The Singapore Free Press, 30 July 1949

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  • 15 1 The Singapore Free Press AFTERNOON SALE W MALAYA r SINGAPORE, SATURLUY, Jl^T^Tl^^ PRICE 10 CLMv
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  • 274 1 Nanking Red demands WASHIN(;TON Saturday. JWj. State Department said last night that, with F »i!£? cx ptl the Ambassador, .Mr. J. Leißhton Stuart, all American diplomats m unprecedented Communist demands that they sign shop guarantees" before leaving for ihv The signing of "shop guarantees" is
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  • 127 1 WASHINGTON, Saturday. piRST priority of joint North Atlantic defence is America's "ability to deliver the atomic bomb. General Omai Bradley, I'nited Shite', Army Chief «>i stair, declared here yesterday. General BradJey, who was testifying before the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Commitlee on Americas $1,450,000,000 military
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  • 94 1 GREVE GAY I).\KIS autumn fashion showings Here postponed indefinitely yesterday because of the three-day-old strike of 1?.OOO dressmakers. Over ?00 foreign buyers are "stranded." Topflight designers said they could not set enough suits and drcilCi for their seasonal collections without the aid of "mklinettes" who walked out on Wednesday m
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  • 58 1 A CHINESE m a kongs: on Boutb Malaya Pineapple j Growers' Association's pro- j perty. 27-mile Pontian Road, JoThore. was bea'en to death last night. Neighbours say li i lefi the kongsi when someone called j out m Chinese. They heard ■sounds of beating and
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  • 25 1 Mr. Krishna Mt non, the Qrst Indian Ambassador to the Re- public <»r Ireland, arriv< d In D iblln last night. Reuter
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  • 92 1 TIBET EXPELS To CHINESE Ten membera oi >h» >*• Commission who left Lhasa, Tibet, on July 20 fol- lowing the Tibetai j agains; Chinese de [sovereignty are on thrir v '..y to India .ii.ti are expt i ed to Arrive In Bikkim by mid Au just try said hey had
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  • 71 1 *Mli: House of Common^ w.tN toM vcstrrd.iv that i. 1,5#0,00i i> ui> of spectacles had beea supplied fr •<• Juring tho tir^i > «;ir <»f Britain's soi ialiscd Medical fit me. Another three l<> f'» !ir million p.ti->, are on or»i» Mr. Arthur Blrnkiusop. l*:ir!iampntary Inder SecreUry to
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  • 23 1 T'A'J v- ■!>• JL the cent] i f Calc i'-rday when a bomb qtm^d Ht .< moving tntm iai near I Reuter
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    25 1 n Pik Har, who reprevntrd the Malayan Chinese m the China Nation.il les. wins her heat iv the 100 yards at the Singapore championships yesterday.
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  • 9 1 -old Rlenzo bought c leader Epiin#d A. P.
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    36 1 photo. This blaze, caused by two Nationalist bombs, destroyed 80.000 gallons of kerosene belonging to the Shell Oil Co.. m Shanghai on Jun«« -I— the same time as the British ship. Aiuhise*. was bombed. A. P.
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  • 106 1 MAJOR-GEN. L H Bon>cer/) Cox, c.B, c.B.e M.C, former G.O.C. Singapore District, died suddenly at his home m Athens lasi night, according to an AP. report from Greece. He was alternate Bri'ish delegate to the United Nations Special Committee on the Balkans. Gen. Cox wai
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  • 20 1 k7 Mengkibol Estate. Kluang, Welch Estate. Segamat, and Roscote Estate. Kulai. exchanged fire with bandits without result yesterdaj
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  • 24 1 Seventeen people were kilied and 23 iniured when a bus plunged inn a ravine near Frz Morocco, yesterday A. P.
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  • 153 1 LONDON, Friday 'THE Government acted swiftly today to avert a threatened strike of railwayman ii> three weeks 1 time. The Minister of Labour, Mr. George Isaacs referred the wages claim of 95.000 workers on the nationalised network to a board of conciliation. By taking this
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  • 44 1 20 DIE IN U.S. HEAT WAVE DEATH toll li which continue '•h the U B :o 29 yeste:dv Rran of 100 dcgn-f t were common thro New England and was 09 m Bosl 1 m Washington, v peca Fi- Hi and P A. P.
