The Singapore Free Press, 21 November 1949

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LA "«EST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA ADSHFJDHJFHDSJFHDS SINGAPORE, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1949. PKICE 111 (KM*
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  • 106 1 BANDIT ATTACK NEAR J. BAHRU Kill 2, wound 5 at Senai 'mvrwJ' ree Press Staff Reporter 1n v h »nese—a motorist and a rubber tapper —were killed and five people, including the European manager of a Batu Pahat estate, were wounded last night when bandits attacked fcenai police station and
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  • 112 1 Lancasters trained on bandits Free Press Staff Reporter I ANCASTERS which recently flew out to Singapore from Britain on a training flight went to work m deadly earnest on Thursday and Friday when, 'along with Beaufrghters Spitfires i I Tempests, Har vards. sunderiand flying boats, and Mosquitoes, they dropped 500-lb.
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  • 725 2  -  ROBERT CLYDE By- W1 1 ILE Private Detective Percival .lucks tramps the byways off Arundel, Sussex, m search of evidence thai will hang the murderer of J< »:tn Woodhouse, Britain's remaining 2.000 P i iva f c detectives stand sceptically by. They do not believe
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  • 265 2 A PIECE OF FRED'S MIND WHENEVER toed a nd Winnie Ronksley, driver and conductor on a London bus are waiting at a terminus they practise reading one another's minds to pass the time. For example, Fred picks up a bus ticket and asks Winnie to tell him the number; or
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  • 195 2 GIANT FREIGHT PLANE A. ant tramp st< a :ol the air claimed to bt I plane m the world Is being built at Bi igh. Ast Y. rkshire. It la 1 oped t at it will be In the air next April. s cond only In slz t Brabazon, Its
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  • 568 2  - So You Want To Be The Rose ALEC HARRISON By AS much humbug has been written on "How to gel out of the nil" :is any other human problem yon may care to mention. The truth is that there are :«s many methods of out of the rut as there
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  • 41 3 NEW YORK. Monday. pit humps on the face of the ;>t mirror at Palomar. California ami the giant star-camera soon I the twin corridors of space and h that happened a billion years ago. XVCNMVNKJDSHFDSJFHDS
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    34 3 >r. P.ntish nival ph. ran landed Kir. vhea two Sea l'unc> and three irr, I N-n^eanee." were unable to •wing to bad weather and were to Niunnon. Picture shows some i m- naval airmen.
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  • 80 3 Woman as U.S. President UXOr Foil has shown public sentiment m America has changed sharp!) on the question of whether the people would elect a woman President. It found 48 per cent of American voters are willing to support a qualified woman presidential candidate. hereas m 1937 only 33 per
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  • 45 3 I-DEFENCE FOR 12 NATIONS The 12 North a. r countries have created a P and Economic Lsl them m I sii gle defence system representing the quickly approved decision at a working ton" ol the North Atlantic icil m the U S Sate De- A.P.
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    86 3 PMM4 West would haw bcea .jlad to do likewise, and Scuth Au<::d have discovered the third dtaadvan taft of hi* choice of rrercall nmtake of double -loss i game. h won the hear* openisi :ufled a >pude m :.d d a low diamond, the king and I ".imp.
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  • 407 3 Nations queue up for latest types I LONDON, Monday. BRITAIN'S jet-minded aircraft industry, nff hlsh on the s P<*tacular promise of 500 mile-an-hour airliners and faster-than-sound fighters to boost the country's economy m world markets, expects to soar well above its £33,000,000 sterling export target
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  • 84 3 India— Red buffer' MR LO V HENDERSON United States Ambassador to India, on his wav to New DeUhl said he thought there was llttip danger of Communist penetration or India from without. But India's economic woes were a danger to the spread of Communist philosophy from within, he added. Mr
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  • 23 3 >t\ gHi has chosen Unity, a 36» -lb champion wrkri cock as lier thanksgiving pro senl tc President Ismet Inonv i o! Turkey.
