The Singapore Free Press, 26 May 1949

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE MALAYA 1:.453. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, MAX 26, 1949. PKH t 10 ihMS
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    REDS BATTLE TO STOP 'DUNKIRK'
    461 1 Fight rages at Woosung SHANGHAI, Thursday. JHE Battle of Shanghai roared towards its climax this morning as violent Communist! cannonading was turned on Woosung to prevent Shanghai's outlet to the sea from becoming a second Dunkirk. Nationalist troous fought desperately to keep the Shanghai Woosung
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    U.K. VOTE PROPOSAL
    23 1 I IS t a I '•v -g -he t r i r f profa ats who rtni ."ire Honz U.P.
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    FIRE VICTIMS SEEK RELIEF
    26 1 it I T R>p.,»ter S Of floors i I Street on' roachsd 'departI v^s, rice md identity 1 -.:med The relief ber.
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    Squatter shot
    22 1 ■VJ Kr porter I- ran i I on 1 ',i a police w i vesterI, ted '?nored a MUwi Chinese
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    'Chinese still help bandits'
    608 1 'Chinese still help bandits' QUESTIONS IN COMMONS LONDON, Thursday. IN the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Thomas Keid (Lab.) asked the Colonial I nder- Secretary to what extent the Malayan Chinese and Malays cooperated with the authorities in resisting extortion, blackmail, sabotage and murder by Communists. Mr. Rees- Williams replied:
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    44 1 picture. i tut U'igAtJ cf. the Singapore Artillery Regiment's saluting battery firms the first of a 21-gun salute this morning to mark Queen Mary's 82nd birthday. The battery's four 25-pounder guru are seen here perched on the top of Pulau Blakang Mati. Free Press
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    UK protest to Nationalists
    97 1 LONDON, Thursday. rE British Consul-Oeneral in Shanghai. Mr. R. W. Urquhart. has protested to the local Chinese Government military commander against the commandeering of British merchant vessels for transport of Nationalist troops in the Whangpoo River, a Foreign Office spokesman announced yesterday. Most of tne Bnush-llcensed
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    Suspected Reds
    33 1 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE police arrested five Chinese, suspected members of the Malayan Communist Party under the Emergency Regulations yesterday. Seven Chinese were arrested in connection with secret society activities.
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    SALUTE FOR QUEEN MARY
    60 1 Free Press Staff Reporter It took the saluting battery of the Ist Singapore Artillery Regiment exactly 3 mins and 30 seconds this morning to fire a 21-gun salute marking Queen Mary's 82nd birthday today The salute was fired at Pulau Blakang Mati from four 25-pounder guns.
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    BUNCHE DECLINES
    27 1 Dr. Ralph Bunche, acting United Nations mediator for Palestine yesterday declined an offer from President Truman of appointment as an Assistant Secretary of State.— Reuter
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    UNKNOWN
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    BRITISH EMBASSY WOMEN 'LOST'
    156 1 LONDON, Thursday. SIX people, including two wives of Britons, employed by the British Embassy in Moscow have disappeared and another has attempted suicide because of "persecution" by. Soviet police, a British Foreign Office spokesman revealed yesterday. A note handed to the Russian Foreign Minister, Mr. Andrei
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    Federation arrests
    21 1 Twelve people were arrested in Perak nine In Selangor and one in Trengganu in the 24 hours ended yesterday.
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    U.K. reply on reparations
    96 1 LONDON Thursday. THE British Foreign Undersecretary, Mr. Christopher Mayhew, told the Commons yesterday that the question of cancelling Japanese reparations would be discussed by the Far Eastern Commission. Answering questions. Mr. Mayhew said there had been no Anglo-American consultations prior to the United States decision of
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    Love notes cost money
    87 1 MYSTERY "love notes" in the diaries of several businessmen here cost their owners a lot in income tax arrears. When arrested on trivial charges their notebooks were inspected by the Police. The police asked the meaning of mysterious notes. The men replied that they were "love
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    Powers' joint policy on Chinese Reds
    186 1 WASHINGTON, Thursday. THE United States has proposed that "like minded" nations should join in framing a common policy towards the Communists in China, under which none of these nations should grant recognition without previous consultation with the others It is learned that the democratic
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    HUSH-HUSH ON H.K. DEFENCES
    264 1 1 LONDON, Thursday. AS British tank forces sailed yesterday for Hong Kong and it was stated that units of the 27th Anti-Aircraft Regiment will accompany the 27th Infantry Brigade there next month, it was announced in the Commons that "it will not be in the national
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    FRENCH FLYER ACQUITTED
    44 1 MAJOR Jean Chatelard, the man who flew Gen. Charles de Gaulle to London In 1940, was yesterday acquitted on charges of collaboration. He was accused of having worked for the Germans while flying on the Marseil-les-Dakar route during the occupation Reuter
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    GURKHAS JOIN KARENS
    118 1 GURKHAS JOIN KARENS RANGOON. Thursday. BURMA Radio reported yesterday that 60 Gurkhas had Joined Karen insurgents at Papun, In the Salween Hills east of Pegu. It said that the Gurkhas had been "inveigled" into joining. The 300 Gurkhas in the Burma army are of Burmese domicile and most are claimed
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    REFUSED TO LEAVE S'PORE
