The Singapore Free Press, 26 September 1949

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA No. 17.588. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 481 1 picture. Gimson's call to FAO men Free Press Staff Reporter JN WELCOMING delegates to the Far Eastern meeting of the Food and Agricultural Organisation at the Victoria Hall this morning, the Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, said that the problem of feeding the population of
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  • 58 1 WHO GOT SOV IET GOODS? r Reporter 0 1 worth ot goods ported from half of rth was rt-Export il (i this remaining ot 13 W( re proi ines. Imported a spokesman I of EconoWe didn't do x vith it." a rubber merlWe dorft shipment! to I cardboard iggested that
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  • 37 1 PARIS. MOO. U IL-INFORMED source* about of roughly ops are preparing Indw-China to 110.000 French There. •'he three Viet•'■d m Paris for ..formation nulitary •id. '-China were n the lnior 1 Reuter
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  • 23 1 said at re killed 25 injured y^urday cars comGrand Phx of i at pjups of i f "rs on U.P.
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  • 186 1 500 planes in 'attack on UK T u LONDON, Sunday. HE announcement that Russia now has the atom bomb lent a touch of urgency to manoeuvres over Britain last night and today m which 500 British Dutch, Belgian and American bombers and jet fighters took part. Every radar station was
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  • 122 1 JOGJAKARTA, Monday. S f 2££?s! r thC Muslim and Nationalist Parties, the two largest within the Republic, last tught expressed strong disapproval of the Indone-sian-Dutch agreement reached at Namur. Belelum KSSS£^£!™ PrOP Sed f r N^"'»«* Mohammed Saleh, Secretary General of the Muslim Party, charged that
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  • 92 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE increase m the Ministry of Supply's selling price of tin to £739 a ton from £569 has not altered the buying price of tin paid to Malayan producers, an official of Straits Trading Co. told the Free Press this morning. "We
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  • 157 1 HONG KONG, Monday. *T»HE American liner General Gordon with 1,275 evacuees of 15 nationalities aboard left Shanghai early yesterday for Hongkong, the Chinese Nationalist news agency reported from Taipeh The evacuees many oi whom have spent most of their lives m China, include United States Embassy
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  • 156 1 TWt M V TllKht-YKAK Ol I) K. Nishiura ill arrestrd yesterday for loitering outside the Osaka Jail m convict uniform and immediately asked the police to ensure that he received a long sentence m prison. He told them that after d~>inr a three-year sentence m
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  • 79 1 Free Press Staff Reporter IN Indian handed 90 rounds of ammunition and a fully-loaded Sten gun magazine which he found m a hut at the ninth mile SegamatGemas Road, Johore, yesterday to the police. The Indian was accosted by two armed Chinese while he was walking
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  • 20 1 Air transport agreements with both India and Siam have been virtually scaled by the Philippines Foreign Office.
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  • 30 1 Last night Singapore police arrested 12 Chinese suspected of being connected with secret societies. Three Chinese women were arrested for being concerned with the running of chap-Ji-kee lotteries
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  • 28 1 President Quirino of the Philippines ordered the price of rice reduced to 90 centavos per ganta (45 U.S. c~nts for about 5 2 pounds) A.P.
