The Singapore Free Press, 5 May 1949

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 17.465. SINGAPORE. THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 346 1 Big Four men agree at last NEW YORK, Thursday. 'JHE representatives of the United States, Russia, Britain and France agreed late last night to end the ten-months-old blockade of Berlin and call a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers. Agreement lo lift **;ill restrictions
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  • 120 1 PACIFIC FLEET SECRET I LONDON Thursday. B \cimiralty 70s 'Jff -lined -O dis H >n f th :i the Paci*l.\ I Carpenie a a the House o H for the number o H os by classes pre ible in tn Apr. 20. 1949. Wit B ::v;urr's lor Jan m Dugdale.
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  • 160 1 Ganapathy execution 'disapproval' LONDON Thursday. At n| a statemt-n* J%* DUMM yesterdJbY the Colonial Undrr &*m Hf-s- Williams o^Ai QuUi mK> former president of the Pan- in Trade Union Fe*p Communist M.P Mr. Pin n said Mln would be met Wltfc spread disapproval in tIWT I I oour movement as
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  • 19 1 IriM NaUonal Asiay approved a of a Per- piovided for in !906 constitution but implemented. Reuter
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  • 142 1 NEW DELHI, Thursday. 'PIIE Dutch Government in Indonesia has informed the Indian Government that it accepts responsibility foi the killing of three Indian nationals by Dutch paratroopers, the Indian Government announced yesterday. India lodged a protest with the Dutch regarding! the inndent. which occurred in DJambi.
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    40 1 After the Russians had tried to impose control on barge traffic in the British sector of Berlin. British military police were posted at the rtiarlottenburg canal lock. Here they are with, in the foreground, a Soviet soldier guarding a barge.
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  • 57 1 Free Pres s Staff Reporter THREE Communist documents in Tamil, Malay and Chinese were found on the slashed body of an unidentified male Chinese found yesterday on the side of the Muar-Angkah Road af the 15th mile. The body had been slashed on the head,
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  • 26 1 In the 24 hours ended last ight 33 people were arrested n the Federation. 24 In Perak. ave In Selangor and lour in Pahang.
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  • 26 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. More Than 100 WRAFs will arrive In Singapore this afternoon by the troop transport Orduna from the United Kingdom.
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  • 73 1 WASHINGTON. Thurs. SECRETARY of State. Mr. Dean Acheson. yesterday announced "imminent" American action about alleged violation by Hungary. Bulgaria and Rumania of hun%an rights clause,, in their 1945 peace treaties. He disclosed that the three East European nations tiad rejected United State* charges after the
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  • 27 1 Eighty-flve men the largest passenger load ever to fly the Atlantic— landed in England yesterday in the U.S. Air Force's new Olobemaster transport plane A.P.
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  • 81 1 THE K.L.M. Dutch itnme. Singapore, has recei"fd a message from its Ba'avia office, saying: "We have discontinued the Penang-Medan service as it wtll be more profitable to leave the M**dan Penang traffic to Malayan airways while we will contlnu 0 to operate between Median and Singapore." A Malayan
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    20 1 picture. Mr. Throng Tian Chye leads in Colorado (Woods), winner of the second race at Bukit Tmiih yesterday. Free Prres
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  • 98 1 RAF-C'wealth squadrons may interchange LONDON. Thur.s. A SCHEME to interchange Common wealth air squadruns with the Royal Air Force is under "at- Live" discussion, the Air Ministry told Reuter last night. Certain details have still to be worked out. If the scheme materialised squadrons will be exchangied in their own
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  • 83 1 ROME. Thursday. InVENTY-eignt people. In- eluding 18 member^ of 'he internationally known Turn football team with its British trainer, were killed when their plane crashed on the outskirts of Turin last night. The trainer. LesLe Lievesley. who played for England many years ago, was engaged
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  • 38 1 A hundred and fifty Communists detained in Bombay prisons went on a hungerstrike last night demanding "better treatment and adequate family allowances." A sl-milar Communist hun-ger-strike at Calcutta was called ofT last weekend. Reuter
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  • 25 1 Six Chinese suspected to be r 'iTilHTii of the Malayan imunst Party were arrest nder the Emergency Re 'lions in Singapore yester -iay.