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  • 113 3 UGLY Utile toad that tells if women are pregnant is fighting for Its life m South Africa's Cape Province. The medical profession throughout the world cannot get enough of them They are being caught so fast they are In danger of extinction. The creature is the
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    30 3 |'nd»r- .m", <-sts Bear its base m Burbank, California, is this twin-jet, sharp-. .c*ed U.S. fighter aircraft, the Lo ckhead XF-*)0. shown m flight along with another U.S. jet fighter.
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  • 33 3 women members of the •Japanese Diec are starting a campaign for inclusion m a I party of Diet members who i plan to visit the United States 1 next year. Reuter
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    71 3 This cuckoo clock, the first °f d.s kind to be made entirely m Britain, has been accepted by Princess Elizabeth a s a gift for Prince harles. The Swiss chalet normally used m cuckoo clocks has disappeared m favour of a Tudor house, made of solid oak. At each hour-and-a-half
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  • 38 3 Twenty-three women Diet members have issued a joint petition to the Big Four diplomatic representatives m Japan calling for an early peace conference with all Allied powers and internation- al recognition of Japan's unarmed neutrality. U.P.
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  • 160 3 18-YR.-OLD GIRL IS A LICENSEE EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Elizabeth Boud is now the youngest licensee In Bolton— and maybe m Britain— by permission of the magistrates She was given an order allowing her to run an off- licence house In Bolton, until an application for the licence 'to be transferred to her
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  • 172 3 MANILA. Monday. PRESIDENT Klpidio Quirino. just elected for a full four year term, said he is not afraid of Huk- balahap dissidents but doe s fear Communism m the Philippines. "The Huks have no fundamental idea of subversion against the Government." Quirino said at
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  • 167 3 AMERICAN BECOMES BUDDHIST MR C. R. BUCKLEW. an lfl American, was ordained a Buddhist monk at the Vidyalankara Pirivena, an ancient seat of Buddhist learning at Kelaniya, near Colombo. He took the name of Jinaloka. which means "Light of the Buddha." The Venerable K. ParmaMaha Thera, Principal of the Vidyalankara
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  • 202 3 LONDON, Monday. rptAPFED behind 20 yards of fallen stone m Thornley Colliery, County Durham, three miners were saved after rescue squads had worked for 25 hours to reach them. They were given soup, their first food since the accident, and taken to the pithead, where
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  • 71 3 The governing body of ih^ International Labour Organisation <ILO> has now been asked to reconsider ih^ consultative relationship which the Communist -dominated World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTUi and three other bodies have with the ILO The request was made by the ILO's Industrial Committee
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    • 153 3 Grace of Unf Charm of colour I^J^^n Cocktail and y*js_v/ r #14 1 _#V^ t_i_ r^ X* /J 11 rest 1 vi tics |llllllllllinilllllllllll[]||||||||||||C3llllll||||||C3l|||||||||||C.,||,,|„||„C3i||t||||||||C3ni.^ i VICTORIA THEATRE I THE STAGE CLUBS FOURTH BIRTHDAY PLAY "THE WINSLOW BOY" by Terence Rattigan 23, 24, 25. 26 Nov. at 8.45 Stats $3.00 $2.00
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  • 479 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Nov 21, 1949. BEYOND THE KEN OF MAN MYSTERY has always rootled the operation 1 Foreign Exchange Control m Malaya, m theory the principle behind the Control is simple; it is tot pi event the flight of sterl- t i.ig capital to hard currency areas
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  • 1101 4  - Nazis Are Rising To The Top Again Sefton Delmer By VOT a soul recogA nised him. As we si lolled across Ihe square m front of Frankfort Station the grey-faced c r o w d s hurried by without so much as ;i second glance. And yet It was not
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  • 921 4  -  HALL ROMNEY LONDON LETTER by |F you were asked to say how many students from Malaya were completing their education m this country I wonder how near you would be to the correct answer. There are 228, according to official figures for the academic
