The Singapore Free Press, 11 November 1949

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  • 20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA NO. I'- 6 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 301 1 'WONDER DRUG' WARNING Vickers says: 'take care Free Press Staff Reporter 'JHE British Medical Journal said yesterday that the wonder drug, streptomycin, which is being used to combat certain types of tuberculosis, may have to be abandoned because it is too dangerous. However, lx>th Dr. W. J. Vickers, Director of
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  • 54 1 Red China priority over Jap treaty -.10. Fri. icy for a D but feel f com--most ,plnion Qia] imthe recent Briimmun. um« to saulin Eastern mly nto out there is s bv cxtendgnltlon n jrmal re- 1 n his to the '.317 801- th* Id. B lln would thai I
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  • 41 1 Fri I out of large ick Reid Travel g. who is fly 600 Chinese m the itin America. refugees. joining their counr. Peru, the Panama Zone and pther places mlddleind pay US$35O for th» 19.000 milei trip
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  • 20 1 biggest 000.000 was officially •^rdav. -masher. v.agnet, was jj supply Duti-h scienfor research biologi- A.P.
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  • 53 1 MR Aneurin Bevan. British Health Minister, plans to leave London by air in January for a three weeks' visit to India. Mr. Bevan will have discussions with India's woman Minister of Health. RaJkumari Amrit Kaur. and will renew his association with other friends in the
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  • 25 1 The Commission on World Peace of the U.S. Mrthodist Church yesterday recommended de facto recognition of the Communist area in China. U.P.
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  • 22 1 Vice Admiral O. N. Oliver is to succeed Vice Admiral C. H. Woodhouse as Comman-der-in-Chief, East Indies Station. Reuter
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  • 17 1 The devaluation of Austrian schilling will be announced in the next few days A.P.
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  • 162 1 To confer on Red advance C.-C.'s VISIT TO SAIGON LONDON, Friday. \IAJN motive for the visit t 0 Indo-China next week iTI of Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, British Commis-sioner-General in Southeast Asia, is to discuss with the French High Commissioner the approach of i Chinese Communist troops to the frontier, diplomatic
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  • 144 1 tree Press StaH Reporter SEVENTY children from the eastern states ol Aus- tralia can now enjoy Christmas with their I parents in Malaya after all. The children who were unable to get sea passage to Malaya in time for Christmas because the Blue Funnel line
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  • 132 1 NEW YORK, Friday. -THE Russian Foreign Minister, Mr An ?*;2 J Vishinsky told the U.N. Political Committee last night that, if Russia decided stockpiling of atom Sombs was necessary, she would have as many bombs as she would need M Saying Hiut Uie "illusion of
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  • 27 1 President Truman said yesterday that a visit by Llaquat All Khan, Premier of Pakistan, to the United States was under considera- tion.—A
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  • 33 1 President Truman, who backed Democrat Herbert H. Lehman In the New York election, yesterday received from the defeated Senator, John Foster Dulles, Republican. New York, the following cable: "You win." U.P.
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  • 20 1 The Communist-con trolled Berliner Zeitung complained yesterday that Russian satellite* respect the American dollar too much.- A.P.
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  • 109 1 WASHINGTON, Frl FRANCE and Britain will gvt the major shares of U.S. military aid. consist'ng chiefly of artillery, antitank guns, motorised vehicles and other heavy equipment for ground troops. »t is learned here. Thk* was brought out as teams of
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  • 29 1 The proposed Overseas League Armistice Day Dinner and Dance will not be held tonight at Raffles Hotel but will instead be held on Friday November 18.
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  • 28 1 The Japanese General Federation of Labour Unions has decided to apply to join the free World Labour Federation to be formed in London this month.-
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  • 29 1 Japanese emigration abroad may be possible after the conclusion of .a peace treaty, the Tokio Foreign Office spokesman Mr. Eiji Wajima, told the National Legislature yesterday. U.P.
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  • 62 1 THREATENING letter signed S. Giuliano name of the Sicilian bandit king —advised Adriano Bassetto, Genoa soccer star, to stay away from Salerno, the Sicilian capital, because h«* scored four goals against Palermo last Saturday. Bassetto, however, said he was not scared.. ."11l put on a beard and fool
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  • 73 1 Can the leopard..... CANTON, Fri. THE arrival of the Communists in Canton has caused a change in the clothes of business and professional men and women. Those accustomed to wearing foreign-made clothes are appearing in Chinese clothes not the long gown of the Chinese gentleman but the short coats usually
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  • 143 1 KARACHI, Friday. THE Indonesian Premier, Dr. Mohammed Hatta, said here last night that his country was prepared to recognise Communist China in return for recognition of Indonesia. Dr. Hatta said that co-operation with Asian countries would be an integral part of Indonesia's future foreign policy.
