The Singapore Free Press, 12 May 1949

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA iNo. 17.471. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    GOVT. MEN TOLD TO QUIT S'HAI
    362 1 GOVT. MEN TOLD TO QUIT S' HAI 2-week time limit set SHANGHAI, Thursday. [MIX Garrison Command has told all Nationalist Government organizations now functioning m Shanghai to evacuate the city within two weeks, it was reported this morning. At the same time it informed the Central Bank not to subsidise
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    S'PORE SHIPS FLY FLAGS
    32 1 S'PORE SHIPS FLY FLAGS ALL the ships m Singapore harbour were dressed this morning In commemoration of Coronation Day and the Singapore Artillery Regiment fired a 21-gun salute from Pulau Blakang Mati.
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    S'pore woman murdered
    104 1 Free Press Staff Reporter MURDER with robbery as the motive is suspected In the case of a 48-year-old Chinese woman. Lee Teck I Jin. who was found fatally injured at the back of a stair- nase In her house n Kirk Ter- j race yesterday morning Her
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    'Justice was done'
    133 1 CANAPATHY \EWBOLLT Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Tburs. I I'STICE had been done" said Sir Alec NewboolV the Chief Secretary, referring to the case of Ganapathy at today's official press conference. In answer to a question Sir A -aid the prerogative of y ;;i the Malay
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    50 bandits attack Benta Police Station
    107 1 Kr*e Prey» Staff Reporter A FORCE of about 30 bandr.s attacked the police station at Benta, midway between Raub and Kuala Lipis last nigh;, surrounding the station and firing continuously, i The station force fought back vigorously while waiting J for reinforcements from Kuala
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    JAPS DEFEND KWANGTUNG
    50 1 J APS DEFEND KW ANGTUNG T RTY thousand Japanese 1 'ops :um Taiwan have a a- Whampoa below reported. They \> ,;i be used m the d R ing. Their fc*e was recommended by < Yen Hsi-shan. former g rnor of Shansi. who rel dlv used Nipponese for c of
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    Missing plane found
    27 1 A missing Ecuadorean rr;li tary plane with 11 persons aboard was found crashed on Tuesday m high peaked mountains south of Quito A. P.
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    PAKISTANIS RAID BURMA
    152 1 ka.MjUU.v lhursday. 4 BI'KMESE government deputation has crossed the Burma- Pakistan border to confer with Pakistan authorities about Muslim bandits entering Burmese territory and plundering the west coast villages adjoining Pakistan, says a Government communique. The Government last night also announced the recapture of Pyabwe. important Central
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    Dog chased bandits
    49 1 When Mr. J. Bevin, manager of the Lee Rubber Kstate. Geylang Patak. Johore. was travelling on the road yesterday bandits put a shot through the rear window of his car. He stopped the car. let out his do? and the bandits fled chased by the dof.
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    MINED SHIP: 4 ARRESTED
    32 1 FOUR suspected bandits, charged with blowing up the British river steamer Miss Orient on the Canton-Hong-kong run last month, were arrested at a nearby village by garrison detectives.
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    BRITISH TANKS OUT IN TRIPOLI
    149 1 TRIPOLI, Thursday. ORITISH tanks patrolled the streets here last night as Arabs demonstrated against the British proposal to the United Nations to put Tripolitania under Italian trusteeship. Workers staged a general strike yesterday and curfew was imposed. Demonstrations wein on all the morning and afternoon,
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    GERMAN STATE
    43 1 THE three Western military governors will meet at Frankfurt today to consider the new constitution for the German federal republic. The military governors must approve the document before It can be submitted to the 11 state legislatures for further action. A.P.
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    2 KILLED BY BANDITS
    113 1 Free Press Staff Reporter rpWO murders were comL mitted m Johore by bandits yesterday. A Chinese partner of a tin mining kongsi was shot dead at Kota Tinggi. while he was out inspecting his mine. He was accompanied by two labourers who escaped. The dead Chinese
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    U.N. ADOPTS INDIAN PLAN
    83 1 THE Political Committee of the General. Assembly yesterday adopted a resolution, submitted by India, recommending the appointment of a three-member United Nations tommission to study the situation created by the treatment of "persons of Indian and Pakistan origin" m South Africa and to submit to the
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    3 languages enough
    52 1 'JHIK United Nations tsse»uhly yesterday decided to ostI pone indefinitely a derision on the proposal to make itu.v'sian and Chinese working languages of the United Nations. 0 English. French and p m.sh are the working languages m use now. The vote 'or postponement was 24-18 with ten
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    Jeep breaks road blockade
    157 1 Jeep breaks road blockade HEUVISTEDT, Thursday. A BRITISH Army jeep crossed the border of the British zone m this sleepy little town at six minutes after midnight this morning and headed for Berlin followed by a radio van, another jeep and two three-ton trucks, thus signalling the end of the
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    46 1 Picture. Buddhists worshipped at the Sinhalese Temple at Outram Road this morning m celebration of Vesak Day, the day connected with Lord Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death. Picture shovs Buddhists joining hands m front of the Temple iltar as homage to Lord Buddh t. Free Press
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    'Big dope smuggling into Singapore'
    219 1 THK HA(«1 t, Thursday. I^HE Dutch Government alleges that the Indonesian Republican Government had actively participated m a huge opium smuggling organisation, which had run big consignments by speedboats and aircraft from Java to Malaya and sold 15,000 kilogrammes. of the drug m Singapore. The
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    BANDIT KILLED
    33 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent A Chinese bandit. Identified later as a bandit collector at Payer Lebar. was shot dead by a party of police at Ayer Molek Estate on May 10.
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    50 BANDITS IN AMBUSH
    93 1 A MALAY was killed and the manager of the Nagappa Estate, an Indian estate dresser and two special constables were wounded when they were ambushed by 50 armed Chinese bandits m Johore last night. One bandit was killed and others wounded m an exchange of shots.