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  • 149 1 SAIGON, Saturday. VEWIA-INSTALLED Emperor of Vietnam— tomA^ prising umbodia, Ainiani and Tonking m IndoChina yesterday issued a "hands-off" warning to the Chinese Communist armies pushing into South China toward the Indo-China frontier. In the event of invasion, Emperor Bao Da; declared. "We will take
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  • 119 1 HONG KONG. Sat. 4 SKIRMISH lasting nearly j\ ihrep hours, resulting m 19 wounded, took place a miles outside the Macao border yesterday morning, according to the Hong X «ng Standard. This is tlie Srti time that Communist activity was reported near Macao, which Is 40
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  • 91 1 I \KE BUCCBSB, Sat. A special 14-natlon committ< yesterday as*, ft 1 nited Nations General Assombly to approve Mr. Trygve Lie's proposal for the fonnatlon of n 300-man t<chnlca! to Aid and pro*ec f United NaUons pp/sonnfl. commlttM aiso a«:ked the .loly to appro%e Mr
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  • 166 1 HONG KONG, Saturday. FIVE British and two ChllftCM mci chant ships have just Int Hotlf Koii£ for Communist ports m whit appears to be the first organised utempt to run the Nationalist blockade The ships left m the British warships Constance, Consort, Comus and Cossack
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  • 59 1 S.A ban on Negro film CAPFTUWN. 11HJ rnmenl Censorship I need yesterdaj banned ti)p American Home of the B beinif shown publicly A/r: Reasons for th< not published but hai b communicated '-> th pany responsible for p I of the nlm m the Un: The ttlm w-lU i^ii a
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  • 13 1 a preparatory t»»f Con for tl I Europe y U.P.
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  • 16 1 Dr M Dadoo v i X X Pn: p In New Doli 1
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  • 12 1 The House- < f Comnv ;>her sion >bei IK A. P.
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  • 526 2 OEARS of various kinds are found all over (he world m the cold seas of the arctic. In the mountain forests of Tibet, m the hot climates of India, Malaya and North-West Africa. Even Australia has its rharming little Koala Dear. :id until
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    42 2 Hcpny but her m her watertub is lien-ho. the LondnZoo's Giant Panda. Lien-ho, V original home iras 14,960 feet up m the cool air of the Western China mountains, thinks a cold hath is the appropriate antwer to London's close summer weather.
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  • 773 2  -  UNCLE GEORGE Mouse deer fools the Crane by f Y\\\i animals rushed at Crahe who Hew to the other side of the river where he surveyed them disdainfully. 'if you can be fooled by Mouse-deer you can he fooled by anyone," he said. "As for me I
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  • 146 2 Adventure of Penny Koni I\VXI, lII* mw^mfimwm trm i tnonhty. moo a hi«h wall, t The branch--* ot a trt« I hang »vor it and x«m, jj who hat found if uncom- I' fortabl* ntfing on th« roof 9 •f a but. jump* upward*. Jn Thtr* it nothing to :tll
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  • 215 2 Nobody loved her A 1 N-'E is a monkey nob rk lord A few days an amateur ohotographer bought her for £12. 10s. m a Chicago poultry shop. Perhaps the chickens disorientated her a litt'e. for when her new owner took her home she promptly bit him. The enraged ownei
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  • 489 2 All the work is below the knee LEARN TO SWIM— 7 By WINIFRED GIBSON IN Lesson 5, we learn--led that sculling head first is an arm action that can propel the body easily and comfortably along the surface m a horizontal, supine position, without using the legs at all. Today
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    65 2 I TNLIKE those of many other European countries, the stamps of Italy have always been good to look at. The latest Italian set is no exception to the rule Illustrated here is the lowest^ value of a set of three stamps (they can be bought from any dealer
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  • 129 2 A GOOD earner li camper. Mako patrol rule that you the brallings ami tl( the tent doorv. the mornings. Take out the si and let each S.«o blankets and hit neat stack them on of h groundsheet. Once your patrol tent aired, keep it tldv. H home-made litt^r-o where
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    • 164 2 SUPERB I ®t Wf^ COLUMBIA \^s Recordings '045- HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY No. 2 (Llarf) The Philadelphia Orcl.e-u rond. by Eugene Ormandy. IX i;t; -HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY .To. 1 IN F Minor The Philadelphia Orche«ua cond. by Eugene Oimai.ay iX JLB--FLEGIAC MELODY— No. I— Heart-Aches Grieg ELEGIAC MELODY- No. 2 -The Last Spring
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    • 24 2 ATTENTION Will Mr. Chua Peng Kiang please send his address to rhe Editor, Singapore Free Press. so that his request may be complied with.