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  • 210 1 LONDON, Friday. ORITAIN last night handed over three protests one to the Chinese Nationalist Government in Chungking, one to Gen. Chiang Kai-shek's organisation in Formosa and one to the Chinese Ambassador in London over action taken against three British blockade runners. The British protests complain of recent
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  • 88 1 BATAVIA. Fri. A ROUND-UP of Indonesian news of the past 24 hours says that: Sultan Ho mid of West Borneo, Itfader of the Federalist delegation to the recent round-table conference on Indonesia, has been promoted from colonel to major general in the Royal Netherlands Indonesian Army.
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  • 30 1 Mr. Emanuel Shinwell. Britain's Secretary for War, will make a week's inspection of the Middle East Command at the end of this month, the War Office announces. A.P.
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  • 35 1 The U.S. Government yesterday approved the export of 40,000 barrels of aviation petrol to Yugoslavia in the latest in a series of actions to bolster Marshal Tito in his dispute with Russia.- A.p.
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  • 31 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A Malay woman tapper was found with fatal stab wounds in the Nyalas area of Malacca yesterday morning. Her tapping knife was beside her.
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  • 41 1 Britain's State-owned coal mines made a clear profit of £6,500.000 in the first six months of this year, compared with the loss of £23,255,586 In the first year of nationalisation, and a surplus of £1,651.965 in 1948- Reuter
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  • 37 1 The Chiefs of Staff of the Arab armies are expected to arrive in Cairo soon to take part in current discussions on a military alliance linking the seven member states of the Arab League. Reuter
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  • 118 1 Jap plea before Singapore Govt. Free Press Staff Reporter THE Japanese Government Screening Committee In Tokio has approved the application of six trade companies to send representatives to Malaya. An application to admit one representative has been submitted to the Government of Singapore and is now under consideration here. No
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  • 119 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Singapore police in Bukit Timah Road this morning found abandoned the taxi in which three men, two Chinese and a Malay, had fooled a taxi driver into taking them round and round for miles late last night, robbing him in the
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  • 54 1 A SPECIAL Market Corres»»ond ent lives the prices of rubber fin cents per Ib.) at 11 am today at follows: No 1 R S.S. Spot: loose 46 4b F.o.b. in bales Not No. 1 R.S.S. 46>* 46 If No. 2 R.S.S. 43". II No. 3 R.S.S. 44 44',
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    • 32 1 Fot the b*st food Win* in Town Visit THE SINGAPORE RESTAURANT ft BAR 79, BRAS BASAH ROAD. Reservations; Phone 4088 ||L| Tfieres afwaus T|MF FOR A TlucH in pints a net quarts
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  • 386 2  - Special Evening Frocks MARY DELANE vyOMEN looking for an evening frock for special occasions could not do better than bear in mind these two Paris models. Both have many fashion points likely to be adapted by manufacturers here. The long frock, by Dior, has the famous "scissor" line likely to
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  • 145 2 Why U.S. wives are lazy T'HE American nousewife is lazy. If she were not, food prices would have come down much further. This is the opinion of members of a Senate committee on food. Tiie modern woman, they have found, is demanding food from the grocer all ready to put
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  • 288 2 From New York Richard Greenough sends more American recipes. NEW ENGLAND CODFISH CAKES REQUIRED: Two large cups flaked uncooked cod; 4 cups finely diced, uncooked potatoes; 3 tablespoons fat; salt and pepper to taste. Also, for egg sauce; 3 tablespoons melted margarine; 3 tablespoons flour; 2
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  • 268 2  -  SARAH LANGHTON ••ORITISH teen-agers show a total lack of appreciation of line, colour and the use of accessories. "Apart from the art student or college girl, they are in too big a hurry to appear grownup." The challenging accusa tion comes from u jreuntf l^^ndon
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  • 88 2 Kcm came up to the harp, and it was to oi- that the unngt of it were (ike o. rt of another cage And suddenly tn« Cam taw him the end it was the moute which Lceam* d ioy. Whilit it sat there
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 284 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR LgORN today, you are one of those positive personalities. There is no half-way nwasure for you in anything which you bother to undertake. It is all or nothing. Your worst handicap is a tendency to procrastinate. You are inclined to dilly-dally when it comes to making up
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    • 178 2 F.P. Crossword No. 840 N4 2 l^ 5 fell 4 1 I 5 I 6 1 7 TH JwL 128I 28 r 31^ 30[3l J^"s3 VT" Etui, w wr y" g^ Z~Z Z CLUfcS \c BOSS I expense (6>; 8 Accuse pubiniy .7.. 10 Bicken iS>; 11 i^rt 3) 2
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  • 361 3 CANTON OBEYS RED RULE 'Nationalism swept away' HONG KONG, Friday. JHE imprint of Communism is rapidly being pressed upon Canton, third largest Chinese city and commercial capital of the south 411 vestiges of the Nationalist regime are being swept away as new governing authorities are being established and new edicts
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  • 26 3 AUSTRALIA FETES 300 POLES recently lp 300 B itiah In c at I in and .y slmol..ifi> reft tilled liistra--194 were s month u -.ania. U.P.
