The Singapore Free Press, 23 November 1949

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1949 PKICE 10 CENTS
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  • 333 1 Verdict to come soon rrur WASHINGTON, Wednesday. 2HL I .S. State Department last night reported that the Chinese Communists announced that the United States Consul-General m Mudken, Mr. Angus Ward, has been put on trial at Mukden and the verdict will be announced within
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  • 20 1 s wait tea Wv oon •untered Mjndit near I .ibis. bandits were tptured. wounded. and ■Mrtkihlv wounded ;it.
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  • 19 1 American Protestant missions m Communist conquered China are being moved to Japan, Vatican sources state.- A.P.
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  • 65 1 A TEAM of Belgian boxers is missing m Yugoslavia, M. Charles Decharge, who leads another team on a tour of Britain, revealed yesterday. He said the latest news about the team that went to tour Yugoslavia was a news agency report of their first match. They
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  • 35 1 Maj-Gen. G. K. Bourne. British Commandant m Berlin, has lodged a "strong protest" with the Soviet authorities against Russian interference with the free passage of mall trains, It was announced In Berlin. Reuter
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  • 13 1 France is threatened with a 24-hour general strike on Friday.- Reuter
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  • 216 1 HONG KONG, Tuesday. INDICATIVE of the growing gravity of the situation 1 raised by the Chinese Communist conquest of neighbouring Kwangtung, legislation is being introduced into the Legislative Council today to give emergency powers to the Governor to establish and enrol voluntary members for essential services
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  • 107 1 'UK, U.S. READY TO RECOGNISE VIETNAM -Paris PARIS. Tues. A FRENCH Government spokesman said yesterday that both Britain and the United States are eager to recognise the Vietnam regime of Emperor Bao Dai. The Minister of Information, M. Pierre Henri Teitgen. made this statement after French Cabinet session which approved
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  • 77 1 ANNOYED by R.A.F. planes whose roaring overhead was drowning the voices of witnesses and lawyers, Mr. Justice Croom Johnson stopped a murder trial yesterda> and summoned the commander of the nearhy airfield to "If this constant interruption does not cease." he toid Group Captain Ramsbottom
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  • 91 1 LONDON. Tues. MR. SAM ROSE. 25. saw a plane crash on the opposite bank of the River Derwent while he was fishing for perch. He stripped and swam 100 yards across the river, tore off a wing of the wrecked plane to release the pilot and a
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  • 204 1 NEW YORK, Tuesday. THE United Nations General Assembly today asked the Security Council to reconsider nine nations' applications for United Nations membership, hitherto unsuccessful. The nations are Austria, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy. Jordan, the Republic of South Korea, Portugal and Nepal. The decision was
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    33 1 Mrs. H. C. Jackson and daughter Susan, who passed through Singapore last night on Qantas 8.0.A.C. Constellation. Mrs. Jackson is the wife of a 8.0.A.C. pilot and will make her home m England.
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  • 221 1 DETENTION CAMP COMPLAINT Free Press Staff Reporter •THE Federal Secretary for Defence and Internal 1 Security. Mr. E. B. Davies, ha s revealed that 90 of the 400 Malay detainees m the Tanjong Bruas Camp, Malacca, went on a three-day hunger strike which started on November
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  • 73 1 BATAVIA. Wed. REPRESENTATIVES of 15 Indonesian states took the first step yesterday towards picking a President for the Independent United States of Indonesia. Representing the Dutch areas of the archipelago outside the Republic of Indonesia, the delegates convened m Batavla to pick 15 members of the
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  • 58 1 SEQUEL TO ARMED HOLD-UP Free Press Staff Reporter Singapore police yesterday arrested a 25-year-old Chinese nearly a month after an armed hold-up m a house m McPherson Road. I« the robbery which took place on the evening of Oct. 27, a Chinese Customs' officer and his family were held up
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  • 93 1 LONDON. Wed. r pill 'Big Three' Western A powers have reached agreement on the size and shape of West Germany's future merchant navy, diplomatic officials reported yesterday. They said the accord will allow the West German Rzpublic to: 1. Build an unlimited numi^ei of cargo
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  • 25 1 The British Foreign Secretary. Mr. Ernest Bevin. will leave London on Saturday for a rest "on the advice of his doctors." A.P.
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  • 26 1 Ships of the Italian Lauro Line, sailing from Marseilles to New Zealand, will now call at Batavia for the first time. Reuter
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  • 39 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A Sikh and a Punjabi were arrested by Singapore police yesterday, a few hours after another Sikh had alleged that four men held him up m broad daylight and robbed him of $10.
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  • 207 1 ONL Y l CHILD SURVIVES AIR SMASH OSLO, Tuesday. ISAAC ALLAL, 12-year-old sole survivor of a Dutch Dakota aircraft m which 26 Jewish children and seven adults were killed on Sunday, owes his life to the flames which devoured his playmates. Norwegian peasants waded knee-deep through bogs and marshes to
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  • 85 1 ANKARA. Wed. THE Turkish Parliamentary Committee investigating the alleged plot against President Inonu found there was not sufficient evidence to incriminate three members of the National Party mentioned In information laid before the Government. Two members of the National Party arrested a few days ago were
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  • 17 1 A Japanese wool buyer nas applied for permission to visit Australia and New Zealand. Reuter
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  • 142 1 300 rebels attack near Manila MANILA. Tues. A BATTLE is raging tween 300 Communi.st-le*l I Hukbalahaps. armed wfth mortars and machine guns. j and two Constabulary com- panics m Batangas Province. 6' miles south of Manila. The area m wiich ihe battle is progressing, accoruing to the Constabulary net qu.irters.