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    • 32 2 D-E-L-l-C-l-O-U-S FRAMROZ CO. ESTABLISHED 1904 «3 AUTOMATIC RADIO CRAM9P IncoporatnF PHILIPS with Mv: Garrard Automa PRICE: $750.00 I !t or on eass -p KOSTER (COMPANY I" 10, COLLYER mi \i .J^ 0^
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    • 66 2 JUNIOR CROSSWORD clues across— l. These an Peninsula 565 miles long (5. There are twelve on each 4~~^ |H CLUES DOWN.--1. En- 13. Name of an ancient ruler lish statesman; author ol of Peru Utopia. 2. Name of three SOLUTION kings of Scotland. 3, Indian rf Pompett 10, Range o(
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  • 401 3 Lord Baldwin is 'fed up f ORD Baldwin, outspoken, colourful, explosive Governor of the Leeward Islands is expected to retire from i,he post soon— possibly within two ruth ree months. It is said that the grounds will be illiM'illlli. By that time the so far slow
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  • 157 3 4 \USTRALIA^ias advanced "anythifg from 15 to ?0 years" m. industrial deveT 1^ 11 durln X the six years f Or L d War according to Mr. S. D. Shubart. Senior Australian Trade Commissioner m India Mr. Shubart told Bombay Rotarians that over 1.672 Industrial
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  • 207 3 'WHITE LIE' OFFICER IS CASHIERED (captain Gordon Howard N'/oi n Hurtman 33 of the n/n Lancers, whose family were said to have served In i Je Army since the days of Wellington, admitted at a York court-mart i I paying two soldiers £300 to secure false evidence. He pleaded guilty
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  • 26 3 The Iran Majlis (Parliament ended its two-year-s^sston recently without voting on a bill embodying the Government*! new agreement with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.- Reuter
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  • 34 3 rue oriel tsanK annoui. that it will send a six or se\ man mission to Yugoslav;;! month to study Vu i4>.>slav economy m connection with a U.S. $50,000,000 loan application.- A. P.
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  • 106 3 THE House of Lords has decided to stand firm on its demand that operation of the Government's bill to nation- i alise steel be postponed until after next year's general election. Lord Salisbury, leader of the .Opposition, announced this! When the Lords discussed the Commons rejection
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    87 3 Diamonds are trumps Sou f n leads North and South art to v.in five of Hie ?ix tricks rat any defei Boutb plays Uw ace and nm of dJ kt tpi k n, North discards the jack; if We* fc P JPff" 1 Thus, whether East or -1
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  • 219 3 pENERALISSIMO Chiang Kai-shek's visits to Baguio and Canton has tocussed attention on the future role the Generalissimo is likely to play m the Nationalists' continued fight against the Communists. The Generalissimo's emergence from "retirement has come as no surprise to those observers who all
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    96 3 lord I'.ikriih.uu i '.mid irotn left) Britain*« Minister of civil \vi itiMii. i) id lunch recently with threi civil ,nr pilots who h.»\" t« h Mown o\or 3.000.000 nllei Thej are (left to rinht) I' 1 \«\irold C.ipt.iin K. s .1 llcock of R.O.AC, (nearly IJttJti miles). SI -year oM
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  • 67 3 MR. Philip Murray, pi dent of the i S s workers' Union, has ani thai b fourth all round wage l: i i rj 5 (UJB i an hour plus it i i an hour for pensions and cial insurance. Tl. three pay Inert
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  • 47 3 1 hai gen 20 years' :ri;i nn charget of attempting m rt abroad m ord I i ■c tecreta «>f the I v to the tntelll- •■r. 1 An hat Pi while attempting t<> he had i n his n n A.P.
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  • 14 3 civil Rervai I >00.000 Pickpockets cauglil 190 Japanese pickp :;t. U.P.
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    • 18 3 gYONE gDBE L .ttHbiroHfhtst r J IX WAYNE pk RUSSELL p#e' pfer UAMBRA TODAY/ I Hs I 9
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    • 194 3 *'i+* %.■>"- J II iE-H A l» Hgt> S j^Hlfll m* jmA w'■ ■y- Tho VCox s.cylinde, VAUX HAH saloon (illustrated above) W fc^" F does 25-28 miles to the S\ j"% f\ wm S\ qimi s gallon and is one of the Cr U C//7 C//#/Jr fastest cars on
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    • 876 3 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fvtt *m mkV J I R^HN today, you have a am 1 yoi uill rarely, it ever, •P. Crossword No, 755 B ""<•■ n ?~~s char »°j actcr and should he sue- Since your family ties Immm,^ T""""" ■■•i wmmommmm cessful m your life work. ate strong
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  • 585 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, July 30, 1949 Some man must present wall S a-jm against the Hood is being i. lilt without the aid of a Hen pact bKween the .tins which will have to both the materials men for war should i Hood iry to pour over the
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  • 1076 4  -  George Creighton by Q\ the evening of September 24, 1937, a swimmer was stretched out m a room at a certain swimming bath, and by his sine was someone with hands upon the swimmer's feet and quietly voicing instructions. "Let go, let go good."
