The Singapore Free Press, 22 November 1949

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 352 1 U.S. plea to 30 nations HONG KONG, Tuesday. )\R. ANGUS WARD, the United States ConsulGeneral m Mukden who has been imprisoned along with four of his staff, may be charged with plotting against the Manchuria People's Provincial Government, said Chinese Communist sources m Hong Kong
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  • 24 1 trr :hiN the U M Pilot. s I r. I X' .him pc "< I d of IVII Kill v B l-i.n--•••th '■d
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  • 27 1 Free Press Staff Reporter lita m the Jerantut ol Pahang yesterday i >ped two lorries and stole J rds before fleeing the jungle. I
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  • 31 1 Burmese Government forces claimed yesterday they have routed Karen rebels from Shwemauneaw. delta village m Burma's riceland belt. after weekend righting m which the village changed hands twice. A.P.
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    38 1 Photo. Lt.-Gen. Mehmet Shehu (left). Moscow-trained Chief of Staff m Albania, is reported gradually to be taking control over that country from Premier Hoxha (right). In foreground between Gen. Shehu and the Premier is Maj-Gen. Kochi Gorgi. A.P.
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  • 24 1 Smuts former South i Prime Minis t c r. London airport o attend the dinner he 75th birthday Zaim Wiezmann Reuter
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  • 24 1 Mr Emanuel Shinwell. Bri- iry of Sta' s due to arrive m Tripoli r today to visit the Ist ry Division. A.P.
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  • 28 1 The Egyptian Government yesterday decided on a partial and temporary suspension of martial law m order to assure freedom m the general elections next January- U.P.
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  • 93 1 LONDON. Tuesday. PHI Board of Trade today announced the comple- tion of a new trade agreement between the British Commonwealth and Japan, calling for an hange of goods valued at nearly *****0.000.000. The agreement, which covers the year ending J\:ne 30 was reached between representatives of i
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  • 88 1 Cabinet Ministers yesterday considered changes m the structure of Britain's defence system which may involve an extension j of compulsory service from 18 months to two years. A section of the Government is believed to favour such an extension coupled \v. a reduction m the annual intake
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  • 65 1 PRESIDENT TRUMAN has invited the Pakistan Premier. Liquat All Khan, to visit the U.S. next year, it is reported m London. Liquat All Khan is due to go to Moscow m the next month or two. The President's move* Is seen as part of a U.S.
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  • 18 1 Field Marshal Lore! Montgomery arrived m Washington I yesterday by plane from New York A.P.
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  • 103 1 NEW YORK, Tuesday. POLAND yesterday asked the United Nations Secretary-General Mr. Trygve Lie, to circulate m the name of the Polish delegation the Chinese Communist demand that the Nationalist delegation to the world organization be deprived of its seat. Dr. Julius Katz-Suchy, permanent chief of the
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  • 52 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A police jungle squad following up the Senai incident came m contact with a party of bandits north of the Pontlan Road. There was a heavy exchange of fire after which th«^ engagement was broken off. No report of casualties has
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  • 114 1 U.K. BOUGHT TIN AT £554 A TON LONDON. Tuts. THE British Ministry of Supply hold about 31.000 tons of tin. Mr. George Strauss, Supply Minister, said yesterday. Before Sept. 1 tin was bought at the world price of 4.554 a ton from Malaya ana £509 a ton m Britain, he
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  • 57 1 Free Press Staff Reporter 4 VISITING South Africar. a\ ship's carpenter was attacked by six unknown men In a dark spot In the vicinity i the Singapore New World Amusement park last night and robbed of all he had on his person £2, m South
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  • 74 1 pEORGE Hersser was hauled into a London court yesIJ terday for coughing. Two detectives claimed he coughed twice to warn away a street bookmaker they were trying to catch m the act ol taking bets, but Hersser said he was just coughing to clear his throat. The
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  • 269 1 HONG KONG, Tuesday. MOVEMENTS of top-ranking diplomats of the I nited States, Britain and other anti-Ked countries m South-East Asia recently and their secret discussions lend credence to current reports that the long-discussed Asian anti-Red defence front of Nationalist China, Vietnam, the Philippines and
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  • 150 1 LONDON, Monday. BRITISH exports jumped th e last month to their highest level since last March, Board of Trade figures showed today. They were valued at £156,000,000— £14,000,000 more than m September. Since October had only 26 customs working days the daily rate of exports during
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  • 52 1 NEW YORK, Tues. A45-YEAR-OLI) typist employed by the Russian delegation to the l/nited Nations has been arrested here on a charge of stealing a red hat costing U.S. S" from a store. The typist. Ekaterina Sololskaya. was allowed bail and will come before the the court again
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  • 83 1 Macao and Canton sea link resumed HONG KONG. Tucs. SEA communications between Macao and Canton have been resumed, according to a Chinese press despatch from Canton last night. A small Chinese river boat left Canton yesterday morning for Macao with Com-muist-armed guards aboard, according to the report. The two ports
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  • 65 1 NEW YORK Tuesday. THE United Nations General Assembly, deciding the fate of Italy's former Colonial Empire, last night approved the creation of Libya— vast North African territory as an independent state. Italy would be given trusteeship over Somaliland for 10 years while a special committee woufd
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  • 35 1 THE tugboat Tiburon of the Philippine Luzon Shipping; Line, with two lighters str i- -n- thr rough seas toward Kobe after the rudder on one of the lighters was damaged.
