The Singapore Free Press, 15 August 1949

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press arrnmoim s/le im malata SINGAPORE, MONDAY, AUGUST 15 1949 PRICE 10 Cl-A IS
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    RHEE CALL FOR MORE U.S. AID
    156 1 SEOUL, Monday. ORKSIDENT Syngman Rhee assured South Koreans 1 yesterday that they would not be fighting alone if attacked by the Communist armies of North Korea. Speaking before a crowd gathered in Seoul's Capital Plaza to celebrate the Korean Republic's first anniversary, Rhee said
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    STOP PRESS
    44 1 Sgt. Musi bin Idris of the Malay Regiment jumped overboard from the Tun? Song while the ship was travelling between Malacca and Singapore on Saturday night. No trace of him was found although the ship made a search for nearly two hours.
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    34 1 Seen at the Old Rafflesians" dance on Saturday night from left to right: Mr. Lee Thor Seng, Miss Maggie Lau, Mr. Johnny Tan, Miss Rosaline Chua, Mr. Lee Suen Yew and Miss Connie Lim.
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    HI SAVED SYRIA SAY COUP MEN
    402 1 New Cabinet joTtncci LONDON, Monday. COL. SAMI HINNAWI, who led yesterday's coup d etat in which Syria's self-appointed 1 resident Husni Zaim, was executed, has written to the British Government explaining his action and assuring Britain of his regime's respect for Syria s international
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    Crray murder rest soon, say police
    53 1 Crray murder rest soon, say police Mon. d today r ed to iy or murI rray. at lurday. ills death. survell■'hilippines Agency melligence rma ship-U)0-foot n a Hong Tom Simvictim, the cralt I blockade had been alleged the three I Carlton d for try- na into topo! explodes killed an
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    Bomb explodes at Soviet party
    69 1 HAMBURG, Mon. THE British-controlled newspaper here, Welt Am Sonntag, reported yesterday that a time bomb exploded at a Soviet reception in Potsdam on July 25, killing 20 high ranking Russian officers, including the Potsdam city commander. The plot was an attempt to assassinate Marshal Konstantin
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    U.K. TRAIN STRIKE
    32 1 Officials of the nationalized British railways claimed yesterday that their trains were running on near-normal schedules despite the renewal of the Sunday strike by workers at Gram:ham and York
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    BETTER TIMES
    27 1 Observers in Buenos Aires said yesterday that Argen-tine-United States relations would be strengthened with the appointment of HipolitoJess Paz as Foreign Minister replacing Juan Bramuglia.-
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    COALMINERS GO BACK TODAY
    131 1 SYDNEY, Mondaj. SERVICEMEN were withdrawn from open-cast coalfields in New South Wales at midnight last night. Army authorities said that the troops produced more than 100,000 tons of coal in the 13 days they worked the open-cast mines. Twenty-three thousand miners, whose seven-week strike threw more
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    U. E. MAUNG IN WASHINGTON
    73 1 rE Burmese Foreign Minister. U. E. Maung. arrived in Washington by plane on Saturday as an official guest of the United States Government. An Embassy spokesman said the primary reason for Maung's visit was to discuss the problem of "stemming the tide of Communism in
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    42 1 Committee members of the Old Kaffli'sians' Association at the dance held at Raffles Institution on Saturday night-~from left to right: Messrs. Lim Chin Aik. Koh Eng Pang, Dr. C. Ik Poh, Messrs. Woon Sui Cheong, Chan Mun Heng and Wong Yurn Poh.
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    TRANSFER TO INDIA
    23 1 India will take over Chandernagore's police administration today and the transfer of Judicial and administrative departments will take place tomorrow.
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    GREEKS DRIVE TO ALBANIA
    97 1 GREEKS DRIVE TO ALBANIA ATHENS, Mon. THE Greek army, continuing' its thrust against guerilla strongholds near the Albanian frontier, is maKing swift progress toward the north shore of Lake Prespa, a General Staff Communique said today. Small, fortified guerilla positions in the Mount Vitsl area were falling one after another/'
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    SUSPECTED
    32 1 General Mikulas Ferjencik. former Slovakian Minister of Defence, was ordered to be detained as a "suspected Communist" on his arrival yesterday in New York from Europe as a ciii-Dlaced oerson A.P.
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    Calwell is solicitous
    67 1 THE Australian Immigration Minister, Mr. Arthur Calwell, has asked Austral! ins to stop referring to the 51 000 new European immigrants as Displaced Persons. I>'Ps or Baits. He asks that they be called New Australians. Newcomers or New Settlers In time, terms Hke Displaced Persons, D.Ps. and
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    Chinese Captives
    92 1 Talks are about to begin for the release of an estimated 5.000 Chinese still held by the Republicans. Commenting on the IM*iire, the Australian member of the UN. Commission. Mr Thomas K. Critchley. said In Schipol -Holland) yesterday that ob rvaucc of the order In Indonesia w mid
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    Electoral oddities in West Germany
    199 1 FRANKFURT, Sunday. yyEST German Communist leader Max Reimann and Karl Arnold, Christian Democratic Minister of Westphalia, entered a polling booth almost simultaneously in Duesseldorf today. A photographer tried to get them to pose together. But he was cut short by an irate woman voter who
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    Dutch accuse Republicans
    131 1 BAT AVI A, Monday. THE Dutch have protested to the United Nations Commissicvi for Indonesia over the Republicans* attempt to improve their military positions just before the cease-fire order became effective at midnight on Aug. 10, it is. learned here. The Dutch are said to take the
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    NEW IMPORT BANS WARNING
    88 1 A WARNING of widespread new import restrictions in the near future was given to the 23 signatories of the 1947 Geneva agreement on tariffs and trade (GATT) just before they ended their 17--veek third session in Annecy (France) yesterday. The chairman of the contracting parties. Mr.