    66 1 TWENTY-three sailors from 1 the 6.214-ton United Slates steamer Flying Arrow have been found guilty at New York of refusing to put to sea at Singapore on January 17. In a civilian coast guard hearing they received technical suspension of their papers and three were totally
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    YEH PROMOTED
    22 1 The Chinese Nationalist Cabinet in a meeting in Canton yesterday appointed Vice Foreign Minister, George Yeh, as acting Foreign Minister.—
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    KING HAS NO LIMP NOW
    66 1 KING GEORGE inspected a parade of the First Battalion of the Welsh Guards at Buckingham Palace yesterday walking the whole length of the ranks without any trace of a limp or difficulty in walking. It is only 10 weeks since an operation was performed on
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    AID PLAN MAY WIN APPROVAL
    68 1 A COMPROMISE proposal to give the United States* foreign aid programme rimosi as much money to spend next year as Presidc.it Truman requested, wen the tentative approval of Hou^e leaders in Washington yesterday. Republicans and Democrats aiike indicated they would approve the proposal which would
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    AM C.-IN-C. FOR S'PORE
    43 1 lIR Marshal Sir Hugh Lioyd, British Air Officer C-vn-mander-in-Chief in the Far East, left Northolt air port yesterday by a special Yoric plane for Singapore. He has been attending a London conference of the Chief of Air Staff. Reuter
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    Rubber prices
    56 1 A SPECIAL Market correkroodent give* tbe prices of rubber (lo cenU per Ib.) at 11 am tndaj M foQowt: Bayers Seller*. No i K S S Spot loo** 33', U% F.o.b. in bales June No. 1 R.S.S. 33 1 33*4 No. 2 R.S.S. 31*4 32 No. 3 B.S.S.
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    Acheson prods Vyshinsky
    146 1 Acheson prods Vyshinsky PARIS, Thurs. MR. Dean Acheson, the United States Secretary of State, last night challenged Russia at the Big Four meeting to disclose what the Soviet zone could contribute in any scheme for German unity. Resisting a call by Mr. Vyshinsky, the Soviet Foreign Minister, for renewed fourpower
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    QUICK LOOKS
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    The Tricks Of The Trade
    597 2  - The Tricks Of The Trade PETER QUENNELL Reviews new books in U.K. MICHAEL Knowle wns one of those wanly distinguished. gracefully disillusioned, iind whimsically well educated youngish middle-aged men who do such tremendous execution in the work of women novelists. Caroline Seward, who, as soon as he encountered her at
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    MODEST MAIDENS
    21 2 n*mm**m**«u _J *DONT YOU UAVE A \&W DIAPV? IM 4TILL WCITIW6 ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO ME LAST YtARI 0
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    SHE SWORE REVENGE
    703 2 ALTHOUGH Arabs and Jews had been enemies for more than a thousand years, a threatened attack by the Roman Legions forced them to unite their strength to confront Tiberius and the proof of their alliance was the marriage of the Zewish Prince Antipas and the Arabian Princess
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    Bridge Problem
    378 2 A BRIDGE player cannot afford to value his cards solely by honour tricks or point counts. These methods, extremely helpful though they may be. do not take Into account the fart or of distribution which contribute* almost half of the trick-taking power of the average deal. In today's
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    The Middle Close Always Pays
    532 2  -  JOHN HALL Bj JUST what 3i years of Socialism and six vears of war have done to British living standards has been put on record by a 28--year-old Oxford economist, Mr. Dudley Seers. In a fact-finding survey covering the years of change 1938-1948, Economist Seers
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      21 2 UNDER REVIEW The Willow Cabin, by Pamela Frankau (Hcinem.tiin IDs. 6d.). Repent in Haste, by John P. Marquand, (Robert Hale. 65.)
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      366 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR ing what you have. Since > out intuitions are exceptionally strong, you must always heed them. To disregard them would be to discard a precious gift which many do not have. You may listen to the advice of others. But when it comes to acting, do as
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      132 2 raiso listeninh SINGAPORE (BLUE NETWORK) 484 and 41.7 metres. Emergency news from FA.. at 10 a.m. run ay 10. News from K.u»;a Lumpur, 10.55 Schools: 3tories 1. Singing Together 2. Literature 8.9. 12. j noon Programmes in Malay, 1. Lunch-time music by ihe Radio Orchestra including selections from 'Finian's Raiuoow
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      277 2 U.S.A. to Singapore dc Malaya for your entertainment, 9.30 News. 8.45 Grand Hotel. No. 11— Albert Bandler The Palm Court Orchestra with William Herbert (Tenor). 10.15 Voices in Harmony —The Kings Men, 10.30 Dance Music by Earl Sheldon Hal Mclntyre Orchs. TOMORROW 10. News from Kuala Lumpur, 1. Half hour
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      144 2 Speaking (BBC): H-00 Dance Music; 11.15 Special Dispatch (BBC): 11.30 News News Analysis (BBC); 11.45 Pavilian Playn-s (BBC) 12.00 Close Down. AUSTRALIA 16. 19. 25. and 31 Metres. TODAY 4 Music for Teatime with the Queen's Hall Light Orchestra 4.30 Australian News 5.30 Forces Favourites 6 The SwiniT Sho-v-com-piled by
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      18 2 mi m i Is?* *wc SI MS -J j *AS"f3EE>- 7* *SL'iE»srie*r -=s? J SBT Or^*v Vl^2/ 1
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    COLONIAL OFFICE FLAYS U.N. MISSION
    357 3 COLONIAL OFFICE FLAYS U.N. MISSION 'Misleading exaggerations 9 A UNITED Nations Mission is charged with "gross rk and misleading exaggerations" in a hotly worded statement issued from the Colonial Office. The Mission was sent by the United Nations Trusteeship Council to Tanganyika— which was German before the 1914 war— and
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    28 3 Ir-t. in the third week of her Italian shown around the ruins of the .r ll ill outside Rome by Mr. Ward •>! thr Bri ish School of Archaeology.
