The Singapore Free Press, 18 July 1949

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    21 1 The Sing ap or e Fr ee Press J^RGEM^AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA kfkdskfhdkh;eioeeieee SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JIM 18, "1949. PRIC-E 10 CENTS
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    U.S. TO STEP UP ANTI-RED WAR
    324 1 Secret Far East plan BOMFQi n WASHINGTON, Monday. S<> .MK State Department officials here are urginfc that Secretary of State Dean Acheson or President Truman should ask Congress tor a secret $100,000,000 or $150,000,000, to block the spread o! ommunism in the Far Kast.
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    36 1 i (if Pope d« i la r v war on Communism. His Holiness has ex-communicated all atholics wh«» ;irc Communists, and yesterday ho broadcast a message of en cpu raff emeni to the Catholics of Berlin.
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    7,000 Servicemen to work docks today
    121 1 LONDON, Monday. EN thousand Servicemen 1,000 more than on Saturday will work in the docks today. Ninetyships were still idle this morning, the 19th day of the strike which has paralysed the Port of London. Tlif dockers lost a round in the fight yesterday
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    The rest is silence....
    96 1 frill F. Federation's Public L Relations Department lasl week struck a ftuaii Lumpur newspaper oil n>. list of papers which are giveh copies of speeches I and official reports in advance. The paper htd broken an embargo: it printed sir Sydney Palmer's Radio Malaya talk before
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    W. GERMANSPOLL NEXT MONTH
    122 1 FRANKFURT, Sunday. WESTERN Germans will go to the polls on August 14 to choose a 400-memoer assembly for the new federal republic which will unite the British, U.S. and French zones. Russian-occupied East Germany will be excluded. The election tussle will, in j the main, be
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    VOLCANO STILL ERUPTING
    69 1 MOUNT Pclaaa volcano, in the Canary Islands, erupted flames and molten lava yesterday for the ninth consecutive day. Volunteer fire fighters were overcome by heat and smoke as forests in the northern part of the island were set ablaze. Several mountain villages have been engulfed in the
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    Charred bodies found
    35 1 Nine charred bodies have been found in the wreckage of a French Dakota aircraft, which caught fire and crashed near Mersa Matruh, 180 miles west of Alexandria, on Saturday evening. A. P.
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    STILL AMI-JEWISH
    28 1 The first congress of Jewish lawyers In Germany was told in Dusseldorf yesteruay that anti-semitism in Germany had 'hardly changed" since i he war.— A. P.
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    42 1 Cripps fights the Battle ol the Gap. Sir Stafford, here seen on his way to thp House of Commons to make last week's crisis speech, today will wind up the Commonwealth financial conference. Tomorrow lie will fly to Switzerland for medical treatment.
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    Rail disaster: Jap Reds held
    94 1 TOKYO. Mond .v rinvo Communist ex-rallmen JL were arrested by police in connection with the "Murder Express" disaster which killed six and injured 12 on Friday evening at a suburban station Both men claimed yesterday they had witnesses to prove they were elaewnere when the
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    ANTI-CHURCH WAVE PREDICTED
    164 1 LONDON, Monday. A WAVE of anti-clericalism throughout Europe, not only in the East but also in predominantly Catholic Italy and France, is likely to follow the Vatican's decree on the ex-communlcatton of catholic Communists. i' uter dispatches sho.v viryin» d i of i [Jon tn declaration of
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    12 SYRIAN REBELS TO DIE
    39 1 TWEJ VE meinben of 'he National Syrian Party have been sentenced to death by a military tribunal In Beirut for rebellion. Fifty-three others sentenced to prison 1 r ms •in^ re* life In h\rh
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    Ceylon wants to keep her dollars
    304 1 lomjon, Sunday. /^EYLON will ask Britain for the riglu to use part of her own surplus dollar earnings to create a central bank reserve immediately after the Commonwealth Finance Ministers' conference ends tomorrow. Mr. J. R. Jayawardena, Ceylon Finance Minister, witt conduct the negotiations
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    Grenadiers homeward bound
    145 1 Grenadiers homeward bound Tree Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. TO the strains of 'Will W No Come Back Again." a special train carrying the 3rd' Battalion. Grenadier Guards, on the first stage of their Journey to the United King- dom, puDed out of Sungel Besl station hist night. The
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    'RISK DEATH' SAYS NEHRU
    171 1 CALL TO CONGRESS m:W DELHI, Monday. DANDIT NEHRU, Indian Prime Minister, !.«> I old Calcutta Congressmen that they should risk death, «f necessary" in facing and solving the problems of the day. The text of tils speech, made In prival his visit to Calcutta last week,
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    $50 DEATH FALL
    39 1 George E. Audoln, 24 time combat paratro plun-fd 2.000 leet to Ms b in u rocky geoi side Rutland City ain Vermont, y. .s:r:-Li.w when his ichute failed to open in a ?:i0 exhibition Jump. U.P.