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    H.K. EPIDEMIC KILLS FIVE
    63 1 rMVE children have died r from infantile enteritis in Hong Kong. Three died in hospital while two died on readmission to hospital after they had been taken away against medical advice. Altogether 34 Infants have been infected in the epidemic In the past fortnight which resulted
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    Churchill paints
    76 1 STRASBOURG. Sum lIMNSTON Churchill Y? painted on the Rhine yesterday. The man who was one of the chief architects of German defeat took his paints to the French side of Um Rhine from where he had a view of Germany across the river. Wrapped in a lar^f* white
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    30 SINGAPORE ARRESTS
    54 1 AN Indian, believed to have consorted with bandits in Malacca, was detained in Singapore yesterday under the Emergency regulations. A Chinese, alleged to be a member of the Singapore j Workers' Protection Corps. In all, 29 persons suspected of secret society activities were held by the Singapore
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    MATE FOR INDIRA
    22 1 M ATE FOR INDIRA The Siame.se Government Is sending a mate for Indira, the elephant |iivet> by Pandit Nehru to Tokyo's Zoo.
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    Officials fleeing Canton
    115 1 Officials fleeing Canton MANILA, Mun. (CANTON, the seat of the Nationalist Government, is in imminent danger of falling to the Communists, according to Filipino diplomatic circles. The Philippine I Office Is understood t<. b«* planning to tr < tlon liaison office at Cant Hong Kong, pending the bltshmer.t <>f the
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    NEWKAKKN ATTACKS
    76 1 RANGOON. Mondav INCREASED activity bv 1 bel Karens in the I growing Irrawaddy delta reported in yesterdays cial communique. The strongest Attack I against Government took place at Myaunu and Maubln. In one i ment the Karens lost 37 killed and wounded Government troops shelled guerilla positions neat
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    JAP RED HELD
    46 1 P<>iic< n Chlba, 20 m southeast of T- li i arrested an u Urged i for the J lpan Comn; Party in t.h< lirst i oforec Uvb reo ment ordinance ordering tin ordf rlv pa ismge of reoati i to their homts.- Reuter
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    TOO LONG
    21 1 For parking his in: train too long on ci a railway guard u I $12 in Atlantu (US'. A.P.
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    Rubber prices
    52 1 J^ SI'LCIAL Market rune pondem gives the prn of ruhLrr •In cents p^r lb.) at 11 am as follou*. Miners S. I.. No. 1 a S.S. Spot: loose F.o.b. in oales "iu**: No. 1 RS S. 14* i Ik t 1.11. • No. 3 R *> > Tone
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    They're looking for Ihe Spider
    765 2 They' re looking for Ihe Spider By CHARLES CROOT COPENHAGEN: THK keenest brains of the Danish police have been mobilised in a hunt for a man known to all Denmark as "The Spider." He is believed to be the mastermind responsible for the biggest criminal affair in the history of
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    Bridge Hands
    286 2 WHEN west opened the king of spades. South resisted the impulse to play dummy's ace fiist and think about the hand later on. After a moment's thought, he let West win the first trick with the king of spades'. Seeing no better line of defence. West continued the
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    189 2 BORN today, your birthday is one of the strongest in the sign. The stars have given you a multitude of talents and if you make the best possible use of them, you can progress far in life. In youth, plan what you want and then go after
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    He Liked To Look Over The Bridge
    366 2 He Liked To Look Over The Bridge A MAN whose hobby is leaning over the parapet of London Bridge has written a book about it. He is Mr. A. G. Thompson, Thames historian, who has been gazing down on the sweep of river called The Pool for 50 years. Here
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    26 2 This blue, downy wool hat, suggesting a bird flight, wears in the latest fashion collection of Paris viilliner, Jean Barthet, and is ivorn with blue leil
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    Hunt for octopus
    214 2 £4,000 brain tests pROFESSOR John Za- chary Young. 42-year- old lecturer on anatomy London University, is going to Naples to find out more about the human brain by studying octopuses. Trie Numeld Foundation has announced that it has made a £4.000 grant t*university's Anatomy Department for the
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    There are too many apes on Gibraltar
    198 2 By E. I I emght apes I born on the rrck Gibraltar in weeks. A number of ap allowed has ceeded and youn^ males m deported to Britain. Every yoar th< in the Colonial estima Ipayable quartvanre. for m i Rock Apes A
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      199 2 Adventures of Penny Koni The dolls to»m quite j •ioited as thty mako Koni /^-x^7 V go along with .htm on tht (*HS§i A <^"^~*xL^^»]l road to Toyland. Thoy go ksLL^I y^ past ponds made of urvwtt \lt*& )> I wattr on which rubber •Xm duck* art iwimminji. <i^ Ar^^jTxT^^t
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      637 2 \l«'tr»'s tiui 4i Metres ci.uidiu Amu; 715 Music 0] SINGAPORE TODAY British Isles 7.30 a BBC Transcrip--445 p m English- Programme li <> n 810 Light Entertainment Re(BLl t NETWORK) Summary; News Headlines- Share s u™ c of Sydney Boxing by ABC 484 and 41.7 metres. Market Report; 5.00 Health
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    Divorced, he wrote will
    116 3 THE day after his wife divorced him and was granted tr»e custody of their two children. 37-year-old John Patrick Milroy, a Boughton. Chester, chemist, wrote out his will. Three days later police broke into his shop and found Milroy dead hi a bedroom. They found the
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    New Berlin traffic check
    53 3 IMERICAN transport chief, Mr. Charles Dix has said that the Russians have started another slowdown oi truck traffic to Berlin. Trucks from the Western zones were being delayed at the Soviet check-point at Helmstedt. British authorities later said the Russians lifted the restrictions four hours after
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    Japs sack 11,000 workers
    86 3 THE Japanese Government has dismissed 11,500 postal and telecommunications workers. The retrenchments are part of a plan to make Govern- ment enterprises pay by re- ducing the large overstating In many departments. The Communications Workers Union is regarded by Japanese as the next most i powerful
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    28 3 Manuel Dela Fuente, Jr., 24-year-old son of Manila's Mayor, was found guilty of homicide and sentenced to form six to 12 years and a day In the penitentiary.