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    Federation arrests
    23 1 In the 24 hours ended last night there were 28 arrests m the Federation, 21 m Selangor and seven m Perak.
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    SPITFIRESISRAEL MAY STILL PAY
    262 1 LONDON, Wednesday. ORITAIN may still ask Israel to pay damages fo* shooting down five British Spitfires over the Egyptian border last January, the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, told the House of Common* today. In reply to a question, Mr. Bevin sai^that strong note of protest
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    No refuge in H'K for deportees
    145 1 No refuge in H'K for deportees LONDON Thurs. /CHINESE repatriates from Malaya iff bemti sent \m a Chinese port m accordant with international Igracment. said the Secretary >l State for Colonies. Mr. Arthur Creech Jones, replying In ht House >i Commons y day. "The HoOf Kong Government has yood reason
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    Taxi overturns after chase
    57 1 Free Prrss Staff Reporter AN escaping taxi with four British stamen insidoverturned three tim*»s and landed up m a drain m \nson Road while trying to evade a chasing police Jet ;> m the vicinity of the Singapore Harlx)iir Board Mrtf this morning Four men were
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    Rubber prices
    59 1 SPECIAL Market c«i i <".*>«' d drnl »im tb« prirr* »f ruhSfr (m crnls prr Ib I at II a.m t^dsv us follows Buyer* >.. ii.-, No. 1 R SS Spot loo*e M% U% vi. m bales Mat No. 1 R.S.S. Btfi -.j No. 2 R SS. 33,.
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    Hard To Believe Hero
    598 2  -  PETER QUENNELL Reviews new books m UK. THERE are novels m which the emotions described are real, but the characters supposed to experience them remain improbable and shadowy. THE BODY, for instance, by William Sansom an eloquent account of one of mankind's ruling passions, here shown
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    62 2 Margaret Lockwood's gown of romantic and regal inspiration admirably reflects the charming and graceful personality of the Leading. Lady of the British Screen. Her dress, designed by Rahvis, is of magnificent dull heavy satin m deep ruby red, with a snowdrop white bodice. Loose looped strands of pearls sewn under
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    QUICK LOOKS
    109 2 The Diary of Antolne Roquentin, by Jean-Paul Sartre. (John Lehmann, 9s. 6d.) The first novel of one of France's influential writtentiatlsm was an unusual' ly fine novelist before he plunged head over heels into the pseudo-philoso-phic quagmire. Our Gifted Son. by Dorothy Baker (Gollancz, 9s. 6d) Well-written and
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    Bridge Problem
    376 2 A PART score is not a ways an unmitig Uc-d blessing. In this deal it thrrv a nockty wrench into Torth-South's bidding machinery. Without a p;ut score, Souths next bid is easy. He simply marks time by bidding three diamonds. Then, whether Nbrth bids four clubs, five clubs,
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    Makes Mystery His Business
    237 2 HIDDEN doors and secret rooms In old country houses may be just detec-tive-story dodges to some people, but they are a living to Charles Barnaby. Barnaby. 36-year-old Londoner and former Royal Air Force man. makes a business of Installing such thing! for the safe keeping of
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    Soviet play withdrawn— by request
    117 2 Soviet play withdrawn— by request SQUARING the Circle," a Russian comedy depiciing the misfortunes of t-vo men who married during the Soviet housing shortage, is to be withdrawn from English production at the request of the Soviet Government. The holder of the English copyright of the play, Mr. Ashley Dukes,
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    'Reefer' smoker cause headache
    343 2 By STEFFAN ANDREWS SMUGGLING of marihuana •'reefers" from across the Mexican border and through U.S. ports is giving U.S. narcotics agents their biggest headache since the war. The marihuana smoking habit apparently is growing not only among adults but among a lot of younger people all
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      403 2 MODEST MAIDENS if i--- 1 lar«ur* U 1 hw (Mm 113 o-vv -x_ n^- 1 1 s 1 li<£ 7«& Place, twev chmzgl ygu thzze or pour PRICED FOB EVf WT-HIW6 AMD IT MAkT€4 you FEEL LIKE A Big £hot f YOUR LUCKY STAR easy. As soon as one job
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      199 2 jS£^^Hfca^^c^^^^^^^^MO^Bß^^M^J^^^^^^^^^Wß^^^Mßm^M^^^^^B^K?»'^V fipoWßO^^^^M^^MMaajUCßlb^^r^^^^^^^^^^^SSSx*^j\fiju jyfM-Jvsf" -fi ■•jSflfr'i vHW¥i^<wߥVtfiMßMMßWt^^BßMftß^M^^BB6SS^ffi"««i SINGAPORE (BILE NETWORK) 484 and 41.7 metres. Emergency news from K.L. at 10 am TODAY 10 News from Kuala Lumpur; 10.55 Schools:— Stories 1, Singing Together 2. Literature 89: 1 Lunch-time music by the Kadio Orchestra including selections from Pinocchio and Aircastle Waltz; 1.30
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      358 2 Light music including selection from Romance. C. :i nson Triste. and On The B lutiful Blue Danube Waltz; 6.40 Dance Mv lc; 7 News; 7.10 Singapore Slure Market report; 7.15 Let'r go to 1h«? Pictures A weekly review of current films by Wats' On; 730 Round-up on the Range— A
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      254 2 AUSTRALIA 16 19. 25 and 31 Metres. TODAY 4 Music for Teatime, Blue Hungarian Band; 4 30 Australian News; 5.00 p.m. Forces Favourites 6 00 The Swing Show compiled bf Milton Stevens 6.30 Overseas Australian Newt 0.45 'Singing for You" Bass Paul Robeson 7 Master Pianist Featur tv? Irene Srharfer
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    ANTI-RED ASIAN LABOUR UNION SOON
    225 3 ANTI-RED ASIAN LABOUR UNION SOON Coun ter to the W.F.T.U. A NON-COMMUNIST Asian Federation of Labour A will be formed m Geneva m June. It is likely to consider problems of underdevelopment m Asian countries and the struggles for independence being waged m some of them. It is expected to
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    Gave shelter to couple—is fined
    271 3 Gave shelter to couple is fined MR. HENRY WHITTAKER. 67-year-old Quake owner of a 23-room mansion m Edgbaston. wa fined £5 at Birmingham for letting a young couplt live m an outhouse^ considered unsuitable. "It shall not be' paid." he told the Bench. "I sa^ that respectfully, as a matter
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    UK writes off Indian debt
    93 3 I^HE Treasury has written off £162.714. the unr^nered balance of the cost of supplying the India Store Department with 10.000 railway buffers m 1946. a civil appropriations accounts report disclosed. The report said thai invoices were presented after completion of the order based on a
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    JAPAN MAY BE ASIAN 'RUHR'
    165 3 THERE is much opposition to the idea, but some economists feel that Japan may emerge as the Ruhr of Asia, with emphasis on heavy. Industry. General Mac Arthur's representative at the Bangkok meeting of the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East.
