The Singapore Free Press, 13 August 1949

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  • 20 1 The singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 1-551 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, Al GUST 13, 1949. PRICE 10 CIA is
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  • 415 1 M-PLAN WANTED FOR FAR EAST Proposal to U.S. Congress nr,T, WASHINGTON, Saturday. JWO Democratic and two Republican members yesterday proposed' to the House of Representatives that the I.S. set up a xMarshall Plan for the Far East. They said that such a programme recommended by Pandit Nehru and President Quirino
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  • 140 1 WE WILL FIGHT MYRANY' -CHURCHILL STRASBI KG, Saturday. 1 Winston Churchill told 20,000 people gathered main square here at a demonstration j lltdbv the European movement, "It is not against r nation that we range ourselves. It is! mny In all its forms, ancient or modern, ■ior old. that we
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  • 30 1 KOKn qqt hin? attacked ndits on tne B )S Hn "in the nast -i machml- fl? e and [•hree passen1 \t least 10 f them carrying been attacklive days.—
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  • 65 1 ANEW combat uniform for British troops will be tested during tho next six months by British army units throughout the world, the War Office announced yesterday. Described as "an entire departure from the present cloth," the outfit comprises a peaked cap, a two-piece smock and trousers garment
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  • 96 1 Free Press Staff Reporter LAST night a car going in the direction of Kuala Lumpur fn/m Seremban failed to stop at a road block in Semenyih. Arrangements were niade to stop it further along the road, and a second road block was established at
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  • 123 1 HONG KONG, Sat. THE Chinese Government's airline, China National Aviation Corporation, yesterday filed a suit against the Hong Kong Government for an alleged breach of contract after an order to the company to vacate hangars and workshops at Kaitak aerodrome by Aug. 15. The Government is
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  • 88 1 rnHE British-born novelist, Pamela Frankau. who now T lives in California, said yesterday in London that sh hid returned to England to "uncoil my nerve ends. 8h< said 'I if" in California is very comfortable, very expenSiVe 'she r^ad yS S ome^ a dle V fo y
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    44 1 Prince Charles, in the arms of his nurse, looks happy on his first visit to Scotland since his birth nearly a year ago. He went with his mother. Princess Elizabeth (left), and his grandparents, the King and Queen (right) on a visit to Balmoral.
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  • 29 1 Four Muslims were sentenced to death in Sarajevo yesterday for plotting to overthrow Yugoslavia's social order "with the aid o f irv% perialist intervention."— A.P.
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  • 136 1 SHEFFIELD, Saturday. LEADERS of 1,580 key workers in Britain's nation--4 alised coalfields yesterday rejected a Labour Ministry arbitration otter and called a strike for next Friday, which will cause an estimated 70 per cent, cut in Britain's coal output. The Executive Committee of the
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  • 188 1 ASCOLI WARNS U.S. Free Press Special Correspondent LONDON, Saturday. 4 MERICA is bound to realise that Communism in Asia has got to be fought, and that it cannot be fought unless the rubber producing areas are kept hi a reasonably prosperous condition", Mr. F. D.
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  • 72 1 ATHENS, Sat. A MERICAN-MADE rocketj i\ firing divebombers of the Gr^ek Air Force have smashed a 25-truck ammunition and troops convoy entering Greece from Albania, Greece press re--1 p:rts said yesterday. Radio Tirana, official voice of Albania, alleged that two Greek aircraft dropped bombs near the
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  • 32 1 HONG Kong Will soon be linked with Canada by air. Canadian Pacific Air Lines will inaugurate weekly flights between Hong Kong and Vancouver on September I 19.- Reuter
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  • 54 1 Free Press Staff Reporter AN unidentified Tamil .v. found shot through the head outside the perin fencing of a factory at the 6th mile Johore Bahru-Kulai road last night after a ipecial constable fired at a suspicious ment in the dark The Tamil had no weapons
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  • 155 1 HONG KONG, Saturday AS the main Communist armies in Hunan and Kiangsi advanced nearer to Canton, the Reds are reported to be preparing to send out an armada of 300 troop-laden junks in an effort to break th<tightening Nationalist blockade. The Red junk
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  • 47 1 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE police are inO vostigatlng the death in hospital re-ently of the nineyear old Chinese school boy. who was suddenly taken ill on coming home from school. A post-mortem has revealed that he di fi d of Internal injuries
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  • 47 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A police jungle squac operating north of Tenang in the Segamat district of Johore yesterday drove off a gang of 30 armeri Chinese who were crossing a river. It is believed that threp of the bandits were injured.
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  • 16 1 La*l night a Hetectlvesergeant was shot near Bukit Mertajam police station in Province Wellesley.