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    MONGOL 'HOLY WAR' AGAINST REDS
    75 3 MONGOL 'HOLY WAR' AGAINST REDS Genghis Khan' who hates Mao A E raSv?»r *M^ h Ma Pu fang «»repo«ed a Holy War y a? a i^ Sh h rdes of Central northwest. Like Genghis Khan, he specialises in cavalry. He has a squadron of rou^h riders mounted on the oacks
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    36 3 Mr. Thomas H. Potter of Dublin at the controls of the car he has invented for the use of infantile paralysis victims, Mr. Potter cannot walk a step and is at the Infantile Paralysis Fellowship, London.
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    they can see boy friends in their rooms
    393 3 they can see boy friends in their rooms IN the (lays when Miss D de 1 M. Warren was a young hospital nurse, the only i Place where she and her i colleagues could entertain friends who came to see them was in the hospital lounse. The young nurse would
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    'NEW ERA FOR INDIES' SAYS U.N.
    152 3 'NEW ERA FOR INDIES' SAYS U.N. HOPE that a new era is beginning for the peoples of che Netnerlands and IndoS£?t a H Wa M ex P ress ed by the SS r^ Nar^»« Commission ror Indonesia in a recen. reIt is the first interim report made since the Commission
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    JAIL FOR PRIEST
    26 3 A Carmelite priest. Jan Ramonowskl, was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment in Warsaw for assisting the Illegal organisation FIN (Freedopi and Independence).— A.P.
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    DAMAGES—17 YEARS LATER
    66 3 A JAPANESE girl who had been awarded damages by a Los Angeles. California, court for injuries received in a streetcar accident 17 year? ago, received payment in Japan recently long after everyone had forgotten about the incident. Yaeko Hasegawa, injured by a streetcar when she was six
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    Baker convalesces
    25 3 Mr. Philip Noel Baker, British Commonwealth Relations -Secretary, who underwent an operation last month, has left London for Convalescence in the country. Reuter
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    30 3 Gail Russell, once described as "the prettiest girl at Santa Monica High School'* with actor Guy Maddison after they had revealed plans for their wedding. He is 87, she. ?l.
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    Vatican appoints 'rebel' bishops
    157 3 yHE Vatican has appointed, two new Bishops In Slovakia in an action which may cause a new clash between Church and State in Czechoslovakia. The new R] a re Monsignoi Ambrosius Lazik, who h: D serving a3 Adn l Trnava, said M i i Pobomy, viv>
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    Japs salvage 2 more ships
    131 3 A 3.500 gross ton Panamanian freighter, siezed by the Japanese during the war and sunk by Allied aircraft, is about to resume peacetime operations again. Another vessels about to be salvaged is the 960-ton S. S. Teng Lee, a coastal freighter which was seized In
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    U.N. SILENCE DECISION
    74 3 A SPECIAL commiJtet- of the United Nations General Assembly has approved a recommendation by the Secretary General. Mr. Trygve Lie, that each annual session of the Assembly be opened with a minute of silence for prayer or meditation. Because the Assembly's membership includes all faiths, it was
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    WOMEN WARDERS SAY 'STOP PAMPERING'
    146 3 BECAUSE women warders have alleged lack of discipline in Holloway Prison, the Prison Officers' Association is to ask the Home Secretary for a "completely independent inquiry into the whole administration" of the prison. In the past six months there have been several In- ridents of
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    £5,000 JEWELS IN 'JUNK' BOX
    208 3 VEARLY everybody had forgotten about the £5 000 jewel robbery. M*rJo h t e Ol u Qu^f n s Highcliffe Hotel, Cliftonville, Margate, vrhere it took place, had closed and sold all its furniture. Only useless junk was left In the stripped hotel when soldiers
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    Wives regret
    56 3 WOMEN of 40 often found that their choice of a husband at 21 had not been as wise as they thought, said Judge Batt In Manchester Divorce Court. He added that people were not entitled to slip out of their obligations to marriage "merely because the husband was
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    URANIUM FOUND IN CENTRAL INDIA
    146 3 I?XTEx\SIVE mineral deposits have been discovered all over the 30,000 sqnare-mile territory of the Kajastan States Tnion, in Central India The deposits, discovered by government geologists who conducted a mineral survey of the union m?t U e th e atomic uranium and the rare metal
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    JAP-KOREA TRADE
    21 3 Japanese and Korean Government officials will hold trade in Seoul, the Korean capital, within the next few weeks.— Reuter
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    STRUCK GOLD, THEN DIED
    87 3 TWO days alter he -laimed 1 to have made a rich gold strike in the Flinders Range (South Australia), a 63 year old prospector died recently at Adelaide. He was one of the thre^ men who arrived in the city with rich specimens of goldbearing ore