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    Long air pact
    42 3 IiHE Chinese-Russian Aviation Treaty of 1939 which gives the Soviet Union almost exclusive air rights m Chinas far west Sinkian? Province, will be extended by a period of live years a Oovernment Central News report from Tihwa said today
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    U.S. PROGRESS ON PACT
    37 3 UNITED States Senate Committee hearings on the North Atlantic treaty entered their second week with the unanimous approval of the committee virtually assured and prospects of the hearings finishing well ahead of scnedule
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    44 JUDGES TO GET A RISE
    244 3 I^HE Lord Chief Justice of England and the Kings judges are to have a rise for the first time since 1832-117 years ago. It was then that the judges' salaries were fixed at a level to put them beyond the temptation of bribery: £8,000
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    Wife must pay divorce costs
    67 3 WlTtf the remark. 'Wovieu are claiming equality with men. and should shar& the responsibilities of life," Judge Daynes. m London, ordered a inte to pay up to £50 costs m her husband divorce suit. The nife Mrs. ilury Kathleen Murray, did not defend the case,
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    More Persian border firing
    79 3 REPORTS from the Caspian port of Astara say that Russian and I'ersian troops exchanged shots m clashes last week-eTid, when Russian patrols were said to have crossed the border. One Persian soldier was reported missing and several wounded. The reports said that Russian troops crossed the
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    £16,000 DAMAGES FOR 'BRAVE MAN'
    242 3 FMIRTY- YEAR-OLD Bertram Arthur Raynor was 1 described as "a brave man," when Mr. Justice Jones awarded him £16.809 damages at Leeds Assizes. Mi riaynor. acetylene cutter, ol Mansfield road Rotherham. was cutting up a German gun. A shell'in the barrel exploded, leaving him almost
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    36 3 llrs Desai. wife of the Indian Minister m Switzerland. Mr Dhirajlal Desat. han*s a garland round Pandit Nehru. Indian Prime Minister, as he disembarks from the plane which took him to Zurich on an unofficial visit.
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    WEAVING BOOM
    63 3 JAPANS weaving industry i* nuw enjoying a boom as a result of large orders which have recently been coming m from sterling area countries. report* the Japanese press. Countries m South Asia. Africa, India and the Netherlands, recently placed orders for processing a total of 1.700.000 yards of
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    Don't push them around'
    73 3 LANDLADY who had tried to turn out her Nigerian tenant was told by Major A. A. Morris, chairman of Willesden. Middlesex, rent tribunal "I will not tolerate my form of colour bai I am not going to see the buys who ome over her« t>» b
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    Ex-Queen for Siam
    65 3 Lite t.x-Uuren of Shim is preorntrd with a bouquet by .t fellow rountrj woman h-forr going., aboard the Willein Ru>> At Southampton. She is returning to > m at the limitation of th- $overnment after 15 >• *rs exile m England. She i, lakiiu with her the
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    SECOND CLASS MAIL SCHEME
    54 3 SECOND CLASS M AIL SCHEME F\ ision >f tJr mall i <::>•<■ I class mail OoMMnweal b and India. South I tamf! Ha considered. Minister ol ilonia] Affairs. ni -oi-t <rv- H rds. .iui>'er General Ktend the service, tnd when II X HUM poa all he a •ci by h*
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    100 RESIGN OVER 'CONCHIE'
    191 3 1 00 RESIGN OVER 'CONCHIE' M°K-- a liMMln J mem lfl Ders of the Maida Vale, V. branch, includina: the I nel vic^-president. took if their Legio.i Has ani I from the British Legion because the neighbouring branch, at Padding- Urn. has a conscientious ebiector mayor as its oresi At
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    Nurse's lover was 'just a dream'
    159 3 Nurse' s lover was 'just a dream VURSE Irene Barker, 34, fell m love, and talked 11 of marriage -but her boy friend was "just a dream". One day she came home, laid the table for two and waited for her "lover". That night she was found sitting m the
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    Commons query on S'pore polls
    108 3 MR. Philip Piratin, Communist, asked the Colonial Secretary. Mr. Arthur Creech Jones, m Parliament if he knew that m Singapore out of a population of 680.000 only 8.688 people qualified to vote In the municipal elections. He further asked how many were disqualified because of
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    A-BOMB EXPERTS
    28 3 A- BOMB EXPERTS Two American atomic research experts have arrived In Japan for a series of investigations among the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bombs. U.P.
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    GERMAN STEEL SMUGGLERS
    126 3 J^ "LARGE SCALE" aliernp 4 to smaggJe steel Mid machinery into the Russian zone had been broken up by Western German police. General Clay. US zone military governor reports Although lie did not say how much steel was involved, General Clay said "a large quantity" was confiscated
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    DRIED NUTS
    53 3 BRITAIN'S groundnut and sunflower crops m Tanganyika have been hard hit by a drought, the Food Minister. Mr. John Strachey, told the Commons. w Dry weather has caused premature ripening of the groundnuts, he told Conservative questioners adding that crop figures will not b< available until the nuts
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    U.K. WOMEN ANGER CROWD
    105 3 nYSTANDERS shouted "Lock D them up and Shoot the lot as police shepherded away housewives who coiin-ter-demonstrated for decent living conditions and no more war for our children during a victory-in-Europe parade of the British Regular Army through central London. The women hid placaids under their
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    TOKIO ROSE TRIAL
    32 3 The defence m the Tokio Rose treason case won the right to have 17 of its 18 wit nesses brought to her trial oo July sat US Governmen: expense.