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  • 247 1 CHICAGO, Monday. WESTERN Europe "is at the mercy of Russia," Dr. Harold C. Urey, Nobel Prize winner and discoverer of heavy water, used m atomic research, said here. He added, "If peace is preserved, it will not be because we can prevent Western
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  • 41 1 Chinese Communists In the Philippines, whether they are there legally or illegally will shortly be rounded up by a combined force of army and constabulary intelligence agents for screening m connection with their alleged subversive activities.- Reuter
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  • 27 1 Czech newspapermen were yesterday ordered to learn Russian "m order to strengthen co~o»pratio* with the Soviet pr-ss and iform Czech readers about the Soviet.'*
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  • 242 1 FRANKFURT, Monday. OISSIA has virtually ringed Western Europe with secret V-2 rocket-launching bases, according to Allied and German sources, who say that the bases are aimed at strategic points m Western Europe from the English Channel to the Adriatic. The report, coupled with Russia's
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  • 205 1 BRUSSELS, Moi. BELGIAN uranium mining circles said today tnai twssia is Deneved to posbes> "vast reources" 01 msn graat' uranium ore comparable to mat used oy tne tnuea dti\Wt> m making atom ooinos. One expert said: 'AccurdiiiK to our iniormaiion tne kus sians nave
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  • 28 1 A municipal building and seven private Industrial bulding were destroyed by a large fire which oroke o\U, yesterday afternoon m ihe Russian sector of Vienna
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  • 54 1 J^ SPktIAL Market Corre^pundrnt fives the prices of rubber (la cento per Ib.) at 11 »jn today as follows Buyers Sellers No 1 R.S.S. Spot: loose 45V4 45^ F.o.b. m bales Oct. No. 1 B.S.S. 45*4 45-fe No. X B.S.S. 43T« 44'w No. S B.S.S. JO t 41
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  • 724 2 A VISIT to the Isle Aof Wight (John Priestley's Other Island) confirmed a growing suspicion that one of Britain's strangest national characteristics is a love of discomfort. Choosing, unwisely, a S iturday for travelling, and not having reserved a seat I was provided with overwhelming
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  • 347 2 West opened the queen jf diamonds, and the defenders speeJiiy won two tricks In that suit. 3outh ruffed the third round of diamonds, and then considered the play very carefully. Having already lost two tricks, declarer saw that he could make his contract only If he avoided the
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  • 335 2 PRETORIA: CARRIER pigeons may partially take over the traditional role of the stork, if plans mooted by farmers m the Transvaal materialise. The possibility of using carrier pigeons to distribute semen to outlying farms for the artificial insemination of cattle is now being considered. Speed is
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  • 537 2 THE fat man lay stretched on the beach, blissfully at peace, lulled asleep by the sea's old song. Suddenly a shower of sand fell on his face. The fat man looked up into the .serious face of a twoheaded nve-year-old boy with a big
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 576 2 rSIMHAPOPF English Programme <As S'porO: Light Mu»ic; 11 .15 'Commonwemth -IAUHfUKL 2.00 Close; 6.00 Station Opening.: .w^-.. tnnr n (BLUfc MIUOKKi 602 Li e*U Music; 630 Dance Mu- 1 <BBC)j 11.30 New s 484 and 417 metres sic: 710 share Market Report; News Analysis (BBC); 1145 Music. Emerge, news from
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    • 388 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR HORN today, there is a ba from which 10 ope- tremendoui amount of ra *r steam and energy m your Vo V are Particularly at-make-up. Your ideals are tractive to the opposite sex lofty and your ambLions nd wl n "»*ny close high. You have no per-
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  • 410 3 CANTON MAY ASK U.N. TO INTERVENE Formal move tomorrow? lir V£Xn NEW YORK, Sunday. JJLW YORK diplomat says that Nationalist China will put up to the United Nations Assembly tomorrow formal charges accusing Russia of directing and aiding the Chinese Communists. Dr. T. F. Tsiang's address last Thursday while St^
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  • 27 3 AU persons entering India from Ceylon will be required from Oct. 1 to carry passports, according to an Indian Ministry of the Interior announcement issued.
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  • 144 3 AISiKALIAN youth had sacrificed its spirit of adventure and initiative for security said a pamphlet entitled "Christian Education m a Demo, cratic Community," issued by the Roman Catholic hierarchy. The pamphlet added that a desirt for security at all costs had led to an equally
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  • 204 3 SENATOR'S THREAT TO ACHESON REPRESENTATIVE Paul Shafer has threatened to q F a o n mve stigation of the U.S. State Department unless the Secretary of State I .iS can Ach eson, "does 1 something positive about the fn£f a C^ Use oX Mr. Shafer said continuation of the "frivolous,
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  • 92 3 A HIGH official sumce said the United States has decided to prjoe-d airh arrangement tor holding a Japan pt i ace treaty without Russia*, piiiicipi ioi* He said lnvtr*u«>na tot procedural conference on the treaty would be &ent out within the nrx: Ktnt months" Dy the
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  • 105 3 Colom bo ru b ber project II States-owned i and Rubber contribute one- ipital for the i -million- i 575.000 rubber fac- t i Wished m n Government i Local enterprise: v alanct fourt i to the Industries Mr G. G Ponnam- l, the factory will under- manufacture ol res
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  • 33 3 A PARIS report says that the cabinet of Cambodia an independent State within the framework vf tho French Union to eon*" 1 provincial governors about the possibility of holding general elections.