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  • 354 4 r pHE signal that x ordered Atlantic weather ships to help m the search for the missing R.A.F. Halifax—onair weather patrol would break dramatically into the tedium ot the crews' lives. It must be pretty grim being cooped up for four weeks on end m those ex-corvettes with
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  • 52 4 FOURTEEN footboard travellers lost their lives m a railway tragedy at Igatpuri, 70, miles from Bombay. Two mail trains crossing, each other a: a narrow curve,' 1 brushed down numerous footboard travellers from b »th the trains. Fourteen dlod, on the spot and about 20 were severely
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  • 591 4 NEW DELHI: oasis of peace m the heart of Ihe Himalayas, the LI, OOO- fool high plateau of Ladakh is probably the o n I y place m the world which has no jails because there is no crime. Almost a forgotten land— except to tourists explorers
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  • 2 4 Watching bones
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  • 394 4 They Go Abroad To Learn PEOPLE MAKE p V J [TOl X Singapore students are bound for America where they will further their studies Since Mie war's end. the enthusiasm of Malayan students to abroad lins been markedly on the increase. Last year, for example, 65 young men and women
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    • 69 4 ill glasses alone improve ymt Eyesight?" -HO rofpssionaJ services and teenUlcftl .skills are the essential aids lo your "seeing ability," your visual "orr.fort and efficiency. It t« for these services and *ki!K— not for glasses alone— cnu na? 'm your fee "Seek Professional advice Not glasses at a vrtce." v
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    • 50 4 m \Qf r wr u^ \s^ Thrt It a Mini P the house. v% place to relief a r V> BABY IS ON >» Look at him A weight increasing r* brimming with hi C HE CANT SAY COW GATE Iv- i r ij_r i i -ni Agent.:- JACKSON CO..
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  • 389 5 RECORD DROP IN BABY DEATHS C limes help mothers Free Press Staff Reporter BECAUSE of a higher standard of living amone Singapore s poor mothers and the spread of health education, the death rate among babies m the Municipality last year was the lowest ever recorded. In a report laid
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  • 59 5 I r p ess Staff Reporter. m. a pore Music Circle plans to sponsor a IHif concerts In the Colony, some time this Itkeßatavia Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. s I He is paving his first visit to npore. The Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of 64 players gave us first concert m
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  • 315 5 Free Press Staff Reporter. pOLR civilian employees unions of the three Services m Singapore will present a memorandum on better conditions of service and pay to a fiveman British Government Commission which arrived here from England yesterday. The four unions are the Army Civil Service
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  • 110 5 THE Singapore firm of contract us Messrs. Woh Hup Ltd., and its managing director, Mr. Yong Yit Lin, have promised BO donate an aggre gatt- sum o! $20,000 to the University Fund, to be paid m five annual instalments oi $4,000 each. The Catholic churches m
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  • 50 5 EH3HI niv. Ju.siices of tn Peace for Singapore have j Yivn appointed. They ai~: Mr. Lionel Cres■on, Dr. Poh Chee Juay, Mr. John Kenneth Gwinnell, Mr. Eric Ivan henton. Mr. Edward Qibiert Hollinay. Mr. Tay 800 Yong, Mr Augustus Maurice D'Netto and Mr. Norman John Da vie*.
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  • 38 5 1 Approximate cost of Gunong [Pukii Water Woriu Scheme, up to the end of June this year, was $26,871,000. and it .would cost $15,800,000 more to I complete, it was stated m the [Municipal Commission jretterIday.
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    39 5 picture. JENNIFER Taylor giving a basket of flowers to Mrs. J P. F. White, the wife of Lt. Col. White, who presented the prizes to the children at the prizefivinr held at Alexandra Primary (infant) School yesterday. Free Press
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  • 25 5 The eighth Inter-School Art Exhibition will be opened at the British Council Hall Stamford Road, on Aug. 3, at 5 15 pm.
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  • 70 5 picture FjUH T R of the five members of the British Government Commission who arrived m Singapore yesterday to inquire into methods of dealing: with conditions of service of the civilian employees of the three Services m Singapore and the Federation. From left to right Mr. W.
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  • 239 5 Free rress Man iteporier THE annual value of Singapore town at the end of last year was $25,708,502, showing a net increase of 84,406,070 as compared with a decrease of 5113,899 at the end of 1947. This Increase is mainly at- tributabl? to the revision of
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  • 64 5 GOOD THRILLER AT CATHAY For direction, filming and acting, "Wake of the Red Witch" (showing at the j Cathay) has much to earn praise. Particularly worthy of i mention are the submarine 1 scenes showing the hero, John Wayne, struggling with a monster octopus, and the .wreck of a windjammer
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  • 24 5 The Pan-Malayan Hongkong University Alumni Association will hold its annual meeting at the City Club Cecil Street, tomorrow at 11.30 a.m.
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  • 188 5 M R C. S Jansen. a teacher m tht Serangoon English School, and Mr. Roy Ferro-. of the Straits Times, ha/.* been awarded the Canad? NESCCT Fellow..hip" and will leave shortly for Canada for an approximate pei-i.-Ki of six months. Mr Jansen's projected course of Ftudy
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  • 217 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A THREE-MAN committee was appointed by the Singapore Municipal Commissionera yesterday to inquire into the cessation of work on the Pontian waterworks tunnel. The members are Mr. P. J. Johnson (Labour North Ward), Mr. C. F. J. Ess (Progressive— West Ward)
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    • 192 5 si v I^R, v Mil n 1 111 '"ij A pair of handsome, M \n*™'i Hf IH I well-tailored Cord- I Sf \MI uroy slacks. for iL sm? |j i;-:r fir These slacks are S^ Ii 4 self supporting with V elastic waists Avail- j^m. 1 able m Fawn, Tan.