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  • 34 1 Three Vietnamese glrli who threw hand-grenades in a Saigon cinema, killing five people and Injuring five others, were sentenced to death by a French military court in Saigon, yts-.erday.- Reuter
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  • 240 1 'KEEP AWAY FROM HONG KONG' ACHESON TO REDS WASHINGTON, I rid 13 THE Secretary of State, Mr. Dean AchesOß, tod x warned the Chinese Communists against at in. ing Hong Kong. Mr. Acheson told correspond! at his weekly press conference that the I nlted States and British Governments had conferred
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  • 81 1 MORE British tTOt.pt, I tires and the light I carrier Ocean arrive in i he main Comniu forces, driving thro h E them china. ap| within 300 mil< Colony. About 2. 000 U than 24 hours aftei U.S. Seer. I n Acheson, had
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  • 16 1 T ntral Coui I rdered the fecatlon ol revenue offtcen r boun Reuter
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  • 27 1 In e fnm »ti Hmm ter U( n A the I6tl 1 LO Oui Rifles operatin M u Kluai I nil bandit CARipi in I
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  • 49 1 mi (i \i Mattel <hi n rnt gi\es the p i» n lui MStl |mt Ih.) at 11 ain ,ts tollous: Hu\»*rv BtUtn i i; > > Iptli If.ose I <> h. in Dalrs Mij<. Nl. 1 I.S.I I H s > No. It s v I itn«-
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    96 2 ood's newest package v personality comes a small, but nonetheless liflcant, iUe. Sh e appeared on the 'Sorrowful Jones'' set only after 5,000 t-ther youngster* had oeen part ivhich she finally won. Who is this v.onder of wonders who defeated 5,000 others in competition for her "Sorrowful Jones" role? She's
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  • 182 2 CRICKET Hard Work Ahead BOWLING is hard work, and to be any good at It you must be prepared to work hard. Your run up to the wicket should be long enough for I to be properly balanced when you are about to de- the ball. But don't run far
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  • 537 2 Stephen Lost His First Birthday I CHILDREN! j here's your own j WORLD I SPOTLIGHT m'EPHEN Leslie, of has a I hard luck Uile to tell of his journey to New land his first birthd iv was stolen. ipp :v <i b- cause traslng the Internail Date Line In the
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  • 154 2 Adventures of Penny Koni Hi«t you t»K wondered what it is like* to b* part of a picture? Inside the picture frame there is a whole new world where all torts of eaotting things happen- but only when you are not lookmg7 The sailor doll Jumps right into the picture
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  • 433 2  -  WINIFRED GIBSON by Learn to swim 9 r^HESE strokes take A their name from the fact that both arms recover through the air at the same time, and give the swimmer the appearance of fitting along the surface of the water, though, of course, everything that enables
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  • 924 2  - Mouse-deer Saves The R iver Fish UNCLE GEORGE Page For Children by gEFORE long Lobster answered Mouse-deer's "Ahoy there, Lobster." "What cheer, ship mate!" Lobster's first words were indistinct, for he began speaking before he was out of the water, and the syllables sounded as though they were popping from
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    32 2 An orpharicd baby hcinc i i 7he mother at ?i in died a montf, n fountain pen /<• the youngster tuffit blanket provided i i levtl approxim yr rature, and the baby i<
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  • 79 2 |>AIN should tin a week-end camp, f i i j Whenever you're 1 YiY//*"0/(/ doors on hike, trek in camp— be read;. V it. You can tan l/i/\ much fur. as hot, sunn;. fr p on the m< LJ In N 1 in uit' I there
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    • 35 2 Trick corner \BI(i Malay and a littlo Malay were walking through the* kamponj;. Tho little Malay was the son of the big Malay, but the big Malay was not his father. Why? 'jJipoiu siq si-.*
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    • 22 2 v^ 'a, rVLJA Good News to A Aboec Multivitamin Dr" pS now available limited stocks only THE SINGAPORE DISPEtigJ 265 Orchard Road
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 178 2 JUNIOR CROSSWORD CLl ES ACROSS.— 3, This nv.f fT mh^ ■■H [4 I K I King of Troy who was killed by Achilles' son. 8, Nhine of a civ* racter in Oliver Twist. 10, Air l"""^! i^l~l fcll ~lH animal with four legs. 14. 8tar j I I M to
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    60 3 With the New York, city skyline in the background the Aircraft Carrier U.S.S. Enterprise passes under the Brooklyn bridge in the East River en route for the New York Naval shipyard for periodic overhauling. The "Big i s credited with shooting down 911 Japanese planes during the war and is
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  • 117 3 S'HAI 'CHTY OF GLOOM' L s h want to leave now exodus from Shanghai is fore•iiy placed British source but it will as large as the American exodus roots go deeper in China than those and :iope of foreign that was trading hich was ..e first the Comlias been •y
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  • 57 3 PRESIDENT Truman has appointed General Omar Bradley, the United States Army Chief of Staff, as Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff. Gen. BTadley will succeed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in this post designed to co-or-dinate the activities of the Army, Navy and Air
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  • 21 3 ntgomery In Swanmilitary in Eutary alllthlnga >nal tel--1 !::ttlonal sLstent rencea nd the Jfan de mmannd forthe sun- A .P.