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    6,000 'quake toll
    34 3 ECUADOR'S President Gain Plaza has announced that over 6,000 people lost their lives in their recent earthquake in central Ecuador Damage to houses and public buildings alone amounted to $10,000,000.— Reuter
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    MINISTER CHOSE TO WED-SACKED
    146 3 pACED with a choice between marriage and the Ministry, the Rev Peter Tenant Ream, 24-y^ar-old probationary Methodist minister at Leiehton Buzzard, chose marriage. *^g«Lon On his honeymoon, he learned that he had been dropped from the Ministry. Mr. Ream had been engaged for three years to
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    JAP SHIPPING PLANS
    51 3 JAPANESE shipping companies have placed orders for nearly half a million tons of shipping. Including oceangoing tankers and freighters. A spokesman for Gen. MacArthur said that the orders were only in the "early planning sta?p" and It was not known xhf^h^r Gen. MacArthur would approve their construction-
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    SUGAR GUARANTEE
    23 3 The British Otovernmeni jarantr*. 4 o efficient Commonwealtn sugar producer! 1 fceti for d tonnj at "reasonably remunerat I s.— Reuter
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    MYSTERY PICTURE
    16 3 What is it a tarm-t. i geometrical design? See colunm brlow you'll n-\«r JfUfvs.
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    'Be sober' advice to brides
    99 3 'Be sober advice to brides nRIDES UM uooms D bcfn warn the f^lass of "^om^thin^ fortifying" bf for. the wedding 'he Rev. J du Boulny I Vicar of Bt. Andrew's, Taonton. He says "Plea so be off the silly ass who Want wish you well by gettr rirunk before the
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    FALSE CALL BY FIREMAN
    81 3 FALSE CALL BY FIREMAN J)ANIEL Marshall Mtttef Brooks 32. a London Salvage Corps officer, .>f Chilmandiston, Ipswich. nied at Richmond, fin' Magistrates' Court cha that he had given fire alarms It WM ftllgcd that ho seen leaving a phone about the tinfle an alarm received, and was la* to give
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    REDS IMPOSE TAX ON CARS
    45 3 I^HE Communists In Sh i h.il have imr licence tax of almost US a year on all private a mobilts w Itti ij For rehiclei wim hum six seats station bus^s. err the t.ix is U R a year- UP
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    48 3 The photograph f ib«»vr) in of a fifld bein^ prrpir-.l Rrookhavrn l.thortJury on la>t\k Island. Srw Vork f«»f th«» study of thr rffrt of radiation on thr flawing plants. Thr sourer of th»» radiation will r»«li«»--cobalt br plarrcf «>n |hi pilr at thr ee«tte of the circular pnttrrn.
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Aug. 15. 1949. LITTLE THINGS COUNT TOO
    629 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Aug. 15. 1949. LITTLE THINGS COUNT TOO BIG things speeding up war damage compensation payments, settling once and for all .scales of pay for government servants, seeing that Government officers do. not exceed their powers, deciding the proper way to rehouse Singapore rightly occupy the
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    The Tories are becoming more confident
    984 4  -  Hall Romney Hy LONDON LEITER THERE is more confidence in Conservative quarters than ever before. Indeed, according to one political columnist, so confident are the Tories that they will form the next Government that they are already discussing to whom key posts in that
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    The Navy can't afford it
    142 4  - The Navy can't afford it W. A. CRUMLY By CONSTRUCTOR Captain Roland Baker, designer of Britain's answer to the future high speed submarines, b building three of ru^ ship, ir Canada. They *'T cost million each. Britain has none—the Admiralty says it cannot afford them. But the Admiralty hopes to
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    Strong-arm Tactics . Back Korea's Democracy
    695 4  - Strong-arm Tactics Back Korea's Democracy WARREN WHITE By SEOUL, Korea: judge by recent events here, pierced eardrums, broken ribs and prison sentences, symptomatic of the 40-vear-long Japanese occupation of Korea, are apparently coming into their own again. The new Asian democracy of South Korea appears to have adopted the Western
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    81 4 Picture taken at recent trials of thc jet-rocket-as-sisted speedway machine at Wembly shows Ken Le Breton right beating Tommy Price out of the starting gate, being assisted by the lower of th e two jetrocket units. Each rocket develops about 601 lbs. thrust for three seconds and gives increased acceleration
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    Facts about U.S.A. business
    791 4  - Facts about U.S.A. business JOHN W. SNYDER by U.S. Secretary of the Treasury THE 'luncheon was over, and so was mv talk about business conditions. The toastmaster made the usual concluding remarks, and we all up to go I tried to slip away in a hurry, but a guest stopped
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    English to stay 15 more years
    12 4 English to stay 15 more years T I I t M I
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    OUTCRY AGAINST ILLEGAL DOCTORS'