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    They thought gun runner was mad
    72 3 They thought gun runner was mad rharged with running guns into ir.iil from Karachi was at Bow-street station >uied to have disguised arms and is fruit and vegetables" and anti-air-gins .in **chc€Jt* ring the flight, said Mr. Stephen- ting fw the Ministry of Civil Aviation, think he was mad. l
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    India has a 'synthetic rice' factory
    204 3 India has a 'synthetic rice' factory i.tDIAN feed experts are trying to produce "synthet rice "—food grains, inaae out of a mixture oi tapioca or sweet potato flour, with groundnut cake flour and wheat. Experiments ia the manufacture of synthjtic cereals are now being conduct ?a at a lact^ry in
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    H.K. PRESSMEN VISIT BRITAIN
    30 3 H.K. PRESSMEN VISIT BRITAIN I Secretary par- 1 of I Kong. who are i I nt Id: 'Prosocial.. and polif the i Pd upon i U has rk of Reuter
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    Baronet 'found' near coal site
    37 3 Baronet 'found' near coal site inn. one ted by i T.iceri. being I check I open-cast re I uing. j L old Sir' i late Sir i Lord 1 K^- tt»lMr| a Lon- i a»hr. actor: Reuter
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    U.K. PIANOS BEST IN WORLD
    60 3 THE Argentine bought £300.--000 worth of British pianos last vear 24 uer cent, of total Diano excor:s Mr. John Edwards, Parliamentary Secretary to ttu Bo^rd of Trade, said in Lonuon 'British Dianos are the b?st in the world." he said "The i snob value still
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    Soviet has 11,000 'heroes'
    279 3 ffVHERE are 11,000 "Heroes 1 of the Soviet Union." This leading Soviet title was established by government decree 15 years ago. It is defined as the "highest decree of distinction" and is granted only to persons who have distinguished themselves by extraordinary heroism whether in civilian
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    U.S. sought tin in Alaska
    118 3 AMERICA'S desperat* need f* for tin during the war led to exploration of abandon- ed mines in Alaska's Potato Mountain, the a S. Bureau of Mines has revea'.ea Production there ceased in 1920, after 1,500 tons of tin concentrate has been found along Buck Creek
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    GERMANY'S JOBLESS
    23 3 Unemployment In the American and British zones of Germany has reached a postwar peak with 1,200,000 out, of work. A. P.
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    42 3 The Liberian Ambassador to Washington Mr. Charles D. B. Kin?, leaving the White House after presenting his credentials to President Truman. Liberia's envoy was only recently elevated to the status of an ambassador. For 22 months he served as Minister in Washington.
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    MURDER Could Not Kill
    1088 3  - MURDER Could Not Kill GREGORY BAXTER m The story no /u/\—Sherwood Dexter, UJS businessman, is shot dead while driving xdth hi: daughter Laurette Dexter, near Marble Arch, London at midnight. Kobin Foster, an artist, see* the killer run from Dexter's saloon to a nearby limousine but is thrown off the
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    'Cruel' wife had too many men friends
    270 3 'Cruel wife had too many men friends —DIVORCE JUDGE A WIFE'S association with other men even though there was no evidence of misconductwas held in Manchester to be sufficiently cruel to the husband for his divorce action to succeed. Mr. Justice Wilraer gave this ruling, the first time a cruelty
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    JAP DEFENCE FORCE DENIAL
    31 3 "IHE State Department has denied press reports that the United States was considering creating a Japanese Defence Force, but said an increase in Japanese police tion.- Reuter
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    GERMANS SHUN THEATRES
    214 3 ALTHOUGH Germans are as hungry for plays and music as ever German theatres face an unprecedented financial crisis. The reason Is as 80 per cent, of German theatres were destroyed during the war barns, cinemas, gymnasiums an.l private houses have had to be converted into theatres. And
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    THE FOOD OF LOVE
    110 3 LOV Simon's Fireside Inn" in New York is divided into five candle-lit rooms. Each has a fire place and there are special corners for newlyweds, mnivrrsar> -minded couples and the "boss-secretary pair. "Each requires a different setting, you see, for each is in a different .stare
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    To girls he says, 'don't wed the boss'
    130 3 To girls he says, 'don't wed the boss' A MARRIAGE expert knew a waitress who might marry her managing director. His advice disclosed at recent conference was: "Stick to your own class "It's no good for a girl who enJoys eating fish and chips out of a newspaper for her
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      115 3 T.'JJIDJBtLJMjMIL'IC 1 ill m M^ t^msmtsm muam m j crypticT: MESSAGE CaAi CINDERS, finding < i l^ himself broke, wrote to his friend, Tweeny Wyse, osfcfny for the loan of ten pounds. He receiv- i ed the following telegram in reply; OS AM USED i TWtftf WrS£ OW^D /SON <
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, May 26, 1949 Received—in working order
    624 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, May 26, 1949 Received in working order TWO weeks bemnd schedule the Communists have marched into Shanghai, posing the wooden palisade without one snoi ol defiance being fired a-jain^t them by the Nationalist, whose leaders to th? end kept up the facade of "ail-out" defence.