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  • 7 3 Ill inme •share 600 H 30
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  • 92 3 THE Chinese Government's reply to the United States I White Paper is expected to be issued shortly, it is learned here. The full White Paper is reported to have been flown to Washington and passed on to George Yeh, acting head of the Foreign Office,
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  • 161 3 NEW ROCKET-TO-THE MOON TEST SCIENTISTS are building a special thermometer to be shot 70 miles in a rocket. The dava recorded will be helpful to a man on a trip to the moon, says its designer, Dr. Severin Raynor of the Illinois Institute of Technology. The instrument is contained in
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  • 55 3 THE Australian Miners' Federation Central Executive has authorised all miners to end their seven-week-old strike on Aug. 15. The Federation represents the men who actually dig the coal. A meeting: of tha coal mining representing all men In the industry called for today is (jynprtPfi t.n
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  • 25 3 Soviet Russia has joined the United Stages and 47 other nations in approving a new Red Cross convention to protect civilians in wartime.
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    84 3 There arc no trump*. B leTds. North and South are to win seven <rf the eight tricks against any defence. South leads he^rt ten. East makes the ace and returns a diamond South wins the queen and cashes the club king, contlnuin* bv playing whatever luH 1 discards.
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  • 303 3 - 'Slow death for thousands' have been hearing some expert views on what the atom bomb can do The picture given by Professor Marcus Oliphant, Aus-tralian-born Atomic Scientist, was frightening Professor Oliphant, who is in Australia to supervise construction of a physics laboratory at the National
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  • 120 3 Catholics to defy Red Czech Govt. THOUSANDS of Slovak Rom- an Catholics are expected to converge on Trnava, near Bratislava, today, defying a Government ban on unauthorised meetings, to watch the consecration of two new bishops "in a land of the faithless'— to give the English translation of their Latin
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  • 93 3 ALL Auckland, New Zealand waterside workers were dismissed last night as no reply had been received to the employers' 24-hour ultimatum on the resumption of normal overtime work The men had refused to work overtime because of a dispute arising out of extra rrvmey paid
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  • 68 3 A PARTY of about 500 Fiji Indians arrived In Calcutta from the Fiji Islands to settle permanently in u Independent India." A spokesman of the party said that the incidents in South Africa had "caused considerable apprehensions in their minds, though relations between Jojians and Indians
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  • 127 3 rpHL CouhciJ haj 1 derided to relh ;<■ Dr. I Ralph Bunch( .\f ing i Nations M dutlea in Pali itlne and maintain only a *k>-\- I I of officials to sup- l ml 1 tier b hi Arabi and Jewi A Sov
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  • 132 3 TTNITED Nations representatives of western Powers at Lake Success believe the Chinese Communist will claim the nationalist Government United Nations seat when they proclaim a government for all China after victory in their present southern offensive. However, it is believed that, when the General assembly meets
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  • 156 3 Hypnotist 'cured her by phone WHEN Peter Carson, hypnotist, gave a mass demonstration of his powers at Cheltenham his audience went into a trance and was later revived with one exception, 19-year-old Joyce Dovey, who wandered a from the hall in a walking trance. The next day colla: at work.
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  • 33 3 The marriage of the King's nephew, the Earl of Harewood, to Austrian-born Miss Marion Stein, will take place on Sept 29 in St. Mark's Church, North Audley Street, London. A .P.