    344 5 OUTCRY AGAINST ILLEGAL DOCTORS' Dressers who set up practice THP if rCe Pres Staff R «P<>rter IHk illegal practice of dressers setting U r a A "J^ 1 1 Practice beside doctors MpSil-fT 1 to the at eSt sup P' ement t0 the Medical Journal of Malaya, the official publicMedical
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    55 5 picture. R fl«nr ey fW T thC WhiCh bn>k OUt On the top 13 floor of a buildmg between Change Alley and Shell De°rch e ed° n nn S ?h Ur ay H by this fireman who is s^en perched on the top of a ladder spraying the burning area
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    CASH AID FOR 1,800 FAMILIES
    66 5 CASH AID FOR 1,800 FAMILIES -OTAi ol 1.847 families Jn received asI month from the Department public assistance The Department 86. $542 was paid of the Bushey intina Homes. Silver Jubilee ,'al amount of nt for relief to s> treatment aloiounting to $8,596 to 115 cases. rtment also helpUiefl cf
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    Air girls are back
    108 5 Press orrespondent I ON DON, Sun. MALAYANS who have occasion to travel by to and from the Tnitdora uill be glad to tt.ai there has been il of the BOAO U discontinue the rfbploynitnj of air hostesP.hinfj the decision was th higl rate of marriage these
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    New move to fight vice
    262 5 Free Press Staff Reporter TPO devise new methods of dealing with the problem of the street-walker prostitute in Singapore, discussions have taken place between the SolicitorGeneral and officers of the Criminal Investigation Department and the Social Welfare Department. This is stated in a Social Welfare
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    VACATION COURSE FOR TEACHERS
    35 5 The Vice-Chancellor, University of Malaya, Dr. O. V. Allen, C.8.E., will open the first Malayan Teachers Vacation Course at Ooi Tiong Ham Hall, Raffles College, Singapore, tomorrow morning at R a.m.
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    36 5 picture. 'PHK regimental truncheon of the 2nd Gurkhas being held by Subedar Major Dalhahdur Thapa. M.B.E. at the "attestation parade' of 200 recruits of the 2nd King Edwards Own Gurkhas at Ipoh last Friday. Free Press
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    28 5 picture. THE hief Dental Surgeon of the Federation, Dr. C. Mummery, watt lies dental trainees at work at the Penang General Hospital. The "patients" are schoolchildren. Free Press
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    37 5 pirtlire. MISS Marguerite Elisha. (laughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. EHsha of Singapore, photographed after her wedding at the Chased-El Synagogue Singapore to Mr. llanin. son of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. Hanin.- Free Press
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    TAX QUERY IN COUNCIL
    91 5 fyiß. A. McLelian iNominat--ITI ed) Is asking the Singapore Government to refute the 'rumour now circulating" about income tax that it is the intention to collect threeyears' taxation in 18 to 24 months from November 1948 —the time when the first income tax forms *ere issued.
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    BREACH OF TRUST ALLEGED
    46 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— Twenty-year-old S. Paramasivam, a clerk, appeared before Mr. A. P. Jack, Kuala Lumpur First Magistrate, charged with criminal breach of trust of $263. Paramasivam claimed trial and the case was postponed to Aug. 20. Bail of $500 was allowed.
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    NURSES LEARN TO BE DENTISTS
    301 5 Free Press Staff Correspondent PENANG, Monday. TO remedy the shortage of Government dentists in A Malaya, a scheme has been introduced under which nurses are trained at the Federation's dental school recently set up in the Penang General Hospital. Five girls from Penang, Selangor, Perak
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    'Unfair competition,' say shipowners
    264 5 Free Press Staff Reporter DIFFERENCES in the Merchant Shipping Laws in force in various British territories in South East Asia are a source of embarrassment to the authorities and to the shipowners at Singapore and Penan? says the Surveyor-General of Ships, Singapore Mr A. Graham, in
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    SCHOLARSHIP TO BRITAIN
    61 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun.— Inche Mafoz bin Khalid of Muar, has gained a scholarship to Bristol University, where he will study engineering. There is only one previous instance of a Johore Malay having taken up engineering as a profession. He iis Inche Ismail bin Mahamedon, retired Executive Engineer,
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    SCRUB TYPHUS
    30 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Tnree cafces of scrub typhus were reponcd in the Federation during the week ending July 30. One patient died. The previous week's total wa-s 11.
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    CFXEBRATION BY INDIANS
    85 5 To mark the second anniversary of the Dominion of India, a mass meeting at tho New World Park at 5.15 this afternoon, will be addri by the Australian Commissioner for Malaya. Mr. Claude Massey, Mr. Yap Phrr^ Geek, Mrs. Chandan Kalelkar, Mr C. G. Mcnon, Mr. G.