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  • 55 1 SPt( I.\l Market < orr^pond A> ent tfivo lh.' prirp, of rubber i in cents per lb.' at 11 a.m tod*> follows No. 1 X S S Spot. loose i6U t*% F.o.b. In bales Pec. No. 1 8.5.1 No. 2RS S. 4.".'s U•• No. 3 R S S
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    • 73 1 []l fl ""a PS *rt__7* Latest 1 of a L 010 "capital! ;|W b pore. milium." rf SAUSAGES jt m\ Department ha*-e a fine arttd sausages as well their own make. Below is few of them: order by the pound. or w sh. It's impossible to .a-.ations of flavour, so
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    • 124 1 if Hi i -MECCANO |WORLD- FAMOUS TOYS W& ~f Jm REAL lt&/ JzJ ENGINEERING ■^C^^^fT^J^y MINIATURE m*\^ Meccano is a system of inter; _Mx-&l# I/\ J a^' e parts strips plates. f?eari __»lf^ _X 1/ wheels, nuts and bolts, etc _k!1^ which any boy can build hundrecgljlll^jf Ml ma B
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  • 875 2 Chapman Pinchers Column WHY does worry lay you open to attack by pneumonia, tuberculosis, and other dangerous germ complaints? Why are people who work against the clock specially susceptible to digestive ailments like duodenal ulcers? Why are heart troubles, rheumatism, diabetes steadily increasing m spite of all that doctors have
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  • 633 2 Relieving Gastric Disorders WHAT THE DOCTOR SAYS f HAVE a very acid stomach. Sometimes it gives me great pain. What causes my complaint and how can 1 get rid of It? VERY ANXIOUS ANSWER: People Who have too much acid m their stomach, after eating gulo dov ds of air
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  • 106 2 i DRUG has beei coveted which i cure chronic alc< which is ad. cause it is cell-c:. ling this disabil:* accompanies it 1 instabili racteristic mal from reality hoi does this TREATMENT .n Ifl stttution is not successful. But a dr.*. now been discovered tetraethylhiuram
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  • 80 2 Operation Cured Her Mind SYDNEY doct. n le*ci recently h< a I I old woman who u.jto headaches d* and had several I tempted ed to normal by i lie] bra::. They said that a:operation the woi i S became asr'*» ab!* natured and I act: jns so that to
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    • 62 2 LATEST XMAS ARRIVALS j •KASHMIR NUMDAS j INDIAN CHINESE j RUGS CARPETS I Exquisite Designs Cf arious Sizes m m At Competitive Prices. WASSIAMULL'S j s 31-35. HIGH ST. a SINGAPORE B X iSPl^l^T^/#_f^^^^^_^ V© T?T *Pl*f*^m* M M M __V T "~__l a «L"":_r jj It /j njjJzjk^nT**' 1
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    • 97 2 i¥ S J f** o v r 1 1 JI tf a •irralin^l H-isrline I lor your -kia mep tb» •oriel #r«r trust tt v Am *o other beout" crm-m I «_agicnUy «>o!;; g at ail OOa-aJlaa, oo good for tTMting little Uhf-a, aenn rjpmey, Scow' •K*»mH X* four _mft
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    • 223 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR I DORN today, you take on But once grasped. >ou will the characteristics of know how to make the best the Incoming sign, S.mit- possible use of an opportarius. while retaining unity. some of the outgoing slum Rather blunt and Scorpio. Jupiter, the (iod straightforward m your
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    • 322 2 F.P. Crossword No. 850 .aa» I I I il ujtfW ii *a-T i iii > > i trt. i' 1 i r _l__Mi_-.|_.___,___^__^_.____ M'"_i l "> XV I f i ZE2 ii 20 i i _rr— r f;~te"F~ Ib'-i j^^ ?_1 /*S 'A ■J|? 55I ■■%%>. tyfy LJ ct) 27
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  • 73 3 asdff The present position is ':>• due to the back log inscriptions last year— Dm year of the scheme, we found ourselves fal:ar:her and farther beon prescription* with I In all with time Lgh British lens manuhave Increased prod ue ;ion shortage of skill.hour and lack of
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    33 3 past Ike villus;,, pub. .m with the Biu Top. sideshows nrd m wagMs, and watching -k.ll bronchi this clever mode! Ra>mond Palmer (shortsleeves i than 2.000 Southampton I :urrd tile miniature village lis.
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  • 405 3 fashion, NOT Soviet notes ii run D TEHERAN, Wednesday. \\HiLh a dozen other countries speculate apprehensively on the Soviet Union's next move, smart Persians here focus their attention upon the arrival of the latest fashion models from Pans, with their staffs of tailors, hairdressers, and manicurists,
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  • 61 3 Tokyo printing Y 1,000 notes ANE thousand yen banknotes are being printed now m Japan but will not be put into eolation until next year, according to the present plans of the Finance Minister. Mr. Haya'o Ikedn. Mr. Ikeda indicated to the I.i.wer Hou.se Budget Comree over the weekend that
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    333 3 a resslve but .shrewd He did no' I •he hearts beeaUM M a*.--s not to Inhibit lng, reauatag that a diamond lead probably pre* danger to 'he double was to disc* the heart lead He hop* d 1 partner would read II lor diamond openint case he did
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    53 3 One hundred and thirty-six "old crocks" cars buil. before 1905— had their annual Lomion-to-Brighton run, to celebrate ihe abolition of the law which compelled all motor vehicles to be preceded by a man with a red flag. Picture shows a 1903 Penhard-I.evassor. 7 h.p. French car. being; driven past the
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  • 25 3 Japanese police scratch d heads and waved theii m bewildered inipatii:: a futile attemp' to ion two young pii-k- n caught redhanded.