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  • 168 3 ISRAEL should set up its own merchant fleet, thinks 1 Mr. Eduard Morgens, one of the organizers of the first steamship line between Buenos Aires and Israel ports which begins this month. Morgens has had many years of experience with transportation and shippjng in
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  • 282 3 rpHE New Y>rk Daily News reports a prevailing belief that natural rubber production in Malaya and Indonesia win become much cheaper and more efficient if President Truman's "Point 4" is extended there. "Point 4" calls for export of American technical knowledge to under-developed arras The
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    • 203 3 l-i&:.', Music 10.30 "The Bib..- in English Life Letters'; 10.45 •TwOH Rhythm on Records', from Radio ut'trcs. Malaya; 11 30 News News Analyfrom X.L sls <BBC); 11.45 Dance Music; 12.00 Close Down. AUSTRALIA mpur; 12 lb 19 25> awd dJ Metres. l **J"- TODAY 2 Danc« Ray 4 Radio Australia's
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    • 137 3 F.P. Cffos$w©y«t No. 765 ii 12 pi p~] IT"! ITT n ii U 3 m m 7 I 8 5p9 »0 n j 2 r//ssfs Sgl7 18 19 20 25 26 27 "«Z8 29i g 30 31 IS" I .v {Id n Lct if vo'ii; u.imal <4>; 1". S'ipend (9),
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  • 645 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. Aug. 13, 1949. BLIND EYE AT STOCKHOLM MR. TRYOVE LIE. Secrery -General to the United i, is optimistic about state of the world in raJ tension is decreas- says -and about the l iture ol the United Nations n in particular. In support of his
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  • 1099 4 PEOPLE MAKE NEWS [T was a great day for 96 Malays last week when they took part in a ceremonial passing-out parade at Sembawang airfield. They were all members of No. 95 Rifle Squadron of the R.A.F. Regiment (Malaya) who were inspected by Air Vice
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  • 697 4  - Abdullah Has Large Ambitions J. L. HAYS AMMAN By TKAANJOKLJA.N IS L I. I a tiny state. It Ikjs a population of onlv -a/www\ n i .1 ,.C DUU V UUU. IIS lOiai anfilial revenue is only £1 IWMUIOO Mnil iU il,uuu,wu dIlu llN people scrape a living from siirillholdillilS
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    64 4 tram Kaminski. 47, Berlin advertising man, started June 20 on a M90 of Germany. With two helpers he will pull a specially built barrel all the v 1928 to 1931 he toured Europe like this, making a living bi' cleaning advert business en route. In this picture stoUd Berliner's look
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  • 653 4  - LIVING OUT OF A SLOT MACHINE JAMES BROUGH By NEW YORK: \yHEN I counted my change one night last week I found that robots had sold me 4s. 3d. worth of goods and services in New York. With no human aid 1 bought: One shoe-shine, two bus rides, three trips
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  • 10 4 The Editor Quota 'quake m r i r it urn/1
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  • 8 4 THEIR PRICE WAS LOW III! Ml IS I
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    • 24 4 TABLE r MARGARINE |mLJ2| contain- k) ~7ea view both a. 0ONCBR1 5S .INUAl.-MKMN 1 SPKCIAI 1MSNIK >»i ADELPHI <*' f u ooao rooo KATHLEEN SEIH
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  • 151 5 Beefsteak lessons for Malay girls AIRMAIL FEES ■MS9 Sf lV Hrportor iteen m 12 to ting how Malay the im an<l nools domestic I charking was Rochore j schools, i ined total be good ■Jish dishes .11. the Asof these Free Press u idea in girll how to like boefblea
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  • 335 5 ZONES But exceptions can be made Free Press Staff Reporter JJUNGALOW areas in Singapore town will in future be closed to flats, but Municipal Commissioners may waive the rule-and allow the erection of flats as they think fit. This is the effect of amendments to the
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  • 273 5 China cleans up with S 'pore soap nlvr ress Ch inese Correspondent SINGAPORE S exports of locally-manufactured soap have soared with temperatures in China A Singapore manufacturer, Mr. Ang Hai Suan told the Free Press yesterday that the summer heat was one of the main reasons for increased sales to
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  • 155 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Harbour Board has been tentaUvoly approached by several shipping companies in Singapore to assist them in storing certain cargoes of goods be- j rauso of congestion at Hong i Kong's docks. Mr. Henry Basten, chairman o" the 5.H.8.. told the;
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  • 109 5 POM the beginning of next month, action will be i taken a^oinst motorists and owners nf motor vehicles for parking rars without lights. Offenders arr liable to a fine of up to $100. An official statement says tha<- an<- motor vehicle on any road between sunset and
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  • 75 5 /GAINSBOROUGH Studios \M have made a good job of Somerset Maugham's Quartet, which is being shown it the Pavilion. Of the four short stories in this film, the best seems to be The Colonel's Lady, with The Kite coming in a close second. Cecil Parker gives
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  • 40 5 Mr. Tan Ah Tah. Second District Judge, Singapore, has been appointed to act as District Judge and First Magistrate in place of Mr. E. P. Shanks who has gone on long leave to the United Kingdom.
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  • 30 5 Mr. C. W. Meyer, Records Officer, Labour Department, Singapore, has been appointed to act as an Assistant Secretary. Colonial Secretariat, Singapore. In addition to his own duties.