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    Cail to weal thy Indians
    195 5 Cail to weal thy Indians WLALTH\ Indians In count!) .should help I compatriots hero, said the Governnrn* of Indil H..tiv in Malaya. Mr. .1 V llivj. in an interv;. "They should sacrifice part Of 'heir individualism indenenrVr.ce and join hands \vi*h nthfis to study the p 'icular problems of the
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    U.K. ATHLETIC RECOVERY COMPLETE
    445 6  - U.K. ATHLETIC RECOVERY COMPLETE ARCHIE QUICK By Unusual field event successes GREAT Britain's post-war athletic recovery Is complete. That was shown in no uncertain manner when her representatives beat France In the annual inter-country match at the White City, London, on August Bank Holiday Monday b> the emphatic margin of
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    46 6 photo A group of heavy tars at speed during the final race of the Grand Prix of Holland held recently. The race was won by the Italian Luigi Villonesi driving a Ferrari. E. de Graffenried of Switzerland was second and Prince Bira of siam. third.- A.P.
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    More channel problems
    187 6 THEY quvue to swim 21 1 miles maybe this year's queue of would-be Channel swimmers grows and so the problems become more involved. There have been 500 attempts at swimming those temperamental 2i miles of sea separating Dover from Cap Gris-Nez in last 75 years. Eighteen men
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    Brian Close's omission a pity
    430 6 By A Special Correspondent IT Is a great pity that the England Test selectors, 1 Messrs. Holmes, Pearce, Sellars, Wyatt and Mann have seen fit to drop 18-year-old Yorkshireman, Brian Close for the Final Test Match against New Zealand at present being played at the
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    11 6  -  GRAHAM By The next event will b throwing the jav
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    Harold Larwood
    61 6 HAROLD Larwood, former English Test crlcketor. who featured In a "boiiyllne" bowling controversy on an Australian tour some years ago. is expected to decide within two weeks whether h aiU acept a coaching appointment at Burnle. on the north-w^st coast of Tasmania He stated UiU la a letter
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    WEALTH OF TALENT IN MINOR CRICKET
    500 6  -  AKCHIE QIKK By OKCEXT travels on the sport trail have given BC glimpse of cricket in the North -West, when many minor league show such a wealth of taltnt some of which will undoubtedly be Men i" League cricket of the future. A good
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    World Cup Soccer FOOTBALL ASSN FACES PROBLEM
    323 6 World Cup Soccer FOOTBALL ASSN FACES PROBLEM U.P. T»E World tup has gi ven u A season Added Inter, of Europe, but it will proviri tion with the problem ,>t keepin Mt for the competition. The English May, which will m< duled to compete in I be out of practir.
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    BAHRU RUGBY PROSPECTS BRIGHT
    320 7 BAHRU RUGBY PROSPECTS BRIGHT May field four teams this \*>a.r lOHORP r k re s Sports Corr espondent JVtsPlf in« ah^ U^.° Ut to make a big name for Ihepp U ?v^. Uff y 6 and if Plans materialise, teams. possiblllt y of f^lding four separate owin^ u t fy
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    31 7 picture. SGOK Malaya (up team beinjr Introduced to ,ner-C.eneral, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald bethfir nip final match against the Army-Navy XI d Koala I umpur on Saturday. Selangor won* 3— Free Press
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    Surprise defeat of Hiss Mak Fong Sim
    387 7  -  VETERAN By pi the fiiM tie of the Singapore women's junior I idminton championship played yesterday mornBaby Low (Useful) sprang a big surprise to strong favourite for the title, Miss Mak Fong gin (Mayflower) in two sets. a comfortable lead at 10 2
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    Golden Gate in fine form
    160 7 TOLDEN Gate (Mawi) did a u winning gallop when he ran half-a-mile in 53 2/5 and 3f. in 39 with ease in a tryout with Jaunty (Harper* on the Kuala Lumpur track this morning. Golden Gate is in splendid shape and should be a forward
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    Worcester all out for 160 v M'sex
    241 7 WORCESTERSHIRE were dismissed for 160 in their County cricket championship match against the leaders, Middlesex at Lord's on Saturday spin bowlers doing most of the damage. By close of play, Middlesex required only 32 with eight wtekets in hand to take first innings
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    ENGLAND BEAT FRANCE
    24 7 T^NGLAND beat France by two Aj events to one in the international cycling events at the Feme Hill London, on Saturday.
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    AUSTRALIA WINS DOUBLES FINAL
    58 7 DROMWICH and Sedgman (Australia defeated C. Cucelli and Del Bello (It<Uy» 6-2. 6-2. 6-1 in the Davis Cup inter-zone finals in New York yesterday. Sedgman was yesterdays star since both victories were achieved almost single-handed by him. He won the singles over Del Bello and then
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    HOTSPURS WIN 3—l
    31 7 Though they played with only 10 men. the Hotspurs beat Katong Dynamos In a friendly game of soccer at Geylang Stadium on Friday by three goals to one.
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    Von Cramm wins
    35 7 QOTTFRIED von Cranini remains the German law* tennis champion following a victory against Ernest Buch^lz of Cologne by 7—5. »s— l, 6— u in the final of the tournament at Hamburg yesterday.