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    CRIPPS TO END FINANCE TALKS
    129 1 CRIPPS TO END FINANCE TALKS LONDON, iV.oi. rpHE Chancellor Ol Uftt A Exchecuenr. Sir 5 lord Cripps, will l«av* London by air for mx weeks' trea m for a digestive ailment in a Zurich nursing horn Today, Sir :«i will cany out ail hll QOI I including j; ti.< losing
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    Racehorse owners elect committee
    40 1 A' (MMITTEE pro n\ the meeting of roc l^eh. Adolphi H en on Saturday. The 1 W. McGi Wai i (chairman l£< Simmoi .1 Dam I J. Caun. K d Lira Ctiont Th e vmli p
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    Bandits fire on police launch
    12 1 Bandits fire on police launch A LIC .ii the ik. llr*. i
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    Rubber prices
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    Inside the finest modern house in Britain
    1164 2 Inside the finest modern house in Britain PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S NEW HOME PRINCESS EUZA--1 BETH and the Duke of Edii\burgh have moved into Clarence House, St. James's Palace. When the alterations are fully completed it will be the finest modern house in Britain. Let us take a look at this royal
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    Bridge Hands
    311 2 WHEN West opened the five ot hear Us South stopped to think Very often the declarei at notrump refuses the first trick in the suit that has been led. but this time South saw that he must jnake an exception. South was afraid only of a s—Si5 Si
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    I take the family fishing
    706 2  -  KATHLEEN HICK LEY Bv ET'S go to Johon and do some fishing/ 1 I suggested. "Why"? asked my husband 'Well there's nothing i to do. and I in getting bored And I was reading somewhere the other day that freshly caught fish should always figure
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    Making the Bible popular
    89 2 Making the Bible popular QREAT In! already boo. in English countries b] ation a ft I the first 70lum< new translation Old Testament lik be officially by the OathoU in England. This tnnsh second of of a compl* tion of the B. lish under th< (he Catho] boon under lish
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    58 2 The Guards on theft uuy to Buckingham Palace for th* Chavcinn of the Guard ceremony march past Chirence House, the new town residence of Prxn e s s Elizabeth art a tut u Edinburgh. The Royal couple took up residence euriy this month and the Princess's personal standard enn be
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      961 2 qjMp n PODF QantonOe 'BBC>; ti.4o Indouc- iioi..~ f> 3v"V Y jieß*' OllMOnrunL sian f^nvs Programme; 715 for men and women in tlw (BLUE NETWORK) New& in French <BBC> 7.30 En*- view; fi Compoatt of the Week; 484 and 417 m»tr*>« llsh N ws London Opinion— A 6.30 Overseas Australian
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    PEARL HARBOUR—AND DISASTROUS WEEK
    1419 3 PEARL HARBOUR— AND DISASTROUS WEEK ijkgjkgfirjrejreojreire lin f r today's instalment of the Harry Hopkins' private papers recounts the disastrous series of events that succeeded the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour culminating in the Jail of Singapore. They reveal how courageously Roosevelt and Churchill reacted to these hammer blows even
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    'TOMMIES' ON PARADE
    167 3 models of soldiers who i have ed in B armed forces over ihr> past 2.000 years we bnng exhibited at Arundel Castle, Duke ol N trfolk'fl Su These flghtta over an Inch or so tall, beinx displayed n brilliantlylit, cases In an rxi:ibi called "British Soldiers through
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    World food talks 1950
    36 3 W orld food talks 1950 The World Health organisatlon l in u and nutrition i the United v Food and Agiicultural Oi One win be I Ri i Janeiro and the oth I F k(,k Reuter
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      10 3 IHOSEN tCAIIT. ■a t4l\ls^&f^^ ">'" 'gs VAMPIOIMSHIPS J e Nnis balls