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  • 93 3 AFTER four weeks 01 cautious sparring between the Dutch and Indonesian delegations, the "first major agreement on fundamental issues was announced. The announcement was i long overdue, as a sense of unrealism was creeping over whole round-table conference because of the slow pace at which tnp discussions were
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  • 158 3 THHE ill-fated 17,457-ton Royal Mail luxury liner Magdalena, which broke up on the rocks of Brazil during her maiden voyage last April, has been reproduced m a 13-foot scale model for the Ministry of Transport investigation, which opens at the high court here on Monday.
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  • 62 3 BRITAIN'S latest irans-At-lantlc liner, the Caronia, will be the first post-war luxury cruiser to visit South and East Africa. She will leave New YorK un an 80-day voyage next Jan. 12 and will call at Durban. Capetown, Port Elizabeth. E:ist London and Mombasa. Trips to South Africa's
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  • 285 3 ASIAN WARNING TO U.S.— Taree tfrUisn soldiers and an American soldier broke away from a Russian Army prison at Pankow, East Berlin, m the early hours of Sept. 16. The Britons had been held by the Russians for mure than 18 months and t\e American
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  • 96 3 JAPS PLAN NEW HOME FOR Mac A. NEGOTIATIONS are under way to purchase a large tract of ground, near the American Embassy In Tokyo. 2s the site for a homo for the Commander of the U.S. Occupatior Forces after signing of p Japanese peace treaty. Gen Douglas Mac Arthur, Supreme
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  • 91 3 riE New Delhi office ul an airline looked like a miniature zoo recently, when 40 giant bats and 170 monkey* were held up from export for want of a licence. The owners of this •mass-animal-cargo" lost the licence, while on his way to the capitaJ.
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  • 75 3 Bengal's 250 ,000 lepers West Bengal Government is shortly introducing a scheme to isolate nearly 50,000 infectious lepers m the province, according to Dr. K.N. Katju, Governor of est Bengal. P r v,. K tJu said ln Calcutta that the scheme aimed at establishing small colonies on the outskirts of
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    • 122 3 WHAT'S OH IN K.L. PAVILION: Miraculous Journey. ODEON: Daughter ol the Jungle. REX: Escape. COLISEUM: Three Flowers (Mandarin). CATHAY: Quarrelsome Affectionate Couple (Mandarin). MADRAS: Calamity Jane And Sam Bass, CENTRAL* Nalla Thambi (Tamil). HINDUSTAN: Hambl Insan Hal (Hindi) EMPIRE: We Two (Tamil). PEN/ING ODEON: Unfaithfully Yours REX: Never Say Goodbye.
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  • 349 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Sept. 26, 1949. FORESTALL THE ROBBERS PRICES are rising Id Singapore. Mr. Lim Ton Nee, acting president of the Singapore Municipal Services Union, said on Saturday that his members had found many shopkeepers had already raised their prices 30 per cent above pre-deval-uatfton levels. That
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  • 291 4 WITH a fine optimism which, if applied generally by the Federal Legislative Councillors, might help solve other and more press Ing problems today m the Federation, the Federation reconstituted Select Committee on War Damage continues its championship of the excess profits set-off. Two members, more
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  • 958 4  - A 'Tenko' Night in Chelsea HALL ROM NEY LONDON LETTER by LONDON: "JCHI, nee, san, see..." The uninitiated, looking m at Chelsea Town I jail ballroom one evening recently, would have wondered what was happening. A Japanese officer, with an N.C.O. and a couple of Korean guards, whom he would
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  • 706 4 Graham Jenkins LONDON: rpHE radar-controlled projectile, powered by a rocket, will be the worlds weapon of the future In air. land and naval warfare, m the opinion of General Sir Frederick Pile, commander of B r i t a i n's anti-aircraft defences throughout
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  • 25 4 War Department "white collar" employees, unlike Government and Municipal clerks, do not have housing allowance, children's allowance and medical aid.
