT Staff Reporter THE general average price of foodstuffs m Singapore h?s dropped from 385 points m April last year to 376 points today, but prices of certain other articles and items connected with living have not only remained
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  • 138 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent jT»HE Singapore Governx ment has offered to pay two Chinese bodies and certain Chinese individuals $45,000 m full settlement of advances they made on behalf of the Government for wages to labour forces recruited to assist m the defence of Singapore m
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  • 35 5 Free Press Staff Reporter The Singapore Filipino Association will hold a ball In aid of their rehabilitation fund at the Adelphl Roof Garden next Monday. A Filipino band will be m ati cmiance.
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    36 5 picture. LARRY Fenton and Co., wno won first prise m tUdio Malaya's Talentime finals last night. Fenton is m the middle with his wife, Laura, on his left, and Leo Miles en his right Free Press
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    37 5 MR. and Mrs. Gay Derrick Webb, photographed after their wedding at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, Singapore. Mr. Webb is on the staff of the Singapore Casket Co. The bride was formerly Miss Zita Victoria Beck.
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    53 5 picture. A BLOCK of shophouses at the corner of Upper Pickering Street and New Bridge Road, which will be demolished shortly. Leases for these shophouses expired recently md were not renewed by the Government, who propose to build modern flats as part of the slum clearance plan. Report m Page
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  • 121 5 Mr Frederick Arthur Chua. former Assistant Official Assignee, Singapore, has been promoted to the Colonial Legal Service, with effect from Aug. 16, 1948. This *as announced yesterday. Mr. Chua was called to the. Bar of England m December,! 1936. and entered the Straits Settlements
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  • 21 5 The City and Guilds of London Institute Examinations and the London Chamber of Commerce Examinations commence on May 2.
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  • 32 5 The inaugural opening of the Rotary TB. Clinic by the Governor of Singapore will be held on the grounds ot the Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, tomorrow at 5 P.M.
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  • 177 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Survey Department is still unable to find a suitable candidate for an overseas scholarship for which $5,000 was provided m the 1949 estimates, Mr. A. Graham, the Chief Surveyor, told the Free Press yesterday. The scholarship is intended to
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  • 362 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent A WARNING to Singapore rubber millers and workers to be prepared "for the worst" m the rubber milling industry has been given by the chairman of the Singapore Chinese Rubber Dealers Association, Mr. Tan Lark Sye. Mr. Tan hinted at a
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  • 246 5 Sings, clowns wins TALENTSivit Free Press Staff importer I ARRY Fenton R- year-old, memoer of the Municipal Town Cleansing Department can now afford to buy his lovely wife Laura a new dress. Larry, popular Singapore amateur musician and mimic, who has wisecracked and sung his way through more private parties
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    • 76 5 Aii mails are xperted to alive m Singapore today from the UK., U.S.. Ceylon, Siam and tne N.E.I. Closing time for posting aim. ails at the G.P O today to to the U.K.. U.S., Africa, Holland. Batavia Palembang and Sourabaya 8 p.m. Surface malls are due to arrive today from
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  • 315 6 Discussions by Governments Free Press Staff Reporter THE Governments of Singapore and the Federation have received a confidential report on the claims of members of the local defence forces who were "marked men" during the Japanese occupation. The report, submitted by the Malayan Armed Local
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  • 219 6 $500,000 deal: new hospital Free Press Staff Reporter IPOH Wed. A $500,000 deal recently concluded between the Perak 1 Government and the Societe. des Etains de Klnta. the French mining company, will give the mining town of Hampar a modern hospital and a new padang. besides other im--1 provements. Negotiations
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  • 149 6 MR. F. G Lundon was irrU'CteA president (^f the Royal Singapore Flying Club at the annual nen^ral ihmUiii last night His re-election rreales a record, because this is the 20th successive year that he fills the post. Other officers include: Mr A. F. W. Andrrn. vice-presi-dent;
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    56 6 picture. rpHE President of the South Government of the pro 1 visional Vietnam Central Government. T. Tran Van Huu (left) pictured In Singapore yesterday with the Vice -President of the Territorial Assembly of the South. M. Jacquemart. They are part of a delegation come to Singapore to welcome the ex-Kmperior
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  • 165 6 Free Press Stall Reporter r PHE Joint Consultative Finance Committee *et 1 up by the Governments of the Colony and the Federation to deal with financial problems of common concern held its first meeting m Singapore yesterday under th c chairmanship of the Financial
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  • 498 6 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Thursday. /iVKKSKAS issues attracted most of the attention "m the London Stock Exchange yesterday. An outstanding feature was the sharp recovery m Hongkong and Shanghai Bank shares to 95. Tiie lowest point touched yesterday by this stock was 87. Chinese bonds remained
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  • 43 6 SEREMBAN. Wed —Mr Li lewis has been appointed headmaster of the King George the Fifth school. Seremban. following the departure on retirement of Mr. F. L. Shaw. Before soing on leave Mr Lewis was acting senior inspector of schools Negri Sembllan.