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      102 3 HEDGES BUTLER LTD. I S AHMSIII I) 16 VERY CHOICE WINES 6c SPIRITS tALEJION SHERRY AN OLOROSO WINE OF FINE QUALITY WALNUT MADEIRA /wk Hfl^ a t t "~SP CLUB KORT CGHEUBW A LIGHT LUNCHEON -J ll 1 1 PALE DRY SHERRY DELICATE •J .1 ntsi SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR P^NANG
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      127 3 YOUR LUCKY STAR nOKN loilay. you have a I* wide capacity for undestandlßg. Your ftoroi aiu. active mind will be I most interested in science and philosophy although you will never become so om-sided as to exclude other interests. You have a freafl deal of physical energy and especially in
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, July 18. 1949 THE STATE OF THE UNIONS
    618 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, July 18. 1949 THE STATE OF THE UNIONS IF the Pan-Malayan Adviser on Trade Unions, Mr. John Brazier, had been invited this time last year to predict the general lines along which his report for 1948 would- run, it is long odds that he would
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    The Great Dock Plot
    1032 4  - The Great Dock Plot W. T. BROWN By M.P. AUSTRALIA is a continent, twothirds the size of Europe, with a population of some 7,500,000, more than 4,000,000 of whom live in towns and cities. As I write, its whole economic life, according to Mr. Chifley, the Labour Prime Minister, is
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    Britain jails Polish spy
    106 4 MARIEN Kaczmarek, 40--111 year-old former Polish artillery officer, was sentenced to three years Imprisonment recently for spying on Britain and the American Air Force for a foreign power. The prosecution alleged that Kaczmarek's master was Major Julian Kajdu, issistant military attache \t the Polish Embassy, London
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    Home Guard formed in India
    596 4 Home Guard formed in India BOMBAY INDIA is raising a 1 large force of Home Guards, as a second line of defence unit modelled on Britain's Territorial Army. Recruitment and training of this auxiliary force have begun in all the provinces and most of the states unions. In some places,
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    15 4 That day at th« T«st Match sure put som# zip into boy Sam s bow!*
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    Revolutionary Madame Sun Yat Sen
    738 4 By JAMES D. WHITE IN a way, few Chinese better personify their country's struggle for freedom and reform than Madame Sun Yat-sen, widow of the Founder of the Republic. She is above all a product of the impact of Western ideas of Democratic freedom in
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    Ceylon refuses U.S. rubber pact to bolster price
    339 4 Ceylon refuses U.S. rubber pact to bolster price COLOMBO: i^EYLON Government's enunciation of its attitude to the rubber crisis, advocating lower production costs and confessing that a pact with the United States of America to bolster up prices was impossible, has been received with mixed feelings. Mr. R Singleton-Salmon, Deputy
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    Natives taugh swear words
    6 4 Natives taugh swear words I Reuter
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    3 5 MRS. IVOR SHELLY
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    RUDE TAXI-DRIVERS CURBED
    224 5 RUDE TAXI-DRIVERS CURBED Public advised to report micDLMif,^ Press Staff Reporter MISBEHAVIOUR by Singapore taxi-drivers is decreasing now that the Vehicles Department has been given its own powers to prosecute and the public is coming forward with complaints. o The a Cting Registrar of Vehicles, Mr B. C J Buckeridge,
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    She takes over at Library
    61 5 She takes over at Library Fftt Pr BeporUf kept golf' chiefly is found a n Mrs. icre .ew exShe has fed In -.Me Uni' he was s Book ;vne, with Mrs. Shelly the War i ;omnew vtTBook s coun- j StafDshire. Raffles i nt of a :na is In the
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    BOR DROWNED IN JOHORE
    14 5 R, Sun. i [nniskil- ned this B RomMtTsing, a led.