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  • 826 4  -  Alexander Thomson By pUFFING their way along Bf>o miles of single-line track out m Portuguese West Africa are Britishowned railway trains. They are carrying the most hush-hush freight m the world. They link the small township of Dilolo, Just inside the Belgian Congo, with the West
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  • 271 4 Gandhi ma y save his killers NEW OELffr-1 THE gentle ()fMa^tmat:J may save his own £l sins from death gallows. n M There is strong leeJ m India that the r M cution would con rjl all the princip;. wizened little man il taught thateoodJl be returned for evilS wiio
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  • 52 4 A R.A.F. 'UNIVERSITY' A.' v. from Britain an monwealth finer ccmbai at Maiu'-. I.: Air station ii RAF College It will Januan l Ar. An Mm said wih giv, vi ry .irivjr.-'S.J ing les.-. :> Civilian and R A I will axplfcu cur tncnt of sin such as air naviga
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  • 511 5 NO GIFTS: GOVT. OFFICIALS WARNED Lavish parties 'undesirable Free Press Staff Reporter JHE practice of providing lavish entertainment to Singapore Government officers going on leave or transfer, indulged m sometimes by members of the public and junior Government services is "highly undesirable," and "proposals tor such entertainment should be firmly
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  • 254 5 Free Press Staff Reporter FROM the Amazon River, where the ox- fish suckles its young and plants eat insects, to the American zone of post-war Germany and the conference halls of Washington and Bangkok that has been the career since 1942, of Mr. Jose Francisco
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  • 41 5 k 16-year-old Malay girl, Mariam binti Awang Chik, was mauled by a tiger while working m her sawah at Kampong Kuala Lesong. about 16 miles from A^r Star, the Utusan Molayu reports. She died later from her injuries.
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  • 234 5 Joget girls say: 'leave us alone F. P. Malay Correspondent SINGAPORE'S ronggeng wirls are bewildered at the publicity given them and are very concerned that they have been the subject of public controversy. Their unanimous wish is to be left alone. Che Putih binti Sidek, who has been a ronggeng
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  • 98 5 THE 11th annual Inspection and display of the Boys', Brigade. sth Singapore Company, will be h<^lri :\t Choon Guan English "'^ool on Thursday at 5.30 p.m. The Colonial Srcreiary, Mr. P. A. B. McK(>;;\;:;. w:i. o<the inspecting officer. unit oi in*' Girl (iuides m th march- <st
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  • 198 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent pROSPECTS for unemployed Asian seamen have improved during the last fortnight, according to a spokesman of the Singapore Chinese Seamen's Union More and more European shipping firms, he said, were recruiting seamen and sending them to ports of embarkation m Europe More
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  • 78 5 (IAPT. Paddy Hall, Irish J skipper of the British blockade runner, Edith Moller. photographed m Hong Kong after the Chinese Nationalists had released his ship from detention at Chusan Island. The Edith Moller was one of two British ships seized by the Nationalist authorities while trying: to get
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  • 132 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE recently-formed Singa- pore Indian Fine Arts Society will make its first public appearance at 8.30 p.m. tomorrow m the St. Andrew's School hall, Woodsville. The Society will present a K-item programme of Indian songs, dances and music. The programme will include a
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  • 445 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ARRANGEMENTS are being completed for the Poppy Day children's party to be held at 26 Luscaden Road, Singapore, on Oct 15 starting a t I p.m. No efforts are being spared to make the function a 100 per cent, success.
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  • 245 5 tree fress Chinese Correspondent UNREGISTERED Chinese schools are heeding the v warning: issued by the Education Department that it will m December consider taking action under the Registration of Schools Ordinance against thos«» schools which have not registered According to the Assistant Director' of Education
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  • 94 5 SINGAPORE District Methodist Youth Fellowship are holding a meeting at Wesley Church today at 5 p.m. to welcome the Rev. and Mrs. Darrell Randall Rev. and Mrs. Randall are from the Youth Department of the Methodist Church m America and are eager to meet all Methodist young men
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  • 41 5 THE Wesley Churen annual 1 bazaar, organised by the YVomen's Society A Chi 1 gtian Service to raise fund! lor various church projec s will be held m the church compound from 4.^0 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday.