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    U.S. ROCKET RANGE PLAN
    183 3 Radar on Bahamas A PLAN to fire rockets from Florida into the At- lantic and to plot their courses from radar stations m the Bahamas is being: worked out m secret by Britain and America. It is believed the IS has four launching sites on the
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    21 3 A series oi earthquakes, one of which was centred m or near the N.E.1., was recorded on New York seismographs. U.P.
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    'LIGHTHOUSE OF LOVE IS NEEDED'
    177 3 'LIGHTHOUSE OF LOVE IS NEEDED' THk real reason why so many marriages end m the divorce court ts because th j ai r not founded on human love, a divonv judge «a d Judge R A Wriltes Divorce Commissioner, at Derby, toid the local Marriage Guidat\cp Council. Wh^n marring* founded
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    Allies out to 'free' red zone
    106 3 GEN. Sir Brian Robertson ha« indicated that the West would demand tree elections m tne Soviet zone of Germany as part of its pn<-e for ending the cold war 'The solution to the whole German problem depends more on freedom of elections, of the
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    LABOUR DENIES RED CHARGE
    68 3 A SPOKESMAN tor ne British Labour Party ha» denied a Communist chaig« that it had established an international organisation ro smuggle reiufcees out of Easi em Europe into Austria and Germany. A modest fund, however, had been set up to tiive temporary financial help 10 a>>v
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, May 12, 1949. MORE THAN WARSHIPS
    578 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, May 12, 1949. MORE THAN WARSHIPS IN recent weeks Hong Kong has been variously described in the House of Commons as a shopwindow of democracy, an oasis of peace and prosperity in a troubled world, and the Gibraltar of the East. The main thing is
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    It Seems To Me..
    1081 4  -  Politico By THE remark by a leading film exhibitor that British films m Singapore are mostly flops because they are made for sophisticated audiences comes as near to high praise as he could get without being polite about it. And as no-one has entered a protest,
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    1951 & All That In London
    586 4  - 1951 All That In London JOHN HALL By LOOK forward to a Britain that wears a smile —a London that has gone Continental with floodlighting, fountains, open-air cafes and music, provincial cities gay with new paint, towns ablaze with bunting, revels on the village greens. This will be the great
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    They like their air cooled
    361 4  -  JOHN C. WYBRO. I AST Friday there appeared your usual feature article "Diary of a Singapore Doctor under the heading of "Extremes Are Not Good In The Tropics" m -which the Singapore medico and his perspiring nurse Judy touch upon the subject of air conditioning.
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    Light On Africa's Darkness
    472 4 JOHANNESBURG: OOME 100 scientists are to meet m Johannesburg at a 12--day conference m October to draw up plans for combatting the "darkness" of the African continent. Representing various United Nations bodies, thr.ee major Powers and more than 25 territories South of the Sahara, they will
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      'Birth control means no control'
      530 4 'Birth control means no control' T READ with much interest the wellreasoned letter m the Free Press of His Lordship the Bishop of Malacca on Birth Control. The question of Birth Control has an important bearing on morals and sociology and cannot be settled on opportunist principles. What U fundamentally
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    Vatican Fears For RCs In China
    327 4 Vatican Fears For RCs In China By JOHN TALBOT VATICAN CITY: rpHE advance made xby the Chine* Communist fc: arousing grave the future of the Catholic^ Church In China according to usually well Informed Vatican circles. Reports recc: China and espxr. Shanghai— by th* Congregation *or pagation of the stated
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    PROTEST ON PILGRIMS SUGGESTED
    63 5 PROTEST ON PILGRIMS SUGGESTED I .>rr^>|H>ndenl Besuxs to behalf of MaMecca kas i -...-..-ore paper. CtUNUi .e Saudi .s re- s tax j v.ever. about embarkation. other to b€ .ers of ihe ms C0n- ping comreased their year to •.he whole '-ear ill B he aid i to the Men-
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    Illegal drugs:govt is helpless
    192 5 Illegal drugs: govt is helpless Free Press Staff Reporter fetor of Medical Services, Dr. W. J. Vickers, Free Press yesterday that if it was true i supplies of the drug streptomycin were Singapore, there was nothing that his u!d do about it. ••■-•rldwide X Dr. Bl iga- s. there nil
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    LACK OF FUNDS HITS M.I.C.
    102 5 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. T ACK of finance and active members had curtailed the activities of the Kuala Lumpur local Indian Congress, It was said m the branch report read at the annual general meeting tonight. The executive committee had functioned with
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    PYTHONS BY AIR
    40 5 Two pythons fronn the Sultan of Johore's private zoo were flown te the London Zoo by Lancastrian this morning as a gift from the Sultan. The snakes, one big and one small, were crated m one box.
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    SECURITY PLAN FOR CLERKS
    373 5 Free Press Staff Reporter 4 SCHEME to provide a compulsory central provident fund for employees m commercial and other private enterprises is being prepared by the Progressive Party .for presentation at its annual general meeting on May 20. It is intended to lay this plan before
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    41 5 picture. Free Press HAJI Abil bin Haji Tahir, the Malay president of the Sarawak Nationalist Party at Saratok. who has arrived m Singapore with a message of loyalty of Saratok district to the Brooke family, being greeted by Mr. Anthony Brooke.-
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    Indian Govt. Interference'
    101 5 Free Press Malay Correspondent THE Kuala Lumpur Malay daily, "Majlis, m a leading article describes the protests of the Indian Government against the execution of A. Ganapathy. former President of the P.M.F.T.U.. as 'gross interference with the internal affairs and the process of law m this country."