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  • 328 5 Free Press Staff Reporter i^RITICISMS of Federal overstaffing were answered last night by the Chief Secretary of the Federation, Sir Alec Newboult, broadcasting on the machinery of Government. Sir Alec said that critics who compared the present size of the Federal Secretariat with what it
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  • 168 5 MORE than 5.000 dozen i oysters are flown monthly t.o Singapore from Sydney by Qanta? p.'unos on the Kan- j t'aroo service." Coiisignii.ents by aJr began 11 yeai c ago when a trial i r.ipment of three dozen f,ysterF wi:.- forwarded from Sydney. By February,
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  • 437 5 'Special to die: killed wife Free Press Staff Reporter IPOH, Friday. /^ONVICTED on a charge of killing his wife, who was found dead outside her house, a 23-year-old special constable, Abdul Aziz bin Ibrahim, was today sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Storr at the conclusion of a two-day trial
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  • 35 5 Closing tin:« fMO mulls at tlic O.PO a)t«: to lr:dia. P:iiciM;«n. th<-Irj-land. Eir*. Europi N. ani V/. Africa W. Indies, and Ce>i<>i'i noon and to Bten 6 jam No surface mails nr< arrive todny
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  • 125 5 FATIMAH binte Hamid told the Singapore CoroneT. Mr. W. G. Porter, yesterday how she waited in vain for a visit from her younger brother. The brother, 20-year-old Buang bin Hamld. was lying dead on Kallang Road, his head crushed by the rear whe^l of a motor
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  • 38 5 Free Press pit turc JL ral. Singapore, l>r Uu Pink shiim. spr.ikim; :tt thr third annkirar> dinn»r «»f the Suii;a|H»r«* QtltlMMll 1-ui'jiM'd Ucc Retailers' A >i < iution at th»* Southern II .t. I list night-
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  • 15 5 Mr. M. R Hondrrson has been appoint* ,i > Dii rector of Garden.-. Singapore.
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  • 258 6 Campaign to end terror THE Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, last night declared that every man and woman in Malaya t4 must feel personally concerned to give the authorities all the assistance in their power" in the campaign against the bandits. He emphasised: 'That is imperative." Addressing
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    21 6 picture. THFSE four four-year-old kiddies took part in a iur fashion show in London. All are wearing short coney coats Reuter
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  • 71 6 CTIX><Jj&8 duicd lower in the m York Stock Exchange yes^erdsy In dealings that were again on the light side. Utilities encountered some late support but I losses ranging from fractions to U.S. $1 were widespread at the eni of the dr.y. Corrective profit-taking accounted for moq of the
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  • 561 6 LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE 1 i LONDON, Sat. RUBBER and tin shares yesterday again advanced in the London Stock Exchange where, says Reuter's financial correspondent, quietly firm conditions generally prevailed. Continued small bear covering gave British Government stocks scattered improvemens of up to a quarter per
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    • 247 6 Mdndrdke Exclusive to the Singapore Free l> n i I SO YOU 1 1 I WANTEO ID SEE; HIM |w€S MY 8AOTHEA I GOOD c-hT'I =^TaT' KNOW BEFORE YOU OIO-ANO 0EAE4.' IT— j— J ANO HE HASTut V "*^>* rJANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free l>,<>ss m u ni Y
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  • 191 7 TX T 1 Weather still keeps fine Free Press Racing Correspondent OHN is my nap selection at Kuala Lumpur today and stable connections are very confident of it's lances against a rather weak field in the first race It was bright and clear
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  • 219 7 EZZARD Charles' manager, Jake Mintz yesterday asked Joe Louis "to forget about retirement and fight Charles next Summer."' Mintz told Louis "You owe it to the public and to Charles" and added "it would draw a million dollars." Louis smiled and said nothing. Meanwhile, the
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  • 360 7 ■:ijjiM Middlesex have taken a clear lead at I top of the county championship table, but l-"- still being challenged strongly by Worces-fc.!Mirn-y, Yorkshire and Warwickshire. ny counties concerned in the race oship it is possible there will be a irs for the first time
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  • 34 7 CUPINAL CAPTAINS in J. 1 captain of the ho nwvt Malaya (up npiir this BELOW v. L. ■rill I* leading :.r the lav Henry has 'iptam of the SelanI, for mm- jrean.— ni turps.
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  • 179 7 N.Z. Test team for today THE New Zealand team to meet England in the forth and last test beginning at the Oval today is: A. Hadlee (captain), W. M. Wallace, M. P. Donnelly, S. Sutcliffe, V. J. Scott, J. R. Reid, T. B. Burtt, H. B. Cave, Q. F. Cresswell,
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  • 38 7 rHE British yacht, Myth of Malham, on Thursday won the 3th Fastnet race when she finishd a rough sail from Cowes, Isle >f Wight, to Fastnet Rock and >ack to Plymouth a distance of 600 niles.- A. P.