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  • 141 3 ROME, Wednesday. THERE is a hammering and a poUshillff and a painting and a digging going on In Rome today —a fever of building and repairing and planning and preparing. For the Eternal City expects the Roman C lOlic Holy Year will produce the
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  • 348 3 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. A CONGRESSIONAL group has reported that the Marshall Plan m France is receiving its gr^test publicity from its deadliest enemy the Communists. The Group is the Joint Committee on For Economic Co-operation. For six weeks, it tried U) find out precisely what
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  • 70 3 ON a farm on the island of R»>lvso\ northern Vorwav an Alsatian dog is nursing three piglets and the) are thriving, the Daghladet reports Some weeks ago a sow on a neighbouring farm *.a\e birth to lti piglet-.. She was unable to nurse them all. and three
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  • 130 3 A USTRALIA REJECTS UK WHEAT PRICE BID AUSTRALIA has ROW reI *ed the price ofl Britain for her quota of Australian wheat because the offer was bel >w the maximum international wheat agreement price of 16s. Id per bushH plus :id cartage <a total o| about I3i ttjd. sterling Mr.
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  • 42 3 300 Chinese can't land THF B h coastal i IVinj Si from Tal up b Por 1 1 ao. In vent H i X < retrulal Chin< tended to land ber I M them to make their awn wr.v H. X ne. Reuter
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    • 75 3 -V B i mile and the u^eascti Si firm flesh and sound er with the happiness health these are some «rtd by this famous food, /thing your baoy needs AND Gn f E! ihe rich nourish. nent of the world's made safe and suitable. is a natural food, flesh m
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    • 45 3 Always Best Now Better ly^^^^^N,/ QUALTH V pEMJJSyDIL Y i.iitmcwh Luhricaudfc^^' PENNZOIL I •Flows Fast 'Stars Tough BCuts Wear Resists Sludge 'Fights Corrosion JBTAINABLE FROM ALL OUR DE.4LERS Sole Distributors: SINGAPORE MALAYA —N. BORNEO UNITED MOTOR WORKS LTD. SINGAPORE P C N A N Q
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    • 628 3 WHAT'S ON IN K.L. PAVILION: Family Tl Ri:.\: Will I: Happen 'Life of Hill.*!'. ard Stardust Or. The Sage ODEON: Clipper COLISEUM: Song Of Love. MADRAS: Na Cha Sac M< i Su* Chat Kwal (C CATHAY: Nava JeevarJam (Ta« mih. CENTRAL: Arya Mali HINDI ST IN: Sa: v.a:ia EMPIRE: Mi*-;
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  • 225 4 Pictures and story by the lIS Information I Service Rie of I I U.S. 000 r I Indon I In I asdf- 1 I Q V _> Output i I J i IIXPI R I S j cr for U.S. i I I I workman m
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  • 436 5 3 NATIONS TRY NEW WAY TO WIPE OUT TB [Live bacilli I inoculation -rue ,h r MfcXK J>- < 'TV. Wednesday. JUL three largest Latin American countries are moculat.ng children with living germs nght tuberc-u osis. Mexico, especially, is aiming her dm e at babies trying to inoculate them I
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    46 5 What better Christmas present for a boy than a tank. Not just a clockwork one, but a real tank. Mr. Washington, of Lea Bridge Road, Leyton. England, has a Sherman tank for sale at a bargain price. Picture shows the tank being inspected by prospective customer.
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  • 31 5 LONDON, Wednesday. which enables sexual abnormalrtome is being advocated by and a High Court Judge. riment. it is hoped, would the ..rowing: list of offences DSIEQURIEWURWIEUDSKF
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  • 65 5 MR Dt T Sukker. Dutch F n Lgn Minister, and M J Ra:: H. Van Schaik. Deputy Pr. er will visit Batarla soon to discuss pfo- .> transl r of soreThe lister of O i Mr J. H. V.m MaUaTset/een, will not accom"hem because his
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    15 5 V V <> tinted Nations Secretariat Builder—en 4_nd Street. New Yor'< r*\ir*h for occupancy next jear.
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  • 122 5 BRITAIN'S No. 1 sorceress is June McComb. goodlooking Irish blonde, who works as a model m London. With her husband, Billy McComb. 27-year-old BSc. and a medical student, she gained the crown of the magic art by winning the championship shield at the Magicians' Convention a:
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  • 68 5 U.K. MAY TIE UP SHIPS BRITAIN may shortly have to tie up some ol her ..hipping because of a world shipping slump, according to Sir Gilmour Jenkins. Permanent Secretary i the Mil of Transport. Sir Gilmour. accompanied by two Ministry of Transport lis. :s to vis. f Ottawa an Washington
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  • 167 5 LONDON. Wednesday. lUDGE BATT. deciding a cross-petition m Manches- ter Divorce Court, said he had to decide whether the husband or the wife sent the other to Coventry. He said he accepted the husband's story that he was frozen out by the concerted action of
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  • 80 5 SNYDER SEES QUIRINO L'NTTED STATES Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. John Snyder, has now I economic talks with President Elpidio Quirino but emphas ed that he was not making "any commitments of any sort for the United States Government." At a press conference preceding the talks. Mr. Snyder said he
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  • 88 5 I ATEST reports m Lagos said recently that between 20 and 40 miners had been killed "and many more injured"' m Friday's disorders at Enlow. about 280 miles east >t Lagos. The Government has svt up a commission of enquiry into the incident which, according to
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  • 32 5 Tia* Central Bank of the Philippines has put restrictions on credit for import of non-essentials goods In an effort to halt ihe drain on the country's gold reserves.— A.P.