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  • 64 3 PRINCE Lee Eun. of Korea, announced that he was leading his life 'quietly, growing orchids." and there was absolutely no foundation for rumours that he hud accepted a military post in the South Korean Republic. Prince Lve said he had b<vn pursuing the hobby of cultivating
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  • 24 3 Four Soviet citizens residing in Taipeh. Formosa, may be deported by the Nationalist authorities as a security mva sure.- Reuter
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  • 202 3 BELGRADE, Friday. MARSHAL Tito of Yugoslavia believes that a '"split" An the Kremlin i s why some top ranking Soviet leaders "disappear." Tito told Edward Clausen of the "Politiken a Copenhagen independent daily, that it is obvious there is no unity in the Soviet Politburo—
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  • 40 3 Thr International Refugee Organisation recently announced an emigration pljn under which 50.000 people would he sent from Western Germany to Australia, ***** to Canada. 10.000 to Souih America and 5,000 to Western Europe, after June 30, 1950 Reuter
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  • 50 3 Raiders who broke into the National Treasury Museum of Kamakura, near Tokio, thoroughly ransacked priceless art treasures but leit without stealing anything. Pictures and art places were scattered on die jjoor by tht raiders, who cut through the iron door_of »he museum to get in.- Reuter
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  • 28 3 Margit Bokor. lead:ng lyric soprano of the Viennese State Opera, has died in hospital in New York, agpd 44. She migrated to America in 1940- A.P.
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    334 3 What do you bid? You have better then 41/2 honour tricks in your hand, and your partner's bid shows at leasl 21 2 honour tricks. In addition you have three four-card length*, oue or all of which may develop additional playing tricks. It Is apparent, therefore, that unless
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  • 222 3 NEW YORK, Thursday. ipiVE years ago the U.S. playwright Maxwell Ander--1 son and U.S. composer, Kurt Weill, failed in their efforts to do a musical drama about racial problems. But now they have more than succeeded with that idea when Broadway first nighters cheered their "Lost
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    • 32 3 THE STORY BEHIND f THE STOP-ME-AND-BUY-ONE BOYS r^i\ vtf•» j JBsfe y- > Cn 15 CA<ilv <fprilic^H <i mHi i i iiiMiiMii fn r i"" 1 -js® 22^£ ismm mi V^HI Jt CS.CW.S.I
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    • 118 3 9 fijf liiii 1 P i^ I A Masterpiece An Axminster! I ON DISPUY AT t^?. TOMMY DORSEY HIS ORCHESTRA on 'HIS MASTERS VOICE retards. WFLL. GIT IT! TKOMBONOLOGY b «'-*>3 AT THE FAT MAN'S CHLOE-- B 948g STOMP IT OFF— F T NIGHT GLOW-F.T.- B 9()19 WASHBOARD BLUES F
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 580 3 SINGAPORE Countary Dance Party" (2>; 7.4r> News m Ffench 'bBO: 7.30 (BIXE NETWORK) E«li«h: News; -Far Eastern Affairs'; 848 and 41.7 metres. Interlude; EnglLh Lesson (BBO; Emergency news from K.L. co Ught Music; 8.15 Thai: at 10 am News Sc pror.ranrnes (BBO; 8.4j TOD\Y Dutch (BBC): 9.00 Kuoyu (BBO: 9.30
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    • 109 3 WHAT'S ON IN K.L. PAVILION and OI)FO\T Joseph Young Of Africa. BEX: Ma\time In Mayfair. COLISEUM: When Spring Comes (Mandarin). MADRAS: Blood Will (Mandarin*. CATHAY: Valn.ikt (Tamil). CENTRAL: Magi. HUM Tamil". EMPIRL: ViMannti* 'Tamil'. PENANG REX: Road UOu LIDO: Champion. ODEON: Ine Vehec Touch. CATHAY: Christopher Columbus. GLOBE: A Date
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  • 362 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY. Nov. 11. 1949 SLOW AND— MAY BE— SURE BETTER to travel slowly than never to arrive, says the proverb. Looked ;u in the light of the proverb, the speed with which applications for Federal citizenship are being made may possibly be regarded as encouraging. It
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  • 264 4 LATEST rumour from Eastern Europe is that Russia is withdrawing troops fiom the Soviet Zone of Germany. The report Is as yet unconfirmed, but it would fit in with one reading of the reasons behind the appointment of Marshal Rokossovsky to be Polish Minister
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  • 956 4  -  RHONA CHURCHILL FROM AN UNDERGROUND STUDIO IN LONDON AN OFFENSIVE IS BEING CONDUCTED ACROSS THE ETHER AND OVER THE IRON CURTAIN WHICH THE SOVIETS. AT CONSIDERABLE EXPENSE, ARE TR YING VAINL Y TO REPEL. By— "(JOVORIT London, Govorit London," the cry goes out from
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  • 643 4  - GERMAN DEMOCRACY IS ON TRIAL ANTONY TERRY By QERMANVS new ((lass-sided, chro-mium-plated, fluores-cent-lighted Bonn Parliament, looking like a futurist's dream, finished its tiist month's work in a pandemonium of ringing hells, and with two hundred members of the public enjoying the "show" from deck-chairs lined up in the gardens outside.