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    • 41 4 RESETTING j I JEWELLERY I "Is a Speciality of Mine T II Have Done It I For Over 25 Years J Can Assure I Every Satisfaction f i i S. P. H. de SUVA »5 HIGH ST.. SINGAPORE IPOH K. LTMPIR
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  • 424 5 COLONY FORMS ART SOCIETY Move to raise level of work iree Press Staff Reporter JO encourage the practice and appreciation of wroK a h mthe Colonv the Singapore Art Souet> has been formed by a group of leading iff d *f_* J of the arts Sir Roland Israddell is the
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  • 6 5 LOCAL DOCTORS OBJECT >; p.'it«*r VII A
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  • 207 5 rii i F e Press Staff Reporter A 2 Ik? lnt^ duc^ mc °me tax m Sarawak was laid before the Council Negri m Kuchine this "affect^ 2ft SUgCS nl > X er to ineh.H J £2 2£ r .°P° se d to extend the
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  • 59 5 Th** Labour Party will hold an thction meeting al Rangoon Road English School at 5.30 p.m. today to rally supioort for Mr. E. V. Da vies, the [Party's candiate for North Ward m the Municipal Elections. Speakers include Mr. F. Thomas. Mr. V. J. Mendis. Mr. Urn Yew
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    34 5 picture. NINETEEN YEAR OLD Rosa Ban ton. who has flown from Britain to see h e r wounded brother. I. a nee -Corpora I Ted Banton. m the British Military Hospital. Singapore. Free Press
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  • 19 5 MUAR. Sun. Five Chinese charged with gambling m a public place wer each fined $5 at Muar.
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  • 283 5 li_____ fetalis .tl Singapore firms have contnouted last yeek to B Town Appeal and amounts var. m j44u to §10 ive been received. Total donations over the k amount to 51. 915. bringing the iund to $42,527 Latest d mors art--: Staff of Gammon < Malaya'
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  • 130 5 Vanishing sarongs TFree Press Staff Reporter HE decline m popularity ol the Malay traditional costume m Sarawak was mourned today by Mr. C W. Dawson. President of th. Council Negri. "One sometimes wishes." he told the Council, 'that one saw more often m our towns and villages the beautiful baju.
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  • 385 5 \IIS3 HCVITA ANCIANO is Jll not yet a great pianist on* at the Victoria Hall last night she made it quite clear that sht has the i-rakings ol me. A programme ol Bach. Scarlatti. Beethoven. Schunn and Chopin which Id have tested the abilities of a
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  • 450 5 Se mi-litera tes pose problem Free Press Staff Reporter JEMI-LITERATE husbands who cannot make up J their minds whether to be modern or oldfashioned and wives who are uneducated hay* presented a new problem for Singapore Social We fare mediators m family disputes. A woman official of the Department said
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    33 5 picture. S G:V !u of he 25 members of co-operative unions throughout Malaya who attended a dinner and ?in rn^«sr°? CaS I0 S m rked the 13th Annual All-Mala-jan o-operators Conference. Free Press
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  • 118 5 SONG RECITALS IN SINGAPORE Free Press Staff Reporter of Mozart. Wagnei. Verdi and Puccini are included m the first of four recitals to be given early next month by the Dutch singer. Justus Bonn, at the Victoria Memorial Hall. Bonn will also sing English and French songs The first recital
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  • 39 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sim The body of a Javanese found off the coact of South Johore has been identified as that of a man who recently fell from a sampan when crossing the Strait of Johore to {Singapore
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  • 70 5 A CLERK m the Colonial Secretary's Office m Singapore has b»-en commissioned as an officer m the Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He is lnch«Abdul Hamid bin Suleiman. who until his promotion was V* en m i Signals. Inche Abdul Eiamid is the second Malay to
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  • 29 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. Construction has begun on six sets of barracks at the Johore Police Depot at a cost of approximately $90,000. Each ail' accommodate six families.