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  • 151 1 LONDON, Thursday. pRIOKITY should be given to the expansion of Hong Kong broadcasting station over the Malayan station for the dissemination of British news throughout China, Mr. Walter Fletcher (Cons.) suggested in the House of Commons yesterday. Mr. Fletcher said the Malayan station would take a
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  • 141 1 GLASGOW, Thursday. IN <ila*gow's worst fire in 30 years, screaming wo- men leaped from the blazing roof of a fashion store yesterday to escape a blaze in which at least 14 salesgirls died. Two girls Jumped 50 feet from the top floor to
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  • 15 1 The North Atlantic Pact was ratified yesterday by the Belgian Chamber of Deputies
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  • 83 1 MELBOURNE. Thurs. THE chief of Australia's war-time armies. Gen. Sir Thomas Blarney, yesterday said that "trouble will grow out of the white Australia policy." but added that there was no immediate danger of South-East Asian aggression against Australia. 'Overcrowding populations of Japan and India, increase of our
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  • 52 1 TWO Malayan stamps were sold 'or C 1,105 at a London auction yesterday. A S5OO purple and orange stun? issued in 1908 fetched *:875 and a S5OO »«n>le »"d »nn-e stamp issued in 1912, 'C'lMi. They were bought »y a Io re| 6 n coHector whose
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  • 198 1 LONDON, Thursday. rpHft& Liberal Party proposed yesterday that lom- monwealth nations should be asked to undertake as many overseas garrison duties as possible to release British troops for training and operations elsewhere. In a pamphlet analysing Britain's national defence problems, it said a saving for
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  • 243 1 GOVT READY TO QUIT HANKOW SHANGHAI. Thursday. GOVERNMENT forces were reported yesterday to be preparing to abandon Hankow before the growing peril of a Communist envelopment to the south-east which threatens to isolate the Central China fortress. A Communist broadcast from Peiping announced the capture of Loping, only 80 miles
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  • 52 1 I^HE South African Min;a"*r of Finance Mr N. C. Hivenga says the price of must inevitably increase Tm*» world he said in C*p»» Town, is commenting on Ui<» 'manifest injustices' of the present price of gold. ;iud iorce K are at work to remedy the disequilibrium
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  • 126 1 RANGOON. Thurs. FIVE thousand Karens hav*» thrown a 15-mile cordon around Moulmein and are threatening to blockade the south coast port through which rio> is exported to much of Asia. Burmese Govt. naval force* are standing by to help to break the blockade. The 1 Karens
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  • 16 1 Comic strips in Japan are to come unoer Government censorship lor the flr.it time.
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  • 618 2  - No happy ending for the poet PETER QUENNELL Reviews new books in U.K. REMEMBER, my dear little boy, that you are not likely to have your poor Mama long. Although she does not look very ill she is really much worse than she was a year ago, and she is
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  • 258 2 A Russian Journal, by John Steinbeck. Photographs by Robert Capa. (Heinemann, Is.) Excellent photographs of the Russian scene by a highly skilled photographer, with a distinguished novelist's wellmeaning but somewhat simple-minded commentary. Most Russians, he discovered, were regular guys. We have no conclusions to draw (he writes in
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  • 145 2 MANY ramblers mistakenly set out to "get away from it all." Mr. Wright, known for his works on Herefordshire, in his new book UP THE CLAERWE* (Cornish Brothers. Ltd., Birmingham, 17s. 6d.) 6eeks to put things in focus. He achieves the unusual in combining a veneration for tne
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    72 2 The finalists for the "Miss Berlin" contest were recently chosen at the Titania Palast, in the American sector of Berlin. A full house watched the judges choose Helga Schoeder, 17-year-old apprentice dancer, the win- net of the bathing suit phase of the contest. The three finalists in the cantest were
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  • 433 2  - Paris's 'Ham and Junk Fair' CARL HARTMAN By IF you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, you can buy both at Paris' traditional "ham and junk fair." The 60-odd sausage-fes-tooned booths that account for half Us name are back this spring, the first time since the
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    392 2 WEST had two reasons for his two-club bid. If North had bid a short suit, clubs might be the best place to play the hand. (West could always return to two diamonds, if necessary). But by bidding the opponents' suit, West also hoped he might talk them out
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  • 295 2 MORE than one million young people from all parts of the world have made pen pals during the past 12 or 14 years, through Dr. Sven V. Knudsen's office —"The Directory of Boys and Girls of all Nations, Copenhagen/' The scheme grows daily
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  • 52 2 rpHE Royal Navy bAI 1 round In a Venic--14.000-ton aircz\ simply with the aid provided by "revving held fast on the flight The aircraft-carrier umph was used for the tlon and expert obs^rv* duced that she could been turned In her own with a proportions* In wind -power fr^rr
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    • 57 2 UNDER REVIEW The Life and Times of Coventry Patmore, by Der*ek Patmore (Constable, 155.). The Death of the Nightingale. by Betty Miller. (Robert Hale, Bs. MX JUST ARRIVED Margaret W. Tarrant Pictures and Cards for Children C«**i«llAM KNOWkfOII o»CH»»e »oao aiMOA^owc II IM I I I— Til 1 rlx SAT.M'NITE
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 301 2 JTJITUI TUI SINGAPORE (BLUE NETWORK) 484 and 117 metres. Emergency news from K.L. at 10 a.m TODAY 10.00 News from Kuala Lumpur: 10.00 Schools: Stones 1, Sin^ir^ Together 2, Literature 69; UK) Lunch-time music by the Radio Orchestra Including selections from "Music in the Air"; 1.30 News; L43 Dance Masic
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    • 381 2 7.15 Let's go to the Pictures— A kly review of currrr»» films. 730 Round-up on the Range A selection of popular cowboy songs; 8.00 Talk; 8.15 Dance Music by George Barnes Octette; 8.30 Fridav Prom Concerto No. 4 in G major opus 58 by Beethoven; 9.30 News. 9. 45 Evening
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    • 220 2 Australian News; 5.30 Forces Favourites; 6.00 The Swing Show compiled by Milton Stevens; 6.30 Overseas Si Australian News; 645 "Singing for You" Baritone Dennis Noble; 7.00 Master Pianist Recital by Brailowskl 7.15 "As You Like It"; 7.30 "Much Binding in the Marsh" BBC feature; 8.00 Talk: Australia Today; 8.12 Composer
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    • 154 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, you are a person of strong contracts. You have a vaunting imagination and can conjure up all sorts of wild ideas. You get highly enthusiastic for a while and then, unless they turn out well instantly, you will drop them and try something else. This
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  • 113 3 Cumin's cycle industry is im iktn« a major contriImkioii t« the export drive. |j-rr i> the Minister of sipplv Mr. ft. Strauss, liknis; a ridr on the millionth Raleitch cycle to be r\portrd since the end of Ihf w-tr It is bound like mum t»ih«r.s for America.