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    $132,734 in grants to 63 schools
    95 5 $132,734 in grants to 63 schools F. r. Chinese Correspondent Jl sum of $132,731 U being Paid to 63 Singapore Chinese schools by the Education Department as h r al?o S f- 1 ?94 a i d f r 3econd About 30 schools have already received the grants. Hie remainder
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    MAILS
    41 5 < -ing tln^e fo- posting surface maila at the Q.P.O. ttxiay 15; to the U.K. N Ireland. Eire, Europe. E^ypt. N. and W. Africa. West It. dies. Ceylon and Ja\a HOOD. Surface mail is due to arrive here >day from Siam.
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    §500 FINE ON POSTMAN
    93 5 penang. Sun.— For delaying the delivery of a registered letter for nearly a rnont'n, an Indian postman, Suppiali was yesterday fined $500 or. in default, two months' rigorous imprisonment. The First Magistrate, Mr. J. P. Blackedge, told Suppiah that the offence was a serious one but
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    Changi 'escapist' is a radio success
    205 5 lyillLE a prisoner of war in Changi, Sydney f P'ddington, an Australian accountant, practised mind-reading as a form of escapism. His hobby has made him a radio star today. With his wife Lesley, he has broadcast from Australia and Working with a fellow prisoner
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    ERROL FLYNN PLAYS THE CONCERTINA
    319 5 At the cinema TRROL Flynn and musical instruments have never worked together before in j films or anywhere else for that matter. For the first piece of information I am indebted to Warher Bros. The second la merely a deduction from the first, supported by
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    41 5 third. picture. ONE of the competing cars (driven ty Mr. C. P. Thomas) in yesterday's Singapore Motor Club Photographic' Rally. The winner was Mr. E. M. Glossop. with Mr. E. A. Crabbe second and Mr. A. J. E. Longden Free Press
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    81 5 Press PAFTAIX Q. H. Visscr. new master of the Willeni Ruys which called at Singapore over the week-end reported a "very pleasant voyage m> far." His passengers, most of them bound for Bat?, via. included 350 children and of these 140 were babes in arms. He told the Free Pre^s
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    28 5 BARNEY and James Mulvaney of the Naval Base who won tne first session of last week's Radio Malaya Talentime show. They rendered Scottish airs on their piano accordions.
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    JOHORE POST
    40 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun The Mentri Besar. Johore. has agreed to the creation of a full time appointment of Chief Settlement Officer, ftn view of the unrecorded and Illegal occupation of State land and the consequent loss of revenue.
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    PINEAPPLE PACKERS HOPEFUL
    177 5 F. P. Chinese Correspondent V|ALAYAN pineapple pac- kers are gratified over the decision of British Ministry of Food to buy 300,--000 cases of Malayan canned pineapples this year. Packers are hopeful that this erder will be a forerunner of larger orders to come, pointing out that the
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    $750,000 gift proposed
    57 5 TELUK ANSON, Sun. T OWER Perak will offer a professorship to the University of Malaya, costing $750,000, the Lower Perak Appeal Committee has decided. No definite period to end the collections was fixed. One form of contribution suggested was 2 centi a gantang on padl which was
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    LAW SUCCESS
    40 5 \TR J B. Jayaretnam, son 11 of Mr and Mrs. V. L. Joshua of Johore Bahru, has passed his Inter Law Examination held recently at the London University. He 1$; an old boy of St. Andrews School. Singapore.
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    More foreign firms register
    368 5 Free Pr*ss Staff Reporter FOREIGN companies registered In Singapore hive increased in number since the liberation, Mr. Lee Siow Mong, Registrar of Business Names, told the Free Press. This was a sign of the growing importance of the Colony as a commercial centre. Business firms and
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    COCKTAIL PARTY
    28 5 OV'T 100 '1 >ocktaU party i Ing at the Pavilion h lurant to hrmmr the Brst >• r mniversary of the mar: »f Mr and Mr- C'>rn»'ll.