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    Weights for eleven Kuala Lumpur races
    486 7 VUEIGHTSior all eight races on Wednesday and three races on Saturday, the second and third days of the Selangor Turf I Club's August meeting, are given below. SECOND DAY Cl 4, Div. 2 6f. Fent'on 9.03 Caravan 8.12 Greetings 8.10 Spring Up 8.10 Chum's
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    S.C.C. ARE NOW 2nd IN S.C.A. TOURNEY
    312 7 S.C.C. ARE NOW 2nd IN S.C.A. TOURNEY THE Singapore Cricket Club moved into second place In the S.C.A. championship table when they scored the only outright win of the series played yesterday. A sporting declaration by the Indian captain, Lall Singh, gave the Club just under half an hour to
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    To fight. Njoo on Fri
    24 7 picture. MANAGER Archit Unanandana (left), welcomes Nai Phol Prapadaeng on his arrival at Kallang Airport yesterday Afternoon.— Free Press
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    WEATHER HELPED SHEFFIELD PLATE
    243 7 Free Press Racing Correspondent Sydney Palmer on board the homeward-bound Carthage must have received a pleasant surprise when he received word that Sheffield Plate, the last remaining horse of his once imposing string, had carried his famous red and brown racing silk to victory at Kuala
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    K.Z. score 320 for 8 in Test
    133 7 K.Z. score 320 for 8 in Test Jy^EW Zealand made a promising start against England in theii fourth and last Test match at the Oval on Saturday and were 239 for the loss of three wickets lit the tea interval, but had scored 320 for eight when stumps were drawn.
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    Ampon beaten
    30 7 T.S. champion Pain li Qomiki on Saturday defeated fWldsimo Ampon of the Philippines 86. 6-4. 6-3 to enter the final round cf the Newport Casino In\itation Tennis tournament.
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    Scoreboard
    117 7 NEW ZEALAND is* INNINGS Sutcliffe c Bedser Hollies 8R Scott c Ediich b Bedser 60 Reid Ibw Wright 5 Wallace c Edrlch 9 Bedser 55 Donnelly c Edrich b 3ailey 27 Hadlee c Evans b Bedser 25 Rabone c Evans b Bailev 18 Burtt not out 21 Cave b
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    Nalcott ko's Tandberg
    236 7 JERSEY Joe Walcott. who made two unsuccessful bids to deprive Joe Louis of the woild heiavy weight championship and then lo6t an American version of the title to Ezzarcl Charles recently, beat Oile Tandberg, Sweden's heavyweight champion on a fifth round knockout In Stockholm last night. The
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    BRITAIN NEEDS £20,000 FOR EMPIRE GAMES
    303 7  -  ARCHIE QUICK By A SUM of £20,000 is needed to send England's Empire Games team to Auckland, New Zealand, next February. The Amateur Athletic Association are determined to send a fully representative side, and Lord Burghley made a broadcast appeal at the British versus
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    Prapadaeng arrives full of hope
    387 7  - Prapadaeng arrives full of hope LEFT-HOOK Bv 4 WARM welcome was extended to Nai Phol Pr ip.i- daeng on his arrival at Kalians Airport from Bangkok yesterday afternoon. As he stepped out of the plane the Biam< ranking: boxer, ran up to manager Archil Unanandana and handed him a basket
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    U.K. cricket positions
    273 7 LONDON. I POSITIONS in nioket champ: matches which tti an as follows: .Qualifications 10 innings > denotes not our (Qualification 6f> wfc bet'-er than 21 Reuter O M R. W AvtHaaell 723 241 1569 5" Kardar 708 295 17 24 lAker 892 330 17 If. 9* Jackson
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    Celtic beat Rangers 3-2
    153 7 LARGE crowds Wert u<-n<'ral rule l«*r th< Ing matches of so« on Sal a week before the I programme b< Noarlv 70.000 vmtched game botwcen C» -ltic a: Rangers at Parkhrad wh'rh Celtic won by th< "al ni five. Celtic Introduce c\ I players. Collins at
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    BIRTHS
    88 8 AVCtUS: Tc Bessie, wifo of J. on 13 3.49. a daughter. KENT— To Jo. wife of F. "H Steeneken. A daughter, at K K Hospital on 14.8.49. BCCLEB: To Flsie. wife of Capt. H Gordon Eccies. RE., on 12th J r»^ at B'jngsar Hospital, a son. j CGREGOR-To Kay
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    DEATH
    22 8 MR R. O. BAPTIST, of SIT. passed away yesterday. Cortege left 2 Rawang Rd. 9 a.m. to-day. Upcountry, papers nlease copy
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    WARSHIPS TO ATTACK RED ARMADA
    306 8 Grim battle off N. China HONG KONG, Monday. yyiTH a Nationalist naval squadron en route to the Gulf of Chihli to assist in the defence of the Changshantao Archipelago, now under amphibious attack by 20,000 Communist troops, Nationalist planes yesterday raided Shanghai and Nanking, attacking
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    60 8 picture. liie secretary of the Indonesian Oilice, Mr. S. Darusman (standing), is here seen addressing the crowd at the Pakistan Day celebrations yesterday at Jalan Besar Stadium. On the extreme right is the chairman^ Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir, and on extreme left is Mr. Bashir A. Mallal, patron of
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    World's most beautiful girls
    58 8 MELBOURNE, Mon. 1/ISITING Yugoslav soccer players, having already visited many countries in their world tour, are dazzled by Australian girls. They are the most beautiful and best dressed in the world, the Yugoslavs say. The unmarried players, however, have met trouble on the road to romance.