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  • 67 1 (CZECHOSLOVAKIA n w rej quires that even its grave diggers prove themselves politically reliable, the official gazette disclosed yesterday. The gazette reported that the Council of Duchcov, m northwestern Bohemia, wante 1 to engage p. grave digger It stated these conditions: "The man must b? politically reliable
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  • 195 1 No S'pore landing for illegal rice Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Government this morning refused to allow a Siamese ship to unload 400 tons of Siamese rice bocause of a false declaration m the papers describing its quality. The papers describe th< rice as CI broken grade, but an
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  • 26 1 A wave of 24-hou- p strikes igi 40 per r increases beiian yesterdaj been arranged for \h m remainder of the week. A.P.
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  • 57 1 4 SPECIAL Market orre-p-M'J- ent jives thf pri« e> «l itibtur (m cents per lb.) at 11 a. in iodjy as follows No. 1 R.S S Spot: loose I 4 F.o.b. m balers iirr. NH 1.1.1. W* a 4*i' Id. t 111 !s«■ 4.v, No. 3 R S
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  • 835 2  -  SHEILAH GRAHAM interviews DINAH SHORE HOLLYWOOD: TYINAH Shore, recently selected by the Southern California Fashion Institute as the best -dressed woman m America, is returning the compliment and now names the ten bestdressed film actresses m Hollywood. Here is her list, Joan Crawford. Loretta Young. Rosalind
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  • 349 2 T^HE new uniforms for A the Women's Royal Army Corps, who will wear bottle-green, and the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, m dark grey and scarlet, were shown at a "pre-view" fashion parade m the austere atmosphere of a War Office basement recently. Mannequins
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  • 91 2 VICAR FLAYS 'SEX' PLAY A n attack on (he Ami rl can play, "A Streetcar Named Desire now staged In London i*^ mi le by thi Rev. Colin Cuttell, prii stvicar of Bouthwark, i: dral magazine. He asks: "la there no statesman m high i who will speak out from
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  • 299 2 A U.S. Woman's Notebook t^O wonder they're tough m Texas. Every .Sunday afternoon. In the Reptile Gardens oi Witte Museum, San Antonio, they serve free fired rat-tie-snake to all comers. In case you should want to experiment with this local dish here are some hints from a newly published coo.,
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    • 131 2 IMPORTED Dei nn fei.t> T s CLOCHE I r,a,,d 6. H. Buildings, 18LBa.tr Mrtf i»_, TO FRESHEiT AND FURBISH kuUUU% ZI M __n? fe If *%!i ltfM < M,,t> I J Dainty ami \tt m <i m COLLAR tan M X REVERES a ri (Nh m Embroidered Pique Lace and
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 254 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN on this last day of fallow yo„ are likely to j Scorn ifS** benefit also from your Scorpio, you have tremen- success. Naturally quick- lous personal magnetism tempered, you must learn ml ebarm. ,he st:trs |iavp {o g£ self-control j 7". ou u tstant,i »S Tuesday
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    • 218 2 F.P. Crossword No. 849 I m I 3i4 Finn i I 7 8 I" I r\ < i ii 9 10 II ~i3 |p; i4i3~ 1 i 6 j if ii 15 W"~~7\ _F W ma v: 30 31 32 33 34 r^ST3T j— T? 1 ____v: M "58 1111
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  • 30 3 New blackmarket in petrol, says M.P. LONDON. Tuesday. and profitable black market i red. were made m the House trill (Tory, Altrincham). forgetting" to petrol to make it red. i
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    31 3 ii. >n.trt-h of Yugoslavia and his l \!e\andra of Greece, are i ir.uu.i ts they arrived m New urn was «n a slinj? because >hpped on a wet pavement m P.iriN
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  • 64 3 rllK President of the IN. (•eneral Assembly (er*n Carlos Romulo. rebuked it for its frequent slanging matches and namer ailing. lie said that m future he would erase from the record such expressions as "satellites of Moscow" (used n> western tountries m describing Com m form countries*