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  • 411 7 I>ERT Sutcliffe, the 25-year-old New Zealand left- hander, in scoring his sixth century of the summer in the drawn match against Essex at Southend yesterday created two more records for his country. He became the first n team in England to exceed register two separate
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  • 159 7 THE Rovers Sports Club, with luck on their side, defeated the Pulau Branl United by three goals to 1 two in the senior league j fixture at Jalan Besar yesterday. With play confined to a duel between two strong defences, the respective goalkeepers had little to
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  • 666 7 OELOW is given the card of events for today's 13 races at Kuala Lumpur. Te Taki, Tiestone, Lady Ethel, Jackpot and Kandy Kid have been scratched from all engagements. The double totes will be on races two and three and seven and eight, and the big sweep will
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  • 105 7 "OILL Sichvell scored a victory for D Australia In the Davis Cup inter-zone final against Italy in New York yesterday. He beat Giovanni Cucelli 6-2 6-4 2-6 »5-2. Rain interrupted play Tor more than two hours, and the second singles of the tie was postponed until tomorrow.
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  • 77 7 17INOO Mankad, the Indian v Test cricketer, yesterday signed a contract for two more seasons with Castieton Moor, the Central Lancashire League Club. Permission from the Indian Board of Control was received earlier this week. With only four games re- maining in his nrsi season as
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  • 182 8 'Russia our only enemy' WASHINGTON, Saturday. THE U.S. Air Force Chief-of-Staff, Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, yesterday said Russia is America's only possible enemy and the only threat to world peace, that atomic bombing in the event of war has the first priority and the joint Chiefs-of-Staff
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  • 85 8 Kashmir talks held up NEW DELHI, Sat. THE India-Pakistan conference- proposed for, Wednesday to discuss the implementation of the truce agreement in Kashmir is likely to be postponed. The conference Is being convened under the auspices of the United Nations Kashmir Commission. News that the conference was likely to be
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  • 56 8 rpHE Madras Minister for x Prisons, Mr. Madhava Menon, says he has received a letter saying "the people's court ot Communists" had passed sentence of death on him. Mr. Menon told Reuter that other ministers and high officials of the Madras Government had received threatening letters from
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  • 113 8 LONDON, Sat. A FURTHER stay of execution, pending an appeal to the Privy Council, has been granted by the Indian Government to Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte, convicted in connection with the murder of Mahatma Gandhi on Jan. 30, 1948. The execution of Godse
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  • 57 8 ONE person was killed and several injured when Calcutta police fired on jobless workers who attacked them with bombs and brickbats outside a locked-up factory yesterday. The trouble started when the workers threw a bomb at the factory manager after he had refused to negotiate with
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  • 63 8 JJIG BEN, on top of the Parliament building, failed to 1J strike at 9 o'clock last night. Listeners to the BBC. 9 o'clock news missed the familiar Big Ben chimes signal for the -programme's start. The announcer explained that Big Ben was running four minutes
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  • 148 8 Gen. Vandenbcrg said that the United States, with atomic bombs in "significant quantity" and B3G's to deliver them can check iho aggressive designs'" of the Russian leaders. He the J^im Chiefs-of-StafT. the Defence S<oretary. Mr. Louis Johnson, and President 'Truman have determined' the goals of the Defence Depart-
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  • 15 8 Today: 1.05 a.m. 1 H p.m. Tomorrow: 1.40 a. m; "-i. 11 p.m.
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  • 194 8 NEW WAR RULES ARE APPROVED GENEVA, Saturday. HPHE 60-nation Geneva Red Cross conference, which has framed new "rules of war" over the last 16 weeks and was one of the biggest in Geneva's long treaty-making history, ended yesterday. TUn pmifcrpiiPfi piiHpH hv the Swiss Government has drawn up four "modernised'"
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    60 8 photo. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Hallinan (left) say good-bye to their injured son, Terence, just before he was flown m a helicopter from Benson Lake (Cal.), 8.500 feet up in the Sierra Nevada, to a hospital in the Yesemite Valley. Terence, because of a serious head injury, could not be
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  • 65 8 THE British Government is expected to publish next week an agreement increasing the amount of sterling Pakistan can draw from her blocked account. The new agreement is expected to make Pakistan a full member of the sterling area with no rigid limit on her drawings on
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  • 25 8 Mikolai Kroesev. 27-ycar- old carmaker of the Russian i consulate in Seoul, was arrested on Aug. 10 by south Korean national police.- U.P.