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    Colony slump soon, merchants predict
    274 8 GLUT OF GOODS IN H.K. HONG KONG, Monday. QPTIMISM which prevailed in foreign business circles a few months ago that, no matter whether China was Nationalist or Communist-dominated, she must carry on trade with the West hai now given way to uncertainty and pessimism. \yith
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    Pakistan celebrates birthday
    147 8 Pakistan celebrates birthday KARACHI, Sun QAMELS draped with cloths of gold led the processions through a gaily-deco-rated Karachi today to celebrate the second anniversary of Pakistan's independence. Pakistan's capital was up early this morning to see the Governor General, Khwaja Nazimmudin, drive through the city in state with his mounted
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    TITO CONFERS ON FRESH RED ATTACKS
    129 8 TITO CONFERS ON FRESH RED ATTACKS LONDON, Mon IS Yugoslav leaders in Bel- grade held emergency meetings on what President Truman has been Informed Iby his diplomatic representatives as an impending Russian move to overthrow Marshal Tito >f Yusoslavia, the Moscow radio yesterday, for the third day in succession, called
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    S WISS HUNT FOR GEMS ROBBER
    141 8 GENEVA, Monday SWITZERLAND'S police force has joined in hunting the armed gunmen who recently robbed Begum j Aga Khan of her priceless jewellery in Cannes. Geneva police are particularly vigilant following reports that a man wanted for questioning had visited the town last week
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    BERLIN PLANT
    42 8 John J. McCloy. U.S. Military Governor and Marshall Plan Administrator in Germany, said yesterday that a Western electric power plant to make; Berlin independent of the Russians would receive priority in the allocation of dollar aid for West Berlin. AP
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    CHINESE GOVT RUMOUR HENIED
    49 8 A CHINESE Embassy spokesman in Washington f< terday denied a report that the Chinese Government ordered the closing of its military attache orn>» out the world. "A few Assistant Military Attaches have been recalled ho said, "but in no eai the otliees been closed." UP
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    PROTEST TO INDIA
    35 8 Pakistan Is protesting to India against her refusal to honour the nationality certificate issued by the Government of India before May 15 to Indians visitine Pakistan for a short visit;- A. P.
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    It's time war talk stopped
    122 8 It's time war talk stopped COPENHAGEN, Sun rjXHE United Nations SecreA tary-G?neral, Mr. Trygve Lie, said last night: "There has been too much talk about a third world war and it is time that this talk stopp<Ml" There is no atmosphere of crisis in the world now." he said. "Last
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    H.K. order to restrain R.A.F.
    71 8 HONGKONG. Monday r pHE Government's recent X order that the Chinese National Aviation Corporation must vacate their workshop in Kaitak airfield has been reversed by a Supreme Lourt injunction. The court's injunction restrains the R.A.F. from taking over workshops. The Government's quartering autho--ii y A
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    32 KILLED IN ANDES CRASH
    73 8 SS?S21 A CO LOMBIA, Wed. THIRTY TWO people-29 passengers and three crew -were killed when their Plane crashed in the Andes, it was learned yesterday. The disaster occurred near Bojaca, where the peaks are nearly always hidden by mist. The plane, a Douglas D3 belonging
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    HEROINE IN U.K. FOR WEDDING
    63 8 IN a hurry to go to Scotland l and be reunited with her S!£ C< L W S Ore€k heroine who landed from the troopship. Empire Test, at Liverpool yesterday. She is 26- year-old Elanl Psoma of Salonica who was wearing the King's Medal presented
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    JAP JAMBOREE
    17 8 Boy Scouts of Japan are preparing for their rim postwar jamboree on Spntpm^r 24.- A.P.
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    TOO MANY BKARS
    16 8 Residents of Duluth (USA) are complaining about a« invasion by black bears.— A.P.
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    Crowing hairs on the tongue
    44 8 CHICAGO, Mon. pENICILLIN treatment 1 may cause soT}ie people to get a black hairy tongue, according to c. doctor here. But the condition is temporary, he says, disappearing within a month of the drug t reatment being discontijiued. AP.
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    AIR LONG-RANGE WEAPON MERGER
    143 8 ADELAIDE, Monday. 4 NE\y British-Australian aviation company regis- tercd here with a nominal capital of A£1,000,000 will devote itself "entirely to long-range weapons according to a statement by Mr. Branson/thairman of the South Australian industries advisory committee. Mr. Branson said the company the Fairey Clyde Aviation
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    Atomic power plant in Aust.
    88 8 ADELAIDE, Mon. AUSTRALIA'S Minister of Postwar Reconstruction, Mr. John Dedman. said here yesterday that he was considering submitting to the Federal cabinet a long-range programme for development of industrial power from atomic energy in Austalia. Mr. Dedman said the proposal had nothing to do with
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    POLES TO DIE
    35 8 Four Poles including one priest were sentenced to death by a Krakow military court on Saturday evening on charges of belonging to the illegal antl -Government organisation, the Army of Liberation. A.P.
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    Holy church in danger
    123 8 I in iq^ Vk Vl lrca u y adly b > a earthquake s i m in I 9 thf hurth .<>.' the Hol> Sepulchre in Jeru- i bt jL U n the tra ditional site where Christ was buried after th e Crucifixion— may be
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