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    Testing time for unions in Malaya
    296 5 Free Tress Staff Reporter. r PHIS year will b«* a testing period for >1 «j.* I trade unions who are still uncertain of tin \r status, says Mr. J. A Brazier, Trade Tnion tmUci. Malaya, in his annual report published this ißOti in a.
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    When Joe Louis didn't want to fight
    1566 6  - When Joe Louis didn' t want to f ight HARRY MARKSON by 1 941, Joe Louis, Mike Jacobs'* biggest money-spinner, was tired but Mike wasn't, Joe l uii l fought six times in six months and made a million for Mike, but still > > Jacobs pushed him on and
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    Inglis scores 6 goals again Ceylonese
    128 6 Inglis scores 6 goals again Ceylon ese Singapore Distrn l (Arn SINGAPORE District In norc points to their unity of boosting theli i overwhelmed the 1 t} lon Inter-C 'omniunitv I Stadium last rvnm The CeyloiK are still without they show remarkable In to finish up ftfl w< As In
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      223 6 VldnOrftKC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya t BACK SO SOON, i [J TEb, \-er- MAP 1I Oh -FOR Mi! HOW 1 1 o^O >0U LiKfc I V.ANO^A^t HAsN'T 6.WLJ. Mt FLOURS I MANDRAKE ?r* PtNEO TO PASb A THOUGHTFUL i V I HAV tTO 0A MONTHS. Of
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    SOM PONG, PRAPADENG FOR U.S.
    250 7 After fights in Sin&a-bore a i rtth, v CRUSADER place above Kui Kon K Young ranKings, one Both boys are being managed by Mr. Kow Li n and the Promoter will be accompanying them In their visit to the United States. Befo-e leaving for America
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    S.B.A. junior contestants
    81 7 fjnflE Free Press photo--1 grapher snapped this picture of competitors in the opening; day's play of the Singapore junior badminton championships at the Clerical Union on Saturday. Back row, left to riKht: Tin Chin Guan (Useful). Dennis Oh (May f:iir). Chee Phui Hun* (Spitfire). Worn; Yeok Yeok
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    MALAYAN BOXERS OUTCLASSED
    100 7 i ''THE two Malayan boxers who x taught in Manila on Saturday I nißht were outclassed by. their 1 opponents. •J 11:4101 Singh (124 lb. > was knocked out by Tirso del Rosa no (124*£ lb.) in the fourth round in a Dout billed for the featherweight
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    ALL-BRITISH VICTORY
    137 7 CRIC Oliver yester- day won the 101.5 kilometre motor-cycle and sidecar race on a Norton at the average speed of 121.516 kilometres per hour in 50 mins. 7 sees, at Francoi champs, Belgium. Frans van der Sehrick ißelRium' was second on a Norton. In the 35G c.c. race
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    USEFUL B.P. v. LUCKY STRIKE
    97 7 A friendly badminton match consisting of thrt-e men 1 singles one veterans' singles, one veterans' double one mixed doubles is to be pl«yed tonight between Useful Badminton Party and Lucky Strike B P. at the Hospital Assistants Union hall In College Road The Useful B.P.
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    Kee Meng given hard fight
    829 7 Gut one of the favourites obliged in the opening «J»iies «,f the Singapore junior badminton championships played at the Clerical Union Hall over the weekend. Ng Cheng Hua, Chtia Kee Men*, Hoo (nun Kali, Sng Haw Pah and Chee Plmi "ling cleared their first hurdles,
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    OWEN YOUNGSTERS
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    Poor batting in Padang cricket
    112 7 pOOR batting marked Ihe Singapore Civilians v. ibined Services cricket match which, reduced e-daj affair yesterday owing to rain on Saturk won bj the Civilians by 32 runs. wicket, covered overnight did not i hough a few balls rose high at a good length but.
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    AMPON WINS
    14 7 r for Lev\ 6-0 M. a F I Reuter and A.P. U.P.