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  • 182 3 Japs evict Aussie family in Sydney I JAPANESE landlord, aided by his two sons and two lends, carried out order agains: an family at a house A ugh by Sydney. .-r*fused the J.i I 4 payment to Iqc him The landTa'.sukei Tatnaka. id obtained a court eviction Ker against Mr.
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  • 59 3 BID TO RAISE WEDDING AGE ffk dian Constituent As- •> rr.bi. asldering a to forbid marriages of leas than 20 years old or '.5. Btttts of Indian Lera has recommended I the bill-the Child Restraint Act and posed that young couples > violated th»* law should €1 tail terms. •r.inimtim
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  • 46 3 INDIA has ottered to irvive an 88-year-old customs union with the five French settlements in India following French claims that its termination last March had caused hardship in the settlements, it was learned from a usually reliable source in New Delhi.- Reuter
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  • 280 3 •pHE possibility that Viscount Alexander may be i L asked to remain for an extended term as Governor-General of Canada is being mentioned in Government circles as he enters the fourth year of his five-year stay as the King's representative in the Dominion. Canadians in
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  • 66 3 COWARD" and "traitor were some of the epithets hurled at the Yugoslav Premier. Marshal Tito, in an article in the official Cominform newspaper reprinted in Pravda. Soviet Communist Party organ. M. Cheokghinuej. Rumanilan Vice -Premier and au'hor lof the article, accused Tito of betraying proletarian internationalism
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  • 22 3 A Buddhist Association delegation from Kashmir's Ladakh Valley informed the Indian Government that Kashmir Buddhists want union with India.- A.P.
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  • 296 3 Indian PrmW\ -»v* bwomf titled P* .n th* $tate s they ■> with absolute powers -ecently. lerritorv was emerged py Bombay Province some Kith* ago and now they rennqu *hed for all time ■en of th» wealth they enPd as ruling princes. "ftarriflcial ceremony,' ■h took
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  • 250 3 US BID TO INCREASE TIN SUPPLIES Smelting of low-grade ores I EGISLATION aimed at increasing United States tin supplies by encouraging the smelting of lowgrade tin ores has been urged on Congress by the Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Charles Sawyer, "to make the United States less vulnerable in dependence on
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  • 74 3 YUGOSLAVIA Is caring for 11.600 Greek children, say welfare officials in Belgrade. The children are cared for by Macedonian and Greek nurses and the children are taught to speak their own tongue. The children have continued to come across the frontier since March 1948 Yugoslavia had
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  • 178 3 /PHE Atlantic Pact is capable of protecting its members against internal Communist revolts as well as external aggressions. A Washington official has pointed out that article 5 mentions "armed attack", unqualified by the preface "external". This, he explained, was a deliberate omission which, it
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  • 281 3 'PHREE Dutch planters have moved into the 4'ormer Republican country of East Sumatra to reopen the battered 'Wingfoot" rubber plantation, largest in the world. f American owners of "Wingfoot" hesitated to take over again after four years of Japanese occupation and three years of republican control.
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  • 55 3 RUSSIA is to float a state lottery loan for the amount of 20,000,000,000 roubles for reconstruction and economic development. The bonds are to be redeemed after 20 years' noninterest bearing but the income from the bonds amounting to four per cent, paid out to the winners of
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    24 3 Prince Aly Khan leans on two cane? as he attends an open-air ballet at Cannes. He fractured his ankle while playing with his children.
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  • 25 3 The British Government haj» rejected an Opposition suggestion in the House of Commons that the Liverpool Cotton Ex t%h> nt be reopened. Reuter
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  • 126 3 C»OR Hying Beaurighter planes to the Jewish forces 1 in Palestine, three of four pilots got £500 e<ich. For breaking British Customs regulations by flying them, all four were fined £100 each at Princes Risborough, Bucks. Mr. R. Hutchings, for the j Custom*, said:
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  • 28 3 German authorities in Berlin say that nearly 11.000 persons had sought sanctuary in West Berlin from Communist-dominated areas since the beginning of the year. U.P.
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  • 89 3 F REIGN Affairs Under-Sec-retary Mr. Christopher Mayhew, savs Britain shipped about £10,000,000 worth of arms and ammunition to Greece between May 1947 and February 1949. The munitions shipments amounted to about half of Britain's total exports to Greece in that period, he said in a
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  • 26 3 The US, State Department has given Spain permission to negotiate directly with the U.S. Government Export-Im-port Bank for an American Government loan. A.P.