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  • 306 5 Free Press Staff Reporter IF proposed sites and types of construction are approved, there will oc a Youth Town at Bukit Timah next year under the charge of the Singapore Social Welfare Department, which hay been given a vote of $750,000 for
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    59 5 picture. pIKO KO(ils\. tiit- kaliv^ an artist, who vi I be holding an exhibition Raffles Hotel on Nov !4 >i !5. About 70 paintings will be hung some of th n by other Italian arti^tv Mr. K'ij;usi will be visi 4 *nrr Saigon. Hong Kong. Manila. Honolulu and the I
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  • 112 5 Govt. to get sharks' fins for Malaya Free Prtss stall Kcpwln r.HNESE rest aura!/ s Singapore and the _•<..- -ration may soon be >v\i.: the fins of sharks the Colonial Developm Corporation ol Britain. A itateme ied ..v the Commissioner -G Office m Singapore the Cor; for shark-fishir. its mission
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  • 1322 6  - Prince of Wales asked about Camera K. O. BROADRIBB FIGHTING IS MY LIFE i —by TED— NEXT time you look up at :i sixloot man, reflect that be would have looked a short v compared to William Lawrence Stribling, the quiet fellow the world knew as the "Georgia Peach." And
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  • 384 6 DETTING is on the decline, not m the number of persons betting, but m the amounts they wager and the frequency with which they wager. Bookmakers have already expressed this view during the T.K. flat-racing season just ended. The totalisator returns are also said to
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  • 27 6 gIDNKT Sn::-:» [Doacaatarj o PeteT Mans, the _> :.pion by 19 twarnawwi m Umdca on Bi day Man* received three p. Ii each frame Reuter
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  • 271 6 Aga Khan top owners list in UK once more From VKKV i ()U jHEAgaKhan t00k,!,, V x racing season which <-„ ,S|, fe racing at Manchester m tl \ul lurd aat».v t Park m the South r,h UtjJ The Indian prince 12th time, having v. was leading breed* up a
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  • 25 6 SATURDAY l:sr. Ueaffl* I C 4 Bh: Dsleraine I < 3 rib d« Cel-rs.i\ m Distiilerv 2: 1 10. P n Reuter
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  • 5 6 TURKEY WIN CUP GAME I
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    • 105 6 MdllCrdkfi Fxelusire to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya II OON'T LIT THf M OUT OF TW£ j1 I T'l I MJ tkA I 1 \~7T~s 7T _S 1 JANE Fxelusire to i7i<> Singapore Free Press m Malaya f GiRAINTS SEEN TRACED X- An» i i*imi _T_T^___l H 1^ ~^"C
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  • 61 7 pi?ture. The field m the fifth race (over six furlongs and 19 yards I lu r o^ 1, 2 iv 2 hors^> as M rounds the home bend on the Bukit Timah $9Wmm on Saturday. Minstrel Boy >.myres> is two lengths clear of Egyptian Queen (Jones), with
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  • 10 7 Fook Hung may win title for Malaya -.ii* of :n
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  • 6 7 RAF CYCLISTS SET HOT PACE *o
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  • 648 7  - MARJAN ADOPTED CLEVER TACTICS VETERAN Two-set victory over Poh Lim By JSMAIL bin Marjan adopted clever tactics to beat Ong Poh Lim, a member of Malaya's victorious Thomas Cup badminton team and holder of the Irish title, m two sets last night. The scores were 15 7, 15 7. They
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  • 95 7 THK question of coaching jtcal schoolgirls will be discussed at a meeting of the Singapore Women's Hockey Association tomorrow :,:,o p.m. at the Representatives of all women's teams m Singapore are requested to attend. Arrangements for interState women's matches will also be considered. The draw
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  • 75 7 free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU. 3UO ENGLISH College mamtair.ed beaten rugby record hen. after a gruelhng heavier side, they "v of Malaya by Royal Johor. j Lonal Club ground on Th.- College held j the game. A fee .;ch by the C Th match
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  • 79 7 AUSTRALIANS 312 ALL OUT THE a tour In.: ri 312 m the;.- fir-* -ne ooenin? day of heir :h against a South African en a r Salisbury on Saturds" T p -scorers were Moroney (SS) ris >43 > Loxton 43> Harrey ir.d Saegers <32>. Melle toor. for 82. Wadding on
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  • 24 7 cond soccer eleven> b-at Singapore Harbour Board Recreation Club and S.H B Club 4—o a-d 4—l. respectively a t Kepel Harbour jreetei
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    60 7 Jeff Turner keep^ (Jolden Grove going m front to beat off Mascotte (Ellery) m <he la*t race „V e r nine furlongs uid 3<; yards for Class 1 Div 2 horses, at Bnkit Timah 01 Saturday. Achilles M. Do.i nelly > who finished third, is seen coming through between Mar's
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  • 40 7 SINGAPORE Cnck?t Club j women will field two hockey teams today. Their first XI will meet the crew of one of His Majesty's ships on the Padang, while the second string will play W.R.A.F. Seletar at Seletar.