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  • 73 5 V^EVENTY-EIGHT applications from householders representing 238 individuals have been accepted for registration as Ceylon citizens under the Ceylon Indian and Pakistani Citizenship Act. Most ot the applications have, been made by Indian mer- I chants. Since registration begar last August, only six applications have been refused, it
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  • 46 5 I> jR factions of Panama's F Liberal Party are represented m President Roberto Chiari's Cabinet, which was sworn m after a bloodless coup m which President Daniel Ch^nLs was ousted by the police. Two Ministers m Chanis Cabinet retained their posts. Reuter
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  • 12 5 The Egyptian general elections will be held on Jan. 3, 1950. A.P.
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  • 255 5 LONDON. Wednesday. pROFESSOR Andrew Topping, a leading British X health authority, says that much illness is due "to plain dumb stupidity on the part of a great section of the population.'' He blamed doctors for encouraging the attitude that the less the public know about
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  • 110 5 A STATE registered nurse _r\ employed at the Finchley Memorial Hospital Phyllis Violet Gibbs. pleaded Guilty at Middlesex Sessions to drugging milk, tea and coffee of members of the nursing staff. After hearing medical reports the court directed that she should go to Shenley
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  • 142 5 BR ITONS ACCUSED OF IMPORTING SERVANTS TOURISTS" art now being accused of enticing Irish maids to Britain with jobs a £3 a week and their own bedrooms and radio sets. Mr. W. D. Reville, chairman of the Irish Hotels Federation and owner of the Claremont Hotel. Howth. Co. Dublin, said:
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  • 250 5 Mayor is demolishing city to music KABUL, Afghanistan. Wednesday. A SHORT, stocky Afghan is busy knocking gwwa his country's ancient capital city to the tune of a military band. He is Ghulam Mohammed. 48-year-old I Mayor" of Kabul, who m the last six months ha.s speeded up the modernisation ot
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  • 159 5 V.l Arm i The d or*? called ai cribed by oorporaU spokesman m the Uu found m ihe entin Moutain region He tmid was located on a hii! six m. > northwest of Ma: Ut ah "Very satisfactory" from the ere were pro at the
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  • 52 5 SIR Harry Lauder, best known of all Scottish comedians, is sitting up for the first time since the critical attack of thrombosis which threatened his lite three months ago. Nearly 100 bulletins have ben issued since Sir Harry Lauder was taken ill shortly after his 79th
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  • 233 5 Japs try to cash in on Red China TOKIO. Wednesday. JAPANESE of many sorts are trying to capitalKe for their own benefit on the Communist successes m China. Large numbers of Japanese fear a Red China will be a continuous threat to Japan, but there is less outward nervousness than
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  • 42 5 Two robbers broke into the country villa of Japan's Prime Minister. Shigeru Voshida. but they were an iater and the loot recov. n o It c insisted of three urn las and a pair of felt -soled slippers. U.P.
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  • 43 5 ITHlD£til HfV'd To _h PVO i .-trough- attack t Ifand .1 R**; 1 mad** railway town Myitngi on Amarapura. seven ai miles away respecth According to tl t* Mandalav attack v.. centrat< d up m. policemen held add* d 1 M
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  • 21 5 B indon< !i H Premier I Holland. portl So I •18 Am;-, s. lim's i U.P.
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  • 69 5 Peers are not snobbis h NOWIIKRK is theic mu *h i rsiplctr al wtmcf of bery as m the House of Lords, a<*,ordin_, to >icount Addison. Lord Privy Sral. He told the Oxford University labour Club I h,\. spoken at hundreds of Labour Party meetings mci I h found more
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    • 64 5 VENETIAN &S^ NIGHT i K JHff THURSDAY 24th NOV. f |4 Pepi and Pepper! gS gJ L m exhibition dance C_____B I fl PM Harry Price (|__Pbß l*rl Sylvia Careh 0 BOOK LAkLt Operatic Soprano Aomiwion by ft I dinner ticket t* be m Selections taken up before 4-.-t~-. midday
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  • 311 6 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Nov. 23, 1949. CRIME AND THE PUBLIC (2) I.* DaAIINU witn Us cribo have broken the laws the comj ided must L. Ob v<.<i -the com-., il la lace I with two alternatives It can punish criminals m the ho; deten them from furth tiu*
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  • 969 6  - Tibet in a Tight Spot Alwyn Tebbitt hi. huh. iiniitiHiiiini •Niiiiliilllllllilllllllllimiilll iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimimiiiiifiiifiiimiiiiii'H WITH RUSSIA AND CHINA NOW LINKED UP UNDER COMMUNISM TIBET IS FACED WITH THE PRO- SPECT OF A CHINESE ARMY MARCHING IN TO "FREE" THE COUNTRY. i By TIBET is m a lough spot. Al any moment Ihe
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  • 930 6  - The Festival 'on the Air PRESTO Music m Spore by PAT on the hack this week for Radio Malaya. They have done a remarkably line job of work with their recordings of the Festival of Music concerts. These have been "on the ail" from Singapore and are now m Knala
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  • 196 6 HOROWITZ (PIANO) PLAYING LISZT'S HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY NO. ti (HMY 1)U (iti:>9) AM) SEBASTIAN PES4 lIKO (PIANO) PLAYING S< 111 MANNS ROMANCE NO I SHARP MINOR ANO CHOPIN'S PRELUDE IN I) I I.at (DECC% X !US9). Two records of contrasting excellence. The Liszt is a sparkling, tuneful piece full
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  • 46 6 QANNY, the lum jack, who >!) war years on B would be astoni you told him th had d In down thi. Uon of "Scotch •k In his found 1 grin and pn surely a te* drank while m I B
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    16 6 We ve po! ihe incentive* all nghl bur r have 10 cur out thtfe res:ridt:re practices
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  • 31 6 HJRY i Op s* O: I H- D:' J t I I ca. mpany and A In 1947 X: s k Opel an X o\ 1 t!