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  • 664 4  - Red Witch Doctors in Africa G.D.K. McCORMICK By rjOWN In the backwoods of darkest Africa the messages of the Kremlin are penetrating into untutored minds as "red witch doctors" go into action. Now the United Nations Trusteeship Mission, investigating conditions in mandated territories, begins its fact-finding tour of British-adminis-tered Cameroons
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  • 208 4 A Chinese Puzzle Fe w Solve HO *GKON G ON* t^': ambitious long.^ b new Co** government of Chi^ to reform the ChjJ la K ngliage a which has defeat* than one conqueror China's history* With an alphabet of nw than 4M.000 several hundred iS dialect* and an 80 illiteracy
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    • 9 4 KINGS d *.H. HENDRY ?8, North Bridge Rd., S'pore
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    • 138 4 CRAYFISH THERMIDOR TRY THIS RfC/Pf: 1 Cold Storage Crayfish j cup shei\ 2 or 3 tinned mushrooms 2 tablespoons flour 5 tablespoons margarine 1 TinTrianglft D^.'. chili sauce cream 4 teaspoon mustard 5 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon minced 2 tablespoon grated paisley cheese Cut crayfish into halves, ren I rneat
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  • Free Press RACE FORM Special
    • 9 1 Free Press RACE FORM Special Friday, Nov. 1 1
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    • 1666 1  -  WONDER how many of you who storm the Bukit Timah course on race days to bet your tens, hundreds or thousands of dollars st«jp to think of the people who help to make vour pleasure possible the "little" people behind the scenes who matter
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    • 62 2 The main opposition will come from his stablemate. Ecliptic, and Indian Heather, winner of the Perak Autumn Trophy race over a mile and a half at f()M R"d II a ch«tl« „ld •I R iuip ibi. is Amei in this M-untrt'.'] Ihe pi «s
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    • 1820 2 tnre. pic- Cl. 3, Div. 1-6 F. 6 5 Yds. 122 UniLshir 9.0: Back la training after long spell up the hills; working splendidly; last two starts at K.L. in June, wheci he ran Port Star to neck over 7f. with 8.11 on holding track and beat
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      • 245 2 RACE NIGHT DINNER-DANCE SATURDAY 12th 6? 19th Nov. Climax your afternoon ni rac i n g wi t h a n [^i&Z&bj evening at the Cathay Kestiiurant. Enjoy the i- > |Bi3B2Sff^ food and wine, £S^i3iß*lP the dancing and the 'iS^S^rN^f music in the comfort of u^SfflT^^Sj air-conditioned coolness. ttH-jugL
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      • 47 2 TEL. ADD. i£T^ 24 NGC 622. BARTLEY ROAD. I SINGAPORE. TOMORROW NICHTJjth A SPECIAL DINNER AND DANCE j Trevor Mac and His L^ nd SPECIAL DINNER S3 SERVEC J FROM 7 30 P SUNDAY j PENANC CURRY FROM 12 NOO r Rooms with bathrooms Billiardroom BOOKINCS *****
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    • 1727 3  -  GREAT year for the A i ish turf is closing [ant summer in of the most pea for British have been real,ports is not xx here it was War 11. but be expected. the war-time s planned to mV requirethe prospects bright there
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    • 317 3 (MXTY-FOUR nnal acceptors were announced on Wednesday for the Manchester November Handicap, to be run over a mile and a half on the last day of 1949 flat racing season, Saturday, Nov. 19, at Manchester. There were originally 155 entries. Included in the acceptors is
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      • 60 3 I PICK A WINNER! B\ K| tr I fifi^ (O) >• /if B^BbL jfc^Ba^^tSBsSS^^^^3ttPJS3^^\ly u, i j^ outstanding thoroughbred rtuiiin A\ *\j A real stayer proved by its 63 stock car records over seven days and seven nights at Indianapolis. U.S.A. recently. AUSTIN you €an depend on it! B^BMp^j^LiMBB^B^BBWBBMBW^ja^BHHi^B^BBj^^y M
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    • 324 4 Racing circles have long debated the question as to which is better suited for racing in Malaya the English thoroughbred or its Australia counterpart For every owner who prefers an English horse there Ls another who pins his faith on a galloper from "Down Under
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    • 568 4 Longchamps II— the horse of the year "UORSE of the year' 11 is undoubtedly Longchamps 11. His triumph in the valuable Singapore Gold Cuprichest prize on the Malayan Turf after three heart-breaking defeats in Cup races made him the biggest stakes winner of the season. Hi.s four wins, four seconds
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    • 241 4  -  \by PETER HILL IfILMSTAR is as temperamental as his name I suggests. He has acted in two locally made pictures so I far and is at present in the I middle of his third. He can put on a Greta Garbo act 1 with the greatest, of
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      • 211 4 .V t't/.VV t't St'C the fini results when you u>e KODAK For vour pictures of the races depend on the same film used in the photofinish camera Insist on KODAK The film in the familiar yellow box' i THE EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY f^rrd vn.t^i m ted liability <n U S.A
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      • 152 4 I THE KING OF BEERS I FOR BETTER ENTERTAINMENT OOME TO Till CRITERION RESTAURANT MUSIC WILL BE PLAYED IKE WAY YOU LIKE IT AT THE BAR I 185 ORCHARD ROAD Phon 7844 SUNBEAM TALBOT WINS AGAIH 1 In the INTERNATIONAL ALPINE TRIAL which has just In Italy, the Sunbeam -Talbot