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  • 44 3 POI.K'K are hunting for a missing metal box containing enough poison to kill 14.000 people. The box. containing .'1 Ib. of deadly potassium cyanide, was stolen near Hanover on Apr. 11. while being sent by rail from Brunswick. U.P.
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  • 155 3 DUDH Gaya. sacred to Buddhists all over the world. Is making preparations for the celebration of the greatest Buddhist Festival the anniversary of Lord Buddha's birth, attainment of enlightenment and demise. The festival, on May 12. will be Inaugurated by the Governor of Bihar. Mr. M.
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  • 82 3 THERE are only two alternatives for the world, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps. said in Rome. "Either authority must be entrusted to a few men who will impose brutally and rigorously what they will think f&ir for humanity, or men must show a
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  • 31 3 The U.S. Foreign Affairs Committee has approved legislation to let the UnJted States pay $16,000,000 to Switzerland for damage accidentally inflicted by United States planes during the war
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  • 290 3 WHERE IS CONNIE KENT? THE Whalebone Corner mystery doubled when Scotland Yard told Essex C.I.D. that the skeleton they found a month ago in Church Cottage has nothing to do with 67-year-old Connie Ada Kent. It belongs, they say, to another woman. The mystery now
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  • 238 3 CYRIL GEORGE BENNETT, 30-year-old Plymouth j policeman, has been acquitted by a Quarter Sessions jury of a charge which he alleged was a frame-up" by certain people he described as "spivs." It took the jury i>o minutes to clear him of the charge, which alleged
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  • 66 3 Political obtenreu at tl»Cooperative Congress meeting :n Scarborough see signs of uneasiness In the relations between the Labour Party and the 10.000.000 strong cooperative movement. It was announced at the congress that a resolution would be put to the vote today seeking assurances fan the Party
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  • 67 3 U. K.— EGYPT TREATY HINT fIMiE Financial Committee of JL the Egyptian Chamber of Deputies has hinted that the long discussed Egyptian alliance with Britain may soon be a reality. A Committee report introducing the Foreign Ministry budßet said: "'The existing international events and the indications of good relations between
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  • 108 3 XHE Commons has given I 1 its first iormai reading to a bill under which Eire citiseni will have all the privileges and most .1 tne duties of British subjects The bill embodies tne pur- adox that Republican En* ll neither part of His Majesty s
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  • 63 3 CHARGES that 8.000 000 disV- sati^fieo German lefugees in WeM Germain 1 demand a new "Fuehrer and show "strong Fascist tendencies" were made by a German State Department official. Egon Salat. chairman of the Government Advisory Board of Refugees In the British zone stale of North
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  • 603 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. May 5. 1949. WE CANNOT AFFORD IT CYMPATHY from more than just, those immediately affected will be behind i Inche Sardon bin Jubir when he asks Singapore Legislative Council at its next meeting to do something to stop further demolition of illegally built houses in
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  • 887 4  -  G. WARD PRICE SRINAGAR: By yy HE N India's Premier, Pandit Nehru, told the London Conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers of his country's intention of becoming a Sovereign Independent Republic he was able to give a good account of his stewardship during the 20 months
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    60 4 One of the attractions of the Thames is the Temesis Club's four-day regatta at Teddington Reach. By the end of the last holiday 500 yachts joined in the racing between Kingston Bridge and Teddington Weir. In the picture sailing craft are teen preparing for the start of a race watched
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  • 820 4 A European woman is an unusual sight IN THE REMOTENESS OF KOTA BAHRU This is the fourth of a series of articles written by NAN HALL, F r e e Press Staff Reporter, who flew by courtesy of the Malayan Airways over their route to Bangkok and back to Kota
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    39 4 Spring, was greeted with a television fashion parade at Alexandra Palace, London. Here, some of the models in the sho^ d .ji <v n tion of Spring //ocArs a. id COttumss. L:mdon\ big ten designer participated in the parade
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  • 893 4 by Politico |N his book 'The War in, Malaya", General Percival reveals that it was MacArthur, rarely at a loss for a theatrical moment, who was responsible for his presence at the surrender ceremony in the Philippines, where General Percival met General Yamashita for the second
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  • 436 4 Colonial Governors position? LETTER IV THE EDITOR I HAVE read tt 1 interest the letter 0 "Legal Reader" on th* subject of a Colony Governor's Position anc agree with him tha* "His Excellency Governor" is not direct representative c the King. This is an ok controversy being vived again I
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  • 296 5 S 'PORE WOMEN NOT UNION MINDED Marriage comes before career Free Press Woman Reporter 'pRADE Unionism has not caught on with Singapore working women. There are not a round dozen of women union members who take an active part in the movement in' Singapore, I learnt in an interview with
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    20 5 PICTURE shows the dual carriage way lighting Installed by the Singapore Municipal Electricity Department in the Orchard Road market area.