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  • 591 7 OHOI LD Liverpool avoid defeat at Wolverhampton next Saturday they will set up an English First Division soccer record. They played like prospective champions on Saturday when they beat improving Aston Villa by the odd goal of three to equal the record of Arsenal who
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  • 1100 7 COOTBALL league standings I Saturdays matcl FIRST DIVISION pWD L F A pool IT 10 7 0 30 13 2: hester U. 17 9 6 2 32 13 24 :.al 18 10 3 5 39 27 23 OB 1" 9 5 3 32 23 23 Burnley
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  • 52 7 AJORTH-west Frontier Province Governor's XI drew with the Commonwealth cricket touring team m their two-day match, which ended m Peshawar on Saturday. Scores were: Governor's XI 213 and 11 for no wicket; Commonwealth XI 185 all out (H. Hussein three for 27, Oldfield 52, Tettiford
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    27 7 picture. Mr. Yong Loon Chong leads m Raheen (Tulloh). winner of the seventh race (for Class 3, Div. 1 horse), at Bukit Timah on Saturday.— Free Press
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  • 440 7 By TRESPASSER 4 MISTAKE m the semaphore placings immediately after the last race at Bukit Timah on Saturday caused a number of punters to throw away their tote tickets on* Mascotte, who had finished second to Golden Grove. No. 6 (Grand Prix II) was put
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  • 28 7 la a friendly soccer match at Alexandra yesterday. between teams drawn from the crews of two ships. Anchlses b?at the Tamerlane by four goals to one.
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  • 273 7 Cambridge first to beat Coventry pAMBRIDGE University enhanced their supporters' hopes of victory m the inter- varsity match on Dec. 6 by their 18—3 win on Saturday over the hitherto unbeaten Coventry club. J. V. Smith. Cambridge s centre threequarter. who was out of the side for some time with
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  • 78 7 KHALSA BEAT S.A.L.S.U. 5-0 Playing their first k. k out hockey to- 1 match against Sin* Admiralty Local -Stall 0 1 team on ihe Nav>l U ground yesterday. X A«s elation winners by five goals r The were Harbh"jt»ri Sineh <3* and Jerome 111 Today's tournament are s.H.B aua Police
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  • 165 8 Freedom vote by U.N. today NEW YORK. Mon. THK United Nationa Gene- rai Assembly is expected to approve today a momentous resolution granting lull independence at fixed future dates to two of Italy's former African colonies. The Soviet-opposed proposal, apparent]) Assured of the needed two-thirds support, will grant the strategic
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  • 134 8 NEW DELHI. M 'pilE Indian Prime Minis--1 ter, Pandit Nehru, adoressin 50.000 pers n* n ais first public speech since his return from the United States and Canada, attacked rritics who had accused him of I aerica to b and commit India to
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  • 349 8 LE FLIES TO H 'KONG MAY QUIT Govt, is near collapse HONG KONG, Monday. UERALDING the early collapse of organised Nationalist resistance on the mainland and removal of the emergency government to Formosa, acting President Li Tsung-jen, long a bitter rival of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, has gone to Hong Kong
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    35 8 Waves washing over the grounded and partly-sub-merged P a namanian freighter Andalusia after she had broken into two m the Straits of Juan de Fuca, near Port Angeles. Washington. The crew of 27 was rescued.