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    • 63 5 CALL FOR TRADE TALKS WITH INDIES FFTY TWO squatter families who had been detained in the Kluang Detection Camp for seven months, were removed by train to Seremban on Nov. 5, from where they will be taken to a new resettlement area. Picture shows a squatter family taking a meal
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    • 305 5 trre Press Staff Reporter 10K (K(,HBKED pups in Singapore whose Bothers have gone dry are being helped by ir rel foster mothers under a plan devised by the innicioa! Veterinary Department. and Malacca. This pan-Malayan federation, to be formed shortly, would ensure that effective machinery
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    • 154 5 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. PENANO. may become the centre for the large medical training school envisaged in the medical part of the Federation six-year deve- i lopment plan. The medical part of the plan will, it is estimated, cost $16,896,000, together with an
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    • 271 5 Police n trans- >•■ Bahru to A.S.P.. Vave_ .-.r.gton tmd :.eir eyes I rela wboj and core actual e mongrel IKb a testl and trrlve, is 1 for signs viour as i a good i her is often a, problem. r though j Kind to '.er r. she
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    • 53 5 At next Tuesday's meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council, the report Of the select committee on the l°so budget will bo tabled. The Financial Secretary, Mr. J. D. M. Smith, will move thu. the report anci the revised estimates be adopted. Eighteen bills will come beforr
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    • 190 5 PASSPORT DEMAND INCREASED Free Press Staff Reporter ABOUT 50 per cent more people were applying for t passports today than last year, an official of the Singapore Immigration Department told the Free Press yesterday. Unlike a few months ago when far too many travellers left their applications for visas until
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    • 291 5 The Governor of Singapore has appointed Mr. O. V. Santhou to be a member of the Singapore Social Welfare Council. Mr. Thlo's proposal is contained in questions which he will table at the Legislative Council meeting next Tuesday Mr. Thlo will also ask if the Colony obtains its
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    • 65 5 Free Press Staff Reporter WHEN Singapore Social Welfare mediators try to settle family disputes, both parties are given every chance to state grievances and at times to give vent to their feelings. It has been found that, very often after an outburst of feeling, many of the
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    • 66 5 Price board for S'pore urged Free Press Staff Reporter JUR. Thio Chan Bee, Nominated Legislative Councillor, will propose that the Singapore Government consider appointing an advisory committee composed of businessmen and consumers t o study prevailing price levels from time to time. Such a committee would make such recommendations "as
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    • 102 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. •THE Federation Court of Appeal today upheld a seven-year prison sentence passed on an 18-year-old Chinese girl, Llew Kon Kiow, who was convicted recently on a charge of consorting with the bandit chief, Lim Wei Yin alias Tai Kwee Big Devil" at the
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    • 138 5 Proposal for employment exchange THE setting up of a National Employment Exchange service is a feature of the proposals for improving labour conditions set out in the draft six-year development plan of the Federation Government,. Chapter one of the draft plan, which deals with educational, labour, medical and social welfare
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    • 51 5 Progressives confident of taking 4 seats Free Press Staff Reporter THE Progressive Party is confident of winning at 1 least four of the six seats which are being contested in the Singapore Municipal elections in December, Mr. A. P. Rajah, leader of the Progressive Municipal Commissioners, told the Free Press
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    • 492 5 FULL HOUSE AT FESTIVAL CONCERT He said that he would not be surprised if Progressives swept the board by taking all six seats. The Labour Party campaign organiser. Mr. V. J. Mendis, said he had no comments to make yet on the Party's election prospects. It is believed, however, that
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    • 51 5 Singapore's Deputy Commissioner of Police. Mr. G. R Livett. goes on six months' leave to the United Kingdn>" at the end cf this month. His place will be taken by Mr. J. Parks, former Commandant of the Thomson Road Police Training School who will shortly return from long
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    • 58 5 An old Chinese labourer. Lau Teck Hee. was acquitted yesterday without hi s defence being called on a charge of theft of 60 katis of rice. Mr. Maurice Freedman who is doing research in Singapore for the Colonial Social Science Research Council will talk on Social Research in
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    • 48 5 No surface mails are e<poc »<l today, but tomorrow letters are doe from Java and letters and parr* 1? from Western Australia. Latest times for posting at the G.P.O. today are: noon Bunra 'letters and parrels N. India tnd Pakistan < parcels onlv. and i p.m. for Sibu.