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  • 31 3 budgetary committee U N General Assembly 1 U.S. $452,000 I the expenses of the UN bodies envisaged for the dom for the Italian colonies of land and E:
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    59 3 CXV BXCNBVDHSAJDFDH :-a failed j was that the opponents rich to develop tricks without giving tricka d-clarer. North could no* rtner would have card diamond suit to run. appeared hkely he i .us' four d.. I hand he would nc d addiional values here and on the prlni
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  • 80 3 E. Germany in Red plait THE Communist-dominat- Ed East German republic has now announced its lormal participation In tne Molotov plan Soviet counterpart of the Marshall Plan. The Deputy Prime Minister.] Mr. Walter Ulbright. announced that the East German state would send trade attaches to three main Eastern bloc capitals
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  • 149 3 BRITONS are gambling more than ever before because 'gambling offers the only obvious nope. of doing things which everyone wishes to Sir Laurence Dunne. London Chief Judge, said. The judge told the Royal Commission on be* ting thai •m these day s of repressive taxation
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  • 260 3 ELECTION TO CHANGE AUSTRALIA 'S HISTORY New political machinery ur MELBOURNE, Tuesday. JHL election of a new Australian Parliament on Dec. 10 will mark the beginning of a new chapter m Australian political history and bring about profound changes m the character of the Commonwealth political machinery. Dissolution, on Oct.
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  • 63 3 Mi Jaroslaw Drobny, the self-exiled Czechoslovak lawn tennis star, said on his arrival m Melbourne hi* hoped to represent Australia In 'he Davis Cup one day— if he could become an Australian sen Mr. Drubr.y said he would discuss with Sir Norman Brookes, President ol the
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  • 63 3 Victoria is assured of a good wheat crop this yeai the Melbourne Agricultural Department has announced and Spring rains promise a higher wiieat production m New South Wales The South Australian yield should be fair between 24 000.0U0 and 25 000 )00 i bushels while Queensland
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  • 192 3 BANK HEAD 'WOULD NOT GIVE IN' VERDICT at the inquest on 1 three men killed m the attempted bank robbery at Alston. Cumberland, was' that 24-year-old ex-Army captain Charles Corbett Kennedy murdered taxi-driver Ernest Ingram and bank manager Andrew Steele, then committed suicide. Mr. James Rush, cashier said a man
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  • 26 3 Maureen Linda Hardy hi months old. fell 18 feet trom I a third .storey window to the] pavement. Damage a' .scratched thigh.— A.P.
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    27 3 About !00.000 Berliners jammed (he street* to West Berlin's City Hall to hear Mr. Theodor lleuss. President of West Germany, speak as head of the Bonn (Jovernment.
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  • 163 3 LONDON, Tuesday. 4 PLAN to ship American pork to Britain m ex- change for Australian and New Zealand lamb has been put to the British Ministry of Food by a New York importer. Mr. Alfred (1. G. Benjamin, president of the American
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  • 91 3 SERIOUS clashed between Italian police a;:d peasants agitating for more land were reported from aouthem Italy a few hours after Prime Minister Alcide de Gasperi arrived there on a two-day visit. In Rome. Home Minister Mario Scelba ordered police m southern Italy and Sicily to
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  • 43 3 tDMERAL Louis Denfleld, recenUy-diamiaaed Chief of Naval Operations, said In a comprehensive review of the U.S. Navy's work during 1949 that the construction of a new aircraft carrier to launch and land jet-powered atom bombers was "entirely feasible.'