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  • 1938 6  -  TedBroadribb ■by HERE is a story which is unique m the history of the Ring. In his 60 years, Ted Broadribb has m turn bzen a fighter himself- as "Young Snowball," he was the only English boxer *>ver to knock out Carpentier— promoter, referee and man
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  • 44 6 "Young Snowball" Broadribb beats Georges Carpentier, become- the moneylender m a yrvlitia camp, gets 21 days' "jankers" for yoing to New Yo- to Upht inst md of camp to train as a soldi *r. io ns a bible class and gets married.
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  • 331 6 Free Press Racing Correspondent A POINT of discussion among racing fans at I* **on Saturday was how Bright Eyes would fared against No Regrets had she run m \CI handicap for top-class horses. Trainer Rodgers withdrew Bright morning of the race and many
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  • 21 6 THE Brv. Fra: place with 15 behind —m the i 8 1 ooen golf chai M f'av. A.P.
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    • 64 6 MandfdkG Exelu»ive to ,S7nea/>orP Free Press m Malaya HZZT~" -V^ \IIME NO SEE 1 1 OF COURSE NOT. HE'S I I NOW CAN YOU II ME DON'T --1 ■^■^^^^'"^^■■i^i^B JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya ry y —y ME, MR /BUT WE N66P N/MY MAR SIR, SHfit^BUT
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  • 246 7 LUCKY ACE DOES BEST GALLOP Ballymun II is also impressive Free Press Racing Correspondent IPOH, Monday. gEST workout on the Ipoh training track this morning was that of Lucky Ace, who is handicapped m the Class 1, Div. 3 sprint over six furlongs on Wednesday. Ridden by J. Donnelly, this
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  • 302 7 'Race of the century' on Oct. 9 .-race of the century" T tlf h en uleci *> many tin^s I I 5? international horse ias became almost ,lv that is a term .applied to Pnx irfumphe. the pg LArc over on e A/lcngchamps ■^b^blv 9 quite true that lt L
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  • 114 7 THE Cwcboslovak Grand Prix on Masaryic circuit of 17.8 kilometres was won \tsterday by Peter White.iead, a BriUsh driver Italnn-built md Phiiipe Etancclin 01 had a terrific duel through- 20 laps to taril) the crowd, oetween 200.000 and ptcp'.e. v.ho lir.ei tht injured, Prince Bira oil
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  • 30 7 THE innutj cricKet match J the Gandhi Memorial the Indian AskZl s >'rett. --fwere- 1.A.-lst. UF-S R T AF lst Inns. 80 Inns. 137 iA.-2nd. xkt.
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  • 556 7 IVOR Preece, England's captain last season, was the 1 inspiration behind Coventry's 9-6 win over Cardiff m their Rugby Union match o n Saturday. He startes the move which led to the first try and after Cardiff, with a penalty goal and a dropped goal, had
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  • 39 7 rjiHE Dutch sprint cyclist, Arie van Vliet, won the "Challenge Victor Goddet" event yesterday m Paris. In the final, he beat the world sprint champion, Reginald Harris of Manchester, and the French champion, Louis Gerradin. A. P.
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  • 282 7 Japan has new tennis sensation [N 24-year-old Sachiko Kato. I Japan has a woman lawn ■earn* star ready to challenge the world's best players as scon as Japan is readmitted to the International tennis told, probably In mother year. In the opinion of many expert*, >hort, sturdily-built Miss Kato. present
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  • 75 7 SINGAPORE Chinese XI against Indians m the S.A.F.A. Intercommunity League at Jalan Besar -.tadium tomorrow will be from: Chee Seng. Tuck Choon, Chin Lye, Patrick Yee. Slew Tong. Yew Heng, Tim Swing. Kirn San, Chwee Leng, Hee Jong, Hin Weng. Kam Pan Eng Siang. Boon Seong,
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  • 24 7 AUSTRIA beat Czechoslovakia by three goals to one In a soccer match played In Vienna yesterday before 60,000 spectators. A. P.