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    SCOREBOARD
    176 7 COMBINED i IMI I \s^ K M. NUt oi Qgam c w Bain c Dawe b Lotl Humtr c Lee b 3n 2 v K Sundram b Syrcu ie v > Mad an not out 14 f F< rrv b Syrt-tt j W Kki ,1 0 c» Needl>;nn !>
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    Mankad wins race for 1,000
    136 7 Mankad wins race for 1 ,000 DY scoring 55 no' out, 7* against Li' tleboiough, Vnioo Mankad, Castleton Moors Indian Test cricketer has won the race /or a thousand runs in tip central Lancashire league. He now has 1,002 runs. His nearest rival was Frankie Worrall, the Radcliffe West Indian
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    S'PORE C.R.C. FORCE DRAW
    90 7 CINUAPORE Chinese iorced a draw with SelanKor Chinese in their annual cric- fixture at Kuala Lumpur during the week-end. The Singapore C.R.C. replied with 164 (Evan Wong 45 not out) to Mi** Selarwor KC. first-innings f otal of 242. SdanEor Chine.se declared In their second innings
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    RETAINS TITLE
    26 7 TJ ICHARD Pancho Gonzales ie- tained the U.S. national d*y courts tennis title yesterday, defeating Frankie Parker 6—l, I— C, B—6,8 6, 6—3- A.P.
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    K.O WIN TO ORTIZ
    30 7 THE world bantamweight champion Manuel Ortiz, of ,El Centro. California, knocked I out Memo Valero of Mexico City on Sftturd t' seventß round of their Ortt7
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    18 7 O R.C. meet R.E.M.E. In the O« S.A.F.A. Senior League this evening at Jalan Besar Stadium.
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    155 7 PENANG, Sunday. DESPITE a spell of sensational bowling by Northcote-Green in the opening over in the Rest's second innings, the Europeans failed to prevent the Rest from winning the B.P. de Silva Cup for the fourth successive year in the annual 1 cricket game on the
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    PALESTINE BEST 2-YEAR-OLD
    121 7 rrrilL Aga Khans brilliant A colt, Palestine, a son <>1 Fair Trial out of Una. proved himself the outstanding two-year-old of the present season when he won the National Breeders. Produce S:akes run over five furlong.3 at Sandown Park on Saturday. Starting four-to-six favourite Palestine, whose grey
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    NANKEVILLE SETS UP NEW RECORD
    346 7 BILL Nankeville splashed through pools of water on Saturday to win the mile event in the British A. A. A. championships in a new record time of 4 min. 8.8 sees. The previous record was 4 mins. 10.6 sees. held by 8 Oaray (Hungary). Capt.
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    BIRTHS
    37 8 BROWN. To Isobel MacUe wite I of Brown at K<nd;u«? Kerbau Sint^aporo on .July 17th a .^on D d Nlckol NARANG TO Emma C f B I Naranv at D'Cotta on .July it. a Both well.
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    53 8 ■;.wong. Mi Michael i.m D Cher, son of Madam Crew n Hua and the lave Mr. reck Pi^ns and Miss Mnria Yuel Kui. only dau{£!' tpr di the late Mr. and Mrs. Won« S i n Thai, on 17.7.49 Sunday ike place on Ist I the Church of .Sncrrd
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    DEATH
    35 8 LIM-Al Boon Soon peacefully at the a. 19 on 15 .7 1943 at No 11 Bali Road, Singapore, leaving nd his wife, father, and •o mourn hil IOSS. Bnr r Christian -r Deeply regretted
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    41 8 FAMILY Hie late M b n wish to [ves and friend-. reath telegram r r funeral 38RS CHI A AH KIM. Kim Kin. and I and 1 itlons, v.hn s.>nt scroll,, hs nnd attended night i moral of tfceir mother.
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    CHINA REDS RESUME OFFENSIVE
    386 8 Chiang takes charge again CANTON, Monday. QENERALISSIMO Chiang Kai-shek and his newly-created 12-man Supreme War Council were yesterday studying the critical military situation as reports indicated the resumption of the Communist southward drive. Gen. Pai Chuntf-hsi, Central China Commander, arrived here from his Chan^sha headquarters, and
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    40 8 Field Marshal Lord Montgomery on the battle brMgt of 11. M.S. Implacable watches planes take off from the flight deck while >his Naval liaison ofticer. ComiiKiiidcr P. W. Northej RN explains part of the Western I'nion fleets manoeuvre "Fxercise Verity"
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    CANTON ENVOY TO SEE MacA.