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  • 250 6 Free Press Staff Reports AN argument between a former Po |j magistrate and a well-known ex-prof Urt boxer over a dance hostess at a publj, IO M entertainment and subsequent incident uf police station were described mi n t l District Court, Singapore yesterday JH Mr. Tan
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  • 21 6 SINGAPORE SHIPPING s Wm Wharf Agape,.,. .4.0 I pur |>, Mk X UiC*O I Toda* 1 Wh^if r^p^rtu jah B 15. s
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    • 110 6 5 TIMES DAILY 11-1.45-4.M-6.3«-9.5« HMKM NfflMMMl pmm JOAN FONTAINE JAMES STEWART .EDDIE ALBERT j rfOAND YOUNG -WUAH)W«» SAT. M'NITE M Wand inttwwt* wiHim I ANN DVORAK \L~Js CATHAY Thr Hou.sr of Comfort. THe. 34«0 OPfMS TODAY! 11 a.m.: 1 45 p.m.; 4.15; MM, and 9 30 p m a. *-V
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    • 162 6 HERE'S INTRK.IE ADVENTI XX I M IKJ \s\ OTHER HIM HUH INDUS Km HJ j^KyKAL I' it <r *^Bßßi ')d^ al sly F'^ jj I(»K THE FIRST TIME SAB! TIKHW RM TEAMED TOGETHER AS RITTfrR Kl\ XI > I.OVE WITH GAIL RI'SSEI I 5 Tiger*. P»nth-r» I i^^k fi^ Elephant
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    • 231 6 MSfKIrdKC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya "3 I CHIEF, THIS ft MANDRAKE. BRINOI /^>v INO TRICKSJ LOTHARf SHE'S IHI f~T YOUR SQUAO HERE AT ONCE/ r- J S YOU/ p-^J PRESSING, THAT p H I' BUT-BUT ||I'M6OING TO PHONE. U COMPO ROAD, JUST BELOW TMfc r Z**—j~±
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  • 726 7 GOOD TIMES CLOCKED IN GALLOPS Fastest tryout by Natural omiti^ Press ci *S Correspondent smart gallops were seen at Bukit Timah this morning, when horses running on were given their winding-up workouts ?11 *j? track Outs^nding were Natural (3f. m 36 2/5 sec), Kinder Gold (4f. m 49), Permita Po
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    55 7 •tor a !ap»e of nearly three decades, the R.A.M.C. Depot, Shim h.ive won the Army Soccer Cup. They beat m? Regiment, R.A., from Oswestry, by a stare f->r the final of six goals to nil. Picture shows m N ir William Slim. Chief of the Imperial printing the trophy to
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  • 167 7 TN a friendly game of badminton 1 at the Clerical Union Hall last night, the Green Hour*e B P. I beat the United Youth B.P. of! Johore Bahru by seven games to nil. Results were (Grcn House •flayers mentioned first) Singles: Chow Sui Km.
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    61 7 Sketch showing the course tor the Singapore Motor Club's speed hill climb to be held on Bukit Batok (Japanese monument hill) at the Bth. mile, Bukit Titnah Road, on May, 8. The climb will be for motor-cycles, racing cars, sports cars saloons and tourers, with women drivers having their own
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  • 564 7 Chinese Athletic 2; Royal Navy 1. OHOWING marked improvement over their two previous outings, Royal Navy made Chinese Athletic fight very, very hard for their two points m their S.A.F.A. League fixture at Jalan Besar Stadium last evening. For the Chinese, however, it was a
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  • 42 7 RESULTS of yesterday's Rugby Union matches were: Barnstaple 3 Penzance Newlyn 6; Newbridge 29, Penarth 8. Rugby League result were: Bradford Northern 6, Hull 15; Leeds 22. Hull Kingston Rovers 10; York 2. Halifax 23; Leigh 5, Widneo 0. Reuter
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  • 68 7 THE following have been invited to play cricket for the NonEenders' Cricket Club versus the Singapore Cricket Club on the padang at 2.15 p.m. on Saturday: Andrew Gilmour (Captain). T. J. Leljssius, Dr. J. H. Strahan, Evan Wong, W. R. M. Haxworth, H. Balhetchet. Claude Massey. V. C.