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  • 263 3 France sticks to anti-soccer pools decision PARIS, Tuesday. IT^HILE recommendations are being made m Bri- tain to nationalise the football pools, the powers that be m France are still steadfastly opposed t<> them. The situation is paradoxical. France is the land of the lottery from which the State fills its
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  • 135 3 LAMBETH COUNCILS missing persons bureau took four hours to reunite a brother and sister who had not seen each other for 19 years. Mrs. Catherine James, now 44. left Lambeth. London, m 1930 for New York. She returned recently for a fourday visitFirst she went to
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  • 20 3 Albania nas rejected a United Nations that her border guards lir^d n 1 three U.N. obsen I A.P.
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  • 125 3 THE woik heing do:. Malaya by our young Servicemen is beyond praise They are our finest a.r.bassadors. Derby branch of the Overseas League was toid r>y Brigadki T. W R. Hill, vhu recently returned to Britain after taking part In operations against the Malayan bandits. "We hear a
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    • 26 3 rivals of— I fully Embossed CARPETS «t RUGS Inspection invited to' I House For Class Rugs QU RES HI'S j Singapore Phone 6153 bum Raffles Place]
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 593 3 p| nr^rtc Variety Bandbox; 9451 m KcdiO Worlds Oreal Music; 11 .i> _>llM(jAr(JK_e Malay;* Orchestra; 10.15 Dance* Singers and 'I heir Songs reuor (Bl.t'l NETWORK) Music; 10.30 Starlight oC.enade; Joseph Hislop; 11 .30 News Buile- MIS md 417 metres 11.00 Close, tin; 4 Music for leatime HiE »ergencj jew* i™
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  • 603 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, Nov. 22, 1949. CRIME AND THE PUBLIC (1) Public conscience on the treatment of law-breakers and on the objects of the prison system fluctuates Today, as the report of the Singapore Prison In- quiry Commission witness* union is that chief purpose of prisons should be
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  • 1665 4  -  J.C. Bennett says CHAIRMAN OF THE LOSDON RUBBER TRADE ASSOCIATION 1947, U.K. DELEGATE TO THE RUBBER STUDY GROUP MEETINGS 1947-S-9, RUBBER ADVISER rO THE BOARD OF TRADE. THE results ol" Hie general revaluation ol' currencies have not merely been disappointing. they have been alarming.
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    17 4 President Trvman watche* members of a U.S Airborne Division m a jnass jump at Fort Bragg, U.S.
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  • 906 4 Don Iddon's Diary NEW YORK: MINE is a plain case of taxation without representation. For years I have been paving American taxes and rates, subscribing to the Truman doctrine, the Matshall Plan, gifts to Greeks and loans to Latins, and now it is election day and I am barred From
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  • 7 4 S'PORE JET IS HOME V I I
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  • 373 5 CITY CAR PARKING PLAN REJECTED No change at Finlayson Green Free Press Staff Reporter COMMITTEE of Singapore Municipal Commissioners has rejected the recommendation of the Parking Committee that one of the city's "lungs", Finlayson Green, should be converted into a car park, and has decided that the green should be
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    45 5 picture. TTO promote trade with 1 Singapore, the Republic of Indonesia has appointed a Commercial Attache, Mr. Taher Ibrahim (above) who will be stationed m the Colony to advise traders. Mr. Taher Ibrahim was previously acting Chief of the Trade Bureau m Jogjakarta. Free Press
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  • 123 5 pKOM the amount of correspondence and inquiries received at the Traffic Office. it is apparent that motorists and vehicle owners m Singapore are not aware that there is a speed limit of 30 miles an hour for all vehicles m the Municipal areas, says an official statement
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  • 48 5 The Younet Men Muslim Association. Singapore, will hold a debate m Malay at 8 p.m. on Friday on the subject •"That we should send our children direct to English schools." It will be held at the premises of the All-Mala-ya Muslim Missionary Society. Lorong 12. Qeylang.
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  • 34 5 The Singapore Printers' Union will hold an extraordinary genera] meeting on Sunday at 166. Anson Road, to adopt a new constitution and change its name to Tlie* Singapore Printing Press Employees' Union.