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  • 2078 6 LONGCH AMPS TO WIN GOLD CUP Form guide for Monday's races Free Press Racing Correspondent QX latest race form, Longchamps II and Bright Eyes t should win the Cup races at Penang on Monday; the fourth and last day of the August Bank Holiday meeting. In the Penang Gold Cup
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    • 304 6 now showinc ifcwr ('pho B e 5159) Ha.m.1.45, 4.00,6.30 €f 9.30 p.m. f.f^^\ qoujMßiAncroßßS presents m m oAyf AN ENTIRELY NEW 1949 H J ATTRACTION FOR YOUR B J" LL PACKING T «EM AUGUST HOLIDAYS! A IN! '^KSMs^s^sml^B^L^Hßb^E %m 0^ JiJ^yC "N A S I B" H^ «H^ JOMNMY 4^
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    • 109 6 |f«Sß^r3^B Exclusive to thp Singapore Free Press m Malaya %s 11®^ i^^isr^ 3 FORMAUY-!i l«* I r \l -I^___S HE -4- -i ~i^lx>F- Stev2#Ul JA ftw B »T" A IMC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya TARTAN Case history By Edgar Rice Burroush* I r/ t cr T>
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  • 80 7 when utlezong Hot Yeng. :on »ruie I\-n all Beng. i former holder did wen to -rig Lioug of o akn eltmtnaied bAOpton .1 W. •viest-fougr. Ifcdft \ijmu »eft > /L£S :n Leoat H i Yeag I has bea" vi :q b. 'OB r 1 S>L;t 6-4. 1-6. 6-2; »te
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  • 15 7 J** tot; ana Badge «>tt3 courw o i Hit. il DV ■P. Reuter
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  • 220 7 Latest hints rom course tree Press iCacin^ Correspondent T KMPEST ,»d ifcrtJ^S!Si*ft*S», this morning as the best bets for this after noon s races at the Penang Turf Club If th« So Black, who ran a fair fifth to Lusan i*«m over the s if.
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  • 121 7 U.S. rally to win meet T*HE United State* staged a A flne recovery yesterday: to win the big three-day qp a C J?rti a nd < fleld eet ft Bain/t Scandinavia at Oslo by 2384 points to 224*. Starting the day «ix points m arrears, the Americans won five of
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  • 98 7 pERMITA DORMEZ (LayX cock) showed fine pace when he galloped 3f. m 36 seconds on the training track this morning. Bright Eyes Jones) sorinted 2f. m 24 1/5. Little Ned (Charles) finished a half-mile tryout half a length m front of Clynor < Woods and
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  • 47 7 THE men* doubles final of the V.M.C.A. tennis championships will be played on Wednesday, Aug I, it 5.15 pm. It will be followed by the distribution of p'riaes by I-ady Oimson. In the ever.t of rain, the pro,.ainme *ill be postponed to Friday. Aug. ft.
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  • 36 7 FRANK SKDGMAN (Australia) yesterday defeated -trm&rido Vega (Mexico) In the opening match of the Davis Cup American zone final at Wilmington (Delaware*. The score w&s 12 10. 4— B. B—4.8 4. I—6. 6—3.- Reuter
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  • 137 7 MIDDLESEX, by their win over Hsmpshire yesterday, take a clear e«sd In the county cricket cham^onahlp, with 121 point* ficm 18 m&tchec. Worcestershire, with whom they had been level at the top of the table with 116 poinu, were playing outside the championship m this series. With
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  • 73 7 TRESPASSER EPSOM JEEP CAIT^T" "T~^ilE» RACE 1 SIR KEITH OAKFfi s— 2™ srsLis" i^t^ *V EgF s-^SiS J^T Double Nta. li!iSn SUver Unin. SUw Ltoing 1 JMBMI FaJrlyn Fairlyn tSi"^« SITiuL. EN lauy kalanq 5^ Au»u L aa. is^,. RACE """<»* MERLIN UNTI'CKT KENTUCKY 4»» Pathft™!,,
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  • 172 7 JMPECCABLE. an IrUh-bred grey owned by Mr. R. McUha^ga, an Irish manufacturer, carried the welter burden of »st. 121 b. to victory In the lOf. Chesterfield Cup, when the four-day meeting at Goodwood ended yesterday. Never In the history of the race, which is more than
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  • 113 7 ITARRY BRADBHAW, winner two year* ago. regained the Irish Open golf championship on the Belvoir course. Belfast yesterday with four rounds of 70, 71. 73, 7S for an aggregate of 286. It was a near thing, nowever. for Bobby Locke, the Soulh African who beat
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  • 340 7 A THIRD-WICKET partnership of 87 m 85 minutes by Gilbert Dawson (97) and Jim Bailey delayed the expected Middlesex victory over Hampshire yesferday m their county cricket championship fixture. After this stand was broken the wickets tumbled, the last five going down m 65 minutes for 64
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  • 91 7 TACK KRAMER and Donald Budge, both of the United States, reached the final of the Slazenger professional lawn tennis tournament at Scarborough yesterday. Kramer beat Pancho Segura (Ecuador) m one semi-final 6-4 3-6. 6-0. 6-3. while Budge bet. Dinny Pall* (Australia, m the other by 7-5,