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    600 FAMILIES LIVING IN MISERY
    239 5 Plea to'Johore State Council Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Wednesday. TN one Johore kampong of 3,000 people, making up 700 families, only 79 families are free from debt, 235 families have just enough to keep off starvation. The remainder at times do not have
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    UNITY CALL BY LABOUR
    110 5 Free Press Staff Reporter rE Federation and Singapore should develop a I united national and political consciousness and this cannot be achieved if active political organisations seek to draw the loyalties of cltl- j zens away from Malaya, said Mr. Francis Thomas, president of the Labour
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    Radio pirates are warned every night
    310 5 Free Press Staff Reporter T<HE Department of Broadcasting, Singapore, hrs launched a determined drive to track down and prosecute thousands of radio pirates who are operating m the Colony without licences. Radio Malaya is broadcasting every night a warning that unlicensed listeners are liable
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    ONE MONTH'S NOTICE BY ARMY UNION
    192 5 Free Press Staff Reporter 4 ONE-MONTH notice has been served on the W**r Department by the Singapore Army Civil Service Union to settle claims for salary revision and 60 per cent, eost-of-living allowance with retrospective effect from Jtocwt, 1947. If there is no settlement
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    FERMENTED MASH —WOMAN FINED
    50 5 MUAR. Wed.— A widow, Toh Si Un, pleaded before the Muar Magistrate that she had no other means of supporting her eight children when charged with possession of two Jars of fermented mash and apparatus for disItlllation She was fined $150 or 45 days' simple imprisonment.
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    'APPALLING' HOUSING IN JOHORE BAHRU
    198 5 Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Wednesday. F|ECLARING that the housing conditions m Johore Bahru were "appalling," Mr. P. M. Charry m the Johore State Council today suggested a housing inquiry. His motion was defeated by 12 votes to four. He would like a study
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    32 5 picture. MKMBKKS of the Singapore Buddhist Association pictured outside their premises at Outram Road this morning after the Puja Offering of Flowers, which is part of the Vesak celebrations today.- Free Press
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    STOLE 32 NUTS
    30 5 PARIT BUNTAR. Wed.— Othman bin Haji Abdullah was fined $50 or one month's gaol by the Circuit Magistrate. Inche Abdul Wahab. for the theft of 32 coconuts.
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    More evening classes urged
    191 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A CALL to the Government to establish more evening schools and to open up branch public libraries is made by Mr. Thio Chan Bee (Nominated Unofficial) m questions he will table at the Singapore Legislative Council meeting next Tuesday. He says that
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    MORETEACHERS IN JOHORE
    61 5 JOHOREI3AHRU, Wed. Malay schools m Johore are short of only 35 teachers. Last year the shortaße was 138. The authorised establishment for teachers m Malay schools this year is 853 out of which 818 have been filled. The corresponding figures for 1948 were 848 and 710 This
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    'SPEND LESS ON WEDDINGS'
    94 5 Free Press Malay Correspondent The Kaum Ibu (Women) of UMNO m Penang will urge the UMNO Women's Congress to be held at Arau. Perils, at the end of this month, to make a special appeal to Malay men and women to economise on weddint: «x--penses. This
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    SULTAN FOR U.K.
    46 5 Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. The Sultan of Johore is leaving Singapore on May 29 for England, then to Europe for medical treatment. He will be accompanied by the Sultanah. During his absence, the Tungku Mahkota will be Resjent of Johore.
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      101 5 Airmails are expected to arrive m Singapore today from the UK., fLden. Arabia, Canada. Europe, Iran. Iraq, India. Pakistan, Palestine, the U.S., Central and South America. Australia. Siam, and the NX.I. Closing time for postiisg airmails at the 0.P.0 today is: to the U.K., Adn. Arabia. Canada, Europe. India, Iran.
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    MINERS TO GIVE $150,000 A YEAR
    193 6 MINERS TO GIVE $150,000 A YEAR Promise to aid university Free Press Staff Reporter IPOH, Wednesday. r*HINESE miners m Perak have agreed to jfive to the University of Malaya Endowment Fund 50 cents from every pi nil of tin produced. This will bring m about $150,000 a year. This was
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    28 6 r pHESE evacuees arrived al Shanghai's l.unghwa air--1 port after fleeing Nanking aboard one of the last planes to leave the capital before it fell to tb« Reds.
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    PLAN FOR CHINESE ADVISERS
    286 6 PLAN FOR CHINESE ADVISERS Free Press Staff Reporter rE Government of Singiipore may set up a Chinese Advisory Board similar to the Mohammedan and Hindu Advisory Boards, said th»* Colonial Secretary Mr. P. A. B. McKerron), presiding over the Inaugural meeting of the newly reconstituted Hindu* Advisory Board yesterday. At
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    BRAINS TRUST
    57 6 Members of the Methodist Youth Fellowship will ask questions on youth problems at a Brains Trust meeting to be held tomorrow night at 730 at the Wesley Church MK-lal hall. Fort Canning. Participating m the Brains Trust programme will be Mrs. G. Hawkins. Mrs. Robert Eu. Dr D.
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    NEW CLASSES PROPOSED
    122 6 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. I^AILORING. cooking and JL nursing classes should be started m Johore schools for students who do not Intend to go /or higher education, Mr. S. Ponnampalam suggested at today's meeting of the Johore State Council. Mr. Ponnampalam also suggested that chemistry and physics be
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    Wife murder charge
    100 6 A COBBLER, who was ali\ leged to have knifed his wife during a quarrel, was yesterday committed for trial at the next Assizes on a charge of murder. He was 45-year-old Then Khim Foong. of Selegie Road. At the preliminary inquiry. a Malay dresser. All bin Ja'afaT.