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  • 372 5 Frtt Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners have complained that some suburban areas are left in darkness and suggested that lights should be installed at an early date to minimise traffic risks. Mr. G. H. Kiat Independent— East Ward) said that there should be lamps
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  • 127 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ALOR STAR, Wed. BEFORE he died from a bullet wound caused by his own rifle, a Special Constable. Yahaya. made a deposition that he did not know the rifle was loaded. The ofllcer In charge of Special Constables at Kuala Ketll Estate.
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  • 60 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. JOHORE Is planning to hold a Welfare Week during the early part of June. A meeting to discuss the programme for Johore Bahru was held In the Government Offices on Bunday. The meeting was' attended by the Mentrl Besar, Dato Onn bin Ja'afar,
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  • 54 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. THE deportation of 490 aliens and 11 British subjects from the Federation under the Emergency Regulations was approved during April. Seven banishment ordprs were made. The total number of deportations under Emergency Regulations since the beginning of this year is now 1,649 aliens
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    59 5 picture. dunt *o??h^^mfSii KS? Sf/^t,?*?? 8 Collc Uni<m K Mr. Malcolm MacDouald, Mr. Lee Seow Mong (preiiiTnUn? r U n )f S F *V lk i ill J s L msol1 nd iss Lee Swee Men < lad y chairman of the Raffle? Colleee UnlonX at the Rafflet College- Stamford
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  • 183 5 Free Press Staff Reporter. MALACCA Wed. A strong case against closing the Malacca broadcasting station was printed by 30 members of public bodies and associations this afternoon when they met a committee of the Federal Legislative Council appointed to investigate the working of ihe Broadcasting DeDartment.
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  • 39 5 The Seaforth Highlanders will give moonlight night performances at Municipal Parka on the following dates: Wednesday, May ll from 8.15 pm. to 9.15 p.m. at Farrer Park. Thursday, from 8.15 p.m. to 9.15 p.m. at Katorg Park.
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  • 277 5 Free Press Staff Reporter rpHE Malayan public craves for books written about Malayan history, art, culture and any other subject connected with this country, Singapore booksellers said yesterday. They were commenting oa publications in Singapore during the first quarter of this year. Official statistics for
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  • 188 5 PROPOSAL OH EXAMS CRITICISED Free Press Staff Reporter. MR. P. E. Perelra, principal of a Singapore Institution whicn has been preparing private candidates for School Certificate Examinations for many years, yesterday criticised the Government attitude to such candidates. He was referring to an Education Department statement which, analysing last year's
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  • 125 5 New medical H.Q. likely KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. r) solve pressing problems of accommodation, the Federal Medical Department headquarters may be moved from Kuala Lumpur to Penang about the end of this year. The transfer Is stated to be only "under consideration." Dr. A. D. Struthers. acting Director of Medical Services,
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  • 50 5 F assure Australia that her increased output of sweetened condensed milk will find a permanent market in Malaya, the Malayan governments may stop further Imports from hard currency sources The Malayan Governments have suspended all import licences for this milk from hard currency sources pending an examination.
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  • 26 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— Chan Hong Chee aged 16, was today sentenced to one month's imprisonment and fined $100 for the misappropriation of a bicycle.
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    38 5 picture MR. T Rajendra <vw president of lUflirs f i I lege Union). Lady Girn*o >. Dr. P. C. Leone Mrs. IHI rolm MacDonald. at il.Raffles College SUmfnrd Club re-union dinner I nif ht Report in Parr Free Press
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  • 457 5 Free Press Staff Reporter QN the ground that the Singapore Municipality should grant the same rights and privileges to private transport companies servicing the same routes, the Soon Lee Bus Company has petitioned the Municipal Commissioners for a revision of the decision made by the
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  • 141 5 Poisons law revision Free Press SUIT Reporter. >PO fit In with proposed ntw JL legislation in the federation, the Pharmacy Ordinance administered by the Singapore Pharmacy Board is t*ing revised and brought up u> date Also being revised art- n.ordinances concerning p isons. and dangerous <deiete.ious) dr^gs, while a new
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 84 5 Airmails are due to am\e ,n Singapore today from: th? U.K.. Aden. Arabia. Canada; Europe, India. Iran, Iraq, Pakistan. Palestine, the U.S Central and South America Australia. Ceylon. 81am Medan and Sourabaya. Closing time for posiing airmails today is: to the UK.. Aden. Arabia. Canada. Europe. India. Iran. Iraq. Pakistan.
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  • 559 6 'GRADUATES NEED WIDER SCOPE' Call at Raffles reunion dinner Free Press Staff Reporter WIDER fields should be thrown open to the graduates of the future University of Malaya, aid the president of the Raffles College Union, Vlr. S. Thiruchelvam, speaking to 300 graduates, undergraduates and guests at the union's annual
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  • 156 6 SINGAPORE UNEMPLOYED INQUIRY THE^ Unemployment Committee, appointed by the Singapore Government in February this year, has met once since then and appointed a fact-finding sub-com-mittee. The Committee decided that the first thing to do was to find out the present state of employment and unemployment in Singapore, said Mr. G.