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  • 316 7 CITY ELECTIONS: DOUBTS SETTLED Vote where you are registered Free Press Staff Reporter A REGISTERED voter m the Singapore Municipal elections should vote at the next election on Dec. 3 m the ward m which he is registered even though he has since moved to a different district, Mr. M.
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    30 7 picture. MR GEORGE THOMSON, Sins-apores Public* Relations Secretary. photographed with his wife and children c»n the Willem Ku\\ yesterday. Mr. Thomson has been on leave m the tinted Kinudom. Free
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    72 7 picture. -THE Malayan Christian Council's delegation to the East Asian Protestant Churches conference m Bangkok on Dec. 4, photographed yesterday. They are (left to right) Mr. Peter Lim, Methodist secretary of the Council. Dr. D. D. Chelliah, (Anglican), Dr. H. B. Amstutz. secretary of the Council, Miss Monica Mary Sirkett
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  • 151 7 Free Press sum Reporter tiHINESE children between the a ot six and born betw Jan. 1. 1942. and Dec. 31. 19 ire enrolled for I ftrst time In primary l classes m approved registered Chinese scho >ls m January 1950. will be educated at. the ex-
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  • 10 7 Tests on ships for fire risks oil. the i be-
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  • 3 7 SUICIDE BY POISONING
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  • 56 7 Sentence of six months' rigorous Imprisonment was imposed on 24-year-old Jaman bin Kassim who pleaded guilty m the Singapore Third j Police Court yesterday to' criminal breach o! trust ol a bicycle. Jaman, v. ho had two previous convictions on similar offences was also ordered
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  • 205 7 Free Pi en Start" Reporter rilE Emergency has thrown a heavy weight of work on .Malaya's "laboratory detectives," the specialists of the Department of Chemistry who help the police in their war on crime. 'A vast increase" in the number of examinations inns and bullets— connected
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  • 6 7 POSTAL STAFFS UNION a k B
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  • 26 7 A Municipal lorry dr Id Haron bin A H was bound over f< r the S Third Police Court yesterdaj for t <>n.s ol
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  • 137 7 A HAWKER, charged with living on bis wife's immoral earnings, was acquitted m the Singapore Second District Court yesterday when the wife said her report to the police was m anger and iraa incorrect. The prosecution withdrew the case against Lim Hui Sens Road.
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  • 19 7 MUAR Tues For ignoring a traffic signal Chua Yor.g Jco was fined $3 by the Mi'&r Magistrate.
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  • 88 7 Hearts are not in Highlands THE failure of an experi--1 mem 10 settle Singapore Chinese labourers In the Cameron Highland*, is reported m the Federation Government's labour report for October published yesterday. The Singapore proprietor of a Hignlands estate brought the labourers to north Malaya but they failed to settle
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  • 80 7 I it*.* Press st.in Reporter The Singapore Eurasian a ciation plans to give a treat to 1.000 Eurasian children at St. Joseph's I ltution on Dee. 2fl There will be a how. tails and pi id cak< s and sol drinks will be balloo ibul
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  • 46 7 The 1949 Sing ip< P Dance ship organised by the Slnga'pore Association or Teachers Da ncii -c< ncluded nn Monday night. 'Ihe final resulted m leai I lory Kirn S*.\t»e .md MIM Cheong Choy Wan with Mi. Yi<*"r ■(i Misa Kc":.i; Lai Chan -up.
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    49 7 picture. MRS. ANAK AGUNG CiDK SOCKAWATI (left) wife of the Prime Minister of East Indonesia, and .Mrs. Radan S. Soeria Sontoso. Wife ol the Slate Secretary of Internal Security. Federal Government of Indonesia, who passed through Singapore yesterday m the Willem Ruys on their way to Batavia. Free Press
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  • 355 7 fkUTRAM Afternoon School. Singapore, held its annual prize distribution yesterday. Prizes were presented by Mr. N. I. Low, wife of the Supervisor of Private Schools. List of prize-winners follows: STD. IV: lat Mou Ifou, 2nd Mohamed MaftadJ bin Kassim: Class prize for Monitor Chin Too Kong: Special
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  • 200 7 'piIE last consignment of rehabilitation goods. ordered for Malaya by the Malayan Planning Unit m I.oiidon during the Japanese occupation, is expected to reach Singapore m February. This consignment is understood to be a printing machine for the Government Printing Office m Upper Serangoon. Two
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  • 28 7 A Sikh reported last evenlng that I^* was robbed by four other Sikhs of $10 at a godown at Ord Road. Singaoore, at 3 p.m. yesterday.