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  • 421 7 A/TOST disappointed competitor m the opening day of the Singapore athletic meet held at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday, was MiM Lourenaa Dowdeew«ll. the R.A.F. woman champion sprinter. Miss Dowdesweil, who was confident of establishing a record m the women's 100 yards flat race, was disqualified
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  • 388 7 Fluctuating fortunes at Sheffield AFTER an exhilarating and fluctuating day's play the match between the New Zealandera and Yorkshire tm left drawn yesterday at Sheffield, with Yorkshires last pair it the wicket (m the absence of the injured Trueman) The New Zeaianders scored 261 and 228 and Yorkshire replied with
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    • 209 7 UKf *m DOCSITT HIT US! Because W «.Ke \f\R THE SEA! Come R°lax at BE HAPPY WORLD CABARET Bpriag Dance Floor m Mal»y») u»a>i w.., ir( hinr new topical. TOOK OF THE 1949 HAPPY'S QUEEN Jj^taj fro,,-. rONIOBI to 7th Auiust, Vm 'flvVii^ 1 :nj FL »OR SHOWS A THE
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    • 247 7 _x#\ IS I How long do you take over your daily shave? Tha average man spends about five minutes. Not long really, considered on a daily basis, but m a lifetime— nearly seventy days /^^^^S^>^ from man's allotted span are spent /i '?i^^S!^Pc J *'^l^ BS before shaving mirror. (/L
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    • 516 7 j |>ELOW is given the card of events for todays races ci h" an Thc Bl Swee _P*m *>c drawn' on race *RACE 1-MJ: CL. 3, I 1 4 Div. 5 6F. ©00 Brooking 811 JJJ wC«f." EUery RAC L 8 v -^l r dL 3 Girl Flannery 812 #J(
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  • 16 8 EASTWOOD— At Bungsar HosKmla Lumpur, 29 July '49, c Skrine), wife H I). F;i^twood-T-a son.
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  • 355 8 on a better life LONDON, Saturday. T^E British Communist Party is making a "deliberate drive" m British colonies and Communist agents are making a real effort to create trouble m those territories, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Arthur Creech Jones, told Parliament
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    41 8 The West Indian labour leader, Mr. W. A. Bustamente. who is chairman of the Legislative Committee and member of the Executive Council of the Government of Jamaica, photographed on board the liner Queen Eli/abetn on arrival at Southampton from New York.
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  • 85 8 LAUSANNE. Sat. THE three-month-old Palestine conciliation talks here took their biggest step forward hist night when Arab delegates indicated that they might accept a new Israeli offer to take back a substantial number of Arab refugees. The Israeli offer was made to the United Nations Conciliation Commission
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  • 149 8 US 'brigadier' of Kashmir is now a sergeant FRANKFURT. Sat A 27 YEAR OLD former "American "brigadier.- who Jed Muslim tribesmen m Kashmir yesterday posted as a military police sergeant, at Frankfurt military headquarters. Sgt. Russei Haight. a veteran ol six years' w&rtime service m the OtUted States and Canadian
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  • 184 8 ATOMIC ARMS RACE IS ON NEW YORK, Sat. FJESPITE strong object- ions from Russia and the Ukraine, the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission voted yesterday to throw out a Soviet plan for atomic control. The Commission voted. 7 to 2. with Argentina and Egypt
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  • 25 8 The French Government survived It* graves! i yesterday wiit-n the Nati Assembly voted its suppor 1 i narrow margin. 239 to 289 U.P.
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  • 32 8 i eminent 1 »8 I :aini to Afghai for the incident of Ji>iu> 12 m w Pakistani planes wore alii to ha .bo<{ AlKlian Ii on their < n Reuter
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  • 103 8 BRISBANE, Saturday. \y"H the aim of eliminating tuberculosis within ten years, the Queensland State Government has approved the painless and inexpensive Man on" Vkfn available. LIJSS* **>* to Positive reaction to the teal will be A-rayed immediately Positive reactors art considered either to have
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  • 50 8 rriu **W DELHI, Sat. £HE Indian Government announced yesterday that it is sending m August a lovely well-behaved young female elephant to Tokyo school children Named "Indira' after the daughter of Pandit Nehru the 15-year-old elephant toW be shipped to Japan aboard the Neisho Maru.