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    Three charged with robbery
    78 6 Three charged with robbery Three youths appeared In the Fourth Police Court yesterday on charges of robbery. Liong Siak Chuen. 20. and Lee Ah Leng, 18. were charged with having robbed Kirn Wee Chen of a fountain pen at New Bridge Road on May 10. Goh Lan Heng. 19. was
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    YOUNG GUNMAN TO HANG
    131 6 Free Press Staff Reporter A YOUNG gunman. I'm a\ Aik. who fired a revolver, at the police while resisting arrest near a Chines* temple, m Kampon? Batak, was sentenced 10 death m the Assize Court yesterday. Tan was one of three men who fell inlo a
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    Man accused of detaining wife
    306 6 Free Press Stall Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. WHEN I saw my wife seated on a mat near the accused I wa* mad with jealousy/ said Mr. A. W. J. Le Cain, giving evidence today 4" a f*s«* m which 26-year-old Boris Piotrowski was charged with
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    BIRTHDAY OF SULTAN
    142 6 KUAwA LUMPUR Wed. FRIDAY will be a public holiday. In Selangor m honour of the Sultan's birthday. Sultan Sir Hisamuddin Alam Shah, who will be 51. will begin the day by attending a parade on the Klang Padang. He will watch the paiade m the company of
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    Two apply for 2,000 jobs
    94 6 UP to yesterday, only two men a Malay and an Indonesian had answered notices of the Singapore Labour Department calling for 2,000 Malay, Javanese and Indian labourers for Euro-pean-owned oil palm and coconut estates m Perak. The request for the labourers was made by the
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      Rubbers firm tins advance
      438 6 LONDON Thurs, THE London Stock Exchange had another. session yesterday, during which pri^ < generally slightly easier, says Reute r fin J correspondent. Rubbers were firm and uiictuJ while tins advanced. Once again there were manysmall losses among industrial equities with motors the chief sufferers. Sellers
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      N.Y. STOCK
      33 6 JN th« N^» I I vsrerday. ..^B sufficient pto push tn*' be«t. Tl)* 1 steady Westing: K m small tn j practically with th» < rv. I approximately were t^mpoi I begiiv
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      EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS
      59 6 Th^ 0 IK exhibit >>n ol p i Chen Wen- lib. day at CtH of Commerce The exhibition -r:. by the China B gapore. and will the public b^tv 6 pm from F I j Wednesday PrrK*eeds ol paintings sold I tion will be eg between the
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      92 6 SINGAPORE SHIPPING SHIPS m port alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday igodtmns m brackets) were Main Wharf: Aeneajs (33-34), Katong (35i. Shillong <38-.U'). Kampar < 40-41 >. U>*t Wharf: Glenroy <!-2». Kota Gede <4-s>. Eurymedon (8-9), Titan (13-14>. Eastern Saga 13It). Empire Dork: Gujarat 17-181, Seidang <21-22>. Benrinnes (25--26).
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    ALL HORSES ACCEPTING FOR CUP SPRINT
    412 7 ALL HORSES ACCEPTING FOR CUP SPRINT Smart gallops this morning Free Press Racing Correspondent ALL horses handicapped m the Summer Cup, the main sprint event of the present Singapore Turf Club meeting at Bukit Timah, are accepting, but Purple Knight is being taken out of the Governor's Cup, the big
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    42 7 picture. Whispering Hope, 'igurously ridden by Spencer, forges ahead of Liberty (J. Donnelly) half a furlong out to win the seventh race at Bukit Toman yesterday and pay the highest dividend of the meeting so far $116 for a win. Free Press
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    New Zealanders pay for errors
    317 7 /tMlanders did not pay sufficient res- > the Surrey bowling at the Oval yesteriiNetiUently. on their first appearance m were dismissed for 258, their lowest aUthe tour. v went m. however, the tourists rerive wickets for 121 by the close ..s much to admire m
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      111 7 Singapore. [While appreciating the intentions of the Singapore Badminton Association m arranging the Thomas Cup team t. The Rest match, we mu*t hasten to add that the author of the article. Phoenix, did not mean to suggest anything discreditaMe In the object of the fixture. What he emphasised is that
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      SBA explains Cup team v. Rest match
      256 7 THE article m yesterday's issue of the Free Press entitled "Why Embarrass our Cup Men" calls for prompt refutation of certain statements contained therein. The exhibition match was arranged with one main purpose. and that is to raise as much money as possible
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    RUSSIAN SPORTS BODIES CRITICISED
    51 7 AN Izvestie editorial yesterday criticl ed sports authorities for vi: atisfactory fulfllme.t oi Government and r>arty ord r» to develop mass physical culture and improved quality m Soviet athletes The plan calls for the enrolment m yst matic sports activities of more than 2.000.000 additional persons.-
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    LORD BURGHLEY'S SUGGESTION
    57 7 LORD Burgnley, chairman of tho British Olympic Association, ingested m Johannesburg yesterday that the New Zealand Rugby Union touring t.am, the All Blacks (now m South Africa), be ask'd to play an additional match to raise funds for sending ths South African Springbok team to the Empire
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    POLICE WIN 1-0
    53 7 THE Police Sports Association beat the Hospital Assistants' Union by one goal to nil In a Junior Division League &oceer match at Thomson Rca<* yesterday. QT. Patricks znd St. Anthony's will meet In first and second team soccer antche-s today, first teams at S.J.I, and second teams
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    38 7 picture. The finish of the I',-mile ra~- r <v 'lass 2 stay~r- at Bukit ii Tiah ,c»terday, sh;* ins Bln<? Prin* (T-nkard) v '.nm D^k (LinsdowiM with Vlerril (Charles) third and Sunbeam II (J. Donnelly) fourth Free Press
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    New record speculation
    141 7 From Bill Macklin pRItKET fins are speculating M to whether John Luugridfe will set up a new record this season. The present record Is six successive cen*urie3, held Jointly by C. B. Try. who did it In 1901. and Sir L>on Hr.idman m 1938 and 1939. But
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    DERBY ENTRANT STILL UNBEATEN
    119 7 MR. J. A Dewars unbeaien English Derby entry. Faux Tirade, won the Newmaric?t Stakes run over a mile \r.d a quarter yesterday. Mr. D. S Kennedy's Transatlantic was second half a length behind, ar.d the Aga Khan's H:r.dostan third, a further three lengths away. Five ran.