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  • 184 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent 4 SPECIAL committee of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce will meet today to discuss allocations of Japanese imports for 1949-1950 before making recommendations to the Government. The Chinese Chamber rl Commerce, the Singapore Chamber of Commerce and the Indian
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  • 73 5 LtUeis are due m Singapore today from Britain. N. Ireland and Eire, an.l letters and parcels from Europe. Egypt. N. and W Alii West Indies. Ceylon, and S:b:. Latest times f<>r porting mail -he G.PO. today ac: n^on it S. Africa, N. India. Pakistan, and S. India (letter- tor
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    57 5 picture MR. P. A. B. McKKRRON, the Colonial Secretary, enterins the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday for his installation as Officer Administering the Government m the absence of the Governor. He is followed by the Chief Justice. Mr Justice Murray-Aynsley, the G.O.C. Singapore District Ma.jor-General I). Dunlop. and the acting Colonial
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  • 257 5 A BANDIT BROADCASTS Free Press Staff Reporter 4 SI RRENDERED bandit, broadcasting m Chinese from Radio Malaya last night, described starvation, sickness and "brutal treatment" m the jungle. "The leaders treated us as if we were beasts," he said. Giving his reasons for surrender, he said:
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  • 34 5 A musical and social evening arranged by the C.V.M.A. of the Church of the Sacred Heart, Singapore, will be held at the Association's premises m Tank Road tomorrow night at 8.30 p.m.
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    71 5 This painting of a horse is one of the items m the exhibition of the works of the Chinese artist, Professor Chang Tan Hung, which will be opened at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce on Nov. 24, at 4.30 p.m. A number of the drawings have been donated by
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  • 311 5 SMALL group of officers and airmen known as Aeronautical Inspection Services are helping to keep down accidents m th? Far Bast Air Force. These men carry out the greater part of then work at the RA.F. maintenance Base. Se!« tar. Their chief concern la pre-a*
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  • 147 5 A TALK on the experiences of a missionary nurse m South-Weft China nearly 30 years ago was given by Mr S. M Barnwell yesterday to the International Fortnightly Club m Singapore Mrs. Barnwell deputised at short notice for Mr. A. Janzen. who was suddenly taken ill.
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  • 68 5 THE University of Malaya Students" Union has elected Mr. R .Rhupalan. chairman of the Students Council. The following have been elected officials: Executive Committee: Mr. G. Leembruggen (president), Mr. G Supramaniam I vice-presi-dent. Mr. J J. Puthucheary (hon. general secretary. Mr. Chong Chun Haig (financial secretary >.
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  • 22 5 Mr. J. L. M. Gorrie ha> been appointed private secretary to the Officer Administering the Government, Mr P. A. B. McKerron.
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  • 213 5 shortage hits magicians in Singapore Free Press Staff Reporter OECACSE of insufficient funds to buy stage effects and illusions from dollar countries, the Malayan Magic Circle has abandoned its plans to put on a Christmas production at the Victoria Theatre this year. "Unless we can produce a show comparable to
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  • 121 5 Americans in Singapore to celebrate Singapore's American munity Is busy making pksr.s ft observe the 1 giving on Thursday since the ♦-md of the second World War. At 2.30 p.m. there will be a 'soft ball' game on the Padang between two teams from the American Association. This promLsefi to
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  • 37 5 The 25th anniver.. celebration of the Straits Juvenile Union will be held on Saturday at Mr. Choo Lye Huat'f bunsalow. No. II Martia Road off East Coast Road. A Chinese singing troupe will be nresent.
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  • 254 6 FUTURE OF TIN INDUSTRY UNCERTAIN Concern over price Free Press Staff Reporter [)ESPITE an increase m the number of operating mines, with consequent increase m production, the future prospects of the tin mining industry m Malaya will remain uncertain until producers are assured of a satisfactory price over a long
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    65 6 picture. SIGRID VON BAESSLER, 23-year-old German girl, meeis the postman as he delivers her 3.500 th proposal of marriage. Sigrid, a Czech-born blonde living m Oldenburg. British Zone of Germany, says she has received these proposals since her picture appeared m an American magazine. Now she has an additional worry.