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  • 35 8 Belgian Socialists and Communists, linked in determined opposition to a return of exiled King Leopold to the throne, yesterday announced the setting up of "action com- mitt^s" thrfiiitrbniit thfi nnwn- try.- Reuter
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  • 236 8 Dl KtSA3i, aaiurua>. A STATEMENT covering all the inquests, completed yesterday, on 78 non-Europeans who died in the Indian African rioting in Durban last January, said no evidence could be obtained on the circumstances i >f death or those responsible. The Durban Police Commandant,
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  • 69 8 More Burmese rebel setbacks RANGOON. Sat. BURMESE troops have reoccupied Wundwln and Thedaw, rebel tiolda near the north Burma army headquarters ol Me Burma army radio claimed last night. In the Moulmein district ol south-eastern Burma, 20 Insurgents were killed and eight captured after a 9f minutes* battle, and heav\
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  • 39 8 THE Bolivian Embassy In Quito Ecuador says it I has received reports of an 1 Indian revolt In the Bolivian Department of Oruro, near the mining area. The revolt was quickly quashed by the Bolivian Army.— neuter
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  • 18 8 Dr. Juan A. Bramuglia has resigned as Argentine Foreign Minister, a >"<»* hpM Bince 1946.- A.P.
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  • 51 8 DAMASCUS, Sat. n^HE American -ow n c d Trans-Arabian pipeline brought President Zaivi's fountain pen by bidding £60.000 Syrian) at an auction The money goes to benefit the Red Crescent, the I*lavi ic version of the Red Cross. Col. Zaim donated the pen for auction.
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  • 156 8 Berlin to receive M-aid WASHINGTON, Sat. WESTERN BERLIN is now eligible to receive Marshall Plan aid, Mr. j. J. McCloy. U.S. High Commissioner for Germany said last night. Until now Berlin has never received Marshall Plan assistance in spite of urgent appeals from West German political leaders. Mr McCloy said
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  • 58 8 KARACHI. 8«t THE Chittagong Chamber of Commerce ho.- &ed a resolution from the Paki Federation of Ch I tnerce and Industry to boycott all Indl miported into Pakistan Thf Federation's wai pas* i on Saturd express resentment against an Indian eracuee property ordinance which, u was
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  • 53 8 GOERING PLANT FOR INDIA INDIA, with flve European countries, will share in the distribution of plant as reparations from the fonn< r Hermann Goering Iron and i at Baugitter mtu Brunswick Her chief share will be plant from the main workshops. The Other recipients are Br; France 3^10^11 wi Nnrwftv
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  • 12 8 Prince Boun Oum. Premier of Laos. ieP P: ""»> v«*t#rday for Saigon- Reuter
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  • 153 8 LONDON, Saturday. BRITAIN will begin immediately filling outstanding arms orders from Arab countries held up by the United Nations arms embargo during the Palestine war, official sources here said last night. The raising of tne embargo by the Security Council ha$ made it possible to
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  • 43 8 President Truman yesterday nominated General Joseph Lawton as Army Chief of Staff.- U.P. Two prisoners W0K !< ille when police tired on Com munist prisoners who attack ed officials at Cuddaior Jail. Madras, last night wit I knives, lathis, and stones.
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    • 216 8 We are we// t wu; t«» MJPdIn von a;: rC riqht t\ D< „t M BUILDINn I at most competitivi i J Consult TAN SIN PENG CO I 11 Phillip Street Tele 3IIK- HM FAMOUS AMERICAN RECORDS I MADE IN ENGLAND UNDER LICENCE. CAPITOL ALBUM* Album tt-ai lion i: >
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    • 174 8 THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris W^ am^9 I -> M LL STOPPED I (7 THANK TWBN YOU'LL EXCUSE ME IF I TAKE 1 fi OD A YtheVLL CALL A DOCTOR ViHHMI w LiKE TME NOW LIZA BIG TONYS r YOU, SAINT CASE CF HOPPY v\%OSE EVE TELLS GREAT JOS, |AND
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    • 12 1 Free Press Sturday Magazine "^"^^^^^^^^^f^*^^™^yrrx^ t a a f* 1 3 y^
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    • 213 1 inosl bored i ,p| c in Singa the visiting i discovered I s|u nt day atting to I the Marine ;n !t i |)OUs!1';hI's I] nation- to one or wo places possible h to stay are ashore teir ships, r white, most hree things are bored, Off.
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      625 1  -  NAN HALL by year. There is accommodation for 150 men and the tarrif, with meals, is $4.50 a day for seamen and $6.50 a day for officers. STAYING there this week are Canadians. English. French, Indonesians, Filipinos. American Negroes. West Indians. Chinese Indians ard Africans Ir has a restaurant.
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    • 324 1  -  K.S. CHiA by "Ill Delightfully 11 Wicked Couple with love for the unconventional, tasteful and aesthetic adventures into the unusual would correspond with like couples." You've guessed cor rectly. Only the amazing Americans with the zest for the unconventional would advertise in such a vein.