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  • 335 7 luh r-community League \arijus communities and the Services i iheir strongest teams, it would take a rboid man to attempt a forecast of the winners the Stagapore Amateur Football Association's community League, which opens next month. however, is certain. The Chinese ivs will have very formidable
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  • 87 7 FINAL acceptors, mith wights, for the Chester Cap, to be run over two miles, two furlongs and TTyards at Chester on Saturday, May 7, number 21. They are: Spam 9 St.; Now Or Never 1.11; Blue Coral 8.11; Honorable 8.7; Asmodee 8.7; Yoyo 8.6; Dragoman 84; Ffcdor
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  • 21 7 ROYAL Engineers beat Royal Signals five-nil m an S.A.F.A. Senior League flirt ure played at Tanglln Barracks yesterday.
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  • 380 7 PETTING up m the last stride, Mrs. M. Giemster's Nimbus beat the favourite, Major MaodonaldBuc ha nan's Abernant by a short head m a photofinish to win the 2,000 Guineas, the first classic of the British turf season, run over a mile at Newmarint vpstprdav
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  • 202 7 CYRIL WASHBROOK. England and Lancashire opening batsman began his cricket season with a characteristic century against the County champions, Glamorgan, at Cardiff yesterday. Playing for an All-England XI In a two-day match, which is a prelude to the season's official opening on Saturday. Washbrook dominated the
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  • 22 7 picture. McMahon, the Navy goalkeeper, pushes away the ball a> Tee Siang jumps for a header. Free Press
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  • 316 7 fTtHE approval of a new rule 1 whereby "National Olympic Committees of all countries must be Independent and autonomous" was announced last night following yesterday's session of the International Olympic Committee Congress. Other announcements included the award of the 1949 Olympic Cup to the Vulminense Football
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  • 236 7 130,000 see Scotland beat France 2—0 SCOTLAND retained their undefeated home record against Continental teams when they beat France by two goals to zero m their international soccer match at Hampden Park, Glasgow, last evening beiore a crowd oi over 130,000. I he two goals, one m each half, came
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  • 111 7 B. HOLM lest his title of English golf champion yesterday when m a tbjlrd-round match of this year's championship he was beaten by lan Calder, a local player who was Lancashire County champion ten years ago. Holm's own mistakes on the putting greens contributed to his two
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  • 158 7 IN England goalkeeper Frank Swift's farewell game yesterday, Arsenal gave Manchester City a football lesson m winning their Eng lish League match 3—o. Swift, who has been a Manchester City footballer for 17 years," was carried off the field by his team -mat* 5 He has
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  • 96 7 NO. 1 Sub-d.pot 8.0.D. Kranji last night beat Catholic Young Men's Association 4 3 at table tennis. Results (8.0.D. players mentioned first): Too Kia Lian ioct to W. HendrctT I—3;1 3; Yeo Boon Leong beat M. Hendroff 3 2; Yuen Ming beat M. Leong 3 2; Ho Thin
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    • 36 7 Todays Sport LEAGUE SOCCER Snr. IHv. Chinese Casuals t. Tamil BroUierbood A»oeiaHon Jalan Beat; RAF SeJeter t. R.F. M.E. SeJetar; Junior A (.roup 2. l A. v. Hong Kong amt Shanghai Bank Sporto Club— BOD. ground
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  • 21 8 SCOTT. On April 23rd, at the Jv.eph Fraaer Nursing Ham?, Colombo, to Margaret, wife of Robin Woodforde Scott. a d.uisrhter.
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  • 497 8 'Free, equal Republic' LONDON, Wednesday. INDIA is to remain a "full and equal" member of the Commonwealth of Nations even though she becomes a republic within the next few months, it was officially announced here today at the conclusion of the secret six-day conference of Dominion
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  • 69 8 BROADMOOR prisoners' annual stage play last night had a parson m ,the cast, but his costume had been changed. Two years ago a convicted murderer, who acted as a parson m the prison play, was so realistically costumed that he walked past the guards and has not
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  • 24 8 The British and Abyssinian Governments have decided to raise their legations m Addis Ababa and London to the status of embassies. Reuter
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    44 8 Unit; (ommandrr Piper points out the graphic mod of air corridors to Mr. Herbert Morri*on during his inspection of the Berlin airlift. The sticks mark the air c-orri-dorsand the strings show the various level* o( altitude at which the aircraft are aligned to fly.