    171 8 CANTON. Mon. nECLARiNG that the Chi- nese Reds are being used as a tool by the Russians Ln ordt r to carry out Moscow's plan for world domination. Gen. Wu Teh-ohm, member of the ni-w all-powerful Nationalist Emergency Council, confirmed yesterday that he will soon
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    103 8 WASHINGTON. Mon. jdEARLY a dozen Senate Re- publicans are likely to join Senator Robert Taft. Ohio, in voting against the North Atlantic pact next Thursday. Informal checks indicate thai more than two-thirds of the party's 43 Senate members will support Jhe treaty. They will be
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    CYCLE CRASHES: TWO KILLED
    79 8 A BRITON and a Belgian died yesterday after an accident In the Francorchamps side-car race. The Briton was identified as a trial rider, Hurst, resident In Belgium. He was raking part j in the race as a passermer in the Belgian driver Bruillant's side-car. The motor-cycle
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    18 8 Peace talks between Israel and four Arab states will resume in Lausanne today following three weeks of recess.
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    Water vessels were empty
    54 8 DACCA Pakistani. Mon. w'O.l/E Government employees paraded before the Pakistan Prime Minister's office carrying empty vessels. They shouted slogans demanding water, scarce in the city. Dacca's waterworks were originally built to serve 80.000 people. The population rose to 500.000 in 1947, when it became the cavital
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    'FLOODS DUE TO BOMBED DYKES'-REDS
    124 8 'FLOODS DUE TO BOMBED DYKES' -REDS SHANGHAI, Mon The Communist New China News agency .says that the widespread Hoods "threatening the existence of millions of people' in China and the i Party would lose confidence of the nation it they tailed to ideal efficiently with the I crisis. The igency
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    18 GIRLS KILLED AT WEDDING
    105 8 LISBON, Monday. LMGKTEEN African girls were killed in Lourenco Marques, Pormguese East Africa, vesterday morning, when a wall collapsed during a wedding celebration in the Michael Archangel Mission. Survivors say the accident was caused by enemies of the bride and groom. Several other girls ire
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    Bubonic plague in Calcutta
    57 8 AFTER an absence of 42 years, bubonic plague, which last year caused 14 deaths out of 251 cases, has already killed 50 out of :*G6 cases this year. Except for stray imporlel cases. Calcutta was free from bubonic plague since 1906. In 1899 about (iO.OOO died
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    Caterpillars carpet 20 rice provinces
    206 8 MOTHS PLAGUE P.I CITIES MANILA, Mondav. VIKSLD by the worst drought in 100 years, the vast army of caterpillars eating its way through the Philippines rice fields has already spread through SI provinces of Luzon and Mindanao, threatening the Philippines with famine and economic disaster.
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    222 8 'Dragon holds up H.K. army HONG KONG, Monday. IJESPECT for Chinese graveyards and the awkward presence of a sleeping dragon is causing serious delays in the urgent task of siting and construction of British army tamps and depots in the New Territories. policy ol" not interfering with ancient riglits and
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    Navy exercises begin
    29 8 United States 13th Navy and Air Force planes and a squadron of destroyers today begin Intensive anti-submarine warfare exercises for 10 days off the Philippines coast
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    Stalin watches air show
    129 8 RUSSIA HAS SUPER JETS MOSCOW, Mon. IN the Soviet's annual air display yesterday, super-bombers defended by jet fighters including types unseen before, battled ovor Tushino airfield here, watched by hundreds of thousands of spectators. Stalin, suntanned and ;ng his marshal's uniform, watched t\ the military bid'
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    ST. XAVIER'S BODY
    37 8 The next exhibition of the body cf St. Franc s Xavicr If scheduled for 1952 in Goa Thousands of pilgrims from I all over the world will day homaee to the saint A. P.
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    UNIONS CUT BY HALF
    164 8 ((unturned from Pa^e 1) many Malayan unioi ism.' Mr. Brazier t'.so n^e points n.. Chtnatt had n of trade unionism a> I Id the United Kingdom and a> result ol the aftermath ot war and Communist propaganda, many Chinese worker wrong foot. They are greath d
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