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    HK hands out the bullet-proof waistcoats
    877 4  - HK hands out the bullet-proof waistcoats GRAHAM STANFORD \by HONGKONG *****. 11 To the 11,000 European inhabitants of this tense British colony, hemmed in by the Communist march in China, the number is as well known as 999 is to every Singaporean. Three years ago you could ring that number
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    ON THE SPOT
    23 4 What'll I tell him? He says he's ready to place an order for a bulk purchase of British air tifte."
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    CANADA—U.S. AIR PACT SOON
    72 4 CANADA— U.S. AIR PACT SOON /CANADA will use the newly \j acquired air-base at Gander. Newfoundland as a bargaining weapon to get air concessions from the United States at negotiations opening at New York yesterday. The huge base Is used by three U.S. airlines on transAtlantic nights. Their rights expire
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    QUEEN MOTHER IS 82 TODAY
    727 4  -  CASTER L. DAVIDSON By QUEEN Mother Mary, hale and hearty, celebrating her 82nd birthday today, is still a dominant figure of Britain's ruling dynasty. The tall, stately dowager Queen is the great granddaughter of one British King, the widow of another and mother of two
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    IT SEEMS TO ME....
    696 4  -  POLITICO By FATHERS have been fair game in America for many a year, but "Father's Week, 1949", will eclipse the memory of most weeks of this kind. The assault is savage, the salesmanship remorseless. The Father's Day Council of New York, which made itself responsible for
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    15 4 "Thats what comes of arming the Downing-street police-little holes in our hats London Express Service
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  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR
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      452 4 ]t| AY we correct iti -politico" who referred in your columns to "the exhibitors' contention that trash pays and good Kinema does not pay in Singapore at all"? If '-Politico" will read more closely the Exhibitors' Association's Memorandum to Government, to which he refers, he will find that
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      18 4 FAITH I He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth. Psakns 96, 13.
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      104 4 HEAR these tf /t- j SUPERB W* M RECORDINGS SYMPHONY No. 6 IN F MAJOR O (Beethoven) Bruno Walter Philharmonic Orchestra TRISTAN AND ISOLDE (W;igner Arthur Rochin.sky cond. symphony Orch. of V N Heltn Traubel iSopi LX 8517 21 A VILLAGE ROMEO AM) Jl Royal Philharmonic Or< nr n<i b
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    Textile traders to visit Japan
    62 5 Textile trader s to visit Japan free Press Chinese Correspondent KOAPOR* Chinese S importers ha\e a trade delegain to survey industry there alt e purchases on r.d the 1 q tx cause v? that Ip 1 se textiles of cloth and ivery oi through h >mifac- < of Japimpetc with
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    STOLE HANDBAG
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    HON. VICE-CONSUL
    14 5 H. K has i honorary Sweden :n r. thf O:f. \dG rnment.
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    SHANGHAI SAILINGS SUSPENDED
    374 5 SHANGHAI SAILINGS SUSPENDED Decisions in Singapore Free Press Staff Reporter EARLY all the major shipping lines in Singapore have suspended their scheduled sailings to Shanghai into which Chinese Communists marched yesterday. Officials of some lines told the Free Press that they were still awaiting news from their head offices as
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    44 5 picture. 1 f ECHANICS work on a Beaufighter's engines in readi- t tilV 168 r n i attack on 5« bandits This picture was taken at Kuala Lumpur airfield during the RAF's hiirgest ever biltz earlier in the week. *v.*.r.s dik i Free Press
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    FEDERATION JOBS NOT ATTRACTIVE
    125 5 Pr«C Press Staff Reporter I U Commissioner for Labour, Mr. G. W. yesterday that labourers were tilling to leave the Colony to take jobs in the are amongst the highest In South-East Asia. But very few are Interested. The work offering In the Federation Is mainly
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    23 5 THE marriage took place last Sunday at the Singapore Chinese commercial and Industrial School of Mr. Ong Boon Poh and Miss Annie Fang.
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    54 5 picture. A COCKTAIL party was given by the United States Information Service in Singapore for Mr. Richard A. Poole,' officer in charge of the new I 'SIS office in Kuala Lumpur, and Mr. St. John Donn-Byrne of the Commis-sioner-General's Office. Picture shows Mr. Bland Calder. C.S. Consul, chatting with Mrs.