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    • 395 6 Emergency Regulation "£11 E public display of national emblems, including flags and photographs of leaders living or dead, has been prohibited by the Singapore Government under an Emergency Regulation published last night. The Regulation does not apply to national emblems of the United Kingdom
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    • 26 6 President Truman said ye^ieiday that the price Pf gold In America will not be raised as lon* as he is the PKettdeDt. U.P.
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    • 183 6 Lectures to save detainees ABOARD composed of community leaders and some members of the Singa pore Legislative Council, Ss to give periodic lectures to detainees held on St. John's Island under the Emergency Regulations "to wean them from their ways of error." The Colonial Secretary. Mr P. A. B. McKerron,
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    • 341 6 RATE DROPS TO NEW LOW THE pound note had another 1 poor day on the overseas free markets. In Paris and Milan it dropped to new postd.evaluatlon low records, and to equal the previous low in Zurich. Official sterling for forward delivery eased fractionally to a post -devaluation low record
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    • 79 6 LONDON, Friday. DRITISH (iovernment stocks closed on a firm note yesterday, with bear covering erasing most of initial losses and occasionally substituting gains, says Reuter's financial correspondent. Nevertheless, this and most other sections of the London Stock Exchange were very sensitive. Elsewhere dullness was fairly widespread
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    • 110 6 TINS I Ampat (5/-) 4 6 jAy Hitain it/*) 27/i Hongkong 16 ,8 I Ipoh (15-) 36 Kamuntlng (5/-) 10 9 I-ondon Ord. (4/-) 4/1 l s t Malayan <5 24 3 Sione 3 S. Malayan o-» 24 3 6 S Kim a <5 -> 12 3
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    • 46 6 THE London pepper market remained virtually Idle yesteri day with Malabar prices nominally unchanged. Singapore has lowered its prices for black to 10s. 3d- and white 16s. 6d., owing io the lack of demand and lower re-sa.e offers coming from Amsterdam UP.
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    • 365 6 Deserved win for B.O.D.C.A. THE Base Ordnanco Depot Civilian Association beat the Chinese Casuals by two goals to one when they met yesterday In a Singapore A.F.A. Cup-tie game at Jalan Besar Stadium. It was a well deserved victory for the 8.0.D. for as a team they displayed more understanding
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    • 1225 6  -  Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs A SIX-YEAR plan for social and economic development has been drawn up by the Federation Government. The first chapter was published today. Three more chapters are being prepared. The Federal Government lias not yet discussed the six- j year
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      • 131 6 NOW SHOWING 11-1.45. 4. 6.30 fi.^O p.m. •WUf?SAi WKWUIIOMI prtMMtt V 800 lOU 1 ABBott^- cosreoo] 6OBIS IMRfflff j ■UIMMC TOMORROW 9 am. IKISH EYES ARE SMILING' In Technicolor TOMORROW M'NITE &L. v TftClr* NOW SHOWING 11 a.m.. 1.45, 4.15, h.45 and •«> p.m. A Superb Mandarin Drama "THi SINS
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      • 210 6 mSndrdkC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya F^rl rdiffiftsssr^sl f^«^^i^ i^i?^!^?^ l^^ THATLEWRfIMITMISTMIMr.! GOOO-BY^ FOOLS .'r7?P* UNOERNEATH.' ,^.-7U VVOAK PINOV MIGHT RETURN AWfT gfWJHIS BUTTON, IPYDU pi I T^ s^J L^^V ,I RIGHT/ Wf I, NOW/ HM'T DESTROY THE A Y ru sn ii I U rr KJ
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    • 202 7 F. P. Racing Correspondent THE Bukit Timah racecourse was further deluged by a heavy rainstorm in the early hours of this morning, and the going tomorrow will, at the best, be yielding. It was very heavy this morning. The change in the weather has made the seven-furlong
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    • 22 7 LONDON Iribh beat Dublin University by 12 points to three in a Rugby Uni<™ match in London yesterday.- Reuter
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    • 33 7 B 3 L B l ooks <left and Som Pon who are clashing tonight for the Orient middleweight boxinjf title hold bv Brooks. Free Press