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    S.T.T.A. MEETING
    46 7 A MEETING cf OH Singapore Table Tennis Association council will be h?M at the Chir eso V.M.C.A. at 5 13 this evening. Clubs and associations are requested to send m cutriei for the S.T.T.A. championships c t >r]y The closing date Is May 11
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    Scores his fourth successive 100
    401 7 THE feature of yesterday's cricket programme was undoubtedly the performance of 39-year-old John Langridge m hitting his fourth successive century for Sussex to bring his aggregate near to the 500 mark with May less than a fortnight old. Another outstanding performance, of course, was that
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    SIONG BOO A.A.
    48 7 'THE annual general meeting of Sion^ 800 AthleI tic Association will be held j on Saturday, May 21, at 2 p.m. A dinner will follow at 8 pjß. to celebrate the 23rd anniversary. The Association proposes to, raise the monthly subscription from $1 to $2.
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    Gypsy Boy and Toboggan gain maiden wins
    573 7 By TRESPASSER TWO horses Toboggan and Gypsy Boy scored their maiden wins on the Malayan Turf m the fourth day's races of the Singapore Turf Club Summer (Governor's Cup) meeting at Bukit Tim .h yesterday. The day's sport saw two big upsets. Blue
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    MALAYANS TO PLAY IN U.K. GOLF
    243 7 POLFERS from as far aJkld U as Malaya, Ceyioc and Soi.h Africa, m addition to the usual Btronß American continent, have entered for the British amateur championship, being played at Portmarnock. near Dublin, from May 23 to 28. Frank Stranahan, son ol a millionaire
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    25 7 picture. Gypsy Boy (Turner) coming m after winning the third race at Bukit Timah yesterday. Gypsy Boy paid 569 on the win tote.- Free Press
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    Khalsa cricket XI
    59 7 'THE following will represent S:n gapore Khalsa Association r l cricket against R.A.F. Sembawar.R on Sunday at Sembawang: idokhan Singh tcapt), Tharam Singh Gurdial Singh. M. B. SHgh Mahinder Singh. Pardumen Singh Mewa Singh, Balwan Singh S Nair. O K. Gosair. B. F. bcln Reserves: Menjit Singh
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    CA team improve goal average
    254 7 Chinese Athletic b: KtMfc THERE was again a glut of goals at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday, when Chinese Athletic beat REME six two m a Senior League game. REME were hardly a match for their opponents, who piled up a goal margin which placed them,
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    Big sweep
    58 7 THE draw on yesterday 'j Eig Sweep at Bukit Timah r*-^.t.>d as follows: Total P001— 5195.390 First: No. *****1 ($87.4*5. Second: No. *****2 $43,962} Third: No. *****5 ($24,423) Starters ($3,052 earh). Nos.: *****8, *****8. *****1, *****4. *****3. *****0. *****5. *****4. Consolation prizes ($1,465 each) No*.: *****7. 1M670. *****4.
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    RUGBY RESULT
    20 7 RADFORD Ncrthrn beat D wslf bury by 10 points to 9 m a Pugby League fixture yesterday.— Reuter
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    Yesterday's results at a glance
    500 7 RESULTS of yester -y's Singapore races a' a glance are: RACE ONE Class 3. Div. 4 (j lory A: i Is <li SIR KEITH 1.01 457—133) Far... 1 (3) LI SAX >t\ID I 04 '552—2091 StiiiM: 2 (4) JOHN I. 1 LI. (373— IT.', <
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    BIRTH
    22 8 GREENWOOD: On May 11, 1949. at Bungsar Hospital. Kuala Lumpur, to Ann (nee Rawest, v of Edward M. Greenwood. a son.
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    ENGAGEMENT
    47 8 THE ENGAGEMENT took place on 9th May. 1949. b t w e c n Koh Lye Ann. •Ufst son of Mr. Koh Beng Qu-*e and the late Mrs. Koh Beng Quee. to Lilly Ong Chve* Kiat. second daughter of Mr', and Mrs. Ong Van Lc »ne.
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    MARRIAGE
    41 8 RMI.EY-OIFFTN: On Saturd^ April 30. 1948. at Southwartc O'hedraL William, elder son of M: A: Mrs. W. C. Bailey of Ifnira Court 5.W .17. to Georglna. on'v dauehter of Mr. Mrs. O. \V Gtfßa of Harrington Gardens. S W 7.
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    NO MILITARY AID TO BURMA
    451 8 Nehru denies intervention LONDON, Thursday. AID promised by Britain, India, Pakistan and Ceylon to the Thakin Nu Government to restore law and order m revolt-torn Burma does not include military intervention, the Indian Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, announced m New Delhi yesterday. It is learned
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    Attacks on Bao Dai's men
    98 8 SAIGON. Thursday. ONE European and 23 Asiatics were killed by acts of terrorism m Cochin-China during March and April, the Frencn announced yesterday, adding that such acts were decreasing. In the two months 45 grenades were, thrown and 26 armed attacks were made. Terrorism was
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    FASTER THAN SOUND
    125 8 FASTER THAN SOUND WASHINGTON. Thurs. A MERICAN pilots have flown r\ "hundreds of miles per hour beyond the speed <>f sound. Mr. W. S. Symington, U.S. Secretary for Air. told Hie Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday. He asked the Committee to approve a new programme which would include the construction
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    Arms to Arabs ban off soon
    108 8 London, Than. FX)REIGN Secretary. Mr. Ernest Bevin. told Parliament yesterday that he hoped the time for raising the embargo on sending arms to Transjordan vould not long be delayed. He was replying to Mr. Philips Price, Labour, who asked whether m view of the
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    'Boycott the Olympics' call
    95 8 MANILA. Thursday. CONGRESSMAN Francisco Perfecto, author of a re solution opposing Philippine participation m the 1956 Melbourne Olympics m view of Australian racial discrimination, told the United Press that he was planning to amend his own resolution to insert an Invitation to all \sian nations to
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    Spain still a Fascist state, says Acheson
    190 8 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. 'rill! Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, said 1 today that Spain must go a long way towards restoring basic civil rights before she could hope to be admitted into the family of free European nations. The U.S.. he said, would
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    52 8 photo. I.oui* Luberoff Mis at the instrument which he invented m Philadelphia and for which he claims many things. The instrument, according to Luberoff. is a combination piano, radio, record player and recorder. He says it is the answer for mothers who despair of keeping their children at piano practice.