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  • 33 6 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed A woman rubber tapper, Tetchumi, was fined $20. in default 7 days' imprisonment in the Sessions Court for failing to obtain an identity card within the specified time.
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    33 6 picture. 4 BO IT $B.oo© has been raised for St. Andrew's Mission A Hospital during Hospital Week. Picture Shows a St. Andrew's Mission hospital nurse selling programmes at the Pavilion theatre Free Press
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  • 258 6 COMMISSIONERS' TERM Free Press Staff Reporter TO oppose the recent Progressive Party vote to extend the tenure of office of elected Singapore Municipal Commissioners. the Labour Party will hold a public meeting at Empress Place at 1.15 p.m. tomorrow. The president of the Labour Party.
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  • 52 6 EMERGENCE CALL BY SHIP THE Marseilles -bound French liner Athos II yesterday made an emer^encv call at Singapore to iand a member of the crew who was fuspected to be .suffering from appendicitis. The seaman. P. Pierre, a greaser, was brought ashore in a fast launch and sent to the
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  • 177 6 SHORTAGE oi start In the Women and Girls Section of the Social Wrifare Department has slowed dawn antivice raids on Siimaoore brothels, the Secretary for Social Welfare. Mr. T. P. F. McNeice said v^stertfay Mr. Buckoke. officer in charge of the raids has been orj leave
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  • 93 6 DLANS are afoot io build a pariah hall ifl the M Andrews Ca'h^dral compound deduatod to th* memory of Archdeacon Ormham White and his wile, and also to \ll those wlio suffered and died in Singapore during *he Japan^>e invasion I! taodfl permit. U is planned that
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  • 233 6 4 GAINST claims totalling $67,250,000, the British Government has offered to pay a maximum of $17,000,000 for war damage compensation to claimants in North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei. It was officially announced yesterday that out of thU 517.000.000. $7,000,000 was to be in free gran's,
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  • 498 6 New account opens dull «Wi London SCocft gxchange^ LOND<JK T f Thursday. START of the new account on the London Sto< Exchange yesterday failed to bring the BKptnled influx of buying orders, says Reuter's financia! correspondent. Prices were marked higher in the initial stages but later eased in quiet trading.
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  • 73 6 REPORTB of the Berlin being lifted gave BSBSi inspiration yesterday fco the on the New York Stock Exchange With activity maim a earlier improvement and pi on. a total volume of more than one million shares, the market showed liberally distributed gains, n ranging up to one point
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  • 39 6 PRINCESS Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh watched dealers at work on the London Stock Exchange yesterday The Royal party toured the floor of the house and. at their special reqtif*, business continued normal!?. Reuter
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    • 108 6 SINGAPORE SHIPPING SHIPS in port alongside ;n« Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday -godowna la brackets I were Main Wharf: Samaiinda <31--32. Titan -33-34- Asphallon 38-39 i. Landbris -40-4! We*t Wharf: Carthage <l-2< S'»»pl Traveller -4-5' City of Poona »6-7t Meoma <11-12», A^vsnax <14-Iji. Mangola <16». tranire IN*ek Orestes < 17-18*.
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  • 416 7 NORTHANTS MAKE GOOD START AT TAUNTON First game in County league NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, bottom team last year, made a good start in the first county championship game pf the season by scoring exactly 400 against Somerset at Taunton, yesterday. F R. Brown, former Cambridge University, Surrey and England all-rounder, could feel
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  • 716 7 By TRESPASSER fi.WCHO, Messrs. Wee Kheng Watt and We c Hian Seng's two-year-old grey, may turn out to be another Empire Rose. He won lik e a champion at Bukit Timah yesterday, smothering the opposition with a brilliant spurt below the distance. Once Flannery sent him
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  • 152 7 SINGAPORE Polo Club will bold a gymkhana at the polo ground In Thomson Road on Sundav at 3 pjn. Admission to the public will be by ttf kets priced at $3 for cars (including iriv?r), $1 for adults, and 50 cents for children under 14.
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    20 7 picture. i uho (Flannery) returning to scale after winning the fourth race at Bukit l'i n i!i yesterday. Free Press
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  • 91 7 DT.* Andrew s School won both their first and second team football match.* 6 gainst St. Patrick's School yesterday. The first te*m game ended in a 4-1 victory for S A.S., Ross scoring two goals, Soo Chye one and Rex Lee one for the winners.
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  • 157 7 Johrre Bahru. Thurs. AFTER Jead:nqf two-nil. 221 Vehicle BattalloD were beaten 4-2 in a league soccer match by Metric yesterdpy. Scoring be^m scon after The start, when Burton, positioning himself well, netted for the soMlers. Five minuter later a combined raid led to a r-'elee in
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  • 65 7 RESULTS of yesterday's Singapore tennis champloirshlp tie were: Men's singles: H. K. Yadi beat Capt. J. L. Whlunore 6—2; 6 3; W. Kermer beat Michael Ltm 6—l; 6—2; Low Kee Pow beat J. D. Zdwards 6—o; 6—l; O. T. Holloway beat Uem Khe Liang 7—5; 7—5; L. C.