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    'Evasiveness' of Govt. attacked
    366 5 Ex-PALESTINE POLICE Free Press Stan* Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Wednesday. QUESTIONS asked by the United Planting Association of Malaya on the "influx" of ex-Palestine Police into the Federation and on the status and service conditions of these men have been left unanswered by the Federation Government. Revealing
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    HORROR ON THE STAGE
    175 5 LAST night the Little Theatre Players put on a private showing of the latest production of three one-act plays from "Grand Guignol." The first, entitled "Coals of Fire." worked up to its climax by using dialogue to create a tense situation. It embodied most of what
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    'FLESH AND BLOOD WILL ENDURE'
    312 5 Free Press Staff Reporter JOIIORE BAHRU. Thurs. THE scarcity of Chinese la the special constabulary guarding rubber estates "is remarkable, more particularly In view of the total numbers f their community in the country and the total sums of nionev they ma:;.? a. id tak^
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    Modern engines to fight fires in Singapore
    329 5 Modern engines to fight fires in Singapore Free Press Staff Reporter OECAUSE of the great increase in the number of fires in Singapore since the end of the war, the Municipal Fire Brigade will be provided with two of the latest model Dennis fire engines, with all-metal, fully enclosed bodies
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    25 5 picture. THE president of the Singapore Municipal Services Union, Mr. D. E. Siddons, who is sailing next week to study co-operative housing in Britain Free
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    Opposed to birth control
    155 5 Free Press Staff Reporter MR. SANDY G. Piilay (Progressive) said last niglH that at least five Catholic Singapore Municipal Commission* rs, including himself, would speak for the opposition in the Municipal debate on birth control tomorrow. At the debate, Mr. D. Robertson < Progressive will move
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    Law vs. gunmen: 'no half way'
    302 5 Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Thursday. npHE onus is on the Government to ensure that not only is law and order restored but that it is restored at the earliest possible moment and, when it is restored, it must be maintained, says the
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      132 5 Airmails are expected to tern b Singapore today from: the U.K. Aden. Africa, Arabia. Canada. Europe, India, Iran, Iraq. Palestine. Pakistan, the U.S.. Central arm South America. Ausualiu. New Zealand. Ceylon. Siam and Mcdan. Closing time for posting airmails at the G.P.O. today is: to the UK., Aden. Africa. Aiaum,
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    RUBBER INDUSTRY 'MUST CUT COSTS'
    456 6 RUBBER INDUSTRY 'MUST CUT COSTS' Call to labour to co-operate Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Thursday. TN the face of synthetic competition, the hope l of the Malayan rubber industry "lies in reducing the costs of production to a point where the manufacturer is attracted by our quotations," the
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    N.Y. STOCKS FIRM AFTER RECOVERY
    148 6 N.Y. STOCKS FIRM AFTER RECOVERY NEW YORK, Thurs. IMPROVED bidding in the latter stages enabled the New York Stock Exchange to rebound to firm close after both industrial and rail averages had broken through importance points by narrow margins during the morning. Short-covering and some bar-gain-hunting developed in better volume
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    ALIENS BARRED
    57 6 Free Press Staff Reporter IT is the policy of the Federation Government not to permit alien unskilled labour to enter the country, the Johor* Planters' Association has been notified. The Association has received this reply to an approach it made to -the Federation Government for bringing in 500
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    WELFARE COUNCIL
    16 6 Mr. L. Cresson has been appointed a member of the Singapore Social Welfare Council.
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    FINED $1,250
    37 6 A youth Yeh Ah Kow, was fined $1,250. or ten weeks imprisonment, in the Singapore Fourth Police Magistrate's Court yesterday, for being found In possession of 153 chap-ji-ki lottery tickets, and a chap-ji-ki ticket schedule.
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    INTELLIGENCE TEST SOLUTION
    23 6 THERE are two pointed clues to the enciphered message D- coded, It runs. Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
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    CHINESE REGISTER AS CITIZENS
    195 6 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. pHINESE head the list of r"( ciernl citizens registered in Kuala Lumpur since registration began a fortnight ago. Registration authorities In Kuala Lumpur believe that the tendency demonstrated in Kuala Lumpur for Chinese o form the majority of the
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    Prices drop as buyers hold off
    503 6 lLondonStock Exchans^ LONDON, Thursday. MOST sections in the London Stock Exchange moved easier yesterday in quiet trading, says Reuters financial correspondent. Buyers were again holding off and the few sePers that appeared were sufficient to depress prices. Rubber and tin shares declined further The
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    Court advice to Police
    80 6 Police were told yesterday by Mr. M. H. MacDougal Fourth Singapore Police Court magistrate, that Illegal gambling could be more effectively suppressed by charging tenants and owners of premises where such activity took place, rather than those who went there to gamble He said this when
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    BIG PROFITS FOR OPIUM SMUGGLERS
    229 6 Free Press Staff He port? i KUALA LtMPI R, VYt -dnesday THE suppression of the smuggling, distribution" and consumption of opium and chandu w a n most difficult task handled by the Federal Customs' Department Preventive Branch in u said the annual report of the
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    NEW COLONY COUNCILLOR
    118 6 Fre* Press Staff Reporter MR. H. B. Roper-Caldbeck has been uominated to succeed Mr. E. M f. Fergusson as the representative of I the Singapore Chamber of j Commerce on the Legisia- tlve Council. Mr Fergusson Is at present on leave in England, and 1 c to
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    HEVER STARTLES HIS FORMER COUNTY
    439 7 HEVER STARTLES HIS FORMER COUNTY Middlesex lose 4 wkts. for 32 Hever, the 24-year-old London-born fast-medium bowler, whom Middlesex allowed to join Glamorgan a year ago, startled his former county at Lord's yesterday by dismissing Jack Robertson, Bill Edrich and Denis Compton in five overs at a personal cost of
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    74 7 Ft -It. Haold O. Jones, popular Physical Fitness Officer attached to \ir Headquarters. R.A.F. Ma! i>a at fhangi. who is leaving for Britain shortly. In a farewell message he says that Singapore has a bright future in sport. Emphasis is being given to proper coaching and encouragement Most important of
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    RECORD HELD FOR DERBY?