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    • 74 7 Free Press Special Correspondent SEREMBAN, Friday. VFXiIU Sembilan enthusiasts and visitors from outal stations, mostly Indians, saw pretty soccer when the Indian touring team beat the State XI by the odd goal in three here last evening. Positioning well, resorting to fast, close passing and
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    • 85 7 THE centenary race meeting of the Ceylon Turf Club is to be held on a Sunday. The date fixed is Dec. 4. This is the first time in the history of racing in Ceylon that a meeting is to be held on a Sunday. It
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    • 413 7 SPORT SLETTER Pit Malays v. Eagles AMONG the crowd of 4.000 |J who saw the badminton match between the Siamese team and the Mayflower and i Useful parties. I noticed i quite a good sprinkling of Malay players and enthusiasts. The question aiose in my mind a* to how a
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    • 97 7 I^INAI. pU rings of teams in r the S.A.F.A. Inter -Community f.e:«Rue are: picture. r vv i. i) F a pu Armv 16 12 1 3 60 16 27 K.A.F. 16 11 3 2 53 17 24 < hines.- 16 11 4 1 46 20 23 Malays
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    • 127 7 /"IERMANY'S application i«jr \J admission to the Interna- tional Motor Cyclists Federation has boon deferred by the Federation's Congress at Paris. After a long debate on the application, a sub-committee of three was formed to investigate how the sport is being run in Germany. World championships fur
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    • 220 7 pRINCESS Elizabeth, uccomI panied by Princess Margaret, saw her Grand National candidate, Monaveen, beaten by eight lengths in the £1,250 Grand Sefton Handicap chase at Liverpool yesterday. The winner over twe :»illes 71/2 furlongs of the Grand National course wns thp eight-year-old geHins, Freebooter, Mrs. L.
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    • 53 7 lACK KRAMER defeated Fftncho Gonzales B—6, 6 4 on Wednesday in New York. 'Hie victory gave Kramer a 7—3 lead over Gonzales in their professional tennis tour. Seijura beat Fraiikie Parker 6 4, 6—2. while Segura and Gonzales lo^t to Kramer and Parker. 6 4. 8-6 in
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    • 133 7 Boy Brooks is a firm favourite ALTHOUGH Boy Brooks is a firm favourite in tonight's Orient middleweight title fight at the Happy World Stadium, quite a few critics who have followed Som Pong's career think he has a good chance of winning by a knockout in the early rounds. If
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    • 161 7 rLLOWING a protest, the championship authorities yesterday announced the official scores in the world .22 carbine team championship for the positions as follows (1) Finland. 5.770 points: «2* Sweden, J5.763 points. »3> Norway, 5.755 points; (4> Switzerland 5.738 points; (5) United States, 5.T26 points. The Argentine and Brazilian
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    • 100 7 "C^EW b?ts were struck, when ihe first callowr on the Manchester Novt-mber Handicap (to be run on Nov 19t was held at the Victoria Club. London, last night. Fourteen horse« were given a quotation, and Good Taste and Arda II were madr joint favourites at
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    • 64 7 A RRANGEMENTS have been made to accommodate A 20,000 spectators at the Willingdon Pavilion, New Delhi, where the first unofficial Test match between the Commonwealth touring team and an India eleven begins today. Experts have pronounced the wicket as favourable to batsmen, giving a definite
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    • 49 7 THE funeral of tn« former world middleweight boxing champion. Marcel Ordan, took place in Casablanca yesterday. More thau 70.000 people lined the streets and an estimated 45,000 persons Hied past the coffin of Cerdan, who died In a trims- Atlantic plane crash on Or*. ?.r \e ?^< A.P.
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    • Page 7 Advertisements
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      • 292 7 L^f ja LIFEGUARD I MILK raise your child S5/S6 Medeiros Building S pore LIFEGUARD MILK CO., „12. i Telephone: ***** JUST ARRIVED! FAMOUS ENGLISH FOOTWEAR SUPERVELDT hoes for infan^: of coloured leather gibson, flexible weldts sole with elongated leather heel. Colours: Red. Blue Green and Tan. 3— 5*55.90 8 in
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    • 30 8 EVACUATION OF KWANGSI BEGINS Italian gangsters are caged In a Naples police court as, with their leader Giuseppe Lamarca, they face 51 charges of hold-up, blackmail and attacks on police.