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  • 178 7 Coloured water as brandy SINGAPORE' Govern! chemists, testing Uqu to see If th* tion, found that some bi and cognac bottles con ed only coloured water This* Ls I report ol the D Chemistry, Malaya, p I ay. A number of sampli wines were found to I luble land therefore
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  • 283 8 RUBBER WAGES GO UP IN FEDERATION Increases on some estates Free Press Staff Reporter. THE jump m the price of rubber has produced wage increases on certain estates, says the October report of the Federation Government's Labour Department published last nitfht. I In addition, many smallholders are either bringing their
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    48 8 picture. 'j' HI fellow with the paunch on the right is Billy, a urouiulhog who likes ice cream. lie's so dainty he lot.ito the cone constantly so drippings won't ooze over his paws. His master (left) is Johnny Coble. Billy was adopted when his mother was killed.— A.P.
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  • 68 8 picture. THF Singapore Municipality b huildin.: four-storey and eight-storey flats for its staff m (lemenceau Avenue. Picture shows a completed four-store\ building with work under way on the adjacent eight-storey flats These Hats will be allotted among the junior officers of the Electricity Department and the
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  • 296 8 Free Press Staff Reporter 4 RESUMPTION of the flow from Malaya of family remittances to China is expected this week following the Singapore Government announcement that there has been no ban on family remittances: to China. Remittances to China totalled about 51.500.U0U In January this year
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  • 80 8 Free Prr-.*. staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. 'j commit! :he OanM rial Fund hope the tar. 00 bef. re 1 31 ••iii :h be from tl the lounl and lance ley 1 and tl* Gandhi M Fu re to be uted and who illing to contribute will
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  • 54 8 PENANG MY HAVE FLAG Free Press Stall Reporter PENANG, T DESIGNS prop, s* (1 f( a flax fur the Settlement ol P< nang are e_n> ct< d to b* discussed at tomorrow's meet- th< S< ttlement CounclL The Council will also slder a resolution calling for thn*f> additional allocations from
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  • 205 8 TIN PACT TALKS IN MALA YA THE Malayan Govern- I ments and tin producers and smelters will short ly consider whether a confei rence should be called by the United Nations Organisation to negotiate a commodity agreement for tin. said Mr. J. T. Chappel, of Ipoh. who returned to Sin-
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  • 114 8 CHIPS alongside the bingav gapore Harbour H m wharves yesterday igodo? m brackets) v. ere Main Wharf Mi: /a (33-34), latoa:.* 35S6) H rt!:i '38-39* 1.--(40) Benlawera (42-43) Wr-t Wharf: Uia.dla -2. Bu!an >3' X"'a Nlca (4-5) H H' (111 l_n( [4 Kmpiif I><xk: E hledijk (17-18>. Melampua
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  • 113 8 Polish 60/4 marked rl Olri) LOVIMIN u |>OI IMI bonds w Stock Kxch.ui..cial correspondent nvws of a NnUkwn finance talks. Other I with only a I I Britisl In-, but groui. on r Arr. were I fered for a;. char Lin Oil prim sagg*.: on the mart/
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  • 187 8 Free Press Staff Reporter Xl ALA LIMPIR, Tuesday. rHF present tendency on many rubber estates is to build better quarters for the labourers, says the monthly report of the Labour Department. Instead of living m communal squalor, it adds, the labourers are happy and proud
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  • 46 8 TRESPASSED INTO ASTAN SEREMBAN Tues.-Char.j-ed with wilful trespass by entering the compound of the Negri Ruler, the Astana EUnggap Seremban at 9.45 p.m. on Sunday night, a Chinese. Saw Hoi Peng, was fined $15 by the Seremban Magistrate, Abdul Wahab, yesterday Saw Hoi Peng paid tine.
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    • 193 8 mm I manbr2K6 Exclusive lo the Singapore Eree Press m Malaya VI I F SALLY- -FULL SZEDAQAN.'] I OR -VUNDhAK.-- rT_ I IAtLAX, |rMf4*rVWi_L HdVff, i A_L(MER,iS VAHQFXAKS SNAPS OFF THE RAY... SO GOOD TO BE EIACK. DARLING. USTENiNGUNOi* laf ThAT'S T rs' F GuflES r 1 T- 1 THOUGHT
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  • 280 9  - The clue of the torn lapel FABIN asdfaf DFKJASKFJIDSFKDJFKHI DFJHDSHFJDHFHJDSHFJD i A tough, shrewd assistant i i i eryone was invited m i Young fallow comes fcrw.ii'd i i .< j r^i+Bmmmmam***.™ Outside the ds. The pattern is idanti2ieri lis B pro >es 101: D D] nl Depot "00 Vf*i
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  • 233 9  - Australia now builds her own jet fighters JUSTIN ARTHUR by .LI.VS v ally-buill npire iii!i.| wilh ;i Rolls Uoyce Xenc propulsion mill of ."(Mi' lh. si; lie thrust, was turned over lo Ihe Ro> al Aus Italian Air I«»i re al a special ceremony til vn, near Sy<l- rceenth .V.
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  • 232 9  -  W.L. FANG %b*6t&Jaf by ut J RAN across the road and raced lor the corner of the block. There was ;i screech, a thud silen Silence so deep thai even the lc;i\ts on the trees ceased to rustle. Could this be it? 1 .1 not think so.