    94 7 RECORD HELD FOR DERBY? a Epsoin Derby i up a record num--1 ,m the final s that 39 of entries have to accept, which Is the previous H in the 1862 i ractacus. ice is worth record for the .il receive £500 for the is more than by the French
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    IRISH 2,000 GUINEAS
    13 7 IRISH 2,000 GUINEAS p#R BOMB- i ill at 4-1 Mr Some t Reuter
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    WOODBURN WINS YORKSHIRE CUP
    29 7 I Wcxxi V lun r I Hag Mm I nphrq de ":.:rd. S-x S fa- 4-. P.idinj Mill. r -i':art^r c fh tro !*»~e*h« Reuter
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    KHAISA ASSN. XI
    35 7 T n .s a 1 t ttafl CMoMI •afcnday a- 2 m rn 'he KhnNa Sir.gh Gurdial B S. Sohv -.r; .'<« s r^th tsh So'i;ide-, -h And Mo- Rr r! <i^ nd
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    Jollilads win
    32 7 N A Group I. cer match on und at St. Road yesterday bea: Chinese Hurthree goals to nil r ne three goals w re first half. The Hu^ein and Sa-
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    TENNIS FIXTURE
    102 7 >pHE following ha# been solectel to represent the Malay Sports Association. SliiK^pore, in a friendly tennis fixture i gainst the RAF. Sergeants' Mess en Sunday at Seletflr (players and reserves are to be at the clubhouse no*; later than 1 p.m. lor transport): I A. Alsarolf and Bostam
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    MODERATE DIVIDENDS
    168 7 MODERATE dividends were paii ll the second i^v 3 races o* the Pena'g Turf Club Summer M eting yestTd.xV. 'he bwl being •36 bv Port Sar R£ "lilts w :<* K*e* 1: Peter 0m De^rt King. Winsome 11. Tot-: $25. »12. ill. •20 Race 2: Soeffi'id °!at» Frog.
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    F.A. REFUSES PERMISSION
    61 7 THE British Football Asso- ciatlon has refused the touring Newcastle United team permission to play two scheduled football matches against a Swedish team during its Aaierican-Cami-dian visit Dr. Robert Rutherford, director, said on arrival in New York The Scottish international team also Arrived In the Queen Mary,
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    MALACCA LTA TOURNAMENT
    163 7 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA. Wed. T*HE 1949 championships of the 1 HdMOl Lawn Tennis Association oeg^n at Wesley Church tennis courts, BvkW Par* Introduced 'or the flrct time will be the Boys Junior singles champloi ships In which nine beys will compete. Ten entries lave b«en
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    Hofmeyr hits 95 v. N.Z. XI
    263 7 A SOUND if patient exhibition by the South African, M, Hof meyr, a rugby Blue, and a forcing innings by C. Winn enabled Oxford University to fare very well indeed on the first day of their threeday match against the touring New Zealand team
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    SCOREBOARD
    161 7 OXFORD— IST. INNS. M. Hofmcyr not out 95 B. Boobbyer b Cave 5 C. Winn c Scott b Rabone 58 Van Ryneveld b Hayes 16; D B. Carr b Cave J4 A. H. Kardar b Smith M P. A. Whitcombe b Rabone 61 J. Wiley b Rabone < J.
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    ST. ANDREW'S BEAT R.I.
    98 7 QT. Andrews ochool beat K a Mies Institution 3-2 in a tebletennis fixture yesterday. Scores were: J. Owan (fit Andrew's) beat Wcng Yang 3—l; Lok Siew Hoong (Raffles) beat J. R Oehlers 3-1; Kah Chen Yan (Raffles) oca: Hong Beng Bee 3—l; Chiaa? Shih Pang fSt.