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    • 149 8 LEDO ROAD TO BE REOPENED RANGOON, Fri. THE famous Ledo Road 240--mile highway linking Upper Burma with India— will be re-opened for regular traffic in February, the Kachin State Minister, Samaduwa Slnwanaung, announced yesterday. Repair work began in October last year. Talks are In progress with the Indian Government on
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    • 130 8 CHICAGO. Fn. EYE discomforts can be caused by an emotional upset from a love affair or a new Job. says Dr. Wyne W. Wong of Honolulu, writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Characteristic symptoms of this condition are sensitivity to light,
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    • 426 8 TOKIO, Fri. THE thief was a Japanese "because an American would not he that polite," flatly said Tokio polite when they found a stolen jeep minus three wheels. The culprit had replaced one front wheel with a spare which was in a worse condition and made
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    • 91 8 LONDON, Thursday. JET bombers of the future Hying at 500 m.p.h. or more may make air gunners "redundant" in the Royal Air Force. The Air Ministry today announced the abolition of air gunners as a longterm policy but emphasised the continued need for them
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    • 190 8 PLEADS FOR KILLERS OF HIS WIFE SEOUL, Frl. DR. Horace H. Underwood, American missionary and educator, has appealed to President Syngman Rhee to reprieve the four young Korean political assassins condemned to death for killing his wife. Th* Korean Government made public part of the kindly missionary"» letter, which said:
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    • 15 8 Tentative agreement for a trade pact between Japan and Pakistan has been concluded.
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    • 63 8 MANILA, Friday. PRESIDENT Quirino, who has increased his lead to r more than 258,000 votes in the Philippines presidential elections, yesterday alerted government forces against a possible armed attack on Manila by Communist-led Hukbalahap men. The President also ordered the Constabulary to increase its
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    • 43 8 Twenty-f jur people were taken to a Manchester hospital yesterday suffering from typhoid fever. The outbreak was blamed on a woman "carrier" on the domestic staff of the Salford Masonic Hall where all the victims had their meals A.P.
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    • 210 8 LORD STRABOLGI told the House of Lords some i i« Amcrlca n hot-heads are talking about diverting the Gulf Stream from the British Isles with atom bombs in the event of Br tain turning Communist. Britain owes her temperate climate to the warm waters of the
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    • 33 8 The Governments British Overseas Airways Corporation will put the first of its new Boeing Stratocruisers into service between London and New York on December 8 It was announced vesterriav A.P.
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    • 37 8 STATISTICS of the incidence of cancer of the mouth in Ceylon, mainly due to unrestricted ng< were given bv Dr w Balendra Medical Officer in charge of the Dental Institute in 1 Colombo.
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    • 47 8 PARAMOUNT Chief Ma Nesebo of BaMitoland asked King George VI yesterday to save libs country from being annexed by the Union of South Africa. Dr. D. F. Malan, the South African Prime Minister, said recently Basutoland should be annexed to South Africa A.P.
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    • 203 8 THE British Government has 1 paid Persia £8.200,000 for a debt of £5.700.000 because of a devaluation guarantee in their agreement, Parliament learned yesterday. Mr. Douglas Jay, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, said that the sum was the balance due of £19.000.000 charged by the
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    • 43 8 TN limited activity yesterday, the New York Stock Exchange moved lower as traders continued to take profits. There was a predominance of fractional losses. The market closed barely steady. Gold stocks under renewed pressuie recorded losses up to US. %i Renter.
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    • 110 8 Koreans living abroad soon may drop Japanese citizenship and become citizens of Korea. A.P. Govt may quit Chungking HONG KONG, Friday. r pHE Nationalists, in the face of growing Communist pressure and greatly hampered by the defection of two civil airlines to the Reds, are beginning to
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    • 5 8 Somaliland goes back to Italy
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      • 338 8 Our Representative on the Ist tloor. Singapore Cold Storage, Orchard Road. will receive advertisements between 9 a.m. and p.m. daily. CLASSIFIED ADS. SITUATION, VACANT FRENCH/ENGLISH shorthandtypist wanted immediately. Perfect knowledge of French essential. Good salary offered. Apply to Messrs. Louis Dreyfus Ss Co. I united, No. 3 De Souta Street,
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      • 391 8 SINGAPORE TURF CLl'B WINTER MEETING 1949 SATURDAY 12TH, WEDNESDAY: 16TH SATURDAY 19TH NOVEMBER, 1949 ENTRIES CLOSE at 12 noon on WEDNESDAY. 2ND NOVEMBER, 1949. LADY GUEST MEMBERS.— No Lady Guest Members Badges will be issued. RESERVED ENCLOSURE.— A Reserved Enclosure for n maximum of 200 Members will be available. Badge*
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