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    38 7 picture. Pathfiner (Lawler) passes Toboggan (Stirling), the favourite, a hundred yards from home to finish second in th? first race at Bi'kit Timah yesterday. The winner was Abby Kay (Charles), who beat Pathfinder by four lengths Free Press
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  • 103 7 present Derby favourite Royal Forest ridden by the charr.pton Jockey. Gordon Richards, who will probably ride him in the forthcoming classic, made air auspicious debut this season yesterday aftensoon when he easily woe the Sandown Park Trial Stakes over one mile and a quarter. Second, four
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  • 57 7 TTHE Royal Western India.' Golf 1 Club, one of the oldest sportIng Institutions In India, will be dissolved shortly, as the Bombay Government Is acquiring the ar?a covered by the club-house and golf links. The Club's golf course Li located In the historic city of
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    45 7 picture. Colorado (Woods) leads into the home straight, followed by Alabama (Lansdown) and Soltara (Tait), on the rails, in the second race at Bukit Timah yesterday. Colorado went on to win from Norton (Mawi) in a photo-finish, with Soltara third and Alabama fourth. Free Press
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  • 275 7  - Matthews not chosen for tour VERNON MORGAN from QOCCER fans on tne Continent 0 are sure to be disappointed that Stanley Matthew.?, England's world famous iight-wlnger. who has over 50 International caps to his credit, nas not been chosen to accompany the England party to tour the Continent this month.
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  • 324 7 Pulau Brani United 4; Royal Navy S. CJPORTSJHEN who preferred soccer to the races weie given a treat at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Pulau Brani United and Royal Navy met in the Senior League and a thrilling game ended in the islanders winning with one
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  • 38 7 BERNARD Docu*n (146 lb.) of New Orleans won his fight by a unanimous decision against the Hawaiian welterweight champion Frankia Pernandei (146 lb.) before a record crowd of 20,000 on Tu esday nigh U.P.
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  • 345 7 Free Press Racing Correspondent pRAND Day. an ex-Singapore griffin, did the fastest gallop at Bukit Timah this morning, when he clocked 39 seconds for three furlongs on a slow track. Ridden by Charlie Ellery, this Coronation Day gelding showed pleasing action. Cabaret, first out after
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  • 150 7 MAX Faulkner, one of the moct colourful personalities In BrltalcTf 1947 Ryder Cup team led the field at the halfway stage of the Dunlop 2,000 Guineas professional golf tournament at Went worth yesterday with a grand €1 on the East course for a tworound total of
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  • 130 7 1 EICESTER City, runners-up in L the Football Association Cup. gained two valuable pouits last evening In their bid to stay In the Second Division by defeating Bury 2 1. The winners are now third from the bottom. The two lowest clubs will be dropped. Inter-League
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  • 25 7 HPHE Duke of Edinburgh i* the x new president of the M.C.C., It tu announced at yesterday's annual meetlog at Lord's Reuter
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  • 560 7 STC race results in brief OESULTS in brief of yesitroay's Bukit TlniaU races art given below: BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL 5173.H40 Ist No. *****1 5;*.2?3 2nd N*. 200)36 539 1&6 3rd No. *****7 21,742 Starters ($2.2 17 each), .w: *****4; *****2; 23&615; 1292<>8; *****6; 14W83; *****7; *****3. Consolation Prise*: ;$1.304
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  • 388 8 Debate today on defence LONDON, Thursday. "BRITAIN will do all in her power to see that Hong Kong remains an oasis of peace and prosperity in a troubled world," the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies, Mr. David Rees-Williams, said at a luncheon yesterday given
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  • 96 8 THE ENOAOEMENT is announced between Peter Basil, younger son of Mr. H. W. Pickering of Worthing. Sussex, and Mrs. P. W. Thomas of Knotsford. Cheshire, and Joan Mary, elder daughter of Mr. Justice and Mrs. T. T. Russell of Kuala Lumpur. VEHICLE FOR SALE. STANDARD 14 first registered mid
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  • 110 8 MALAYA TOP EARNER LONDON, Thurs. COLONIAL production couid make an important contribution to balancing Britain's trade with the Western hemisphere. Lord Pakenham, Minister of Civil Aviation, told a Hou^e of Lords debate last night on Britain's economic position. The great colonial development projects were undertaken to increase productive and dollar
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  • 71 8 AWAITING Chinese husband started passing out rifin two and three at a time from a plane at a Boston (U.S.A.) airport. Beaming ;md cigar-laden, Soo Hoo I.ee Munn (49). gave this xplination: His Chinese bride of a vcar had completed a 1.000--mile flight from Hong Kong. She
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  • 60 8 ISRAEL wants to establish diplomatic relations with the new Federal German Republic, Israel's Consul in Berlin, Aaron Bud.szLyn, told a press conference yesterday. 'We do not want to talk of German guilt against the Jews. he said. As"ked if reports of rising antl-semltiy.Ti in eastern Europe
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  • 48 8 THE House of Lords yesterday gave a second reading agreed in principle— to a bill making it possible for Countess Mountbatten. wife of Lord Mountbatten. last Viceroy of India, to have greater personal control over her inheritance under the will of her grandfather. Sir Ernest Cassel.