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    Anglo-Irish golf final
    143 7 4N Arglo-ln.ii ?~ii> for the British women's golf championship will be played over 36 holes on the Royal St. David's course Harlech (North Wales) today between Miss Bunty Stephens, the English iatic rhampion. ana Mrs. Val Reddarr. Ireland's No. 2 The Irish No. 1 player, Miss Philomera
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    South China side coming
    77 7 IMIE South China soccer team of Hong Kong will play a series of games in Malaya after the close of the season in the Colony. According to a Manila report, they are due in Manila in the middle of June. After completing their programme there they
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    MARIGOLD BEAT BOD CIVILIANS
    94 7 MARIGOLD B.P. beat BOD CA. 4-2 in a badmi.ilcn fr»end)y at the C.U. hall. Scores (ifttifOM players mentioned firsn were Siacles: Ng Cheng Hua lost to Teo Boon E>.g 11-15; 17-14; 7-15; Wee Ghim fee beat AH Abdullah I 15-5; 15-8; Lim Ong Huat lost to
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    MALACCA TO LOSE PLAYER
    108 7 MALACCA, Wed. MALACCA soccer will soon lose the services of Philip I-ai, a discovery of this season. Philip, who recently left school, made his first appearance in League soccer this year as right-back for the Malacca Chinese, who have wen all their first-round matches. He was
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    'RACE SPECIAL'
    47 7 MALAYAN Airways is flying a Race Special to Penang from Singapore on Saturday, last day of th.e Ponang Races. The plane will stop at Penang where, on Sunday, It will provide joy rides for Penang residents. The.plane will return to Sin gapore on Sunday afternoon
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    S.T.T.A. juvenile singles fixtures
    250 7 I^IXTTRES in the Singapore Table Tennis Association juvenile singles tournament are given below. The competition starts on Monday, June 6. Play begins daily at 4.30 p.m. June 6: Abdul Hahira v. Toh Chong Kee; Woon Jit Chye v. David Chong; Koong Slew Kok v. Josph Chan;
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    AMATEUR BOXING
    29 7 AN amateur boxing team representing the U.S. scored an unexpected 5-3 victory over a team of European amateurs in the international "Golden Gloves" tournament at Cliicago Stadium
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    Marathon tennis
    48 7 picture. B C. Fay (left) and Low JjfPow in play in the men's doubles Chew Bee and A. G. B. Pakir at the S.C.C. courts yesterday. The match was left unfinished, both pairs having won a set and the "rubber" remaining at s—all5 all Free Press
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    Tamils gain 3-2 victory
    197 7 THE last five minutes of play provided the most thrills in the S.A.F.A. Senior League football match between the Tamils and the Royal Engineers at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. The Tamils won 3—2. After the Tamils and R.E. had scored a goal each through Osman and
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    SAFA COMMUNITY LEAGUE GAMES
    78 7 Q.A.F.A. Inter-Comm unity League flxr-nvs for June are. June 6: Malays v. Royal Navy. June 9: Milavs v. Ceylonese. June 14: Royal Navy v. Ccylonese June 18: Singvucre District fArmy) v. Royal Navy. June 22: European v. EursMbns. June 24: OvJoneso T. Inrtiars. June 26: Chinese
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    TABLE TENNIS
    102 7 JLIO. 1 Sub-Depot Sports Club. Kranji, beat Singapore Traction Company S.C. 4—3 in a friendly table-tenrris match on Saturday Results <No. 1 S D players men- j tioned first): Foo Kia Liang beat Foo Kla Song 3-0; Kum Fook Yue lost M. S. Ong 1-3; Yeo Boor Leong
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    SAWHNEY BEATEN
    37 7 SL. R. SAWHNEY i India was o bat n by G. E. Gotten (Britain- 6-0. 6-4. in the second round of the nien"^ sin^s in the Surrey lavn tennis ciiarnpfcnships at Surbiton yesterday Reut er
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    SUNFLOWER B.P. WIN 4-3
    121 7 defeated Oddea Kir.d 1 P by four puars to three at tadm r.ton duraig \"?eK-end.. R^suits Oonflower pl«f«n Uoned firct Sin^lf- .|n > H at Harry On |f-| 15 4; Or. i K m Kiat lost lo 0 hmn« ji- A i P-15; I 12-1-1 Chow
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    NEW CLUBHOUSE FOR KIWI M.L.
    67 7 •FKF Kiwi Mtn.b r' league of I Singapore have Stained a new clubhouse at 19. Sootts Road, whrre members are invited to turn up any evening for badminton lennis. table-tennis and billiards The K M.l* will hold a eociai and dance on Jure 11 as
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    Hard fight in men's doubles: 20 games each
    551 7 Hard fight in men 's doubles: 20 games each CH)R sustained brilliance nothing has been seen in the Singapore lawn tennis championships this week to equal the men's doubles semi-final yesterday between Ong Chew Bee and A. G. B. Pakir v. B. C. Fay and Low Kee Pow, which had
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    Colonials v. C.S.C.
    73 7 The Colonial C.C. te^m gainst Oylon Sports Club in their S C A. tournament pame on the Police Training School groun'l at Thomson Road on Sunday wil! be slected Irom: A. Thiagarajali. A E D^likan. J C Cooke, niam Ko< n Poh. L. Boudeville. D. Mllle" J.
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    4-0 VICTORY
    28 7 BO.D. Civilians beat Chin- ese Sports Association 4-0 in a Junior A. Group 1 League soccer fixture yesterday. Chye Hee <3> and Ramlan were the scorers
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    YMCA tennis tournament
    115 7 rl attention of all Y.M.C.A. members it drawn to a meeting which will be held in the tennis pavilion. Bras Basah Road, on Wednesday. June 1. at 6.30 p.m. for the purpose of electing a tournament committee. A sub-commit-tee has already worked out the details for a
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    BIRTHS
    30 8 ALLMAN-WAI D A son, toi P. <?~y <fc Roy., cfr\ 24th May. PPICE to Margaret, wife of ft. H P»i~e on May 23rd. at Kano?ng Kerbnu Hospital. a rer.
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    DEATH
    52 8 MR, TEO HOE KANO. pa ved away peacefully this morning. Ho leaves behind his widow, Tan Bong Neo, only son Lye Wan, two daughters. Maiden and Mayon. and a grandneice Chua Hwee Meng. Cortege leaves for Bidadari Cemetery from 20 En t raid Hill Road, at 3 p.m. to-day.