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  • 238 8 LONDON, Friday. A JUDICIAL inquiry is to be held into the appointment of Seretse Rhunia. who married a London typist, as chief of the Bamangwato tribe, Beehuana- land, it was officially announced today Seretse was given an overwhelming vote of confidence by his tribe when they
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  • 70 8 renting 26 per cent Official data on the national income of the U S 8 R are not available at the present time, the survey said. Experts, however, estimate the national income of the Soviet Union at about $52 000 millions or slightly
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  • 59 8 LONDON, Sat. WHERE are only 70 per--1 sons m Britain who make K 6.000 a year or more after paying taxes, a Treasury report shows. The report says there are 3.340 persons m the 4.000 to Cfi.ooo bracket: 58. .*00 m the 2.000 to £4,000 bracket,
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  • 30 8 penditur,. on ,1 .thVsZ?,. "i' of »»UI exthe Washin R ,on rhVmi'™? 1 "r*. t. l>llllhMl 1 "> chamber. sin Xl,»K l,» w«rk\,? s »>.iim.i^, UTI thr U.P.
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  • 110 8 TOKYO. Sat CTATION workers At Nagoya. v instructed to -aptuiv and replace m a rratp some 70 vipers that had sot loose i-i a DMHUUM van. took one look at the deadiy reptiles and decided to wait for tnen* owner PMwntera aUghting a t
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  • 244 8 GIL T-EDGEDS STEADIER rm^ mmt LONDON, Saturday. PHh recent heavy decline m British Government stocks has apparently been halted, prices being fractionally irregular after initial firmness yesterday, says Reuters financial correspondent. The possibility of a fresh fall, however, cannot be ruled out. Trading m most sections wai generally for the
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  • 28 8 S itliei and prtTftU ■ibour vi tnbined t rlct Kling m the n*m York Btccic Kxchangi „,d narrowly m quiet d< operator! continued to r. Reuter
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • Free Press Saturday Magazine
    • 7 1 Free Press Saturday Magazine JULY 30, 1949.
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    • 767 1  - Singapore's pistol-packin' mommas NAN HALL by reks 1 ii tensive nd two practical cxii] the Sii I nee has ned" seven si girls c even more Mala\ giris resource I nL itive and high- Jined learn of ►men anbruary would be olice v :rhu con- was The still Dated Singapore
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    • 235 1  -  KENNY KAYE by MALAYA'S little tycoons are reaping a rich harvest m pennies an d pinmoney. Von see them near theatres, amuse menl parks, m restaurants, coffee shops and on the streets. They are a post-war product, intelligent, precocious and completely independent. Like the shoe-shine boys along
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    • 697 1  -  C.Y. FOOI I tor pOX more than half an hour the train has been stopped m wild :md dart surrounflings. You are blissfully unaware. You are tired and determined to gain as much sleep as is humanly possible m that narrow berth of yours. For
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    • 251 1  - HOW P'EI-TU GAME TO BE PREMIRE HUANG HSIEN-SHENG by JN th c Fang dynasty there was a well known prime minister, named P'eitu. When P'ei In w;is a young man, a physiognomist who vein] his face said he was destined to die m destitution. He paid no heed to the
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    • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 811 2 By OUR LONDON FILM REPORTER NEARLY eight years ago, when the Japanese were attacking Malaya, Sir Alfred Duff Cooper was Minister of State m South-East Asia. Now he is to help sell British films m France. When Sir Alfred resigned his position as British
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    • 318 2 MALE cheesecake is the 111 latest thing m Hollywood. Ever since Mack Sennett's bathing girls, Hollywood cheesecake has sold like— well, cheesecake. Now it is getting another gender reoorts Robert Ryan. The actor discovered this after starring as a prizefight In The Set-Up." It was his
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    • Article, Illustration
      46 2 The story of aspiring dancers who go to the United States m search of success has been given a change of direction by Roe Berry of the Windmill Theatre, London, whose scaling of the height*- ts seen being done very g- ace fully tn this picture.