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  • 177 8 Radar screen did not f unction in trials IIII1)KI.H!K(. /Thursday. all ICERS txpttmtd general satisfaction with the conduct of the Amerlran soldiers during the recent CSerman exercises, m which 70,000 were thrown against the enemy" invading the American zone from Czechoslovakia However, they found some shortcomings. They said mock saboteurs
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  • 49 8 A WHITE House official di.«closed yes'erday that Gen. Lucius D Clay will be granted relief from his ix>st as American military governor m Germany within 30 days. Mr. Louis Johnson. US. Secretary of Defence, is expected to name Clay's successor some tlm» this week.
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  • 34 8 A midget, billed as ihe world's smallest woman. 21 Inch Miss Martina de La Cruz of the Philippines, died at Waycross (Georgia) yesterday at the age of 75 after long illness. A.P.
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  • 140 8 Princess Margaret in Italy NAPLES. Thursday. DRILLIANT sunihin* and clear blue skies greeted Princess Margaret when she arrivejj here by plane yesterday to begin a month's private visit to Italy. Sir Victor Mallit. British Ambassador to Italy, was waiting at Capodlchino airfield- when the twin-engined Viking, part of the Klrtg
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  • 84 8 S.AF. TO BAN MIXED MARRIAGES CAPETOWN, Thurs. THE South African Government. £ls a first legislative step to implement its racial .segregation policy, proposes to prohibit marriages between Europeans and non-Europe-ans. Dr T E Donge.s Minister of the Interior, yesterday nave notice of a motion to this efTtH-t to be introduced
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  • 109 8 SEMARANG. Thursday. OEVENTEEN members of an Indonesian underground organisation, including three girls, have been sent to jail for from two to 15 years by a special Dutch court martial at Bemarang. reports Aneta. the Dutch news agency. The organisation operated In and near Semarang. but up
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  • 15 8 Lord Port man, London's second biggest owner of land. left £4,493.305 A.P.
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  • 51 8 TWO more smallpox deaths have been reported to the Quarantine Bureau by health officials on Tablas Island m the Romblon group, it is reported. These bring the total fatalities from the disease to three. Precautionary measures' have already been taken by the Tablas authorities. i
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  • 51 8 HARRIED Shanghai correspondent* took time to tmlle sympathetically and understanding^ at Regulation No. 6 promulgated by the Shanghai uarrison oaimand which read "except newt released by thin headquarters Chinese and English morning and evening newspapers and news agenrie.* are forbidden to publish other Inaccurate war news."
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  • 60 8 CALCUTTA RED RIOTS: 7 DIE SEVEN people wer« reported killed by gunshot and 1 bomb splinter* wtjen pollrr fired on a banned Communist procession yesterday In Cal cuttas &ow Bazaar area. Nine people were lnjur-d including five policemen Twenty-teven arrests were made. Police opened fire after making lathi staves* chara
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  • 232 8 DAYTON, (Ohio). Thursday. 1 'TIIH only airman who ever got near a Hying saucer I crashed and died before he could describe it. says the Dayton Journal-Herald, which yesterday printed a story on the mysterious flying discs which, it said. was based on hitherto unpublished
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    34 8 President S. T. O'Kelly. of Eire, Inspecting the Guard of Honour at the saluting base m OTonnell Btre«t. Dublin prior to a parade m ceiebration of Eire's severance of formal links with the frown.
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  • 295 8 ISTANBUL, Wedne»d*y. rpi RKISH police, fearful of violence, kept close ruard yesterday over the United States Information Officer, Mr. James MacFarland after local newspapers had erroneously accused him of sponsoring a party at which young Turkish girls were "corrupted". Precautions *ere taken after Mr. MacFarland life
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  • 57 8 BRIG (Jen J^jset hejb*: mllilary and air attache al th« Caech embawy In WaihinKion. has quit his Job and asked for political asylum m the United Slates He ls the second official In recent days to sever connection* ujth the Comnr; Kovernment of Czechoslovakia and seek
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  • 32 8 The Britij.ii IfinUtry of Transport ha* begun minary inves'uat: •> the loss of 'he Royal Mail luxury liner. Migada which broke In half or* H de Janeiro on Tuesday A.P.
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  • 20 8 Martial law in Pegu g 35?§ ing dlsti c m rt Kan funi throuth K*r^ Sfltf frrwtu, Nat., off U.P.
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