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  • 124 6 Soldier jailed for theft Free Press Staff Reporter SEREMBAN, Mon. ALEXANDER Johnson Balfour, a Royal Artillery lance-bombardier of the 26th Field Regiment, was sentenced m the Serembaa Supreme Court today to two years' rigorous imprisonment on two charges of theft and housebreaking. He was sentenced to one year's gaol on
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    78 6 riAFTOUOEDOJO. the 22-year old Indonesian artist In 1^ Kuala l.umpur. will be holding; his first one-man show m Singapore at John Little's from Monday. Nov 28 until Saturday, Dec. 3. The exhibition will be opened jointly by the Netherlands Consul (ieneral Mr. A. M. 1.. Winkelman. and the Deputy Indonesian
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  • 181 6 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. 4 CONVICTION and fine of S5O or three weeks rigorous imprisonment imposed on a Kuala Lumpur school teacher, S. C. E. Singam. on a charge of dishonestly abstracting electric energy by tampering with a Government -installed meter m his
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  • 30 6 SEREMBAN. Mon.— lnche Mohamed Hither bin Darat, father of Aziz bin Hither, the well-known Negri Sembilan hockey player, died at his home "m Temiang yesterday. He was 56.
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  • 147 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. I TOE Ex-Service Association of Malaya hay? not agreed to the policy incorporated m the Civil Liabilities (Termination) Rill which was introduced into the Federal Council, said an official statement issued last night. The .statement was ssued by the Attorney General. Mi. S.
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  • 116 6 Free Press StalT Henorier ALOR STAR. Mon. TO cope With a padi crop t xpected to be the best m 25 years, the Kedah Government has arranged with the Siamese Government to allow 4.000 Malay reapers from the Siamese province of Patani to work m Kedah
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  • 47 6 CARRIER COMING TO SIM S'PORE The light Beet carrier U.M.S. Ocean will leave the United Kingdom shortly carrying reliefs for naval and marine personnel serving m ships and shore establishments m the East Indies and f East Stations She is expected Singap >re m ihe New Year,
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  • 143 6 SHIPS alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday igodowru In brackets' were: Main Wharf: DU 13-341 ■■x i35-36i Bcrt-sevaUi '38--14 Bl tl Ben-•42-43* We-st Wharf Bamarlnda 1 Btla i3i Nleu« Holland (4-51 n-i citj Chester .8-9. Benvenue 1 11 Ancbteea 113-141 *>: I 15-16). Eaßpirc Hock: S<!nedijk (IT-18>
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  • 36 6 St. Joseph-! Contln School m Bras Basah Rwad. Singap< rt*. will be* holding its •Pan-ius Day. on Friday from 3 p.rr.. to 6 p.m. The Director of the school. Bro. Anthony, distribute the pr:7*
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  • 156 6 Rubbers stead* tins decline UMBOS T* yHE London Stock Exchange La dr|v -1 yesterday and prices moved iighth i levels m many sections, m correspondent. Commodity shan veri*** and tins moved against holder fU{ ruh|> steady and coppers firm. British Government R note following small n When
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    • 238 6 MdlldrdkC ly < l ir < io lhp Singapore Free Puss m Malaya 1 I NOW, STAY PUT/ LOTHAR, I I I ME --THE KID GLOVE KID-- YOU'D BETTER HOLD n r° SMARTEST THIEF IN THE f TGOVEi^ [GOOO. PUT THEKeA BACK THESt y— T~^ V COUNTRY"; ANO GET r
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  • 581 7  - S.A.F.A. PROPOSE SEVERAL CHANGES CRUSADER Limits of season stipulated By §L\LRAL changes are proposed m the redrafted rules of the Singapore Amateur rootball Association which will be submitted to the Council and, if passed, to a general meeting ot the Association for approval. The last general revision of the S.A.F.A.
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    4 7 j i Mile over-enthusiastic.**
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  • 55 7 k las* horses Bright House, Linkshir, TX j i\\ Kaheen have been promoted to it rated m the latest classification ssutd by the Straits Racing Asso(Utwn Linkshir did not score at the Winter Meeting concluded last on first time out. &s 5 pro- urn I
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  • 85 7 IAROSI XV Drobnv. selfexiled Czechoslovak lawn tennis star, -aid on his arrival m Melbourne from London on Sunday that he hoped to represent Australia m the Davis Tup one day if he could l*eo»me an Australian citizen. Drobny said he would discuss with Sir Norman
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  • 191 7 UIHAIS BUX. -he Pakistan bowler described on the "our secret .:vcd up to the tag first day of the twomatch m Rawalpindi between the Com-mander-in-Chief's XI and the Commonwealth touring Ticket team. bavoc anions n< Oonunonwealth batsmen 1 :ook five wickets for 19 runs He was
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  • 104 7 TlllE Singapore Amateur A Football Association plans to publish an annual handbook. This will contain the rules and regulations of the Association, the laws of the game, the bye-laws governing the S.A.F.A. League and Challenge Cup competitions, the annual report, a special article on referees and refereeing.