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  • 79 8 Miss Jean Wallace, the 26--year-old former wife of the film actor Franchot Tore, was found with stab wounds yesterday, a few hours after a Christmas shopping tour with the two sons she lost :to Mr. Tone m a divorce >ettlement last year. i Her mother, Mrs.
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  • 18 8 The Egyptian Government I has decided not to abolish or even partially suspend martial law In Egypt. Reuter
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  • 147 8 LAUSANNE, Monday. URINCE Ali Khan yesterday irritably refused to 1 deny reports that a baby was born to his actress wife Rita a week ago. and hotel officials said that he had threatened to leave the hotel if he were approached again by newsmen. The Prince
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  • 23 8 A pistol-wielding robber m Croydon walked In where most men fear to tread— a shop selling panties brassieres—and snatched £1.300. A.P.
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  • 141 8 A tom blast causes cataract BOSTON, Mon. DELAYED effects on the human body of the atonic blasts In Hiroshima and Nagasaki include cataracts that can lead to blindness. iccording to findings of two leading American eye specialists who have just returned after prolonged research work ill those two cities. Dr.
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  • 33 8 The Communist Party In Finland appeared on the verse of a purge yesterday us the Communist Centra: Commit're urged all members to expose every spy and saboteur within the organisation
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  • 65 8 HAIFA. Mon. In\KMY Italian Christian converts t<» Judaism, on arriving In Haifa yesterday, kissed the soil of tin Holy land. They were the first group from the Italian village of San Nicando. converted to Judaism after their leader. Dante Menoxxo, saw m a vision m 1931
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  • 34 8 The Chechoslovakian Minister of the Interior. Mi Vaclav Nosek, said yesterday the Czech government would tolerate no opposition by the Roman Catholic Church to I the Communisation of j Czechoslovakia A.P.
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  • 19 8 The Rt. Rev. William r Manning, 83-year-old retired Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York died on Friday
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  • 75 8 t^il, h} u ot l °L an atom bomb-resistant house is at the annual meeting today m Chicago of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. A modern home construction exhibit will be staged, h TiSmVS "VlJfrt*"* *«d construction methods. I t will SdriTft °«?L W,th a
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  • 109 8 LONDON. Ifon. DR ITAIN'S film technicians suggested ye.sterdav that, the government enter the film business to save the ail- j Lng industry which Is now operating at about 40 per cent, of its film producing capaci y. The Association of Cinematograph and Allied Technicians
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  • 40 8 A FTER a four-day visit to J\ Washington where he was feted by President Truman and other high officials, the Shah of Persia yesterday left for New York, from where he will start a nation-wide tour.
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  • 137 8 Reds back down in Macao HONG KONG. Mon. THE Chinese Communist war of nerves against the tiny Portuguese colony of Macao. 35 miles from Hong Kong, appears to have flzzlea Mounting tension m Macao relaxed when the "victory march" planned by pro-Com-munist Chinese was called off lfter police had been
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  • 202 8 WASHINGTON. Monday. 4 WORLD-WIDE assault against man's oldest enemy, hunger, will be planned when 58 nations begin the fifth annual meeting of the I'nited Nations Food and Agriculture Organic ion here today. Both long and short-range programmes will be considered to provide more food
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  • 40 8 The Government of India has raised the export duty on raw cotton from 40 rupees (i.3-3-Od., to 100 rupees (£7-10-OdJ per bale. Owing to internal shortages export* of cotton will be allowed to hard currency countries only
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