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    CHINA REDS EYE H'K., MALAYA
    417 8 CHINA REDS EYE H'K., MALAYA Pledge of 'all possible aid 1 LONDON, Thursday. W riTH the Chinese Communist military conquest of Shanghai marking a great step forward in their bid to control the whole of China, Russia yesterday reopened her propaganda war on India while the Peiping radio culled on
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    FRENCH P.M. MAY QUIT
    64 8 A FRIEND of the French Premier, M. Henri Queuille, said yesterday the Premier was "thinking of resignThe friepd said M. Queuille had told President Vincent Auriol he was considering resigning because of the attitude taken in some quarters towards his Government His cabinet has been under
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    40 8 photo. A Geritaa girl, with a bomjuj:. of I ovvvrs for the driver, shows her appreciation when the first train from the West in eleven months, steamed into (harlot ton burg Station. Berlin, after the lilting of the blockade A.P.
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    WARNING TO UK ON MALAYA
    87 8 MR. Victor Purcell, a former member of the Malayan Civil Service, yesterday warned that if Britain did not create a settlement In Malaya the initiative would pass to the Communists. In an article in the Manchester Guardian. Mr. Purcell added that the Communists were at
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    PROF. DIDN'T TALK
    143 8 PROF. DIDN'T TALK WASHINGTON, Wed. DR. David Bohm, Princeton University physics professor who worked on the development of the atomh bomb, today refused under oath to say whether he was or was not a member of the Communist Party. Dr. Bchm told the House of Representatives Un-Americ-an Activities Committee that
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    Perfumed pool for Rita's wedding
    248 8 CANNfcS, Thursday. T»WO hundred gallons of toilet water will be dumped into a swimming pool in Prince Aly Khan's estate here tomorrow to ensure a perfumed aroma for the wedding reception that will follow his wedding to Rita Hayworth earlier in the day. Attendants will
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    Mixed marriages ban
    79 8 A BILL which would prohibit mixed marriages of Whites with non-Whites-the first legislation 0 Jc introduced under Prime Minister Daniel Milan's racial separation policy-passed .ts second reading in the South African Assembly in Capetown yesterday The bill was passed by 59 votes to 56, and by the
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    43 8 photo. Men and women workers shovel away a barricade of rubble in Berlin street near the sector borders. This scene was typical of activity in the German capital on the eve of the end of the 327-day Russian blockade of the city. A.P.
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    Dutch profits
    30 8 THE Royal Dutch Petroleum Company has announced profits for 1948 at 120.875,333 guilders, compared with 93,075.201 guilders for the previous year. The dividend is still nine percent. U.P.
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    Safest year of life
    68 8 NEW YORK, Thurs. *THE age of 11 is the safest year of life, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company statisticians say. At that happy age, they say, the hazards of infancy and early childhood have passed and chronic disorders have not begun to take their toll. After 11
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    50 UK officials given notice
    87 8 I LONDON, Thurs. riFTY British civil servants have so far been given notice that they are considered affected by the Government's policy that Communists and Fascists should not I hold security posts in Govvernment departments. The Prime Minister. Mr. Attlee. giving these figures in a
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    Queen's brother dead
    18 8 The Earl of Strathmore brother of Queen Elizabeth' died yesterday at Glamu Castle (Scotland). A.P.
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    'GHOSTS' CHASE AWAY LOVERS
    79 8 E ERIE sounds and ghost^S It "nTghThave caused the thick wood behind a temple in Shlba Park a popular lovers' trysting spot to become one of the most deserted spots here oecome Since some time back, it is said, mysterious sounds and s suddenly would come
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    HK MERCHANTS CONFIDENT
    65 8 TWO businessmen from Hong Kong showed their faith in the colony's future yesterday by placing an ord»T for 2,500 bicycles a mon.h with a Birmingham firm They were B. Choung, managing director and W. L. Mok director of Bing Lee Cycles Ltd. Both said they were confident
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    Reds reimpose rail blockade
    219 8 j>ULl\, Wedneau-;. rpHE Russians virtually reim posed the rail blockade A on Berlin tonight by taking railway men from key switch points to the city from West Germany, completely stalling services restored when the blockade was lifted 13 days ago. Tonight's action left only the airlift
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    TIT-FOR-TAT
    46 8 A NEW British policy of rent thoU ng as to members of the Soviet Embassy staff in London if visas were refused fhe^HH^H I™s™* to Join the British Embassy staff in Moscow is new in operation a foreign Office spokesman said in London last night.
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    DANUBE IN FLOOD
    17 8 The river Danube overflow--2 J£ banks at the outskirts of Vienn a yesterday. A.P.
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    11 8 Indonesian copra production for Aorll wiue 97nnn i««« tons. A. P.
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    US Govt's 'invest in Asia' call
    100 8 US Govt's 'invest in Asia' call NEW YORK, iw AMERICAN bus. was toW v < that the US GoJSH wants it to UU $1,000 million^' 1 each year as I s <£?"* President Truma. new progru:: under-developed of the world nSH Asia. ""'"S The Under Commerce, Mr n- Vanderbllt, v
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    Reds reminded of debt to U.S.
    53 8 washing: RUSSIA wa, ed again 1511.298.000.0W land-l^as* ic Soviet Amort yushkin wa.s sum: the Staf e I check on Rj> promise of December ta three icebreakers 28 lit i frigates and >.r.e cui vessels turned :a Soviet Union r war m would be returned
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    TAN MALAKKA EXECUTED
    40 8 TAN M ALAKKA EXECUTED DEPORTS h k4 the expr veteran Mosc. i Es leader Tan v. tn been confirm- J: Dutch news t| They said Malakka was i in "S middle of las- order of Ea publican Cove." >-*•? kono- Reuter
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