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  • 7 9 santa Claus gets a rise I I
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    • 23 9 SENG co. 3 I of H r RATTAN FEHDERS m CO*-! RATTAN B rf/cfis from Cofu« CAPITOL and &EX s^^^^___ Sec Pcge II
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  • 616 10  -  CRUSADER Kota Raja bid to retain Cup By THE S.A.F.A. Challenge Cup final, the last official soccer match of the season, will be played on Saturday at Jalan Besar Stadium between H. 0.1). Civilians and Kota Raja (holders). As they have beaten C.A., the Senior
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    34 10 pu-iurc. Berthomieu of l-rirue being tiukied by a Welsh player m the Rugby l.eauur inttiniti— il pla>ed at Swamea on Nov. 12, Wales won a hard-fought pMM by 16 points to 8. International News
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  • 505 10  -  GAVIN GORDON SCORT IN OTHER LAND 5...7 From IN Hat Belgium everyone cycles. For every ichool- bey there is but one set of ambitions. He will STOW strong and lithe; he will ride faster than the French on Ihe flat; he will be as
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  • 24 10 a^OME ra< ixen icing with hormones. I' is beUeved rar pt-! son. b hern. v have arhu ibif tp to dbale
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  • 8 10 OROUP of C I Die
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  • 109 10 IN a return match last l United Lads B P. attain defe.t'ed Roxy 8.P.. by six sanies t^ DOC Results: Sincle-s: Wet- Tei k Yin be;U 1 n. Benj? Aik 18-14. 15-8; C. A. Marshall beat Tan Chwee Yon* 17 -Hi. 17-16: Lawrence Cheah txat Sood bin Siar
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  • 171 10  -  PETER DOHERTY m» w < *#-x im_ti_^..r- %r9M By Player-Manager of Doncasrer Rovers COVERING during corner |V> kicks is vitally Important, i Few goals come from corners, but the number can be reduced almost to nil if the defence have a good I understanding Let's
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  • 485 10  - Carter outstanding player of the year ARCHIE Q UICK By run man who looks like being The Footballer of the Year", voted 'I s such by the Soccer Writers' Issoeiation of England and Wales, is Horatio Stratton Carter, the premaiurelv maestro. 3.") years young, who is piloting Hull City m
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  • 97 10 Free Press Correspondent SEREMBAN. Tuesday. T'HE Farleigh Robertson ruggi r trophy match Is being revived this year. Ir Li one of the minor competitions, being confined to the States of Negri Sembilan and Perak. One wonders whether the actual trophy Is still m existence or whether it
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  • 98 10 tI'HAT had promised to m a decade m n; al I instead a nightmare to I business m tin* I nited I As the Btttnmi i have been and won bar*k i. Charles was pro-.. Ray Robinson v. weight throne I move which would
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  • 274 10 SPURS HEADING FOR PROMOTION By A Special I nrrespondent IF there is such a thing as a dead cert" m then it is that Spurs will win promotion t: Div. Z back to their proper sphere m-xt \pril. I hold a six-point lead o\-r Hull itv Span v probably be
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  • 6 10 DEAF AND DHMB PLAYER WINS A
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    • 159 10 HOW SHOWIHG! 1.45, 1.1 .">. 5.45 *> !>:;<) p.m. FZARFUL! B_Bl j* kS."M^^ _*___Fa a -M-a-""** m ___K______H_______i v A Mtouiond thnlli wiftt mm* f J of m HmvssiiW frKki I C^NATOWiV MO«^CI4« -OIC T(j»f .'liirUcfl Hjr I\l Xl I A II IBDI I IMd] BE BIG" SOON INSIDE ri
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  • 352 11 $2-MILLION STADIUM FOR SINGAPORE To be run by corporation DRAFT Kill for the creation of a corporation to bring into being the Government's 82,000,000 project for a sports centre m Singapore will be submitted to a meeting of the Legislative Council m December. This was revealed at a meeting of
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  • 27 11 J. Nuttall fails in 'pro' debut 1 aten since at left or -■..ell m by the l tor d by md ln N f Rebi te- Reuter
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  • 8 11 PAST v. PRESENT VICTORIANS jn at B Mr**
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  • 212 11 THE Commonwealth cricketers made a welcome return to batting form on the second day of their match against the Commander-in-Chief's XI at Rawalpindi yesterday. Some bright cricket was witnessed when the touring team hit up 251 ln their second knock. Wally Langdon. the Western Australia lefthander,
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  • 383 11 \'\E never seen Nai Phol fight, but I assure you I'll do my best against him when we meet on Friday next week." said Speed Cabanella, the Filipino conqueror of Jackie Wilson, former world featherweight champion, shortly after his arrival m Singapore from Manila
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  • 137 11 PENANG Wed 'PHE Indian soccer tourists! 1 suffered their first Malayan reverse— their 13th game of the tour— here yesterday evening, when Penang Chi- nese Football Association beat them by a solitary goal. A crowd of ***** saw one of the most thrilling games ever played In
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  • 124 11 J^NGLANDS team to play Italy m a soccer international on Tottenham Hotspurg ground, Loi.doi., on Nov. 30 shows one change from the side which defeated Ireland 9-2 last week. Bert Williams, of Wolverhampton Wanderers, has recovered from injury and replaces Streten m goal. The team will
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  • 50 11 GEORGE Chenier I Canada I led John Pulman I Exeter i. who received one point m each franr by 18 frames to six at the end of th» second day of their three-day match m the News of the World £1500 tournament at Leicester Square Hall. London, yesterday.