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    FR INDIA GOVERNOR
    20 8 M Jean-Georges Cambon has been named Governor of French India m succession to M. Charles Baron. Reuter
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    15 8 The death of Sir Kenneth Kemp, formerly Advony»e General, Bombay, was announced m London yesterdiy.
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    Were their faces red?
    141 8 A PAINTING entitled "Figure Eight Skegness "—hailed rV by art critics at a Loughboro (Leicestershire) exhibition and described by the Leicestershire Mail as "a fine specimen of modernism hv Barrow-on-Sea artist Thomas Warbis" has turned out to have been the work of a flve-year-old boy. He
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    FOOD FOR FILIPINOS
    31 8 The United Nations will ship 4,000.000 fish liver oil capsules and 250.000 pounds of dried skim milk to the Philippines soon for a chilH feeding programme. A .P.
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    Discriminating burglars
    56 8 KOREAN police said yesterday that thieves broke into the National Museum m Seoul and stole eight priceless 1,500 year old pieces of court jewellery. The theft resulted m the loss of five small gold rings, two gold bracelets and one gold and glass necklace, all dating back to
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    Thailand again
    33 8 A ROYAL proclamation yesterday m Bangkok declared a state of emergency. At the same time. Premier Phibun Songkhram issued a declaration changing the country's name to Thailand instead of Siam. U.P.
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    S'hai bookings refused
    18 8 In Hongkong yesterday the Chinese National Aviation Corporation would not book air passages to Shanghai.
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    NEW 'MIRACLE OF ROSES' IN P.I.
    156 8 NEW 'MIRACLE OF ROSES' IN P.I. MANILA, Thursday rpHE 'Miracle of the Roses m Lipa, Batangas which is continuing to attract thousands of people to that cathedral town, now has a counterpart m a house m Manila's Sampaloc district near Santo Tonw University compound. The house, where the rose petals
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    China asks U.S. for Asian pact
    359 8 WASHINGTON, Thursday. THE Chines* Ambassador, Dr. Wellington Koo, yesterday appealed to the United States Government to sponsor an Asian alliance similar to the Atlantic pact to indicate to the enemies of democracy that the United States is concerned equally with Communist advances m Asia
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    54 8 photo. Lea by a nun bearin* a bowl of incense. J*P»ne«r Buddhist Priests are here seen carrying offeriugs of food m a procession m Tokyo held preliminary to the choo* mr of a site for a new Buddhist shrine. The fifts were then placed at the location of the proposed
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    Grandma sets new air record
    69 8 PARIS. Thurs. A GRANDMOTHER. Ma dame Andree Depe\ ron. 51. set up a new world record for nonstop ;iv when she flew 6.2* kilo metce<> from Prance t«t Baluchistan, according t« the Mont dr Marsan Air port authorities. Mine. Depeyron'k goal Wit Karachi hut fatigue
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    K.L.M. RESUME S'HAI RUN
    57 8 THE X L.M Baiavia- Shanghai service will be resumed on May 19, Aneta. the Dutch news agency, reports Planes, however, will fly up to Canton via Singapore and Bangkok. The service, which was inaugurated during the latter half of last year, was luspended last month when
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    Airlift will continue
    130 8 Airlift will continue LONDON Tr,, JHE Anglo -W x airlift into Berlin? ried 1,593.686 ton** supplies m 1 95.530 fl£j Mr. Arthur HendS Britain's Aii M: told a news ronf< London yeste In the 318 <;.. airlift began Briti*. made 63,612 ft. 369.347 ton* "The Bra. m flights and been
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    Warns against optimism over Berlin
    90 8 Warns against optimism over Berlin WASHINGTON REPUBLICAN live Walter J missionary m Cta In the Hoiu>e y< publican John L ing against ©fer-oj cause of the U Berlin blockade. Mr. Lodge had most interesting I signs of agreem^ ::j Berlin appeared when the Chine>- C armies were n greatest victories
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    BOMBAY STRIKE OF
    23 8 A one-day toke: rtzfke o* Bomb;.;. called Dv the Don minated Bombay Tiade I r.'on dy. to ma*e:ialise v Reuter
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      222 8 SALE LAST 3 DAYS (Up U 14th May) GREAT REDUCTIONS |ust Receive Antique Screens. Chests. Furniture. Camphor Chests. Ivory. China Sirverware Novelties, etc PLEASE CALL EARLY WATCHES, CLOCKS SPARE PARH WholMalf and Retail. liwJeriakinfi repaid WOO HING BROTHERS 1 86, SOUTH BRIDGE RD. PHONE 41i9j THE MOTOR VEHICLES (C«»eraal Use)
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      84 8 VME SAINT by Leslie Charteris f v^ T co*4«^w 1 M 1_ /NO/ «fT tTHMOUrY yM«.TIMFUt7^r\ L AlLf ID CONViNCI IMC^COOt SMAff If SUS IMR |7ft WfHNT MMAGE^ A^ C LAUiI •>•*•) fO» Mffff wt'tg J n#/| OtOfW MOT lfn*H*C< THAT I WAS MOT THtJ^ N, DOCTDt?^ lur Of COUKf
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