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  • 75 8 SEOUL, Wednesday. FIVE hundred North Koreans crossed the border north-east of Kaesong into South Korea today and engaged police in a gun battle. The Korean Defence Minister, Sihn Sung Mo, said that the engagement was on a small scale" and that four companies of police repulsed the
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    32 8 The photo-finish shows Colorado (Woods) winning the second race by a head from Norton (Mftwl) at Bukit Timah yesterday. The upper picture is a reverse reflection of the finish from the mirror.
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    49 8 Firemen tackling the huge Are which broke out at a rubber tyre dump in East London on Apr. 39. When smoke started to blister the paintwork of the adjacent gasworks, engineers deflated one of the gasomet/es. The tyre dump was 100 feet by 60 feet and was feet high.
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  • 94 8 EDINBURGH. Wed. THE swing to the Right begun last month in English county councils, is being followed in Scotland. »h^ results of yesterdays Scottish Municipal elections snowed today. With results almost complete. Labour lost 71 seats and gained 25. In Edinburgh. Labour lost 12 seats to
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  • 58 8 Tne Austr&iian Prime Minister Mr. L. B. Chifley, said yesterday tha> a 15-year meat agreement with Britain would result in a steady, rather than spectacular increase in shipment*. The Australian Prime Minister added at a news conference that necessary improvement in transport and other production facilities
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  • 24 8 The U.S. Secretary of State. Mr. Dean Acheson, yesterday voiced the hope that Italy would soon regain control of Trieste. U.P.
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  • 172 8 LONDON, Thursday. I^KN European countries have reached complete agreement on the charter for a Council of Europe, which is to b e formally signed here today by the ten foreign ministers. The Council is, in effect, a European parliament without legislative powers. The Foreign Ministers
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  • 104 8 TOKYO. Thursday. 'THIS is one of those rare cases where a wartime promise is being fulfilled, said Mi W. R P. Boone, of Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur s he a d quarters, yesterday, when confirming that a Japanese youth. Haruo Kasai. 16, is noon going to America
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  • 63 8 OPERATING on mass production lines, Britain's Royal Mint Is working day and night to overcome the world coin shortage. Almost 600,000.000 coins were struck during 1948. Nearly 17,000.000 of these were for countries outside the Commonwealth, including a number of Latin American republics. Between the two world
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  • 79 8 THE HAGUE. W^dnesd .iy COMMEMORATION servn-es and ceremonies were held throughout Holland today fourth anniversary of the country's liberation for the soldiers of many nations who died here during the S*v»nd World War. In an address at the principal ceremony a meeting of the National
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  • 38 8 A3 a result of the "tfort made to ensure adeuuate food supplier the standard of {ff* l^ k K n *ong gince i h^, w had been brought to mentary Under-Secretary for day Reuter
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  • 32 8 rpqE special Political ComX mittee of the United Nations yesterday voted for an Israeli representative to testify at the hearings of the Committee on the admission of new members.
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  • 125 8 A 'DEAD' MAN IS REINSTA TED LONDON, Thursday A -DEAD" MAN got up in a Coroners Court at Bakewell to demand reinstatement among the living. He was Alexander Rainey, 64-year-old blacksmith, who hud been officially declared dead by a Coroners Jury last July. At the time a body flshed of
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  • 59 8 WASHINGTON, Thursday. I^HE life u* lead, not fasMen experts, determine style trends, a New York designer, Claire McCardell. told the Women' t Advertising Club of Washington. The reason women wear functional clothes and lowheeleU, serviceable shoes is because the "protecting" husband is "a scarce article" these
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  • 195 8 rBAGUB, Thursday. r pilK President oi the I nited Nations Assembly, Dr. Herbert fcvatt (Australia), has not yet replied to a fresh ofi'er lor peace in Greece cabled by the Greek rebel representative in Prague to Dr. Fvat* through th e Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry on
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  • 133 8 Ceylon to raise own army COLOMBO, Thur ARRANGEMENTS British assistant the organisation an training of Ceylon's armed forces were made at the Common wealth Prime Ministers oonff ence in London, said Prime Minister, Mr D< Stephen Senanayake. rm his return here yestercic He added that arrar; ments had been made
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  • 49 8 SELF-^x;led K.ng Lof Belgium mad^ It i la*t night that hr ha.» n tention of abdicating In a letter to his br Pr.nce Regent Charles. King said "I am convin< 1 you share my views on i necessity to return to a constitutional government U.P.
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    • 188 8 SINGAPORE BOXING ASSOCIATION The Annual General Meeting of the Singapore Boxing Association will be held ot the Happy World on Thursday sth May. 1949. at 515 p.m. AGENDA. 1. To read and confirm th« Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting. S. To receive the Annual Re|K>rt for the preceding
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    • 117 8 TONIGHT THE COCKTAIL HOUR from 7 to 8 p.m. INFORMAL DANCE from S. 45 p. m Frank Pickford his Orchestra NOTICE The Ballroom will be exclusively, reserved tomorrow night for the St. (ieorge's Annual Dinner Ball. BOOK NOW FOR SUNDAY NIGHT SPECIAL BAND CONCERT in aid of the Funds of
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