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    • 560 1 When Light fired silver dollars into the jungle f I Ixist Thursday was the 1 63rd anniversary of the founding of tki if < > British settle we nt in j, Penang. Here. CARL <- I UM gives a few <>f the salient facts a bout t //iavf stirring, danger*
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    • 596 1  -  yyATCHING a bottle these days is a pastime which does not necessarily mean that a fellow is very thirsty. Most probably he belongs to that band of rabid flsh fanciers who rear flsh just to watch them fight for a wager or
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    • 1248 2 PRIVATE LIVES NORMAN PRICE gives a close-up I of DENNIS PRICE TYWVX over Chel- j sea An alarm :lock seizes slumber by the scruff of the neck and shakes it. In one of Mallordstreet's tiny, aristocratic mansions, a peer of [he realm sleeps
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    • 189 2 lAN Coster reports tnat he had under the other day with blue-eyed, redhaired Nadia Gray, film star, known as Miss Dynamite," "The Mad Princess," and The Red Orchid I K"S l n nt RU Tni^4i R d USorVnc? and b c'lm, NadA Cantaculino But '-r r??d UanT.K.UZino.
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      41 2 Roc with Stanley Holloway and Nigel p>. produced by George and Alfred Black and directed by Bernard Knowles at Denha'm An offset shot of Patricia Roc from "The Perfect Women," the Two Cities film version of the successful comedy, starring Patricia
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    • 629 2  - Margaret Leighton goes to the top Harold Conway By TONTRACT signed recently by Margaret- Leighton at 27 Britain's most interesting new actress since the war gives her the biggest chance of her career. She is to tackle the star part —created by Katharine Hepburn in the West End production of
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    • 752 2  - They go abroad to work w Our London Film Reporter By THERE has been quite an exodus of British film notabilities to the Continent recently, and they are not aft going on holiday. There is much work to do, for several current British productions call for location work outside this
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    • 953 3  -  LEE SIOW MONG by .-TIE C are mU TCica, The y rt bor: 'sic, they Sin nd the y I mUS I There is asion in Chinese may not be >ic to suit time, has r that it is en to the emanating order to rig
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    • 304 3  -  Stephen Sim by WANT you to meet Peter Peter with the #ood nature and kind heart Peter who rings the school bell at the Catholic High School in Queen Street Peter who is blind but in spite of it the happiest man I know. I've known Peter
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    • 400 3  - These men carve for the dead A.S. LEE by SINGAPORE has many Chinese Epsteins whose job it is to cater for the dead to carve their names on stone and beautify their tombs. Working a 12-hour day, these men can be seen hewing, chiselling and paring in shops along Jalan
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    • 600 3  - S'PORE'S RURALANGELS OF MERCY MARIAN WELLS by DISTANCE menus nothing to the small but plucky band of nurses and midwives who run Singapore's rural health clinics. Their areas cover miles of squatter huts and scattered kampongs but if an urgent call comes at any hour of the day or night
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    • 504 3  - And that is why the sea is salty HUANG HSIAN-SHENG by QNCE there lived two brothers, who, upon the death of their parents, divided the inherited property. The elder brothe*r, however, was a great bully and took almost everything, leaving only an axe to the younger brother, who was not
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    • 474 4 SPORTING Chit Chat TONIGHT every soccer lan in Singapore will be eagerly awaiting the *tsjlt of the' Malaya Cup toal between Army-Navy and Selangor at Kuala Lumpur. Army-Navy have already made history by boating Singapore and thereby qualifying for the final, and if they bring home ihe oacon. a rousing
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    • 1542 4  - HOW TO MASTER THE CRAWL STROKE George Creighton Speed Swimming No.2. By T4IK development of speed swimming can he traced from writings dating to the sixteenth century. Before that time, accounts by the Greek, Koman, AngloSaxon and Scandinavian classics deal only with great feats of swimming oi the heroes of
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    • 366 4  -  N.W.D. Yardley By THE weather in England is so changeable that it can never be left out of the reckoning when making decisions in cricket. In the warmer climates of Australia, South Africa. India, and the West Indies, when it rains it comes teeming down
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    • 291 4  -  Jimmy Wilde Bv WHAT is the object ff ot the British Boxing Board <>l Control in deciding to fine Billy Thompson £7.")0 for his disqualification against Kid Dussart? It was not enough, apparently, that the blow that ended the flght should have cost
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      48 4 Billy Thompson (right). 22-year-old mineuorker. beattni R Ilarringay arena to bring the European Ufhtwelfhfl champinnshii an interval of 18 years. He lost it recently on a foul t.. K.l and has been fined t750 by the British Bo\in» Hoard of < ontrol mI j suue:estN bctow, w.is too scvrrt-
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