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  • 37 7 J)AI REES (Wales) beat Henry Cotton by one hole Ln the Una) of the British professional mat'.hplay golf championship on the Walton Heat /i Club course m Surrey on Saturday. U.P. and A.P Reuter
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  • 314 7 pHINESE Aihletic, tkli year's Singapore A.F.A. Senior League champions, were held to a coreless draw by Kota Raja In a ;ame which marked the close of tie Senior League competition at Jalar. Besar Stadium yesterday. CA. had every opportunity of vinnlng. Chances came their way by
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  • 446 7  -  VETERAN By 4 BIG crowd turned up at the Clerical Union last night when veteran Leow Kirn Fatt (Useful) 'ormer Singapore champion, beat Koh Ken? Slang (Marigold) m two sets 15— 4, 15 3 m a first round ;ie of the Singapore men's open
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  • 33 7 SOCCER: Malays v Ceylonese (Community League), J. Besar. .FRIENDLY: TJorif Bahrn Rancrr v. J'»nior Dynamo*, Gcylanf SUdlum. HOCKEY: S.K.I, t 223 BOD, padani; Victoria School SUff VJ.; S.C.C. Women'i trial, padang.
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  • 29 7 TERRY Young, a lightweight, spoiled Enrique Bolanos' comeback attempt on FYUiay night by outpointing the ligntweignt contender from Los Angelea belore 10,000 at Madlaon Square Oardm. —UP.
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  • 130 7 fPED SCHROEDER defeated Eric Sturgess 6-1, 8-3, 6-1 m the final of the U.S. national amateur hard-court tennis championships at Berkley, California, yesterda.y Schroeder had beaten the Czech, Jaroslav Drobny 4-6, 3-6, 12-10, 6-4. 8-1 m the semifinals on Saturday. Sturgess, (South Africa) had beaten Art Larsen
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  • 791 7 Wolves took no chances against Huddersfield tIfOLVERHAMPTON Wanderers, English Football League division one leaders, have won the majority of their games this season by the odd goal but they left nothing to chance against Huddersfield Town on Saturday and their seven-one success repeated last winter's score m the corresponding match.
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 258 7 2nd. day's weights for Ipoh races Weights for all seven Cl. 1. Div. 4—6 furs. J Cl. 2. Div. 2—6 fur*, rare* for Wednesday, the second day of «h# Ballymun II 9.00 Port Star 9.00 Perak Turf Cluh lair Mower 8.12 Autumn meeting are Ascot Vale 8.11 Smiling Through 141
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  • 21 8 NEEDHAM (nee Gilcr.rist > at R.A.F. Changl Hospital -on 24th Sept.. to Gwen wife of Geoffrey Needham, a son. Both well.
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  • 65 8 ABEYASEKERA-JAYAWARDE-NA: The engagement is announced of Indrawathie daughter of Mr. A. P. L. Jayawardena and late Mrs. Jayawardena of Kuala Lumpur with Aryadasa D^vaprlya (Cyril) eldest son of Mr. Mrs. A. P. Abeyasekera Of Singapore. THE ENGAGEMENT is announced between Ho Slew Chye. youngest son of Mr. Mrs. Ho
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  • 18 8 STEVENS. On Sunday. 25th September. George Stevens In the General Hospital. Singapore, after a very brief Illness
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  • 33 8 MRS. A. L. DE SOUZA family thank those who attended the funeral of "Tom" those who sent wreaths. Requiem High Mass at St. Joseph 1 Church on 28 949 at 6.30 a.m.
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  • 334 8 CHIANG'S BOMBERS RAID SHANGHAI Amoy battle continues HONG KONG, Monday. bitter fighting continues for the Fukien port of Amoy, large formations of Nationalist planes based on Formosa are carrying out raids on Shanghai, on Communist shipping around Chusan Island, 100 miles south of Shanghai, and on the Red forces massed
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  • 208 8 Devalued cuts ship rate LONDON, Mon. FULL effects of Britain's devaluation of the pound are only now becoming apparent to business men m London. The question of the new sterling prices Britons must pay is proving far more complicated than was implied In the broadcast by the Chancellor of the
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  • 69 8 PRIME Minister Pandit Nehru said on Saturday that India hopes for a peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute with Pakistan but warned that "if there is any aggression we shall defend ourselves with our full strength He spoke before the openIng session of the all-Jammu and Kashmir
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  • 27 8 Pakistan will press for more rice allocations from Burma at the forthcoming regional preparatory meeting In Singapore of the Food and Agricultural Organisation. A.P.