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  • 63 7 STAN ROWAN, of Liverpool, gave up his British bantamweight title yesterday. He said he could no longer make the 118-lb. weight limit. Rowan was due to defend his title against Danny OSullivan of London on Dec. 13 He lost his British Empire bantamweight title on points
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  • 21 7 YESTERDAY'S Rugby Union results were: Cambridge" Univ. 0 Newport 6; Guys Hospital 11. University College Dublin 20.— Reuter, A.P.
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  • 110 7 S.B.A. ties for week-end •"THE following ties m the Singapore badminton championships will be played o.'l this wet k-end at the Clerical Union Hall: Saturday at 7.30 p.m. Inter- school final: St. Andrew' School v. Anglo Chinese School. Men's singles semi-final: Ismail bin Marjan (Shell) v. Wong Peng Soon (Mayflower.)
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  • 62 7 HANCOCK TAFFY won the Australian flyweight title at Sydney last night when he stopped the defending champion, Mickey Hill, after 13 rounds of their scheduled 15--round fight. Hill was unable to continue because of a badly cut left eye. He had held the title since 1945 Hancock
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  • 17 7 EVERTON beat the Army 7—2 m a soccer match at Aldershot yesterday.— Heuter. A.P.
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  • 78 7 Coronach, winner of the English Derby and St. Leger m 1926, died yesterday at Wanganui. He went to New Zealand on the outbreak of war and sired several classic winners there. Coronach was owned by Lord Woolavington at the time of his British classic I
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  • 55 7 R'.L Signals held Slngap ore Cricket Club "B" to a six points all draw at rugby ion the Padang last evening. Gould converted a penalty and Bell scored a try for S.C.C. Signals opened the scoring with a try by Ford and Bevin got anoth r Just
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  • 162 7 pOLLAPSING against the shock attack of Hay Lindwall and Stan Walker, the South African XI were dismissed at Salisbury yesterday for 84 runs m reply to the Australian teams first-innings total lot 312. M Following on 228 runs behind, the Soutn Africans had not
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  • 69 7 K.A.F. XV to meet the Army at Jalan Besar Stadium on Wednesday m a quadrangular rugby tournament fixture is: Ac. Emyth; P. O. Leviseur. S. Ldr. Wa*e* '•.•■vn. Cap] Mitchell. Cpl Hobbs* Cpl. Woodward. F. O. Murray; S. Ldr. S. Ldr. Mackay, F. O. London
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  • 125 7 Australians Ist. Inns. 312 South African XI Ist. Inns. 0. Wynne c Saggers b Walker. 35 I ullerton c Saggers b Lindwall 3 Koch c Lindwall b Walker 0 I). 11. .hie lbw Lindwall 2 .1. < heethan b Lindwall 0 T. Harris b Lindwall If K. Curran b
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  • 252 7 UNDER the redrafted rules of the S A FA., which have vet to be passed, the following comittees vull function: emergency, finance, ruk> revision, selection, league and cup. and referees' committees, and Commission of Enquiry. The emergency committee is to consist of the president, honorary
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  • 46 7 New champion emerges picture. Henry Hall takes a count m his fight against Eddie Thomas at Harringay Arena, London, on Nov. 15. Thomas, a 23-year-old miner from Wales, took the British welterweight title from Hall (holder) by a points decision over 15 rounds. Sport and General
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  • 322 7 T\ERBY County, one of the leading British Assoc ia- tion Football League clubs, has been fined £500, one of its directors has been banned indefinitely from all football and football management and a former secretary has been "suspended permanently" from football activities. These penalties were
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  • 120 7 THE second tund draw In Singapore Hockey Association's knockout competition will oe held at the SRC at 6.30 p.m. tomorrow. In the first round of the ■ournament yesterday three I teams won their matches. S.H.B. Police 223 8.0.D. M A" and REME. The opponents were Eveready Hotshots.