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  • 302 11 STRALIA'S touring cricket team yesterday beat a South African eleven by an innings and 72 runs Needing 228 runs yesterday to avoid an innings defeat with all their second-innings wickets intact, the South Africans struggled for runs and were all out soon after tea for
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  • 227 11 O \.t. Combined and Singapore District (Army) IV# meet at Jalan Besar Stadium this evening m the second match of the Singapore quadrangular rugby tournament. R.A.F. were surprisingly beaten by Singapore Cricket Club on Saturday, but are expected to make no mistake m taking
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  • 95 11 ■yHE S.C.C. t -merged winn en against the 2_3 BOD wfaoea they beat by four goal* to two Ln a hotkey match on the Pauang terday The SCC pressiQi from the itart, opened ■ceoutti through K;:iper off a pas.* from Mclnroy. The BOD equalised riiortlv after
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  • 414 11 Saw Pak given another chance 'THONG Saw Pak, Singapore's weightlifting cham- pion m the lightweight class, who failed to qualify for selection for the British Empire Game* at the all-Malayan trials at Kuala Lumpur last weekend, is to be given another chance. He will attempt to reach the total poundage
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    27 11 Kelly (left) and Kuiper In a tussle for possession m yesterday's hockey match on the Padang In which S.C.C beat 223 8.0.D. by four goals to two.
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  • 38 11 rpHE annua] Dentals trw 1 Medicals m_rb\ played at Sepoy Lines relay Dentals first time since the inc< of the competition m ot al their rivals b\ 13 p i (two goals. tr\ t trie-
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  • 40 11 A MELTING ail] be held <j SRC. on Frida\ al i to datCUS* arrantt :i.i nt SAF A. bll bou** titlon to be held m I i.d February. All neretarle. ol < n.mercial team c are i< te attend.
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  • 368 12 Offers to hand over to Li HONG KONG, Tuesday. DEPORTS m Tokio that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is going to Japan to live m retirement coincided with disclosure m Hong- Kong last night that the Generalissimo had promised full presidential powers to run-away Acting President
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    43 12 picture .A cocktail party was held at the Royal Johore International Club last night m honour of Mr. C. E. Courtney, Planting Adviser to the Pineapple Industry, who is going on leave. Mr. Courtney is seen m the background, extreme left. Free Press
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  • 308 12 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. FOOD-RICH America has pledged her co-operation to help "create an abundance of food for all countries," suggested that the I.N. Food and Agricultural Organisation establish its permanent headquarters m the United States, and urged the establishment of an international trade body to help
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  • 68 12 NEW YORK. Tues. SHAH Xl PAHLKVI of Persia, praising the role of Brig. -Gen. Carlos P Romulo as the I'nited Nations General Assemhly President, said yesterday. Asia is proud to have the Philippine delegate here The visiting monarch paid this tribute when appealing to the
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  • 98 12 pURTHER persistent profittaking yesterday was rather well absorbed and New York Stock Exchange prices fluctuated indecsivelv m limited trade. Changes both ways were mainly fractional and fairly well diviued with numerous group trends Inconclusive. Somewhat more aggressive support durlnc the afternoon turned the market's balance to
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  • 25 12 A Vatican source says Russian satellite countries will not permit their Roman Catholic citizens to visit Rome during the 1950 Holy Year. A.P.
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  • 198 12 NEW YOKK. Wednesday. INDIA'S delegate to the United Nations Political 1 Committee, Sir Benegal Narasing Rau, yesterday branded as unfair Russia's accusation of war mongering against Britain and America. At a stormy session of the Political Committee, debating the Soviet Union's "peace pact" proposals',
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  • 72 12 A SERIOIS break-away of the Czechoslovak Roman _r\ Catholic clergy from the Vatican is seen m an official Prague announcement that 169 Catholic priests and laymen, after acknowledging that the> had been "misled by the Vatican," have been pardoned and released from jail m Bratislava They
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  • 24 12 The Sailors' Union of the Pacific has deferred a strike action which had threatened to tie up all Pacific coast ports. Reuter.
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  • 157 12 LONDON. Tuts. J FEATURE of the London Tin Market yesterday was the rising demand for three months tin, the price for which jumped £7 10s. m the afternoon session to £595. The price closed unchanged at £643 15s The turnover was low at
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  • 97 12 Osaka, .Tuesday. 4 NEW style dance hall revolutionary m Japan where men have always ruled the roost— opened here last night. The big attraction was its 30 personable male taxi dancers. More than 50 dance-crazy or just curious -girl customers showed up. However, th-e girl customers
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  • 14 12 France and Portugal have renewed their trade treaty for one year A.P.
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  • 58 12 'THE Mngapon Motor Club vfll h-ld a rally fur members on Sunday at 9.30* a.m. The Mailing point a ill be Princes Restaurant, and the finish at Air Port Hotel, where a farewell luncheon will be held m honour Mr P. J. Darnell, president of the Club,
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  • 156 12 Formosa 'written off by U.S. WASHINGTON. Tues. OFFICIAL sources said toda\ that the United States had "virtually written off' any chance of saving the strategic island of Formosa from the Chinese Conmunists They said this decision was taken after consultations between top policy planners ana high military officials who decided
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  • 37 12 The House of Lords y-ester- I day passed the British North America Bill which authorises the Canadian Parliament t< amend Canada's constitution on certain matters solely within the jurisdiction of that I Parliament. Reuter
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  • 16 12 Tripoli had a 3ener.ll holiday yesterday to ce'.ebra'.e the United Nations decision I on Libyan independence.—
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