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  • 174 8 SHANGHAI, Sunday. iyt ADAME Sun Vat-sen, widow of the founder of iTI the Chinese Republic and sister of Mad me Chiang Kai-shek, Is likely to be one of the four VicePresidents of the new Chinese People's Government. It is generally believed that Mao Tse-tung,
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  • 71 8 SEOUL. Mon. THE North Korean Communist radio reptrttd that tho 1.897-ton Air.crl-can-owned freighter. Kimball R. Smith, overdue at the South Korean port of Kunsan. entered the North Korean port of Nampo yesterday. Earlier unconfirmed reports said the Kimball R Smith had been captured by j Communist
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  • 51 8 rpHE Italian town of MarX zabotto, near Bologna, was yesterday awarded the golden medal for valour by Italy's President, Luigl Elnaudl, during a special ceremony. Marzabotto's 1.830 Inhabitants were shot by German S.S. units In reprisal actions against the partisans during the last stages of the
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  • 23 8 Tokio press reports said yesterday that the Siam Government has decided to order 500 additional freight cars from Japan U.P.
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  • 83 8 POLIOMYELITIS is spread by human contact, Dr F R Hone of the Adelaide University Faculty of Medicine said m reporting a study of the infantile paralysis eoidemic m Southern Australia last year. 4u Dr ;J lone A aid n flndin of his committee supported the theory that
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  • 100 8 TOKYO, Monday pORMER 8.C.0.P. military policeman John Alexander Ramsay, who illegally returned to Japan early this year because he liked a "nice easy lire has been flown back to Sydney. Ramsay, who is from Brighton, Victoria, stowed away at Hong Kong last April with another
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  • 32 8 An earth tremor from the Black Sea area of Russia was picked up on Sept. 14 by the same seismograph m Athens that recorded the Bikini atom blasts.- U.P.
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  • 45 8 MEETINGS of Britain's rail--111 waymen at big provincial centres yesterday decided to delay protest action against a conciliation boards-r ejection of a National Union of Railwaymen claim for an Smif 11 IOS per week increase until a special delegation Re uter
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  • 30 8 Five persons were seriously n J ured m a riot which broke o U rLi! rln^ a w*!** at the urthodox Armenian cb"*** In Damascus yesterday.- A.P.
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  • 314 8 SEATTLE, Monday. OADIO-ACTIVITY from the 1946 Bikini atom bomb blasts is still present m animal and plant life on the atoll, Dr. Lauren Donaldon, director of the longterm biological research at Bikini, said here on his return from the fourth expedition to Bikini and Eniwetok.
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  • 53 8 300 -mile tour in wheel-chair LONDON, Mon. pRANK PALMER and his r 12-year-old motorised wheel-chair have just completed their second km* holiday trip of the summer —a 300-mile tour of Southeast England. Mr. Palmer, a 39-year-old tailor said, "I like to go by train, but it's easier to travel m
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  • 142 8 JAPS TELL OF STARVATION IN RED CHINA TOKYO, Mon. THE economic situation m Red Manchuria is worse than it has been for the past 50 years, according the first Japanese repatriates returning from Chinese Communist areas. They told of starvation conditions m South Manchurian cities, which are short of all
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  • 68 8 three years. Mrs. Hornbostel. 58 who contracted the disease* m a apan c se Prison camp, credited sulfone drugs for a lam ncrease m the arresting ;lt leorosy cases m the leper ?£i OI y an sald that "one of the inmates of the leprosy
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  • 21 8 The Argentine Congress has approved a bill requested* by President, Mr. Peion taking Argentina off the gold stan-
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    • 67 8 HIGH TIDES Today: M.Maja; 12.54 p.m. Tomorrow: 1.41 ajn; 1.25 p.m. THE SAINT by Uslie Charteris OKAY. HORNCft, YOU CAN DfiOP\3lVl YOLJ L WHA^\ SfH><?!£ ISK-K 0 IN "T* 6 GAVf 1 k 4M3V <a/a/t- J^TS IT THERE. AND LET* figs NOW ]^OU DESERVE A A^r^Si*^^ 0 CkSm^b^J "SJI >OUR
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