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  • 81 7 rE Penang Turf Club will run a special sweep m aid of the University of Malaya Endowment Fund on a race on the first day of the Christmas-New Year Meeting Twenty per cent, of the pool will go to the Fund, 15 per cent, to
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  • 344 8 GOVT. FLEEING FROM CHUNGKING New anti-Red group formed HONG KONG, Tuesday. VVITH Red columns pressing toward Chungking, a general exodus from the Nationalist emergency capital has begun to Chengtu, 160 miles further inland to the north-west. Chengtu is expected to be the new seat of the Nationalist Government. From the
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    39 8 A voun-r London artist. Mr. J. Baker, who Us engaged on the work of repairing the priceless stained glass windows of Canterbury Cathedral. The restoration work on the ancient windows is being carried out tne the Cathedrals own workshops.
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  • 68 8 LAUSANNE, Tues. I>KIN( E Aly Khan yest u rdav laughingly dismissed as "complete nonsense" a report that his father, the Aga Khan, had promised him his expected baby's weight m diamonds. A baby is due to be born here soon to the Prince's film
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  • 57 8 SYDNEY. Tues. THREE HINDRED anglers got together at Nelson's Bay. near Newcastle, for the Australian fishing championship. After the first day's angling, they had to eat fish caught by spear fishermen the despised boys who dive down and spear fish. The rod and line men
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  • 110 8 29 missing, children feared dead OSLO. TUea 11 WL N 1' Y-N I N E Jewish children under 12 yean >: iff were still missing yesterday and feared dead 111 rugged country around Oslo alter me disappearance ol B plane ik:n<, them to new and life. The plane c:\ 35
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  • 55 8 T'HF: NVw York Sock K\< stumbled sttghU. yesterday. with mode: profit -takliii causing Irregularis lower tendencies In the- afterr.' on sit adj pro-fit-taking and oth- i pressure made further inroads m values and the market showed a fair predominance m leases mos-'iv paying to about U.S.
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  • 151 8 LONDON, Tuesday. 4 12-YEAR-OLD Middesex schoolboy, George Edward Crick, was yesterday acquitted at London's Old Bailey, the central criminal court on a charge of murdering a four-year-old boy. The jury, who did not retire to consider their verdict, had been told by the judge, "Not many
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  • 79 8 ISRAEL and the Arab States have agreed m principle that there should be equal access to all holy places m Palestine outside the Jerusalem area and that they should be protected against misuse by am persons nr group. This was disclosed m a report of the
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  • 279 8 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. A WORLD m which "no man need go hungry or ill-clad or without a home" was the goal held up yesterday to the Food and Agriculture Organization (F.A.0.) of the Enited Nations, but the newlyelected chairman, Mr. Oscar Clans, pointed out that, at the
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  • 94 8 OTTAWA. TUei. THE Supreme Court Judge 1 investigating September's disastrous Ore on the Great Lake cruise ship Koronic In which 119 people died, reported yesterday that the emergency found master arc! crew unready and their efforts to quell the bla7e "scattered and Ineffective."
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  • 31 8 Applications for membership from Indonesia, Israel Korea and Spain are before the 58-nation Food and Agriculture Organisation, which opened Its annual two-week conference In Washington yesterday. A.P.
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  • 111 8 HONOLULU. Tues MAUNA KER. the great Hawaiian volcano, considered extinct for possibly 15 000 years, is showing signs of life. Siembt.s rejx*:- a irrtta d rapid but feeble eartbqui centred 20 miles mam* d.rerily beneath the 13.825-ioo* siinrai Ol Hawaii's tallest n.oui.ia. S\:« h shocks often indicate
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  • 16 8 Thp Austrian F tatty yesterday announced that the schiUinf w.iuid be revalued. Reuter
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  • 29 8 The Japanese fertiliser linn. Showa Denko Company, yesterday notified 16.000 employees that it intended to close thrpr plants ar m mine and dismiss 3.000 workers. Reuter
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  • 122 8 No German army, says Britain LONDON, Tues. BRITAIN "has not contemplated and does not contemplate" authorising any kind of German army, the Foreign Office spokesman said here yesterday. The possibility of perroitting a future German army had not at any time been discussed between the British and American Governments, be
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  • 217 8 LONDON, Tuesday. 'rilF Times said yesterday that il was too early to measure the size of Japanese industrial competition and "it is easy to exaggerate the immediate threat." Some classes of Japanese textiles, revived with American help, were being offered m Britain for prices
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