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    • 619 2 These Shows Should Be Hits' In London From FREDERICK COOK: NEW YORK yAKE away the x cinemas and night clubs, and Broadway just now would be about as liveiy as Singapore's High Street on a Sunday night. Only a handful of theatres are carrying on mostly for provincial visitors hoping
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    • 802 2 It was a good week for young Mr. Ustinou QNE of the newest nims m UK, is "Private Angelo" m which the hero is an Italian soldier who doesn't like war. Every evening (Mondays excepted) another soldier a moronic G. I. —reels drunkenly off the stage of London's Lyric Theatre
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    • 144 2  -  RALPH SHAW By jyjANV fabul tales have i>< written n b o v little known Lolo or Nosu tribe, wli inhabits the rugj mountain Fastm separating China h Tibet One of interesting is the of a foreign missioi wfro worked m th<:' for many
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      • 274 2 HOLLYWOOD Beauty Hint ■VA*i,~(*dn.bi Starring Land I urnrr .MCjXi l lolly wood Many women are .m.iir that the secret of a glamorowsly completed make-up, with no ci^e" shouinj; where the cosmet k groom in}; ot the face leaves off, lies mj the application of makep "ilrrnier to continiM this makeup
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      • 70 2 s&HD^ SOUTHERN EXTENSION IU. MISS LEONG SAI SAN VALUABLE PRIZES WILL BE GIVEN TO mt_ A Q W Hi I Hire Purchase Te available Authorised Dtftlefft:— VAN HIN ELECTRICAL CO 13ti. Orcliurd Kti.itl SEA VIEW HOTEL DA\( INC. NK.IIIM «l [■serin i M M)\\ ,-MOI(MN(> 00NCKR1 UfO CtRI MN M
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      • 144 2 What's On CAPITOL: "Jungle Jim" with Johnny Weisun alter Midnight: "Road House" starring Richard Widmark. Ida Lupino. Cornel Wilde, and Celeste Holm. Sunday morning matinee at 9 a.m ™THAY: "Wake of the Red Witch" starring John U ayne and Gail Russell. Midnight: "Streets of Laredo" with William Holden, William Rendix,
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    • 1416 3  -  Edmond Barry SHORT STORY T WO da y > l 1 wickford irrived itonb} 1 to take Irr hls igh the newdoor. are- the 'op aid withdn th« note ruing m > up,uibly 1 am my 600 Sax--I you will mirsble looking your •■Jy. Twigg." :ied. ol )>
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    • Article, Illustration
      306 3  -  Marian Wells by qHOK T A G E oi potatoes? Not m Singapore's rur a 1 areas. Each little cultivated plot is well stocked with tapioca and sweet potato beds which supply tubers for the morning meal as well as material for making those cakes and doughnuts
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    • 645 3  -  J. HENDERSON STEWART M.P. by |T \wis fitting that the recent Conference on the Federation of the Rhodesius should take place at Victoria Falls. The mighty Zambesi, strengthened by a thousand tributaries, flows for a brief space between the two territories, to crash suddenly
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    • 435 3  - Malta goes schnorkel fishing A. COCKBURN by ARE your nerves good That is one of the first questions you should ask yourself if you are thinking of coming here for a holiday. A visitor arrived last week-end and yesterday wer.it for a swim m the Mediterranean, which is now beginning
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    • 62 3 H/|HS. Alice Mar> Ho*.. uf Avlesbury, died t a bee iting an Inquest decided recently. Witnesses said &he died 10 minutes after being itung. Dr. R. B. Lucas, a pa loKist, said death was dv.h.vi>er sensitivity to t)ie son Injected by the bee. "Jje&s degrees of hyp< c
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      • 103 3 »M* A w*» 6 Jit I gm SHORT \XOHK |fl fl <l/ //O/? 7 IT/1 f£ Tuni v Bush radio Bush Bandspread" Radio enahtea yo« to find your way atx>ut the short waves with ease and conhdenee Band-spread tuning enormously widens the gap btrwetn each wiretength on che runing and
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    • 656 4  -  K.S. By Chia 4t j/EEP the females out!" This caustic comment was found on a voting slip when the Chinese Swimming Club, Penang, called a meeting m 1932 to consider the admission of lady members officially. And kept out they were -until 1040.
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    • 519 4  - SPORT I NG Chit-Chat HUZZAT. CHATTERBOX JJTGHT ians are keenly looking forward to Fridays fight at the Happy Work' Btedium. This is the flrst time since the liberation th?t champions from oth: 3 r countrif 1 have been Impor ed to Singapore. It takes a daring ptoitioter to do it.
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    • 916 4  -  N.W.D. YARDLEY 15% HOW many different ways can a batsman be out? I have been given out six different ways, but there are, m fact, nine "offences" which can send a batsman back to the pavilion. This week as a help to umpires,
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      308 4  -  C.H. O.'D. ALEXANDER By Ex-British Chess Champion /'HESS robots are nothing new: there have been a number of mechanical players m the past, the earliest example of which I know being about 1820. All these automata, however, were merely ingenious illusionist devices, a man being concealed within the
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    • 311 4  -  Ivan Sharp By- r|WE hour has arrived t.» X blood Fn^land cricket youngsters. Australia, through BraJman, McCabe and now Harvey, have proved that cricket is a younr man s game. !f W€ tannot win the rubber aßainst New Zealand acd still blood youn R sters, th,en English
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      • 218 4 ATTENTION TANGLIN RESIDENTS SHOP \T VOIR NEAREST CIIKMISTS— THE SINGAPORE DISPENSARY 285, OK('IIARI) ROAI» (Ppposite (.'old Storage Creameries) Telephone *****. FREE DEUVERi! SERVICE. NEW STOCK AI VA HIS FOR INSPEd lON LARGE SELECTION OF PERSIAN INDJAN CARPFTS RUGS IN CHARMING SHADES at Competitive prices We also send Gift Parcels to
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      • 28 4 CHOSEN AC AI^FOUT for i MALAYAN 1949^"^ CHAMPIONSHIP! Diwlop 'FORT' TENNIS BALLS For Reliable j^ '3^ Prompt Service PACKING OF HOUSEHOLD* Forwatdiny LlcorinQ __^^^^^o^^\ 45, We ARCAVt J-Jg^"^
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